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Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management by Caitlin Rosenthal 9780674241657
RRP: €22.55€18.29A Five Books Best Economics Book of the YearA Politico Great Weekend Read"Absolutely compelling."-Diane Coyle"The evolution of modern management is usually associated with good old-fashioned intelligence and ingenuity...But capitalism is not just about... -
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
RRP: €11.89€8.46SHORTLISTED 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?... -
Kochland by Christopher Leonard
RRP: €15.46€9.73'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... -
End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman 9780393345087
RRP: €15.46€12.10The 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... -
Basic Income: And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough... -
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty by Joseph Sassoon
RRP: €35.70€25.41The 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... -
The Corporation That Changed the World: How the East India Company Shaped the Modern Multinational by Nick Robins 9780745331959
RRP: €20.22€13.73This is the history of the East India Company and its enduring legacy as a corporation, dealing in exploitation and violence. The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing... -
Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta by Lecturer in Ancient History Stephen Hodkinson 9781905125302
€28.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905125302Author Lecturer in Ancient History Stephen HodkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 511Imprint Classical Press of WalesPublisher Classical Press of... -
Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State by Gotz Aly 9781784786342 [USED COPY]
RRP: €32.12€16.28How 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: €44.02€39.33Apologies 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. -
An Economic History of the English Garden by Roderick Floud
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Roderick Floud's ground-breaking study of the history, money, places and personalities involved in British gardens over the past 350 years gives fascinating insight into why gardening is part of this country's soul.' Michael Heseltine, Deputy Prime... -
Catastrophe Time! by Gary Zhexi Zhang
RRP: €23.79€15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689674Author Gary Zhexi ZhangFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press -
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War by Benn Steil 9780192843104
RRP: €20.22€15.09A polished and masterly work of historical narrative, The Marshall Plan is an instant classic of Cold War literature. With Britain's empire collapsing and Stalin's ascendant, U.S. officials under new Secretary of State George C. Marshall set out to... -
The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era by Barry Eichengreen 9780190058821
RRP: €19.03€13.82Populism, 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... -
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott
RRP: €17.84€14.74As 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... -
Who Runs Britain?: ...and who's to blame for the economic mess we're in by Robert Peston
RRP: €13.08€8.81'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... -
Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free by Ellen Hodgson Brown 9780983330851
€22.02Apologies 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)... -
Virtue, Fortune, and Faith: A Genealogy of Finance by Marieke De Goede
RRP: €26.17€22.84Less than two centuries ago finance - today viewed as the center of economic necessity and epitome of scientific respectability - stood condemned as disreputable fraud. How this change in status came about, and what it reveals about the nature of... -
The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations by Ian Morris 9780691160863
€25.43In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civilization presents a brand-new way of investigating these questions and provides new tools for assessing the... -
Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World by Scott Reynolds Nelson
RRP: €29.75€22.23A 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,... -
Supercrash: How to Hijack the Global Economy by Darryl Cunningham 9781908434432
RRP: €17.84€12.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908434432Author Darryl CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad EditionsDimensions(mm) 228mm * 160mm * 20mm -
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard
RRP: €27.37€17.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476775395Author Christopher LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 211mm... -
A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021 by Alan Blinder
RRP: €41.65€26.36From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kennedy to Biden-filled with lessons for todayIn this book, Alan Blinder, one of the world's most influential economists and one of the field's best writers,... -
Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay 9780691143279
RRP: €49.98€42.51International trade has shaped the modern world, yet until now no single book has been available for both economists and general readers that traces the history of the international economy from its earliest beginnings to the present day. Power and... -
An Economic History of the British Isles by Arthur Birnie 9781138864924
RRP: €34.50€29.86First Published in 2005. Economic History has been briefly defined as the study of material progress. Economic History deals primarily with the material side of human progress, but it is not therefore a materialistic study.About the AuthorArthur Birnie... -
The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
RRP: €20.22€17.97Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution,the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy. As historian... -
Freedom'S Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II by Arthur Herman
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies 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)... -
These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America by Gretchen Morgenson
RRP: €23.80€21.67Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious debt-laden world of private equity, revealing how it leeches profits from everyday Americans, tanks... -
Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy by Adam Tooze 9780241485873
RRP: €29.75€19.67FINALIST 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... -
A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960 by Milton Friedman 9780691003542
RRP: €71.40€56.76Writing in the June 1965 issue of theEconomic Journal, Harry G. Johnson begins with a sentence seemingly calibrated to the scale of the book he set himself to review: "The long-awaited monetary history of the United States by Friedman and Schwartz is in... -
Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne Murphy
RRP: €35.70€28.19An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "a great engine of state"The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders-and yet came to... -
The History of Central Asia: The Age of Islam and the Mongols by Christoph Baumer
RRP: €101.15€91.52Between the ninth and the fifteenth centuries, Central Asia was a major political, economic and cultural hub on the Eurasian continent. In the first half of the thirteenth century it was also the pre-eminent centre of power in the largest land-based... -
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton 9780691247625
RRP: €23.80€17.54From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craftWhen economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the... -
The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021 by Julian Hoppit
RRP: €15.46€10.82'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial TimesIt has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as an ancient, organic and sensibly managed place, in... -
The Future of the Commons: Beyond Market Failure & Government Regulations by Elinor Ostrom 9780255366533
RRP: €11.90€10.63Traditional economic models of how to manage environmental problems relating to renewable natural resources, such as fisheries, have tended to recommend either government regulation or privatisation and the explicit definition of property rights. These... -
Architect of Prosperity: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery 9781907994692
RRP: €29.16€26.19This 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 Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders by Connie Bruck 9780140120905
RRP: €17.85€13.44During the 1980s, Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert was the Billionaire Junk Bond King. He invented such things as "the highly confident letter" (I'm highly confident that I can raise the money you need to buy company X) and "the blind pool"... -
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner 9780393356892
RRP: €16.65€12.34In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity-between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian ideals of democracy. Yet, from the 1970s on, a power... -
World In Crisis: Marxist Perspectives on Crash & Crisis by Michael Roberts 9781608461813
RRP: €26.17€18.12Most mainstream economists view capitalism's periodic breakdowns are nothing more than temporary aberrations from another wise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the... -
F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics: The Curious Task of Economics by Scott Scheall 9781032174433
RRP: €47.59€41.72F. A. Hayek and the Epistemology of Politics is an exploration of an important problem that has largely been ignored heretofore: the problem of policymaker ignorance and the consequences of limited political knowledge. Scott Scheall explores the...