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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: $12.89$12.75In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not... -
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
$27.18Capitalism was born in England, yet the dominant Western conceptions of modernity have come from elsewhere, notably from France, the historical model of "bourgeois" society. In this lively and wide-ranging book, Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that... -
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud
RRP: $50.30$44.20A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 1 tracks Britain's economic history in the period ranging from 1700 to... -
The Price Reporters: A Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks by Owain Johnson 9781138721562
RRP: $56.75$49.59Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs. Firms... -
The Dynamics of German Industry: Germany's Path toward the New Economy and the American Challenge by Werner Abelshauser 9781845450724
RRP: $127.71$103.81Over the past decade, the "German Model" of industrial organization has been the subject of vigorous debate among social scientists and historians, especially in comparison to the American one. Is a "Rhenish capitalism" still viable... -
Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes
RRP: $58.05$46.08A history of the extraordinary society that has touched all aspects of British lifeFrom its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce has tried to improve... -
The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich
RRP: $18.05$11.73*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that Brought Wall... -
Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy by Cristina Alaimo 9780262547932
RRP: $55.47$38.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547932Author Cristina AlaimoFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question, 1700-1775 by Steven Laurence Kaplan 9780822317067
RRP: $101.91$89.93In preindustrial Europe, dependence on grain shaped every phase of life from economic development to spiritual expression, and the problem of subsistence dominated the everyday order of things in a merciless and unremitting way. Steven Laurence Kaplan's... -
Instant Economics: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts by David Orrell 9781787394193
RRP: $19.34$12.64Instant Economics pulls together all the pivotal economic knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an... -
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics by Vince Cable 9781786495105
RRP: $25.80$17.88Through economics, our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping who lifted millions out of poverty by opening up China; Franklin D Roosevelt whose 'New Deal' helped the USA break free of the Great... -
Bread Winner: An Intimate History of the Victorian Economy by Emma Griffin
RRP: $29.03$24.96The forgotten story of how ordinary families managed financially in the Victorian era-and struggled to survive despite increasing national prosperity"A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures."-Ruth... -
Capitalism: The Story behind the Word by Michael Sonenscher
RRP: $28.38$22.39How the history of a word sheds new light on capitalism and modern politicsWhat exactly is capitalism? How has the meaning of capitalism changed over time? And what's at stake in our understanding or misunderstanding of it? In Capitalism, Michael... -
Correspondence of Adam Smith by Adam Smith 9780913966990
RRP: $14.13$12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913966990Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 495Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 814g -
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil 9780691149097
RRP: $32.25$25.79When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of... -
Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson
RRP: $38.64$30.52A sweeping intellectual history of the concept of economic scarcity-its development across five hundred years of European thought and its decisive role in fostering the climate crisis.Modern economics presumes a particular view of scarcity, in which... -
The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World by John Perkins
RRP: $23.22$14.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452289574Author John PerkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm * 20mm -
Why Not Default?: The Political Economy of Sovereign Debt by Jerome E. Roos 9780691217437
RRP: $36.12$28.64How creditors came to wield unprecedented power over heavily indebted countries-and the dangers this poses to democracyThe European debt crisis has rekindled long-standing debates about the power of finance and the fraught relationship between capitalism... -
Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain, 1470-1750 by Keith Wrightson
RRP: $19.34$14.13This important new book, widely praised in hardcover (Yale UP) redefines the economic history of early modern Britain for a new generation of readers. Wrightson writes evocatively about the basic institutions and relationships of economic life, tracing... -
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma
RRP: $38.64$31.04"[A] tour de force of global history...Bosma has turned the humble sugar crystal into a mighty prism for understanding aspects of global history and the world in which we live."-Los Angeles Review of BooksThe definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and... -
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang
RRP: $28.37$24.76WINNER OF THE 2017 PETER KATZENSTEIN BOOK PRIZE"BEST OF BOOKS IN 2017" BY FOREIGN AFFAIRSWINNER OF THE 2018 VIVIAN ZELIZER PRIZE BEST BOOK AWARD IN ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY"How China Escaped the Poverty Trap truly offers game-changing ideas for the analysis... -
Will Britain Make it?: The Rise, Fall and Future of British Industry by Richard Morris
RRP: $25.80$19.40British industry isn't dead.Yet.ICI was Britain's biggest manufacturer and exporter, while GEC was its biggest employer and Morris Motors made over half of its cars; Courtaulds dominated global cloth production and produced the first man-made fibres; BSA... -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Professor Daron Acemoglu 9780307719218
RRP: $42.57$25.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307719218Author Daron AcemogluFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 833gDimensions(mm) 239mm *... -
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy by Ryan Patrick Hanley 9780691154053
RRP: $54.18$43.91Adam Smith (1723-90) is perhaps best known as one of the first champions of the free market and is widely regarded as the founding father of capitalism. From his ideas about the promise and pitfalls of globalization to his steadfast belief in the... -
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--And Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
RRP: $28.38$17.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award and Loeb Award.Book InformationISBN 9780143118244Author Andrew Ross SorkinFormat PaperbackPage... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith 9780865970120
RRP: $14.13$12.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970120Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 682g -
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: $14.18$10.02From the author of Dead Aid, Dambisa Moyo's How the West was Lost explores how the 'first world' has its wasted inheritance with flawed economic policy - and what can be done to reverse the decline. We think we know what's coming. But is it already too... -
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre 9780471770886
RRP: $25.80$17.22"Although Reminiscences...was first published some seventy years ago, its take on crowd psychology and market timing is a s timely as last summer's frenzy on the foreign exchange markets." -Worth magazine "The most entertaining book written on investing... -
The Gifts of Athena: Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy by Joel Mokyr
RRP: $45.15$40.93The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical... -
End The Fed by Ron Paul
RRP: $16.76$14.98During the 2008 presidential campaign over 4,000 students gathered at the University of Michigan to hear Republican candidate Ron Paul speak. As he began to address the topics of monetary policy and the coming depression, a chant came from the crowd,... -
Austerity: Vintage Minis by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: $7.73$5.75VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book,... -
A Herstory of Economics by Edith Kuiper
RRP: $23.21$20.69There were only a few women economists who made it to the surface and whose voices were heard in the history of economic thought of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, and Milton Friedman - right? Wrong! In this book, distinguished economist... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691192284
RRP: $21.92$17.61The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his... -
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267572
RRP: $39.99$31.51Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, "The Modern World-System", is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the emergence and development of... -
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: $15.47$10.87For more than half a century, the dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. This singular role of the dollar is a source of strength for the... -
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian
RRP: $25.74$18.51George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year"A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best."-Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the... -
Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni 9781804542804
RRP: $32.25$22.73In the twelfth-century, Pisa was a powerhouse of global trade, a city that stood at the centre of Medieval Europe. But Pisa had a problem. It was running out of coins. In the face of a looming financial crisis, the city's rulers and its moneylenders... -
Great Economic Thinkers: An Introduction - from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen by Jonathan Conlin
RRP: $15.48$11.40Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and... -
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis 9780393072235
RRP: $30.95$23.39When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine, and the SEC... -
New Ideas from Dead Economists: The Introduction to Modern Economic Thought, 4th Edition by Todd G Buchholz
RRP: $23.21$15.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593183540Author Todd G. BuchholzFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc