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A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil from Ancient Times to the First World War by Keith Fisher
RRP: $78.00$57.31'Fascinating revelations' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'Wonderfully detailed and colourful' Steven Poole, Daily Telegraph'The book I have long been waiting for... Essential reading' Michael KlarePetroleum has always been used by humans: as an adhesive by... -
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates by Peter T. Leeson 9780691150093
RRP: $27.28$22.27Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling irreverence and devilish wit, Peter Leeson uncovers the... -
The Dark Valley by Dr. Piers Brendon
RRP: $48.75$36.31Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great... -
The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China by Timothy Brook 9780691250403
RRP: $48.75$38.20How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China,... -
Africa: A Beginner's Guide by Tom Young 9781851687534
RRP: $19.48$14.72Vast, diverse, dynamic, and turbulent, the true nature of Africa is often obscured by its poverty-stricken image. In this controversial and gripping guide, Tom Young cuts through the emotional hype to critically analyse the continent's political history... -
Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor 9780802160065
RRP: $38.98$36.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160065Author Edward ChancellorFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat -
How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having it all, and the Route to Lasting Prosperity by Robert Peston
RRP: $21.43$14.43'Robert Peston's compelling account of global financial meltdown is a must-read.' ObserverWhat can we learn from the 2008 recession? ITV's political editor explains the global economic mess and how to escape it - in his characteristically straightforward... -
Perfectly Legal by David Cay Johnston 9781591840695
RRP: $42.88$28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591840695Author David Cay JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World by Marc-William Palen 9780691199320
RRP: $58.50$50.60The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free trade is often associated with right-wing free... -
Whoops!: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester
RRP: $21.43$15.15John Lanchester's Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay is the unbelievable true story of the economic crisis. We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all... -
The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy by Christopher Leonard 9781982166649
$23.75The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of America's most mysterious institutions-the Federal Reserve-to show how its policies spearheaded by Chairman Jerome Powell over the past ten years have... -
Energy and the English Industrial Revolution by E. A. Wrigley
RRP: $48.73$35.12The industrial revolution transformed the productive power of societies. It did so by vastly increasing the individual productivity, thus delivering whole populations from poverty. In this new account by one of the world's acknowledged authorities the... -
Crossing Continents: A History of Standard Chartered Bank by Duncan Campbell-Smith
RRP: $78.00$57.31For almost a hundred years from the 1860s, the City of London's overseas banks financed the global trade that lay at the core of the British Empire. Foremost among them from the beginning were two start-up ventures: the Standard Bank of South Africa,... -
The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum by Camila Russo
RRP: $42.90$28.43Written with the verve of such works as The Big Short, The History of the Future, and The Spider Network, here is the fascinating, true story of the rise of Ethereum, the second-biggest digital asset in the world, the growth of cryptocurrency, and the... -
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: $25.33$17.73Can the Euro be saved? Should it be?Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing consensus around what ails Europe - arguing that economic stagnation is a direct result of the Euro's flawed birth, demolishing the... -
The Nature of Social Reality: Issues in Social Ontology by Tony Lawson 9780367188931
RRP: $74.08$65.09The social sciences often fail to examine in any systematic way the nature of their subject matter. Demonstrating that this is a central explanation of the widely acknowledged failings of the social sciences, not least of modern economics, this book sets... -
The Age of Addiction: How Bad Habits Became Big Business by David T. Courtwright 9780674248229
RRP: $33.05$27.01"A mind-blowing tour de force that unwraps the myriad objects of addiction that surround us...Intelligent, incisive, and sometimes grimly entertaining."-Rod Phillips, author of Alcohol: A History"A fascinating history of corporate America's efforts to... -
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It by Scott Patterson
RRP: $35.10$27.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307453389Author Scott PattersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm... -
Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping by Klaus Mühlhahn 9780674248311
RRP: $44.75$37.56"Thoughtful, probing...a worthy successor to the famous histories of Fairbank and Spence [that] will be read by all students and scholars of modern China."-William C. Kirby, coauthor of Can China Lead?It is tempting to attribute the rise of China to Deng... -
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - and Why It's a Good Thing by Danny Dorling
RRP: $25.33$22.35A powerful and counterintuitive argument that we should welcome the current slowdown-of population growth, economies, and technological innovation The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely... -
