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City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire by Roger Crowley
RRP: £12.99£8.56A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles... -
How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich by Franz-Josef Bruggemeier
RRP: £27.99£24.14The Nazis created nature preserves, championed sustainable forestry, curbed air pollution, and designed the autobahn highway network as a way of bringing Germans closer to nature. How Green Were the Nazis?: Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third... -
GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition by Diane Coyle
RRP: £12.99£10.15Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013--or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the U.K. financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008--just as the world's financial... -
To the Ends of the Earth: How Ancient Explorers, Scientists, and Traders Connected the World by Raimund J. Schulz 9780197668023
RRP: £22.99£22.76A sweeping history of ancient exploration, the first full-scale account in over a century Odysseus. Jason and the Argonauts. Heracles. Greek mythology is full of tales of heroes setting out for the unknown. Such tales reflected and instilled a sense... -
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution: The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists by Antony Cyril Sutton 9781905570355
RRP: £12.99£9.09Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and... -
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon 9780241388655
RRP: £14.99£10.95The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's preeminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of the nineteenth century, as eminent as traders as the... -
Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio
RRP: £45.00£28.51Ray Dalio, the legendary investor and international bestselling author of Principles - whose books have sold more than five million copies worldwide - shares his unique template for how debt crises work and principles for dealing with them well. This... -
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
RRP: £14.99£10.95Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history.From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the... -
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
RRP: £12.99£9.09'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford' BILL BRYSON'Entertaining . . . A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet often overlooked inventions that have changed the way we live' The... -
We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years by Stephen D. King 9780300276084
RRP: £9.99£8.59A FINANCIAL TIMES "BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: MONEY" AND "BEST SUMMER BOOKS OF 2023: ECONOMICS""Historically informed and lucid."-Martin Wolf, Financial Times "Brilliantly clear and concise."-Juliet Samuel, Times (UK) "Excellent and readable."-Larry... -
Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan
RRP: £14.99£10.95Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018'An inspiring, rip-roaring read - like the astonishing story it describes' Liam Halligan, Daily TelegraphWhere does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role... -
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 9780374601140
RRP: £30.00£19.80One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall | Named a most anticipated fall book by the Chicago Tribune The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside John Maynard Keynes, the... -
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian
RRP: £25.00£18.02'Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining' Financial Times'Revelatory reading' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed'After reading Quinn Slobodian's new book, you are not likely to think about capitalism the same way' JacobinLook at a map of the world... -
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: The International Bestseller by Carlo M. Cipolla
RRP: £10.99£7.77'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'Brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fears: stupid people can and do rule the world.Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of... -
The Opportunity Index – A Solution–Based Framework to Dismantle the Racial Wealth Gap by G Lewis
RRP: £23.00£15.17A bold and fresh perspective unravelling the economics of racial inequality In The Opportunity Index, BlackRock Managing Director and co-founder of the #Talkaboutblack movement, Gavin Lewis, skillfully plots the origins of the racial wealth gap and its... -
Dogs and Demons: The Fall of Modern Japan by Alex Kerr
RRP: £15.99£11.61The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese 'economic miracle' failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded, concrete shambles - a wilderness of bad planning, corruption and... -
Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu Lughod 9780195067743
RRP: £37.99£30.15In this important study, Janet Abu-Lughod presents a groundbreaking reinterpretation of global economic evolution and provides a new paradigm for understanding the evolution of world systems by tracing the rise of a system that, at its peak in the... -
Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart by Warren Belasco 9780812221343
RRP: £27.99£24.14In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary... -
Shocking Contrasts: Political Responses to Exogenous Supply Shocks by Ronald L. Rogowski 9781316510704
RRP: £30.00£25.95In the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed as much as two thirds of Europe's population; in the fifteenth, the introduction of moveable-type printing rapidly expanded Europe's supply of human capital; between 1850 and 1914, Russia's population... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis 9781784704117 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99£2.29**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £10.99£7.77**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** The most recognisable economist on the... -
A Little History of Economics by Niall Kishtainy 9780300234527
RRP: £10.99£9.05A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field"A whistle-stop introduction to the great works and thinkers of each age, this is a clear and... -
The Penguin History of Economics: New and Revised by Roger E Backhouse 9781802063011
RRP: £12.99£9.09The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publicationRoger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the story of economic thinking from the ancient world to the present day, with a brand-new chapter on the... -
The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg
RRP: £20.00£13.46'This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right' Elon Musk'A joyful counterblast... packed with vivid examples... decisive' The Economist'Compelling... Masterful' Daily Mail'A timely reminder of the... -
Economics Without the Boring Bits: An Enlightening Guide to the Dismal Science by Tejvan Pettinger
RRP: £12.99£7.51Where does wealth come from? How is it different from money? Does government intervention prevent or create crises? What is the most effective way to protect the environment? In Economics Without the Boring Bits, Oxford-trained economist Tejvan Pettinger... -
Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain by Richard Vinen 9780141993171
RRP: £14.99£10.95A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022'There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen's' Jonathan Coe, Financial Times'Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also,... -
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism by Sven Beckert
RRP: £14.99£10.95WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015'Knowledgeable and stunning' Orhan Pamuk... -
Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric by William D. Cohan 9780141991221
RRP: £18.99£13.61A magisterial history of the astounding rise - and unimaginable fall - of America's most iconic corporationPerhaps no company reflects American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial fortunes as well as the iconic General Electric Company. Producing... -
The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis by James Rickards
RRP: £14.99£10.95'If you are curious about what the financial Goetterdammerung might look like you've certainly come to the right place' ForbesFinancial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards reveals how the global elite are... -
Remaking English Society - Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England by Steve Hindle
RRP: £25.00£24.34Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long 9781399803434
RRP: £14.99£9.80AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a... -
Eurozone Dystopia: Groupthink and Denial on a Grand Scale by William Mitchell 9781784716677
RRP: £48.95£44.25Eurozone Dystopia traces the origin of the Eurozone and shows how the historical Franco-German rivalry combined with the growing dominance of neo-liberal economic thinking to create a monetary system that was deeply flawed and destined to fail. William... -
How to Teach Economics to Your Dog: A Quirky Introduction by Rebecca Campbell 9780861546183
RRP: £10.99£6.75Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how they apply to our lives - people and mutts alike. There are... -
A History of Economics: The Past as the Present by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: £14.99£10.95A book explaining the history of economics; including the powerful and vested interests which moulded the theories to their financial advantage; as a means of understanding modern economics.About the AuthorJohn Kenneth Galbraith wrote more than 30 books,... -
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
RRP: £10.99£7.77A Times Best Business Book of 2018What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time?'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time' Professor Tyler Cowen, author of... -
The Club: How the Premier League Became the Richest, Most Disruptive Business in Sport by Jonathan Clegg
RRP: £10.99£7.40An excellent recap, with wonderful access and forensic detail on the Premier League's rise to global alpha status... All told with an arch sense of humour The GuardianHow did English football - once known for its stale pies, bad book-keeping and... -
The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century by Robert O. Collins 9781558760912
RRP: £26.95£20.99An account of the golden trade of the Moors, and a source book on Saharan trade routes, caravan organization and Sudanese history. The author covers anthropology and economic geography as well as history, as he examines and explores the hot little towns,... -
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century by James Buchan
RRP: £14.99£9.80At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in 1671, he was convicted of murder in London and, after his escape from prison, fled Scotland for the mainland when Union with England brought with it a warrant for... -
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart 9780691152646
RRP: £18.99£14.83Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old... -
The Summit: The Biggest Battle of the Second World War - fought behind closed doors by Ed Conway 9780349139616
£16.94The idea of world leaders gathering in the midst of economic crisis has become all-too familiar. But the summit at Bretton Woods in 1944 was the only time countries from around the world have agreed to overhaul the structure of the international monetary...