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Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation by Anton Howes
RRP: $94.50$75.60A 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... -
In Defense of Public Debt by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: $57.73$41.33A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their... -
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon by Angela McCarthy
$74.03This book brings to life for the first time the remarkable story of James Taylor, 'father of the Ceylon tea enterprise' in the nineteenth century. Publicly celebrated in Sri Lanka for his efforts in transforming the country's economy and shaping the... -
Historical Capitalism: with Capitalist Civilization by Immanuel Wallerstein
RRP: $25.18$23.35In this short, highly readable book, the master of world-systems theory provides a succinct anatomy of capitalism over the past five hundred years. Considering the way capitalism has changed and evolved over the centuries, and what has remained constant,... -
The Failed Experiment: And How to Build an Economy That Works by Andrew Fisher 9781871204285
RRP: $26.25$22.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871204285Author Andrew FisherFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Comerford & MillerPublisher Comerford & Miller -
Death of the Liberal Class Chris Hedges 9781568586793
RRP: $33.58$24.76For decades the liberal class was a defence against the worst excesses of power. But the pillars of the liberal class, the press, universities, the labour movement, the Democratic Party, and liberal religious institutions,have collapsed. In its absence,... -
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics by Vince Cable 9781786495105
RRP: $42.00$30.85Through 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... -
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism Jim Stanford (Centre for Future Work) 9780745335773
RRP: $48.28$33.18Economics 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 Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis by Ben S. Bernanke
RRP: $23.08$18.73In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this... -
Fish and Chips and the British Working Class, 1870-1940 by John K. Walton 9780718521202
$168.08Unlike other institutions of central importance to working-class life, the fish-and-chip trade has not yet been rescued from what the author of this book regards as "the massive condescension of posterity". In attempting to begin this process,... -
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: $39.88$28.58Out of the crisis of our times, Joseph Stiglitz's Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy is a convincing, coherent and humane account that goes to the heart of how we run our societies. When the world economy went into freefall,... -
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre 9780471770886
RRP: $42.00$28.04"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: $73.50$58.25The 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... -
Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by Deirdre N. McCloskey
$59.62There'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... -
American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home by Steven Kurutz 9780593329610
RRP: $50.38$33.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593329610Author Steven KurutzFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century by Jurgen Osterhammel 9780691169804
RRP: $58.80$51.53A 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... -
Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni 9781804542804
RRP: $52.50$37.00In 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... -
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations by Jacob Soll
RRP: $27.28$19.61In The Reckoning, award-winning historian Jacob Soll shows how the use and misuse of financial bookkeeping has determined the fates of entire societies. Time and again, Soll reveals, good and honest accounting has been a tool to build successful... -
The Pristine Culture of Capitalism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
$44.84Capitalism 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... -
Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change by Edmund S. Phelps
RRP: $46.20$37.02In this book, Nobel Prize-winning economist Edmund Phelps draws on a lifetime of thinking to make a sweeping new argument about what makes nations prosper--and why the sources of that prosperity are under threat today. Why did prosperity explode in some... -
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics by Vince Cable
RRP: $23.08$15.83Through 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... -
Rosa: The Story of the Rose by Peter E. Kukielski
RRP: $52.50$43.93A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the rose-the "queen of flowers"-in art, medicine, cuisine, and more"From noted rosarian Peter Kukielski comes this unique and handsome book that traces the many ways that roses have captured human... -
Fictitious Capital: How Finance is Appropriating Our Future by Cedric Durand
$35.26The 2007-08 credit crisis and the long recession that followed brutally exposed the economic and social costs of financialization. Understanding what lay behind these events, the rise of "fictitious capital" and its opaque logic, is crucial to grasping... -
Austerity: Vintage Minis by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: $12.58$9.72VINTAGE 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,... -
Instant Economics: Key Thinkers, Theories, Discoveries and Concepts David Orrell 9781787394193
RRP: $31.48$21.11Instant 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... -
Crisis Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research) 9780745647616
RRP: $33.58$30.70We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which... -
The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab 9781524758868
RRP: $47.25$23.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524758868Author Klaus SchwabFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Professor Benjamin M Friedman 9781400095711
RRP: $35.68$26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400095711Author Benjamin M. FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)... -
Germany and the Holy Roman Empire: Volume I: Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493-1648 by Joachim Whaley 9780199688821
RRP: $117.60$94.23Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that... -
House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent it from Happening Again by Atif Mian
RRP: $31.50$21.34The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years... -
The Philosophy of 'As If' by H. Vaihinger
RRP: $41.98$37.15Hans Vaihinger (1852-1933) was an important and fascinating figure in German philosophy in the early twentieth century, founding the well-known journal Kant-Studien. Yet he was overshadowed by the burgeoning movements of phenomenology and analytical... -
How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark Choices Ahead by Dambisa Moyo
RRP: $23.08$16.78From 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... -
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality by Paul Erickson
RRP: $42.00$40.74In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top military... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen 9780691199542
RRP: $52.50$43.89An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair... -
Goods from the East, 1600-1800: Trading Eurasia by Felicia Gottmann 9781137403933
RRP: $188.98$166.80Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full... -
The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort by Perry Mehrling
RRP: $88.20$69.93Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street, published in 1873 in the wake of a devastating London bank collapse, explained in clear and straightforward terms why central banks must serve as the lender of last resort to ensure liquidity in a faltering credit system... -
The European Guilds: An Economic Analysis by Sheilagh Ogilvie
RRP: $58.80$47.33A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes... -
The World of Sugar: How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years by Ulbe Bosma
RRP: $62.90$50.53"[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... -
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud
RRP: $81.88$71.95A 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 Long Depression by Michael Roberts
RRP: $46.18$29.93The Long Depression looks at the current global economy from a Marxist perspective. London-based economist Michael Roberts argues that the global economy is in a depression, in which the profitability of capital is too low and debt built up before the...