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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
RRP: £11.99£8.68The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis.Relentless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Remorseless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is broken. But can it be fixed?In Doughnut Economics,... -
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
RRP: £10.99£8.02The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead... -
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £10.99£8.02'I could not recommend this more. If you're looking for a sense of optimism, a sense of political possibility, this book is very important' Owen JonesWhat would a fair and equal society actually look like?Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market... -
Follow the Money: 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times by Paul Johnson 9780349144665
RRP: £12.99£8.43THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times'A treasure trove of killer facts' Guardian'Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works' Laura KuenssbergPaul Johnson and the enormously... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: £10.99£8.02There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston... -
A-Level Economics: Year 1 & 2 Complete Revision & Practice by CGP Books
RRP: £21.99£19.68This chunky Complete Revision & Practice book from CGP is a perfect way to prepare for the A-Level Economics exams - it covers everything from both years of the course! It's ideal for the new AQA, Edexcel A and OCR exam specifications for 2015 and... -
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £12.99£9.34'Really made me think about how I think' - Mohsin Hamid, author of Exit WestTough times don't last. Tough people do. In The Black Swan, Taleb showed us that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world. Here Taleb... -
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Simon Johnson
RRP: £25.00£15.95LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'The blueprint we need for the challenges ahead' Shoshana Zuboff'If you are not already an addict of Daron... -
Economics: The User's Guide: A Pelican Introduction by Ha-Joon Chang
RRP: £12.99£9.34What is economics?What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter?Ha-Joon Chang teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian. The Observer called his book 23 Things They Don't Tell You About... -
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
RRP: £14.99£10.95'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le CarreAround the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and... -
All You Need To Know About The City by Christopher Stoakes 9780957494664
RRP: £12.95£11.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957494664Author Christopher StoakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Christopher Stoakes LtdPublisher Christopher Stoakes Ltd -
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £10.99£8.02'One of the most influential economists in the world' WiredEven before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the... -
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
RRP: £10.99£8.02From the bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold book that challenges many of our long-held beliefs about risk and reward, politics and religion, finance and personal responsibilityWhy should we never listen to people who explain rather than do? Why... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £25.00£18.02There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston... -
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £10.99£8.02**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist,... -
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: with The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes 9781840227475
RRP: £4.99£3.76John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx; and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was... -
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
RRP: £10.99£8.02THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT AND FLASH BOYS'A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think ... What a story it is' Sunday Times 'You'll love it ... full of surprises and no small degree of... -
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £10.99£8.02WINNER OF THE 2019 MADAME DE STAEL PRIZE AND THE 2018 LEONTIEF PRIZE FOR ADVANCING THE FRONTIERS OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of... -
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Stephen J. Dubner
RRP: £10.99£8.02The international bestselling Freakquel to Levitt and Dubner's Freakonomics, this book sees them looking deeper, questioning harder and uncovering even more hidden truths about our world, from global cooling to patriotic prostitutes, drunk walking to... -
Values: An Economist's Guide to Everything That Matters by Mark Carney
RRP: £10.99£7.50THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Horrified by the current financial crisis? Want to learn how we might get out of it? This is a pivotal moment in our economy. With the markets in free-fall, financial challenges... -
Better Health Economics: An Introduction for Everyone by Tal Gross 9780226820330
£28.66An ideal entry point into health economics for everyone from aspiring economists to healthcare professionals. The economics of healthcare are messy. For most consumers, there's little control over costs or services. Sometimes doctors are paid a lot;... -
Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day by Abhijit Banerjee
RRP: £10.99£8.02FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Refreshingly original, wonderfully insightful . . . an entirely new perspective' GuardianWhy would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television?Why do the poorest people in India... -
Macroeconomics, Global Edition by Olivier Blanchard
RRP: £74.99£70.86A unified view of the latest macroeconomic events In Macroeconomics, Blanchard presents an integrated, global view of macroeconomics, enabling students to see the connections between goods markets, financial markets, and labor markets worldwide... -
Vulture Capitalism: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION by Grace Blakeley 9781526638076
RRP: £20.00£14.29*A FOYLES TOP TEN READ FOR MARCH* 'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN 'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy' YANIS VAROUFAKIS ... -
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
RRP: £20.00£14.29RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland... -
The Natural Order of Money by Roy Sebag 9781915294227
RRP: £15.00£9.75What is the true cause of inflation, wealth inequality, and our collective disregard for ecological accountability? In The Natural Order of Money, author and entrepreneur Roy Sebag expertly explores the intrinsic relationship between people, money, and... -
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III by Adam Smith
RRP: £12.99£9.34Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the foundations of economic theory in general and 'classical' economics in particular, and this Penguin Classics edition is edited with an... -
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
RRP: £10.99£8.02The completely updated, final edition of the global bestseller - one of the most influential books of the 21st century'Few books can be said to have changed the world, but Nudge did. The Final Edition is marvellous: funny, useful, and wise' Daniel... -
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
£8.70Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012. Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it... -
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith 9781840226881
RRP: £4.99£4.16Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been... -
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio
RRP: £25.00£16.84From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history's most turbulent economic and... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
RRP: £14.99£10.95Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he investigated the flip side of economic self-interest: the... -
Post-Keynesian Economics: New Foundations by Marc Lavoie 9781839109638
RRP: £51.95£48.64Students in economics are ever more distressed by the disconnect between mainstream economics and the real world. This book shows how post-Keynesian economics constitutes a coherent heterodox alternative, based on realistic assumptions and the... -
Behavioural Economics: A Very Short Introduction by Michelle Baddeley
RRP: £8.99£6.70Traditionally economists have based their economic predictions on the assumption that humans are super-rational creatures, using the information we are given efficiently and generally making selfish decisions that work well for us as individuals... -
Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street by Andrew Ross Sorkin
RRP: £16.99£12.28SHORTLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2010They were masters of the financial universe, flying in private jets and raking in billions. They thought they were too big to fail. Yet they would bring the world to its knees.Andrew Ross Sorkin, the... -
Economics For Dummies by Peter Antonioni 9780470973257
RRP: £18.99£13.73Untangle the jargon and understand how you're involved in everyday economics If you want to get to grips with the basics of economics and understand a subject that affects British citizens on a daily basis, then look no further than Economics For... -
Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach: Media Update by Hal R. Varian 9780393689891
£62.21From Google's chief economist, Varian's best-selling intermediate microeconomics texts are revered as some of the best in the field. And now students can work problems online with Smartwork5, Norton's online homework system, packaged at no additional... -
Free Lunch Thinking: How Economists Ruin the Economy by Tom Bergin
RRP: £10.99£8.02Economic theories and models shape our everyday lives. They are relied on by politicians when tax rises or cuts are being considered. They inform debates about everything from bonuses for CEOs to minimum wage rates to the level of job protection... -
Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability, and the Financial System by Wendy Carlin
RRP: £69.99£66.89This authoritative new textbook integrates the modern monetary framework, based on the 3-equation model of the demand side, the supply side and the policy maker, with a model of the financial system. As a result, the authors comprehensively address the... -
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
RRP: £10.99£8.02**Winner of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award** 'Brad Stone's definitive book on Amazon and Bezos' The Guardian'A masterclass in deeply researched investigative financial journalism . . . riveting' The TimesThe...