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Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
RRP: €40.40€34.52A New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer... -
A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures by Lionel Robbins
RRP: €53.55€42.51Lionel Robbins's now famous lectures on the history of economic thought comprise one of the greatest accounts since World War II of the evolution of economic ideas. This volume represents the first time those lectures have been published. Lord Robbins... -
The Meritocracy Trap by Daniel Markovits
RRP: €15.46€10.82'This book flips your world upside down. Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy isn't a virtuous, efficient system that rewards the best and brightest. Instead it rewards middle-class families who can afford huge investments in their children's... -
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by Alexandre Montagu 9781914495878
RRP: €29.75€19.49Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of... -
The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community by Stephen A. Marglin 9780674047228
RRP: €33.26€33.19Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth 9780300276497
RRP: €15.46€13.64"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... -
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of the Treasury Since 1976 by Aeron Davis
RRP: €20.22€14.85The Treasury is one of Britain's oldest, most powerful and secretive institutions, one that has played a central role in shaping the country's economic system. But all too often it has escaped public scrutiny when it comes to investigating the ups and... -
The Shifts and the Shocks: What we've learned - and have still to learn - from the financial crisis by Martin Wolf
RRP: €15.46€10.82In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis of the economic course of the last seven yearsThere have... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson 9781784973940
RRP: €23.80€20.97A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 - and paradoxically led to the birth of modern... -
The House of Rothschild: The World's Banker 1849-1998 by Niall Ferguson
€28.25This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and... -
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story About Women and Economics by Katrine Marcal 9781846275661
RRP: €13.08€8.71Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, believed that our actions stem from self-interest and the world turns because of financial gain. But every night Adam Smith's mother served him his dinner, not out of self-interest but out of love.Today,... -
When China Rules The World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World [Greatly updated and expanded] by Martin Jacques
RRP: €22.60€16.20China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and... -
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein
RRP: €15.46€13.64Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers"The authors weave a complex tapestry of monetary, fiscal and social policies... -
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen
RRP: €20.22€16.24An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the agesGovernments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair... -
The Suppressed History of American Banking: How Big Banks Fought Jackson, Killed Lincoln, and Caused the Civil War by Xaviant Haze
RRP: €14.27€9.03In this startling investigation into the suppressed history of America in the 1800s, Xaviant Haze reveals how the powerful Rothschild banking family and the Central Banking System, now known as the Federal Reserve Bank, provide a continuous thread of... -
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
RRP: €21.42€13.47One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studies... -
We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a Post-Soviet World by Helen Yaffe
RRP: €29.75€25.37The extraordinary account of the Cuban people's struggle for survival in a post-Soviet world In the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba faced the start of a crisis that decimated its economy. Helen Yaffe examines the astonishing developments... -
Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: €24.98€17.36Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty 9780674430006
RRP: €40.40€33.81A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year... -
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil
RRP: €21.41€16.91When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for 'a new Bretton Woods' to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict. The name of the remote New Hampshire town where representatives of... -
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents: The Definitive Edition by F. A. Hayek 9780415755320
RRP: €54.73€47.75A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual history and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians and scholars for half a century. Originally published in 1944, it was seen as heretical for its passionate warning... -
The Little Book of Economics by DK
RRP: €11.89€8.46This book is the perfect introduction to the subject of economics and economic ideas through history.From the earliest forms of currency to the Industrial Revolution, and from the birth of the stock market to free-market capitalism and globalized trade,... -
The Power of Money: How Governments and Banks Create Money and Help Us All Prosper by Paul Sheard
RRP: €29.75€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637743157Author Paul SheardFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Matt Holt BooksPublisher BenBella BooksWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm *... -
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration-and Why It's Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives by Danny Dorling 9780300243406 [USED COPY]
RRP: €23.79€3.21The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global data, this... -
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie 9780141033709 [USED COPY]
RRP: €13.08€2.69*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Why do some countries succeed while others fail? What causes boom or bust? The World Trade Editor of the FT explains how the world really works.'A thorough examination of economies from the age of empire to the age of the IMF'... -
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie
RRP: €13.08€9.25*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*Why do some countries succeed while others fail? What causes boom or bust? The World Trade Editor of the FT explains how the world really works.'A thorough examination of economies from the age of empire to the age of the IMF'... -
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization by Richard Baldwin 9780674237841
RRP: €21.36€17.37An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearA Fast Company "7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter"Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared... -
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849 by Cecil Woodham-Smith
RRP: €15.46€10.82The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British... -
On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation by David Ricardo 9781502523587
RRP: €9.51€8.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781502523587Author David RicardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Disrupting Sacred Cows: Revealing the Sacred Truths for a Life of Prosperity, Love and Legacy by Garrett B. Gunderson
RRP: €26.17€17.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722510572Author Garrett B. GundersonFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media -
A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between by Ute Lotz-Heumann
RRP: €47.59€41.72A Sourcebook of Early Modern European History not only provides instructors with primary sources of a manageable length and translated into English, it also offers students a concise explanation of their context and meaning.By covering different areas of... -
The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World by Matt Ridley
RRP: €11.89€7.90'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make ... it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.' From the industrial revolution and the rise of China, to urbanisation... -
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline by Russell Jones 9781913019792
RRP: €29.74€26.19The performance of the British economy over the past fifty-odd years does not make for comforting reading. Indeed, the story is a depressing catalogue of misapprehensions, missteps, wasted opportunities, crises and humiliations, with all-too-familiar... -
Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis by Nicholas Crafts
RRP: €28.55€22.66To what extent has the British economy declined compared to its competitors and what are the underlying reasons for this decline? Nicholas Crafts, one of the world's foremost economic historians, tackles these questions in a major new account of... -
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
RRP: €15.46€10.82For 200 years after 1650 the West Indies were the most fought-over colonies in the world, as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar - a commodity so lucrative that it was known as white gold. Young men, beset by death and... -
A Short History of Financial Euphoria by John Kenneth Galbraith
€11.97With all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, how is it that the market still goes boom and bust? How can people be so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a... -
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income by Anton Jäger
RRP: €29.75€24.89A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty-now known as basic income-is hardly new. Often dated as far back as ancient Rome, basic income's modern... -
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke 9780393353990
RRP: €21.41€18.31In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public service in Washington's halls of power. There would be no... -
My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan
RRP: €29.75€20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385042352Author Alfred SloanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group... -
The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen
RRP: €10.70€7.68The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology...