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Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships, Second Edition by Peter Bernholz 9781784717643
RRP: £30.95£28.22Exploring the characteristics of inflations and comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day, this book provides an in depth discussion of the subject. It analyzes the high and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of... -
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
RRP: £8.99£7.27The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to... -
Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth-Century Art by Diana Seave Greenwald
RRP: £32.00£24.76A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical canonPainting by Numbers presents a groundbreaking blend of art historical and social scientific methods to... -
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini
RRP: £20.00£15.89In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds... -
EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts by Ashoka Mody
RRP: £34.99£33.91The promise of the European pursuit of ever closer union created tremendous optimism that conflict was the past and harmony would be the future. The enthusiasm for economic integration and monetary union, through the Euro, enhanced the confidence that... -
The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940 by Anthony J. Badger 9781566634533
RRP: £14.99£14.42Anthony Badger's notably successful history is not simply another narrative of the New Deal, nor does the figure of Franklin Roosevelt loom as large in his account as in some others. What Mr. Badger does so well is to consider important aspects of New... -
The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin 9780691177946
RRP: £28.00£21.80The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to... -
Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
RRP: £27.00£22.48Deirdre Nansen McCloskey's latest meticulous work examines how economics can become a more "human" science. Economic historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has distinguished herself through her writing on the Great Enrichment and the betterment of the... -
George Eastman - A Biography by Elizabeth Brayer
RRP: £32.99£30.23Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative work, Brayer shows us how such key innovations as roll film and the light, hand-held... -
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: v. 1 by Adam Smith 9780865970069
RRP: £7.95£7.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970069Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 1012g -
Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State by Yasheng Huang 9780521898102
RRP: £30.99£25.86Presents a story of two Chinas - an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China. In the 1980s, rural China gained the upper hand. In the 1990s, urban China triumphed. In the 1990s, the Chinese state reversed many of its rural... -
Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela by Raul Gallegos 9781640122130
RRP: £16.99£15.07Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude-the world's largest reserves-an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American, leftist government controls this vast resource and has used its... -
The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future by Robert Guest 9780330419727
£15.63Africa is the only continent to have grown poorer over the past three decades. Why? Robert Guest's fascinating book seeks to diagnose the sickness that continues to hobble Africa's development. Using reportage, first-hand experience and economic insight,... -
Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in Backcountry Virginia by Ann Smart Martin 9780801898266
RRP: £25.00£22.03How did people living on the early American frontier discover and then become a part of the market economy? How do their purchases and their choices revise our understanding of the market revolution and the emerging consumer ethos? Ann Smart Martin... -
The Microfoundations Delusion: Metaphor and Dogma in the History of Macroeconomics by J. E. King 9781782540298
RRP: £32.95£29.96In this challenging book, John King makes a sustained and comprehensive attack on the dogma that macroeconomic theory must have 'rigorous microfoundations'. He draws on both the philosophy of science and the history of economic thought to demonstrate the... -
A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth by James E. Meade
RRP: £37.99£33.38First published in 1960, this seminal work illuminates the interrelations of the various approaches to the theory of economic growth. Professor Meade seeks to understand the factors which determine the speed of economic growth and outlines the ways in... -
Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist Economics by Liliann Fischer
RRP: £32.99£29.16Economics is a broad and diverse discipline, but most economics textbooks only cover one way of thinking about the economy. This book provides an accessible introduction to nine different approaches to economics: from feminist to ecological and Marxist... -
The Caledonian Canal by A.D. Cameron 9781839830518
RRP: £12.99£8.94The Caledonian Canal records the history of one of Scotland's most massive engineering projects, from Thomas Telford's first survey in 1801 into the twenty-first century. Telford's plan, to connect Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy with each other and... -
National System of Political Economy - Volume 3: The Systems and the Politics by Friedrich List 9781596055445
RRP: £15.99£13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596055445Author Friedrich ListFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Liberalism's Last Man: Hayek in the Age of Political Capitalism by Vikash Yadav 9780226821474
RRP: £30.00£24.85A modern reframing of Friedrich Hayek's most famous work for the 21st century. Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom was both an intellectual milestone and a source of political division, spurring fiery debates around capitalism and its discontents. In... -
