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Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled the White House and Saved the Economy by Nick Timiraos
RRP: $52.50$40.19By February 2020, the U.S. economic expansion had become the longest on record. Unemployment was plumbing half-century lows. Stock markets soared to new highs. One month later, the public health battle against a deadly virus had pushed the economy into... -
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery 9781907994692
RRP: $51.45$46.94This is a book about Sir John Cowperthwaite - the man Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman identified as being behind Hong Kong's remarkable post-war economic transformation. Despite there being some articles about him and effusive obituaries... -
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel 9780691183251
RRP: $33.58$27.53Are 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... -
Weighing Lives by John Broome 9780199297702
RRP: $81.88$65.63We are often faced with choices that involve the weighing of people's lives against each other, or the weighing of lives against other good things. These are choices both for individuals and for societies. A person who is terminally ill may have to... -
Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of the Treasury Since 1976 Aeron Davis 9781526159779
RRP: $35.68$26.61The 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 Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood
RRP: $20.98$17.64In 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... -
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs David Bellos 9781914495878
RRP: $52.50$34.92Copyright 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... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth 9780300276497
RRP: $27.28$24.07"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... -
The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power by Niall Ferguson
RRP: $35.68$25.79THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Silicon Valley needed a history lesson and Ferguson has provided it' Eric SchmidtMost history is about the people at the top of the towers of power. But what if the real action is in the social networks down below, in the... -
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
RRP: $20.98$15.37SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism According to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way?... -
End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman 9780393345087
RRP: $27.28$21.71The Great Recession is more than four years old-and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge-all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all-remain in... -
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes by Stefan Eich
RRP: $79.80$64.34Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970sIn the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies-money. Yet... -
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon
RRP: $63.00$44.84The 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... -
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly 9781784786342 [USED COPY]
RRP: $56.68$28.73How did Hitler win the allegiance of ordinary Germans? The answer is as shocking as it is persuasive. By engaging in a campaign of theft on an almost unimaginable scale-and by channelling the proceeds into generous social programmes-Hitler bought his... -
The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G Edward Griffin 9780912986456
RRP: $77.68$69.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912986456Author Edward G GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint American Media,U.S.Publisher American Media,U.S. -
Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age by Harold J. Cook 9780300143218
$82.93In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce-not religion-inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook... -
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
RRP: $37.80$28.35One 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... -
Crash Bang Wallop: The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World by Iain Martin 9781473625105
RRP: $23.08$19.40Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way... -
The British Insurance Industry Since 1900: The Era of Transformation by Robert L. Carter 9780230219649
RRP: $188.98$188.73A comprehensive chronicle of thetransformation of the intensely competitive British insurance industry in response to evolving economic, social, technological and political conditions. It analyzes the fast-changing shape of the distribution system, the... -
Ghana: A Political and Social History by Jeffrey Ahlman 9780755601561
RRP: $46.18$39.33Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century... -
Devil Take the Hindmost by E. Chancellor 9780452281806
RRP: $42.00$27.32A 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... -
Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative by Jennifer Burns 9780374601140
RRP: $63.00$41.58One 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... -
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern Capitalism by Thomas Levenson 9781784973940
RRP: $42.00$37.59A 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... -
Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free by Ellen Hodgson Brown 9780983330851
$38.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983330851Author Ellen Hodgson BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Third Millennium PressPublisher Third Millennium PressWeight(grams)... -
The Theory of Economic Development by Joseph A Schumpeter
RRP: $37.78$33.68Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most fascinating and influential economists of the twentieth century, renowned for his brilliant and unorthodox insights into the nature of capitalism. His students include leading economists such as Paul... -
The Invisible Hand?: How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined Since AD 500 by Bas van Bavel 9780198820451
$61.36The Invisible Hand? offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists and economic historians, by showing that 'factor markets' and the economies dominated by them -- the market economies -- are not modern, but have existed at various... -
Freedom'S Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
RRP: $39.88$27.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812982046Author Arthur HermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm)... -
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke 9780393353990
RRP: $37.78$33.18In 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... -
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise by Christopher Marquis
RRP: $52.50$35.66A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao A Financial Times "Best Book of 2022" Tied for the 2023 Axiom Gold Medal, sponsored by Axiom Business Book Awards It... -
Inside the South African Reserve Bank: Its Origins and Secrets Exposed by Stephen Mitford Goodson 9780992736583
$34.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992736583Author Stephen Mitford GoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams) 192g -
Kochland by Christopher Leonard
RRP: $27.28$17.66'A landmark book....A massively reported deep dive into the unparalleled corporate industrial giant Koch Industries....This impressively researched and well-rendered book also serves as a biography of Charles Koch, with Leonard providing an evenhanded... -
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy by Joel Mokyr 9780691180960
RRP: $42.00$32.66Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the... -
Adventurers: The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650 by David Howarth
$53.47The 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... -
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Quinn Slobodian
RRP: $52.50$37.84'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... -
Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan
RRP: $31.48$23.00Shortlisted 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... -
Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring by Gregory Makoff 9781647123970
RRP: $50.40$43.47The dramatic inside story of the most important case in the history of sovereign debt law Unlike individuals or corporations that become insolvent, nations do not have access to bankruptcy protection from their creditors. When a country defaults on... -
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
RRP: $67.20$42.04Apologies 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 -
Essay on the Nature of Trade in General by Richard Cantillon 9780865978751
RRP: $23.00$19.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865978751Author Richard CantillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 300g -
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze 9780241485873
RRP: $52.50$34.71FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better account of the economics of the pandemic' The Times'A... -
Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
RRP: $23.08$16.78From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-too-soon forgotten. In this unique collection of...