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Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD by Peter Brown 9780691161778
RRP: $48.75$40.15Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual... -
Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe by Alessio Terzi
RRP: $48.65$38.79A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.Economic growth is wrecking the... -
A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism by Jairus Banaji 9781642591323
RRP: $38.98$24.26The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated - by both laypeople and Marxist historians - with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji's new work reaches back... -
The Economics and Politics of European Integration: Populism, Nationalism and the History of the EU by Ivan T. Berend
RRP: $77.98$68.37The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day. The special role of the United States in this process of integration,... -
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History by Stephen D. King
RRP: $23.38$19.79A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic order Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free... -
Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring by Gregory Makoff 9781647123970
RRP: $46.80$39.37The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on... -
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Deirdre McCloskey 9780226556741
RRP: $40.95$32.23The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an... -
Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 by Barry Eichengreen 9780195101133
RRP: $74.08$44.40This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyses the responses of the world economic powers to the Depression and how new monetary policies set... -
Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650 by Edmond Smith
RRP: $53.63$44.64WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE "A superb book."-Jerry Brotton "Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched."-William Dalrymple "Sharply observed, innovatively analysed, and always accessible."-Nandini Das A new history of English... -
After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future by Hilary Cooper 9781009005203
RRP: $25.33$11.68Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter reveal the deep roots of our vulnerability and set out a... -
VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas 9780674248267
RRP: $36.95$28.43"An incisive history of the venture-capital industry."-New Yorker"An excellent and original economic history of venture capital."-Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"A detailed, fact-filled account of America's most celebrated moneymen."-New... -
The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility by Gregory Clark
RRP: $35.08$25.55How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The... -
Investing with Keynes: How the World's Greatest Economist Overturned Conventional Wisdom and Made a Fortune on the Stock Market by Justyn Walsh
RRP: $54.50$32.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643137568Author Justyn WalshFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 28mm -
The Global Financial Crisis and Austerity: A Basic Introduction by David Clark 9781447330394
RRP: $21.43$16.98Given the huge impact of the 2008 financial crash and post-crash austerity on so many people's lives, there is a need for a concise, accessible guide to its causes and its longer-term significance. Written by an expert in political science and straddling... -
The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame? by Howard Davies 9780745651644
$35.28There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007. A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory... -
Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought by Agnar Sandmo
RRP: $58.50$46.20In clear, nontechnical language, this introductory textbook describes the history of economic thought, focusing on the development of economic theory from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to the late twentieth century. The text concentrates on the most... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel
RRP: $37.03$29.48The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's... -
Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street by Janet M. Tavakoli
RRP: $25.33$16.77Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 years, they both saw the writing on the wall, made clear by the implosion of Bear Stearns. Tavakoli, in... -
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise by Christopher Marquis
RRP: $48.75$33.11A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao A Financial Times "Best Book of 2022" Tied for the 2023 Axiom Gold Medal, sponsored by Axiom Business Book Awards It... -
The World's First Stock Exchange by Lodewijk Petram 9780231163781
RRP: $48.75$38.16The launch of the Dutch East India Company in 1602 initiated Amsterdam's transformation from a regional market town into a dominant financial center. The Company introduced easily transferable shares, and within days buyers had begun to trade them. Soon... -
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India by Philip J. Stern
RRP: $79.93$49.63Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining... -
Alt-Finance: How the City of London Bought Democracy by Marlene Benquet
RRP: $29.23$19.11Powerful financial forces have supported the neoliberal project since the 1980s to advance their interests; but there are now signs that these forces have a new face and a new strategy. The majority of the British finance sector threw its support behind... -
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century by Jurgen Osterhammel 9780691169804
RRP: $54.60$46.33A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jurgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves... -
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691236032
RRP: $33.13$26.73From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of... -
Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World by Iain Martin 9781473625105
RRP: $21.43$17.55Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way... -
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society by Binyamin Appelbaum
RRP: $19.48$14.18'A well-reported and researched history of the ways in which plucky economists helped rewrite policy in America and Europe and across emerging markets.' The Economist 'A highly readable, exhilaratingly detailed biographical account.' Sunday Telegraph As... -
Wealth and Welfare: An Economic and Social History of Britain 1851-1951 by Martin Daunton 9780198732099
RRP: $117.00$99.27Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951. In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in... -
Taxation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Smith
RRP: $17.53$12.58Taxation is crucial to the functioning of the modern state. Tax revenues pay for public services - roads, the courts, defence, welfare assistance to the poor and elderly, and in many countries much of health care and education too. More than one third of... -
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism by Jim Stanford
RRP: $44.83$30.36Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This book provides the information you need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Through clear bite-sized chapters interspersed with illuminating illustrations, this is an... -
The Stages In The Social History Of Capitalism by Henri Pirenne 9789390215904
RRP: $13.65$12.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390215904Author Henri PirenneFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 50gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 2mm -
A Brief History of How the Industrial Revolution Changed the World by Thomas Crump
RRP: $21.43$14.43From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the high water mark of the Victorian era, the world was transformed by a technological revolution the like of which had never been seen before. Inventors, businessmen, scientists, explorers all had their... -
The Moral Economists: R. H. Tawney, Karl Polanyi, E. P. Thompson, and the Critique of Capitalism by Tim Rogan 9780691191492
RRP: $54.60$42.51A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lensWhat's wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on material inequality. Led by economists and conducted... -
3i: Fifty Years Investing in Industry by Richard Coopey 9780198289449
$81.083i (Investors in Industry, and formerly the Industrial and Commercial Finance Corporation, etc.) is Britain's leading venture capital company. Founded in 1945 as a result of a combination of pressures and counter-pressures from political parties,... -
Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis by James Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: $49.71$41.75Inequality is a charged topic. Measures of income inequality rose in the USA in the 1990s to levels not seen since 1929 and gave rise to a suspicion, not for the first time, of a link between radical inequality and financial instability with a resulting... -
Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age by John Gray
RRP: $25.33$23.28John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.Gray wrote... -
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre N. McCloskey
RRP: $54.60$47.33There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The... -
The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State by Philip Bowring
RRP: $48.75$37.46"Well-researched... a welcome guide." The Spectator "Reliable and lucid." History Today With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for... -
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691175034
RRP: $68.25$54.87The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design,... -
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan 9780393323719 [USED COPY]
RRP: $27.28$4.41From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How... -
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan 9780393323719
RRP: $27.28$23.89From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How...