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The South Korean Economy by Sunil Kim
RRP: €27.36€25.56South Korea has the tenth largest economy in the world and is one of only two Asian members of the OECD. It has achieved this remarkable level of economic development since its independence from Japan in 1945. Indeed, it has achieved this transformation,... -
The Handbook of the Political Economy of Financial Crises by Martin H. Wolfson 9780190240936
€68.18The Great Financial Crisis that began in 2007 reminds us with devastating force that financial instability and crises are endemic to capitalist economies, and that it is only strong and dynamically-changing financial regulations that can keep the damage... -
Threads of Global Desire - Silk in the Pre-Modern World by Dagmar Schafer
RRP: €71.40€68.48Considering silk as a major force of cross-cultural interaction, this book examines the integration of silk production and consumption into various cultures in the pre-modern world. Silk has long been a global commodity that, because of its... -
Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters by Walter A. Friedman
RRP: €33.32€25.94The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and... -
Major Recessions: Britain and the World 1920-1995 by Christopher Dow 9780199241231
€77.93In the twentieth century there have been five major recessions: two in the interwar period, and three more starting 1973, 1979, and 1989. This book focuses on events in the UK, but sets them in their international context and makes frequent comparisons... -
Adam Smith by Samuel Fleischacker
RRP: €27.36€23.99Adam Smith (1723-1790) is widely regarded as one of the great thinkers of the Enlightenment period. Best-known for his founding work of economics, The Wealth of Nations, Smith engaged equally with the nature of morality in his Theory of Moral Sentiments... -
Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions by Stanley L. Engerman 9780521251372
RRP: €41.64€36.28This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United... -
The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends by Ricardo F. Crespo
RRP: €47.59€41.72The Nature and Method of Economic Sciences: Evidence, Causality, and Ends argues that economic phenomena can be examined from five analytical levels: a statistical descriptive approach, a causal explanatory approach, a teleological explicative approach,... -
The Economic History of Central, East and South-East Europe: 1800 to the Present by Matthias Morys
RRP: €45.21€40.20The collapse of communism in Central, East and South-East Europe (CESEE) led to great hopes for the region and for Europe. A quarter of a century on, the picture is mixed: in many CESEE countries, the transformation process is incomplete, and the... -
Mont Pelerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society by Bruce Caldwell
RRP: €41.59€37.98Marking the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society, in 1947, this volume presents for the first time the original transcripts from this landmark event. The society was created by Friedrich Hayek as a forum for leading... -
International Economic Relations since 1945 by Catherine R. Schenk
RRP: €42.83€37.71This second edition has been updated to include an assessment of economic relations up to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on three main threads that tie national economies together: flows of goods, of people and of finance.Since the end of the Second... -
The Economics of Chocolate by Mara P. Squicciarini 9780198833406
RRP: €32.12€24.26This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history,... -
Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe by Jean-Laurent Rosenthal 9780674057913
RRP: €60.63€48.74China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the... -
Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet, and the Enlightenment by Emma Rothschild 9780674008373
RRP: €38.02€29.95In a brilliant recreation of the epoch between the 1770s and the 1820s, Emma Rothschild reinterprets the ideas of the great revolutionary political economists to show us the true landscape of economic and political thought in their day, with important... -
The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics: Theorizing, Analyzing, and Transforming Capitalism by Tae-Hee Jo
RRP: €54.73€47.75The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a 'pluralistic' heterodox perspective. Contributions throughout the Handbook explore different theoretical perspectives... -
Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund 9781591842996
RRP: €28.56€19.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591842996Author Erin ArvedlundFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 310gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 142mm *... -
Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century by Michel Chossudovsky 9780973714739
RRP: €23.79€15.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973714739Author Michel ChossudovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 390Imprint Global Research, Centre for Research on GlobalizationPublisher Global Research,... -
The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them by Todd G. Buchholz 9780062405708
RRP: €23.80€21.69In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that wealthy nations face and makes the case for transforming those same vulnerabilities into sources of... -
Growth and Interaction in the World Economy: The Roots of Modernity by Angus Maddison 9780844771731
RRP: €11.29€10.92In this study, Angus Maddison explores the causes of the West's economic growth over the last 2,000 years and contrasts it with the economic history of the rest of the world. Maddison explores the impact of Western conquest on the Americas and analyzes... -
National System of Political Economy - Volume 1: The History by Friedrich List
RRP: €12.48€12.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596055421Author Friedrich ListFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
A Century of Wealth in America by Edward N. Wolff 9780674495142
RRP: €41.59€34.74Understanding wealth in the United States-who has it, how they acquired it, and how they preserve it-is crucial to addressing the economic and political challenges facing the nation. But until now we have had little reliable information. Edward Wolff,... -
Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy by William Lazonick 9780521447881
RRP: €53.54€45.86This book explains the transitions in twentieth-century industrial leadership from Britain to the United States and, most recently, to Japan, in terms of the changing business investment strategies and organizational structures in these nations. The... -
Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries by Alfred D. Chandler
RRP: €30.88€24.56The dean of business historians continues his masterful chronicle of the transforming revolutions of the twentieth century begun in Inventing the Electronic Century.Alfred Chandler argues that only with consistent attention to research and development... -
The Austrian School of Economics: A History of Its Ideas, Ambassadors, & Institutions by Eugen Maria Schulak 9781610161343
RRP: €22.61€18.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610161343Author Eugen Maria SchulakFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Ludwig Von Mises InstitutePublisher Ludwig Von Mises InstituteWeight(grams)... -
Roman Inequality: Affluent Slaves, Businesswomen, Legal Fictions by Edward E. Cohen 9780197687345
RRP: €64.26€58.11Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in business amidst a population of generally impoverished free inhabitants and of impecunious enslaved residents... -
Social Capitalism: The End of Neo-Liberalism and Where We Go Next by Andrew Blackwood
RRP: €17.84€13.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398453708Author Andrew BlackwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 526Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
The Soul of Classical Political Economy: James M. Buchanan from the Archives by Peter J Boettke 9781942951971
RRP: €21.41€16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942951971Author Peter J BoettkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Mercatus Center at George Mason UniversityPublisher Mercatus Center at George Mason... -
The Big Problem of Small Change by Thomas J. Sargent
€55.91The Big Problem of Small Change offers the first credible and analytically sound explanation of how a problem that dogged monetary authorities for hundreds of years was finally solved. Two leading economists, Thomas Sargent and Francois Velde, examine... -
Luxury in Global Perspective: Objects and Practices, 1600-2000 by Karin Hofmeester 9781107108325
RRP: €133.28€120.08Global history is predicated on connections and exchange: how connections between far-flung people, places, and objects are forged through a variety of exchanges. As world history has matured as a field, its practitioners have found the movement of... -
Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics by Mehran Kamrava
RRP: €52.35€45.74The Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of Persian Gulf politics, history, economics, and society. The volume begins its examination of Ottoman rule in the Arabian Peninsula, exploring other... -
Beyond Price: Value in Culture, Economics, and the Arts by Michael Hutter
RRP: €51.16€44.17Much recent discussion surrounding valuation of the arts and culture, particularly in the policy arena, has been dominated by a concern to identify an economic and financial basis for valuation of art works, arts, activities and more general ways in... -
Capitalism Against Capitalism by Michael Albert 9781870332545
RRP: €35.69€31.70Communism has collapsed. Capitalism has rid itself of the competition on which it thrives. But though now victorious, capitalism has become a threat. The future of us all may be shaped by the outcome of the conflict between capitalism as victor and... -
The Credit Crunch: Housing Bubbles, Globalisation and the Worldwide Economic Crisis by Graham Turner 9780745328102
€30.29This book argues that the current financial turmoil signals a crisis in globalisation that will directly challenge the free market economic model. Graham Turner shows that the housing bubbles in the West were deliberately created to mask the damage... -
Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom: A History of the British Shipbuilders Corporation by Hugh Murphy
RRP: €47.59€41.72Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical account of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, first looking at this major industry under private enterprise, then under state control, and finally back in private hands.The chapters... -
The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy by Thomas E. Woods 9780739188002
RRP: €46.41€40.90The Church and the Market is a vigorous and lively defense of the market economy and a withering attack on all forms of state intervention. It covers labor unions, monopoly, money and banking, business cycles, interest, usury, and much more. Although it... -
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
RRP: €20.22€14.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061452062Author Matt RidleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)... -
War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 by John V. C. Nye 9780691242217
RRP: €35.70€27.72In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs-notably on French wine-as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and... -
Finding a Common Interest: The Story of Dick Dusseldorp and Lend Lease by Lindie Clark 9780521039949
RRP: €41.64€34.28This important book demonstrates how businesses can operate both profitably and ethically - by finding a common interest between all those involved in their operations. It does so through the example of Dick Dusseldorp, founder of Lend Lease, one of... -
Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present by Elliott A. Krause 9780300078664
€27.91In this wide-ranging analysis, Elliot Krause considers the autonomy and leverage of modern professional groups---medicine, law, university teaching, and engineering---in the United States and four European countries over the past three decades. Finding... -
Comparative Perspectives on History and Historians: Essays in Memory of Bryce Lyon (1920-2007) by James M. Murray
RRP: €20.83€20.22Comparative Perspectives on History and Historians: Essays in Memory of Bryce Lyon (1920-2007) features a section of appreciations of Bryce Lyon from the three editors, R. C. Van Caenegem, and Walter Prevenier, followed by three sections on the major...