Introducing Economics: A Graphic Guide by David Orrell 9781848312159
RRP: £8.99£6.70A comic-book introduction to economics from David Orrell, the author of Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong. With illustrations from Borin Van Loon. Part of the internationally-recognised Introducing Graphic Guide series.Today, it seems, all... -
Beeronomics: How Beer Explains the World by Johan Swinnen
RRP: £19.99£14.28From prompting a transition from hunter-gatherer to an agrarian lifestyle in ancient Mesopotamia to bankrolling Britain's imperialist conquests, strategic taxation and the regulation of beer has played a pivotal role throughout history. Beeronomics: How... -
A History of Cold War Industrialisation: Finnish Shipbuilding between East and West by Saara Matala
RRP: £37.99£33.38This monograph explores the economic consequences of the Cold War, a polarised world order which politicised technology and shaped industrial development. It provides a detailed archival-based history of the Finnish shipbuilding industry (1952-1996),... -
Fulfillment: winning and losing in one-click America by Alec MacGillis 9781914484209
RRP: £10.99£7.32An award-winning journalist's investigation into Amazon's true impact on inequality. The market value of Amazon.com has exceeded one trillion dollars. In 2020, its annual revenue increased by over 100 billion dollars. As the company insinuates itself... -
EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts by Ashoka Mody 9780190056322
RRP: £23.49£18.13Blending economic analysis with political drama, EuroTragedy chosen by both Foreign Affairs and The Financial Times as one of the best books of 2018is a groundbreaking account of the euros history and tragic consequences. In this vivid and compelling... -
Capital Gains: How the National Lottery Transformed England's Arts by Prue Skene
RRP: £20.00£16.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995589605Author Prue SkeneFormat HardbackImprint Franchise PressPublisher Franchise Press -
The Corsairs of Saint-Malo: Network Organization of a Merchant Elite Under the Ancien Regime by Henning Hillmann
RRP: £30.00£23.29Western Europe rose in global power during the early modern period as overseas expansion opened new trade routes. At the same time, intense rivalries pitted European states against one another in recurrent wars. Henning Hillmann examines the merchant... -
The Philosophy of 'As If' by H. Vaihinger
RRP: £19.99£17.69Hans 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... -
Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism by Benedikt Koehler 9780739197455
RRP: £43.00£37.78Early Islam and the Birth of Capitalism proposes a strikingly original thesis; that capitalism first emerged in Arabia, not in late medieval Italian city states as is commonly assumed. Early Islam made a seminal but largely unrecognized contribution to... -
Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories by Heather Whiteside
RRP: £35.99£31.69Winner of the Rik Davidson/Studies in Political Economy 2022 Book PrizeA key text, Capitalist Political Economy: Thinkers and Theories analyses the field-forming theoretical contributions to political economy that have defined, debated, critiqued, and... -
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets by Thomas Philippon 9780674237544
£29.17In this much-anticipated book, a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inevitabilities of globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against... -
The History of Economics by Professor Roger E. Backhouse
RRP: £29.99£28.50As a broad introduction to the history of economic thought - based on courses the authors have taught for many years - this book provides a magisterial overview for students and teachers who have not had the opportunity to cover the development of the... -
Economic Philosophy by Joan Robinson
RRP: £18.99£16.87Joan Robinson (1903-1983) was one of the greatest economists of the twentieth century and a fearless critic of free-market capitalism. A major figure in the controversial 'Cambridge School' of economics in the post-war period, she made fundamental... -
Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire by Tara Nummedal
£30.19What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men--and occasionally women--who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors of... -
The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics by Stephen J Macekura
RRP: £22.00£18.56Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that endless economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, is not only possible but actually essential... -
Cameralism and the Enlightenment: Happiness, Governance and Reform in Transnational Perspective by Ere Nokkala
RRP: £39.99£35.06Cameralism and the Enlightenment reassesses the relationship between two key phenomena of European history often disconnected from each other. It builds on recent insights from global history, transnational history and Enlightenment studies to reflect on... -
A History of Marxian Economics, Volume II: 1929-1990 by Michael Charles Howard 9780691604138
RRP: £62.00£48.62This second volume completes a critical history of the social, political, and theoretical forces behind Marxian economics--the only work in English to offer such comprehensive treatment. Beginning with Marxian analyses of the Great Depression and... -
The Enigma of Social Harm: The Problem of Liberalism by Thomas Raymen
RRP: £21.99£19.34Drawing on a novel blend of moral philosophy, social science, psychoanalytic theory and continental philosophy, this book offers up a diagnosis of contemporary liberal capitalist society and the increasingly febrile culture we occupy when it comes to... -
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner 9780393609936
RRP: £20.00£18.95In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity-between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Yet, from the 1970s on, a power... -
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
RRP: £24.00£20.12The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity, and...