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Capitalism in the 21st Century: Through the Prism of Value by Michael Roberts
RRP: $25.79$17.22Contemporary capitalism is always evolving. From digital technologies to cryptocurrencies, current trends in political economy are much discussed, but often little understood. So where can we turn for clarity? As Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi... -
The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis by Charles Read
RRP: $32.25$26.19Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine. The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the... -
Tulipmania: Money, Honor and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age by Anne Goldgar
RRP: $34.83$34.66In the 1630s, the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story - how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they... -
A Concise History of International Finance: From Babylon to Bernanke by Larry Neal
RRP: $32.24$27.53Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, doubts have been raised about the future of capitalism. In this broad-ranging survey of financial capitalism from antiquity to the present, Larry Neal reveals the ways in which the financial innovations throughout... -
Rethinking Law and Development: The Chinese experience by Guanghua Yu 9781138843363
RRP: $69.65$60.46This book is the result of the collective effort of some of the foremost experts and scholars of Chinese law, Asian law, and Chinese economics and carefully examines the relationship between law and China's economic development. Serious inquiries and... -
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class by Mike Davis 9781786635907 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76$8.08Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the... -
Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class by Mike Davis
RRP: $16.76$16.55Prisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a persistent and major analytical problem for Marxist historians and political economists: Why has the world's most industrially advanced nation never spawned a mass party of the... -
Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy 9780140278798
$17.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140278798Author Frank PartnoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 196mm *... -
Index to the Works of Adam Smith by Knud Haakonssen 9780865973886
RRP: $14.13$11.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973886Author Andrew S SkinnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 367g -
Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922-1972 by Prof Frank Barry 9780198878230
RRP: $90.30$82.22This book revisits the history of industry and industrial and economic policy in independent Ireland from the birth of the state to the eve of EEC accession. Though there were several manufacturing employers of significance, and smaller firms in... -
The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom: Essential Lessons for Collective Action by Erik Nordman
RRP: $36.12$30.02In the 1970s, the accepted environmental thinking was that overpopulation was destroying the earth. Prominent economists and environmentalists agreed that the only way to stem the tide was to impose restrictions on how we used resources, such as land,... -
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets by Thomas Philippon
RRP: $20.58$16.90A Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the Year"Superbly argued and important...Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What the U.S. needs, instead, is another Teddy Roosevelt... -
After the Crisis by Alain Touraine 9780745653853
RRP: $19.34$17.52What effects will the current economic crisis have on the long-term development of our societies? What does the future hold in store when we emerge from the crisis? These two questions lie at the heart of this important new book by the leading French... -
Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry by Geoffrey Jones 9780199639625
RRP: $72.24$61.82The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for... -
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Making and Breaking of Nations by Jacob Soll
RRP: $16.76$11.73In 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 Populist Vision by Charles Postel 9780195384710
RRP: $40.62$27.01The Populist movement has been both dismissed as an irrational response of backward-looking farmers to modernity and romanticized as a resistance movement of tradition-based communities to modern, commercial society. Now, in a wide-ranging and... -
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics - Updated Edition by Daniel Stedman Jones
RRP: $25.80$20.50Based on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reagan and Thatcher and in the decades since... -
More: A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age by Philip Coggan
$41.86A sweeping history that tracks the development of trade and industry across the world, from Ancient Rome to today.From the development of international trade fairs in the twelfth century to the innovations made in China, India, and the Arab world, it... -
Secular Cycles by Peter Turchin
RRP: $70.95$55.87Many historical processes exhibit recurrent patterns of change. Century-long periods of population expansion come before long periods of stagnation and decline; the dynamics of prices mirror population oscillations; and states go through strong... -
The Origin of Financial Crises: Central banks, credit bubbles and the efficient market fallacy by George Cooper
RRP: $14.18$12.37'The Origin of Financial Crises' provides a compelling analysis of the forces behind the recent economic crisis. In a series of disarmingly simple arguments George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy, explaining why... -
Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948 by Professor Roger E. Backhouse 9780190664091
RRP: $36.11$27.88Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work transformed the field of... -
Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson by Margarette Lincoln
RRP: $35.48$30.04A vivid account of the forgotten citizens of maritime London who sustained Britain during the Revolutionary Wars In the half-century before the Battle of Trafalgar the port of London became the commercial nexus of a global empire and launch pad of... -
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West by William Cronon 9780393308730
RRP: $20.63$16.60In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its... -
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813-1858 by Tom Young
RRP: $51.60$43.33Illuminates how new modes of artistic production in colonial India shaped the British state's nationalisation of the East India Company, transforming the relationship between nation and empire This pioneering book explores how art shaped the... -
Seeds of Wealth: Four plants that made men rich by Henry Hobhouse 9780230768505
$19.65Henry Hobhouse was the first to recognise plants as a causal factor in history in his Seeds of Wealth. In this new book, he examines four plants: rubber, timber, tobacco and the wine grape, each of which enormously increased the wealth of those who dealt... -
Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain's Late Empire by Aaron Windel
RRP: $38.70$30.04While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in... -
Tea and Empire: James Taylor in Victorian Ceylon by Angela McCarthy
$45.43This 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... -
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann 9780691143781
RRP: $38.70$31.33"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a... -
ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank
RRP: $37.41$29.59Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on... -
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman
RRP: $25.80$24.52A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed... -
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
RRP: $45.15$36.30The 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 Industrial Revolution by Pat Hudson 9780713165319
$39.13This is an introduction to the Industrial Revolution which offers an integrated account of the economic and social aspects of change during the period. Recent revisionist thinking has implied that fundamental change in economic, social and political life... -
Elusive Capital: Merchant Networks, Economic Institutions and Business Practices in Late Imperial China by Francois Gipouloux
$136.24Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic institutions, and business practices in the divergence between Europe and China during the trade revolution.Focusing on the... -
Can It Happen Again?: Essays on Instability and Finance by Hyman P. Minsky
RRP: $25.79$22.82In the winter of 1933, the American financial and economic system collapsed. Since then economists, policy makers and financial analysts throughout the world have been haunted by the question of whether "It" can happen again. In 2008 "It" very nearly... -
Pawned States: State Building in the Era of International Finance by Didac Queralt
RRP: $38.70$30.04How foreign lending weakens emerging nationsIn the nineteenth century, many developing countries turned to the credit houses of Europe for sovereign loans to balance their books and weather major fiscal shocks such as war. This reliance on external... -
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition by Adam Smith
RRP: $12.89$9.69This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made... -
Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle by Dan Senor 9780446541466
$32.69START-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel - a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces more start-up... -
How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies by Roger E. A. Farmer 9780195397918
RRP: $29.66$22.08OEf all the economic bubbles that have been pricked, the editors of The Economist recently observed, few have burst more spectacularly than the reputation of economics itself. Indeed, the financial crisis that crested in 2008 destroyed the credibility of... -
Magnetic Venture: The Story of Oxford Instruments by Audrey Wood 9780199241088
$52.44Magnetic Venture is the inside story of Oxford Instruments, the first substantial spin-off company from Oxford University, established in 1959. Written by one of its founders, it describes the ups and downs, the mistakes and successes of a growing... -
Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830-1970 by Ross Cranston
RRP: $38.69$35.86Making Commercial Law Through Practice 1830-1970 adds a new dimension to the history of Britain's commerce, trade manufacturing and financial services, by showing how they have operated in law over the last one hundred and forty years. In the main law...