The Globalization Paradox: Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist by Dani Rodrik
RRP: $25.33$18.51For a century, economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions, labour markets, and trade. Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy and free trade might not always be advantageous. Where are... -
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph by Albert O. Hirschman 9780691160252
RRP: $35.08$23.42In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the... -
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States by United States. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission 9781610390415
$50.39Official Government Edition The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown- and who was responsible The financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many... -
Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story by Fanny Pigeaud 9780745341798
RRP: $38.98$26.03Colonialism persists in many African countries due to the continuation of imperial monetary policy. This is the little-known account of the CFA Franc and economic imperialism. The CFA Franc was created in 1945, binding fourteen African states and... -
The National Debt: A Short History by Martin Slater
RRP: $48.75$42.96While it is central to today's politics, few people fully understand the National Debt and its role in shaping the course of British history. Without it, Britain would not have gained--and lost--two empires, nor won its wars against France and Germany... -
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World by Peter S. Goodman 9780063078314
RRP: $29.23$18.92A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller * An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires' systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed... -
After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead by Alan S. Blinder
RRP: $19.48$13.86Alan S. Blinder-esteemed Princeton professor, Wall Street Journal columnist, and former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board under Alan Greenspan-is one of our wisest and most clear-eyed economic thinkers. In After the Music Stopped, he delivers a... -
Stone Age Economics by Marshall Sahlins
RRP: $33.13$29.68Since its first publication over forty years ago Marshall Sahlins's Stone Age Economics has established itself as a classic of modern anthropology and arguably one of the founding works of anthropological economics. Ambitiously tackling the nature of... -
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke 9780393247213
RRP: $54.58$47.31In 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... -
Ship of Fools: How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger by Fintan O'Toole 9780571260751
RRP: $25.33$16.69For twenty years, Ireland's economic miracle was supposed to be the envy of the world. Low taxes, light regulation and an 'anything goes' attitude seemed to have created boundless prosperity. And then, as in Iceland, the glittering palaces vanished in... -
Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day by E. J. Hobsbawm
RRP: $29.23$21.35This outstanding history describes and accounts for Britain's rise as the world's first industrial world power, its decline from the temporary dominance of the pioneer, its rather special relationship with the rest of the world (notably the... -
Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey 9780226823980
RRP: $31.20$26.99The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment. Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity,... -
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis by Ben S. Bernanke
RRP: $21.43$16.93In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Reserve and the 2008 financial crisis, as part of a course at George Washington University on the role of the Federal Reserve in the economy. In this... -
The Race between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin
RRP: $40.85$35.24This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors propose that the twentieth century was not only the American Century but... -
Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper
RRP: $58.50$47.37A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemicsPlagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle... -
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate by Isabella M. Weber 9781032008493
RRP: $66.28$58.50China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms... -
The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek 9780415255431
RRP: $195.00$168.89The Road to Serfdom remains one of the all-time classics of twentieth-century intellectual thought. For over half a century, it has inspired politicians and thinkers around the world, and has had a crucial impact on our political and cultural history... -
Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher J. Berry
RRP: $17.53$12.58In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being called the 'father of economics'. Today he is associated with the promotion of self-interest, a defence of greed and a criticism of any governmental... -
Black Horse Ride: The Inside Story of Lloyds and the Banking Crisis by Ivan Fallon 9781785900235
RRP: $21.43$15.15Longlisted for the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2015. In September 2008, HBOS, with assets larger than Britain's GDP, was on the edge of bankruptcy. Its collapse would have created the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s and a... -
A Financial History of Western Europe by Charles Poor Kindleberger 9780415436533
RRP: $81.88$72.44This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a...