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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: £18.99£14.51China 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... -
My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan
RRP: £25.00£17.23Apologies 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... -
China's Economic Dialectic by Enfu Cheng 9780717808878
RRP: £29.99£28.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808878Author Enfu ChengFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S... -
Digital Gold: The Untold Story of Bitcoin by Nathaniel Popper
RRP: £10.99£7.77Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardA New York Times technology and business reporter charts the dramatic rise of Bitcoin and the fascinating personalities who are striving to create a new global money for the... -
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Alexander Anievas
RRP: £29.99£19.80*Winner of International Studies Association (ISA)'s International Political Sociology Best Book Prize for 2017* *Winner of British International Studies Association (BISA)'s International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016* ... -
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations by Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown 9780333753446
£90.27Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations examines the crucial contribution of Chinese business groups to the rapid growth of South-East Asia. This study examines major Chinese firms and their increasingly important networks in this era of... -
Breadline Britain: The Rise of Mass Poverty by Stewart Lansley 9781780745442
RRP: £11.99£8.43Poverty in Britain is at post-war highs and - even with economic growth -is set to increase yet further. Food bank queues are growing, levels of severe deprivation have been rising, and increasing numbers of children are left with their most basic needs... -
China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed by Andrew G. Walder
RRP: £25.95£21.04China's Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long period of guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the Chinese revolution was just beginning. China Under Mao narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist revolutionary state from 1949 to... -
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon 9780691175805
RRP: £22.00£17.76In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But... -
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
RRP: £32.00£19.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982172008Author Chris MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Devil Take the Hindmost by E. Chancellor 9780452281806
RRP: £20.00£11.63A lively, original, and challenging history of stock market speculation from the 17th century to present day.Is your investment in that new Internet stock a sign of stock market savvy or an act of peculiarly American speculative folly? How has the... -
Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income by Anton Jäger
RRP: £25.00£20.92A 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 Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism by Fritz Bartel
RRP: £38.95£31.69A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people.Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal... -
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott
RRP: £14.99£12.47As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend... -
The Sugar Barons by Matthew Parker
RRP: £12.99£9.09For 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... -
Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization by Harold James 9780300263398
RRP: £20.00£16.43A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart "[A] fascinating book."-Martin Wolf, Financial Times, "Best Books of 2023-Economics" The eminent... -
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann 9780691178370
RRP: £17.99£14.78"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of recent financial crises, it's easy to see finance as a... -
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long
RRP: £30.00£19.80AN 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 YEARA THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a... -
Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato by Rebecca Earle 9781108484060
RRP: £18.99£15.65Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff from the Andes to everywhere. The potato's global history reveals the... -
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics and Society by Azeem Azhar 9781635768275
RRP: £18.99£13.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635768275Author Azeem AzharFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Diversion BooksPublisher Diversion BooksWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm *... -
The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era by Barry Eichengreen 9780190058821
RRP: £15.99£11.61Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of the world. In simplest terms, populism is a political ideology that vilifies elites, minorities and... -
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King
RRP: £14.99£9.80'A fearless and important book . . . The End of Alchemy isn't just an elegant guide to the history of economic ideas. It also gives a genuine insider's account' TelegraphThe past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst... -
The Last Pharaohs: Egypt Under the Ptolemies, 305-30 BC by J. G. Manning
RRP: £35.00£27.74The history of Ptolemaic Egypt has usually been doubly isolated--separated both from the history of other Hellenistic states and from the history of ancient Egypt. The Last Pharaohs, the first detailed history of Ptolemaic Egypt as a state, departs... -
Who Runs Britain?: ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in by Robert Peston
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A compelling portrait of early 21st-century casino capitalism ... essential reading.' - The Times On 13 September 2007, Robert Peston broke the news that Northern Rock had become a victim of the global credit crunch and was seeking an emergency loan... -
The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights by Mark Paul
RRP: £21.00£16.99An urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights-and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans. Since the Founding, Americans have debated the true meaning of freedom. For some, freedom meant the provision of life's... -
Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin
RRP: £20.99£14.59Following 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... -
Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power by Alastair McIntosh
RRP: £12.99£8.60It is easy to feel helpless in the face of the torrent of information about environmental catastrophes taking place all over the world. In this powerful and provocative book, Scottish writer and campaigner Alastair McIntosh shows how it is still possible... -
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman Definitive Editions): The classic guide to crowd psychology, financial folly and surprising superstition by Charles Mackay
RRP: £29.99£20.92Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is the original guide to behavioural psychology - and how manias, follies and superstitions begin, spread and (eventually) pass. A hugely entertaining tour through financial scams and stock market... -
Evita: The Life of Eva Perón by Jill Hedges 9781350452022
RRP: £14.99£11.75Eva Peron remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Peron, himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and... -
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris
RRP: £30.00£20.40The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley.Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of a hippie counterculture have synthesized with high technology and big... -
Dark Towers UK by David Enrich 9780063069213
£11.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063069213Author David EnrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)... -
A Long Time in Making: The History of Smiths by James Nye 9780198717256
£116.11Smiths Group (formerly Smiths Industries), part of the UK FTSE 100 index, is a global engineering company with a market capitalisation over GBP5bn. Evolving from beginnings in the Victorian jewellery trade, to significant market presences in the... -
We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years by Stephen D. King
£20.00A FINANCIAL TIMES "BOOK TO READ IN 2023" "Everything you wanted to know about inflation but were afraid to ask."-Mervyn King "King's lessons command our attention."-Lawrence H. Summers "Maybe you don't think inflation is back for good. That is your... -
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
£14.43In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism, imperialism, and the modern nation state. Capitalism is not... -
Transparency Games: How bankers rig the world of finance by Richard G Field 9780990396819
RRP: £26.99£20.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990396819Author Richard G FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 632Imprint Richard FieldPublisher Richard FieldWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History by David Hackett Fischer 9780195121216
RRP: £27.49£22.78A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.About the AuthorDavid Hackett Fischer is Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He has won numerous awards for scholarship and teaching, including the Carnegie Prize as... -
The Invention of Capitalism: Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive Accumulation by Michael Perelman
RRP: £27.99£24.54The originators of classical political economy-Adam Smith, David Ricardo, James Steuart, and others-created a discourse that explained the logic, the origin, and, in many respects, the essential rightness of capitalism. But, in the great texts of that... -
The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen
RRP: £8.99£6.45The '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... -
Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order by Paul Tucker
RRP: £35.00£27.74How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson
RRP: £9.99£7.11A 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...