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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 Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan
RRP: £18.99£13.61William D. Cohan's The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. is the astonishing story of the world's most elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. For over 150 years Lazard Freres had stood apart from... -
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
RRP: £25.00£16.78Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands 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£21.87An 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£14.84Throughout 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 Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
RRP: £30.00£21.35From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We are living in an age when economic failings have... -
John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman by Robert Skidelsky
RRP: £32.00£22.69THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHYRobert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Here, Skidelsky has revised and abridged his magnum opus into... -
The Asian Financial Crisis 1995-98: Birth of the Age of Debt by Russell Napier 9780857199140
RRP: £39.00£26.30In the space of a few months, across Asia, a miracle became a nightmare. This was the Asian Financial Crisis of 1995-98. In this economic crisis hundreds of people died in rioting, political strong men were removed and hundreds of billions of dollars... -
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... -
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... -
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic 9780674264144
RRP: £27.95£20.08A Financial Times Best Book of the Year.A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures."How do you see income distribution in your time, and how and why do... -
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott Reynolds Nelson
RRP: £25.00£14.88A revelatory global history shows how cheap American grain toppled the world's largest empires To understand the rise and fall of empires, we must follow the paths traveled by grain-along rivers, between ports, and across seas. In Oceans of Grain,... -
Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition by Robert J. Shiller 9780691173122
RRP: £17.99£12.95In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only... -
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen
RRP: £8.99£6.45Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic... -
Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and Their Place in History by Louise Raw
£29.60This is the story of one of the most important strikes in labour history revealing the significance and truth of what actually happened. In July 1888, fourteen hundred women and girls employed by the matchmakers Bryant and May walked out of their East... -
History of World Trade in Maps by Philip Parker
RRP: £25.00£17.43A beautful book for anyone interested in exploring the history of trade in maps. Trade is the lifeblood of nations. It has provided vital goods and wealth to countries and merchants from the ancient Egyptians who went in search of gold and... -
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... -
Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All by Costas Lapavitsas
£31.60Financialization is one of the most innovative concepts to emerge in the field of political economy in the last three decades, although there is no agreement on what exactly it is. Profiting Without Producing defines financialization in terms of the... -
Essays in Persuasion by J. Keynes 9780230249578
£65.67This reissue of the authoritative Royal Economic Society edition of Essays in Persuasion features a new introduction by Donald Moggridge, which discusses the significance of this definitive work. The essays in this volume show Keynes' attempts to... -
The Making of India: The Untold Story of British Enterprise by Kartar Lalvani
RRP: £27.00£19.95The first ever history of India to explore the benefits - institutional, political and civil - of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth... -
The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age by David S. Abraham
RRP: £12.99£11.46A natural resource strategist investigates the growing global demand for rare metals and what it means to the environment and our future Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book,... -
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel 9780691183251
RRP: £15.99£12.91Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows... -
The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence by T. H. Breen 9780195181319
RRP: £15.99£12.39The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen explores how colonists who came from very different ethnic and religious backgrounds managed to overcome... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth
£25.46The unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior Dutch-to laying the groundwork for future British expansion The East India Company was the largest commercial enterprise in British history, yet its... -
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Thomas Gryta
RRP: £14.00£9.10A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "If you're in any kind of leadership role-whether at a company, a non-profit, or somewhere else-there's a lot you can learn here."-Bill Gates, Gates NotesHow could General Electric-perhaps America's most iconic... -
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... -
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: £9.99£7.11'One of the most engrossing books I have ever read' Daily TelegraphJohn Kenneth Galbraith's now-classic account of the 1929 stock market collapse remains the definitive book on the most disastrous cycle of boom and bust in modern times.Vividly depicting... -
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama 9781509540228
RRP: £55.00£47.73Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern... -
In Defense of Public Debt by Barry Eichengreen 9780197577899 [USED COPY]
RRP: £27.49£16.25A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their... -
In Defense of Public Debt by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: £27.49£19.68A dive into the origins, management, and uses and misuses of sovereign debt through the ages. Public debts have exploded to levels unprecedented in modern history as governments responded to the Covid-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis. Their... -
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023 by Martin Daunton
RRP: £45.00£32.81An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933In 1933, Keynes reflected on the crisis of the Great Depression that arose from individualistic capitalism: 'It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous - and it... -
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard
RRP: £20.00£18.63The Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The New York Times bestselling business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America's most mysterious institutions-the Federal Reserve-to show how its policies... -
Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con by Jared Bibler 9780857198990
RRP: £22.99£15.53Born in Massachusetts, Jared Bibler relocated to Iceland in 2004 only to find himself in the middle of an unprecedented financial crisis a handful of years later. Personally wiped out and seeking to uncover the truth about a collapse that brought the... -
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth
RRP: £13.99£9.75Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth 9780300276497
RRP: £12.99£11.46"Overflowing with surprises."-William Dalrymple, The Spectator "Essential reading."-Dan Jones, Times (UK) "Fascinating and authoritative."-Jerry BrottonThe unlikely beginnings of the East India Company-from Tudor origins and rivalry with the superior... -
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally
RRP: £22.00£17.36As OPEC has loosened its grip over the past ten years, the oil market has been rocked by wild price swings, the likes of which haven't been seen for eight decades. Crafting an engrossing journey from the gushing Pennsylvania oil fields of the 1860s to... -
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691183299
RRP: £15.99£12.49Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and... -
The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 by David Gwyn
RRP: £25.00£21.32The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution-one that...