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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... -
The Path to Sustained Growth: England's Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution by E. A. Wrigley
RRP: £22.99£19.56Before the industrial revolution prolonged economic growth was unachievable. All economies were organic, dependent on plant photosynthesis to provide food, raw materials, and energy. This was true both of heat energy, derived from burning wood, and... -
Castles, Battles, and Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History by Jurgen Brauer
RRP: £44.00£42.67"Castles, Battles, and Bombs" reconsiders key episodes of military history from the point of view of economics - with dramatically insightful results. For example, when looked at as a question of sheer cost, the building of castles in the High Middle... -
The Federal Reserve: A New History by Robert L. Hetzel
RRP: £36.00£31.37An illuminating history of the Fed from its founding through the tumult of 2020. In The Federal Reserve: A New History, Robert L. Hetzel draws on more than forty years of experience as an economist in the central bank to trace the influences of the Fed... -
The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Classical Antiquity by David B. Hollander
RRP: £39.99£35.06Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange, but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities, lands, and their... -
The Great Crash: How the Stock Market Crash of 1929 Plunged the World into Depression by Selwyn Parker
RRP: £10.99£7.40This is the story of the financial cataclysm that started with the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929, and set in motion a series of economic, political and social events that affected many millions of people in America, Britain, Europe and Australia... -
The Genesis of Macroeconomics: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton by Antoin E. Murphy 9780199543236
£52.03This is a book about the discovery of macroeconomic ideas and concepts long before the term macroeconomics had been coined. The cast of authors varies from doctors and physicians (Sir William Petty and Francois Quesnay), to philosophers (David Hume and... -
The Ascendancy of Finance by Joseph Vogl 9781509509300
RRP: £16.99£15.22The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the... -
Pioneers of Capitalism: The Netherlands 1000-1800 by Maarten Prak
RRP: £35.00£27.74How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic... -
Understanding Financial Crises by Franklin Allen
RRP: £20.99£20.87What causes a financial crisis? Can financial crises be anticipated or even avoided? What can be done to lessen their impact? Should governments and international institutions intervene? Or should financial crises be left to run their course? In the... -
Wall Street: A History by Charles R. Geisst
RRP: £23.49£21.70Wall Street is an unending source of legend-and nightmares. It is a universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of economic prosperity and the basest impulses of greed and deception. Charles R. Geisst's Wall Street is at a chronicle of the street... -
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece by Josiah Ober 9780691173146
RRP: £16.99£12.89Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly... -
Cash Flow: The Businesses of Menstruation by Camilla Mork Rostvik 9781787355446
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355446Author Camilla Mork RostvikFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 440g -
Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World since 1800 by Richard S. Grossman 9780691202785
RRP: £40.00£31.53A sweeping look at the evolution of commercial banks over the past two centuriesCommercial banks are among the oldest and most familiar financial institutions. When they work well, we hardly notice; when they do not, we rail against them. What are the... -
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe: Volume 1, 1700-1870 by Stephen Broadberry
RRP: £34.99£30.73Unlike most existing textbooks on the economic history of modern Europe, which offer a country-by-country approach, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe rethinks Europe's economic history since 1700 as unified and pan-European, with the... -
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition by Paul Seabright
RRP: £28.00£21.80The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the... -
Decisions with Multiple Objectives: Preferences and Value Trade-Offs by Ralph L. Keeney
RRP: £57.99£48.30Many of the complex problems faced by decision makers involve multiple conflicting objectives. This book describes how a confused decision maker, who wishes to make a reasonable and responsible choice among alternatives, can systematically probe his true... -
British Business History, 1720-1994 by J. F. Wilson 9780719041334
RRP: £19.99£17.82This textbook covers over three centuries of British business history from 1720 to the present day. Wilson argues that company culture has been the most important component in the evolution of business organisations and management practices. The... -
The Day the Markets Roared: How a 1982 Forecast Sparked a Global Bull Market by Henry Kaufman
RRP: £17.99£15.35Legendary economist Dr. Henry Kaufman shares a classic Wall Street story that has never been fully told: a firsthand account of the day in August 1982 that would define US economics for decadesDr. Henry Kaufman is the most famous economist Wall Street... -
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914 by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780520267619
RRP: £31.00£24.03Immanuel 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... -
An Economic History of India 1707-1857 by Tirthankar Roy
RRP: £36.99£32.53This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research. This allows for a more detailed discussion of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia and gives a fuller context for... -
Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Forge Prosperity for All by Owen Ullmann
RRP: £25.00£19.21When President Biden announced Janet Yellen as his choice for secretary of the treasury, it was the peak moment of a remarkable life. Not only the first woman in the more than two-century history of the office, Yellen is the first person to hold all... -
More: A History of the World Economy from the Iron Age to the Information Age by Philip Coggan 9781610399821
RRP: £18.99£12.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610399821Author Philip CogganFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *... -
Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling 9780393329469
RRP: £14.99£12.24"Schelling here offers an early analysis of 'tipping' in social situations involving a large number of individuals." -official citation for the 2005 Nobel Prize Micromotives and Macrobehavior was originally published over twenty-five years ago, yet the... -
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid by Katherine Blunt
RRP: £25.99£17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593330654Author Katherine BluntFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
The Long Depression by Michael Roberts
RRP: £21.99£14.08The 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... -
Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 by AnnaLee Saxenian
RRP: £30.95£24.42Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Annalee Saxenian suggests, has to do with the fact that despite similar histories and technologies, Silicon... -
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry by William K. Black
RRP: £19.99£17.94In this expert insider's account of the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s, William Black lays bare the strategies that corrupt CEOs and CFOs-in collusion with those who have regulatory oversight of their industries-use to defraud companies for their... -
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler 9780393352795
£9.25Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans-predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring... -
Creating Global Shipping: Aristotle Onassis, the Vagliano Brothers, and the Business of Shipping, c.1820-1970 by Gelina Harlaftis
RRP: £22.99£20.66Shipping has been the international business par excellence in many national economies, one that preceded trends in other, more highly visible sectors of international economic activity. Nevertheless, in both business or economic history, shipping has... -
Essays on the Great Depression by Ben S. Bernanke
RRP: £35.00£27.74Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a... -
The Age of Fragmentation: A History of Contemporary Economic Thought by Alessandro Roncaglia
RRP: £34.99£30.49The field of economics has proliferated in complexity and importance since the Second World War. Alessandro Roncaglia recounts the history of the different approaches (marginalist, neoclassical, Keynesian, Austrian, monetarism, rational expectations,... -
How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality by Paul Erickson
RRP: £20.00£19.40In 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... -
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914 by Donald Sassoon
RRP: £14.99£9.53'A magnum opus, an accessible and genuinely global history ... This is a book for today and tomorrow' Financial Times Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began... -
Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval by Jon Hilsenrath
RRP: £25.00£16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063162464Author Jon HilsenrathFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 152g -
A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility by Nicola Gennaioli 9780691182506
RRP: £25.00£19.59How investor expectations move markets and the economyThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it... -
Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution by Hassan Malik
RRP: £25.00£19.59A must-read financial history for investors navigating today's volatile global marketsFollowing an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the largest sovereign default in history. In Bankers and... -
Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies by Inger Leemans 9780367219963
RRP: £37.99£33.78Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies researches the development of knowledge economies in Early Modern Europe. Starting with the Southern and Northern Netherlands as important early hubs for marketing knowledge, it analyses knowledge...