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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
RRP: $58.50$41.63From 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: $62.40$44.25THE 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... -
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant
RRP: $48.75$32.72Longlisted 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 Asian Financial Crisis 1995-98: Birth of the Age of Debt by Russell Napier 9780857199140
RRP: $76.05$51.29In 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... -
The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them by Linda Yueh 9780241988084
RRP: $21.43$15.15'A masterclass in spotting the early signs of a crisis' Nouriel Roubini'This is the historical perspective we need' John Kay'A first point of entry for anybody who wants to learn how the world sleep-walked into multiple crashes' Daron... -
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic 9780674264144
RRP: $54.50$39.21A 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... -
A New History of Ireland, Volume VI: Ireland Under the Union, II: 1870-1921 by W. E. Vaughan 9780199583744
$148.40A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and... -
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen
RRP: $17.53$12.58Why 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... -
Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition by Robert J. Shiller 9780691173122
RRP: $35.08$25.55In 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... -
Striking a Light: The Bryant and May Matchwomen and Their Place in History by Louise Raw
$57.72This 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: $48.75$33.99A 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... -
Profiting without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All by Costas Lapavitsas
$61.62Financialization 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... -
House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism by William D. Cohan
RRP: $35.08$25.25From the author of The Last Tycoons, William D. Cohan's international bestseller House of Cards: How Wall Street's Gamblers Broke Capitalism dissects the collapse of Bear Stearns and the beginning of the financial crisis. It was Wall Street's... -
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth
RRP: $27.28$19.01Selected 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... -
Essays in Persuasion by J. Keynes 9780230249578
$128.06This 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: $52.65$38.90The 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: $25.33$22.35A 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,... -
Lifestyle Revolution: How Taste Changed Class in Late 20th-Century Britain by Ben Highmore
RRP: $48.75$35.72In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes. They were to be proved hopelessly... -
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric by Thomas Gryta
RRP: $27.30$17.75A 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 Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel 9780691183251
RRP: $31.18$25.17Are 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: $31.18$24.16The 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... -
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama 9781509540228
RRP: $107.25$93.07Most 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... -
Understanding the Private-Public Divide: Markets, Governments, and Time Horizons by Avner Offer
RRP: $46.78$38.98Markets are taken as the norm in economics and in much of political and media discourse. But if markets are superior why does the public sector remain so large? Avner Offer provides a distinctive new account of the effective temporal limits on private,... -
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023 by Martin Daunton
RRP: $87.75$63.98An 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: $39.00$36.33The 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... -
Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian by Richard D. Wolff
RRP: $83.85$65.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262517836Author Richard D. WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Iceland's Secret: The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Con by Jared Bibler 9780857198990
RRP: $44.83$30.28Born 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... -
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism by Clara E. Mattei
RRP: $46.80$40.01A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."-Thomas Piketty A groundbreaking examination of austerity's dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to... -
The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co. by William D. Cohan
RRP: $37.03$26.54William 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... -
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices by Robert McNally
RRP: $42.90$33.85As 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... -
The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: $19.48$13.86'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... -
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691183299
RRP: $31.18$24.38Early 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... -
Rosa: The Story of the Rose by Peter E. Kukielski
RRP: $48.75$40.79A beautifully illustrated and unique history of the rose-the "queen of flowers"-in art, medicine, cuisine, and more"From noted rosarian Peter Kukielski comes this unique and handsome book that traces the many ways that roses have captured human... -
The Cadbury Committee: A History by Laura F. Spira 9780199592197
$152.53The Committee on the Financial Aspects of Corporate Governance, better known as the Cadbury Committee, was set up in May 1991 to address the concerns increasingly voiced at that time about how UK companies dealt with financial reporting and... -
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
RRP: $25.33$17.73How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial... -
Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History by Barry Eichengreen 9780190621070
RRP: $31.18$24.63The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth
$49.65The 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... -
The Coming of the Railway: A New Global History, 1750-1850 by David Gwyn
RRP: $48.75$41.57The 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... -
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof
RRP: $31.18$25.02The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are... -
A World Safe for Commerce: American Foreign Policy from the Revolution to the Rise of China by Dale C. Copeland 9780691172552
RRP: $62.40$48.28An Economist Biggest Book of the YearHow commerce determines whether America preserves the peace or goes to warWhen the Cold War ended, many believed that expanding trade would usher in an era of peace. Yet today the United States finds itself...