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Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni 9781804542804
RRP: £25.00£17.62In 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: £12.00£8.84Great 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: £23.99£18.13When 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: £17.99£12.14Apologies 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 -
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics by Vince Cable
RRP: £10.99£7.32Through 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... -
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce by Deirdre McCloskey 9780226556642
RRP: £21.00£18.16For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie,"... -
Compact Wales: Llyn, The Peninsula and Its past Explored by Ioan Roberts
RRP: £5.95£5.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845242435Author Ioan RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Llygad Gwalch CyfPublisher Llygad Gwalch Cyf -
The World We Have Lost by Peter Laslett
RRP: £17.99£16.04What was life like in England before the Industrial Revolution? The World We Have Lost is widely regarded as a classic of historical writing and a vital book in reshaping our understanding of the past and the structure of family life in England. Turning... -
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy by Raghuram G. Rajan
RRP: £14.99£11.63Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of... -
The Provocative Joan Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist by Nahid Aslanbeigui
RRP: £22.99£20.01One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903-83) is widely regarded as the most important woman in the history of economic thought. Robinson studied economics at Cambridge University, where she made a... -
What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider's Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences by Steven G. Mandis 9781422194195
RRP: £22.00£16.62This is the story of the slow evolution of Goldman Sachs--addressing why and how the firm changed from an ethical standard to a legal one as it grew to be a leading global corporation. In What Happened to Goldman Sachs, Steven G. Mandis uncovers the... -
Malthus: A Very Short Introduction by Donald Winch 9780199670413
RRP: £8.99£6.61Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric whose ideas, as expounded in his most famous work the Essay on the Principle of Population, caused a storm of controversy. In this Very Short Introduction, Donald Winch explains and clarifies... -
Keynes in Action: Truth and Expediency in Public Policy by Peter Clarke 9781009255011
RRP: £29.99£25.94John Maynard Keynes died in 1946 but his ideas and his example remain relevant today. In this distinctive new account, Peter Clarke shows how Keynes's own career was not simply that of an academic economist, nor that of a modern policy advisor. Though... -
Keynes in Action: Truth and Expediency in Public Policy by Peter Clarke 9781009255011 [USED COPY]
RRP: £29.99£12.40John Maynard Keynes died in 1946 but his ideas and his example remain relevant today. In this distinctive new account, Peter Clarke shows how Keynes's own career was not simply that of an academic economist, nor that of a modern policy advisor. Though... -
Crisis by Sylvia Walby 9780745647616
RRP: £15.99£14.41We 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 Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities by Mancur Olson
RRP: £14.99£13.03A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nationsAbout the AuthorMancur Lloyd Olson Jr. was an American economist and political scientist who taught at the University of Maryland, College Park. Edward L. Glaeser is the Fred and... -
The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism by Sebastian Edwards
RRP: £28.00£21.71How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment—and what its downfall suggests about the fate of neoliberalism around the globeIn The Chile Project, Sebastian Edwards tells the remarkable story of how the neoliberal economic... -
Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism by Johanna Bockman
RRP: £32.00£28.21The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing... -
The Downfall of Money: Germany's Hyperinflation and the Destruction of the Middle Class by Frederick Taylor
RRP: £16.99£12.28A timely narrative account of the biggest financial crisis in modern history and its human consequences by the author of Dresden and The Berlin Wall. 'Excellent ... This is a dramatic story, well told' Wall Street Journal Many theorists believed a... -
The Japanese Economy by Hiroaki Richard Watanabe
RRP: £22.99£21.48Although still the world's third largest economy, Japan continues to feel the effects of the collapse of a massive asset price bubble in the early 1990s. In recent years further setbacks, including both the Asian and global financial crises, and the 2011... -
The Economics of Creative Destruction: New Research on Themes from Aghion and Howitt by Ufuk Akcigit 9780674270367
RRP: £45.95£36.69A stellar cast of economists examines the roles of creative destruction in addressing today's most important political and social questions.Inequality is rising, growth is stagnant while rents accumulate, the environment is suffering, and the COVID-19... -
Fictitious Capital: How Finance is Appropriating Our Future by Cedric Durand
£16.42The 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... -
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism by Hans-Hermann Hoppe 9781933550732
RRP: £10.75£9.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933550732Author Hans-Hermann HoppeFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers by Milton Friedman
£13.05Upon his death in the autumn of 2006, Milton Friedman was lauded as "the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era" by the "New York Times" and "the most influential economist of the second half of the twentieth century" by the... -
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought by Dennis C. Rasmussen 9780691177014
£31.75The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for... -
The Failed Experiment: And How to Build an Economy That Works by Andrew Fisher 9781871204285
RRP: £12.50£8.15Apologies 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 -
Varieties of Structural Transformation: Patterns, Determinants, and Consequences by Kunal Sen 9781009449915
RRP: £49.99£49.85One of the key features of modern economic growth is the process of structural transformation, which is the movement of workers from agriculture to manufacturing and services. In this study, the author identifies different routes to structural... -
Anti-Crisis by Janet Roitman
RRP: £19.99£17.54Crisis is everywhere: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and the Congo; in housing markets, money markets, financial systems, state budgets, and sovereign currencies. In Anti-Crisis, Janet Roitman steps back from the cycle of crisis production to ask not just... -
The Rise and Fall of the City of Money: A Financial History of Edinburgh by Ray Perman
RRP: £25.00£23.89It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two... -
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s by Julian Gewirtz
RRP: £27.95£22.55A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearThe history the Chinese Communist Party has tried to erase: the dramatic political debates of the 1980s that could have put China on a path to greater openness.On a hike... -
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton 9780691165622
RRP: £15.99£12.91The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost... -
The Experience of Free Banking by Kevin Dowd 9780255368308
RRP: £25.00£22.03Many people mistakenly - but perhaps understandably - believe that 'free banking' means paying no charges for their bank accounts. But 'free banking' is really an historic term to describe a system in which banks issue their own notes - without the... -
Cellular: An Economic and Business History of the International Mobile-Phone Industry by Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz
RRP: £43.00£36.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543927Author Daniel D. Garcia-SwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
VC: An American History by Tom Nicholas
RRP: £29.95£24.06A major exploration of venture financing, from its origins in the whaling industry to Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation.VC tells the riveting story of how the industry arose... -
Poverty: A Very Short Introduction by Philip N. Jefferson
RRP: £8.99£6.45No one wants to live in poverty. Few people would want others to do so. Yet, millions of people worldwide live in poverty. According to the World Bank, over 700 million people lived on less than US $2 a day in 2013. Why is that? What has been done about... -
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: £18.99£13.61Out 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,... -
Making Money in the Early Middle Ages by Rory Naismith 9780691177403
RRP: £38.00£30.01An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval EuropeBetween the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was... -
Icarus: The Life and Death of the Abraaj Group by Brian Brivati 9781785907180
RRP: £20.00£14.48In 2017, Arif Naqvi and The Abraaj Group were on the brink of changing the world of private equity. Abraaj was a pioneer of a new model of impact investing built on the idea that making money and doing good are not mutually exclusive. It had helped... -
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia by Thane Gustafson
RRP: £22.95£19.38A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet RepublicsThe Russian oil industry-which vies with Saudi Arabia as the world's largest producer and exporter of oil, providing nearly 12 percent of the global supply-is facing... -
Other People's Houses: How Decades of Bailouts, Captive Regulators, and Toxic Bankers Made Home Mortgages a Thrilling Business by J.D. Jennifer S. Taub 9780300212709
£40.59The clearest explanation yet of how the financial crisis of 2008 developed and why it could happen again In the wake of the financial meltdown in 2008, many claimed that it had been inevitable, that no one saw it coming, and that subprime borrowers were...