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Economic Rationality by Engelmann
RRP: $19.34$17.52Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the "political" tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the discipline. Where does this idea of economic rationality - choosing to maximize benefits and minimize costs -... -
Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian by Richard D. Wolff
RRP: $55.47$43.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262517836Author Richard D. WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
The Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You by Scott E. Page
RRP: $21.92$14.89From the stock market to covid-19, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make... -
Making Light Work: An End to Toil in the Twenty-First Century by David Spencer 9781509548637
RRP: $20.63$19.10Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of... -
Economics for the IB Diploma by Paul Hoang
RRP: $67.08$64.96Developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (R)Ensure full coverage of the new syllabus with this comprehensive guide written by highly experienced authors, that explores all topics through inquiry, concepts, content and contexts and... -
Swimming with Sharks: Inside the World of the Bankers by Joris Luyendijk
RRP: $14.18$9.44'It's not the people who are bad, it's the culture.''Friends turned on me, on my wife.' 'This job involves in some part selling your soul for a good salary.' 'You're sitting there, and you may have just made the decision that destroyed the world.'Winner... -
You Always Hurt the One You Love: Central Banks and the Murder of Capitalism by Bernard Connolly 9781911397410
RRP: $38.70$28.32It has become a commonplace to blame central banks for recurrent bubbles and financial crises, recessions, massive wealth inequality and widespread disenchantment with capitalism, and latterly for inflation. But this important new book argues that the... -
Economics by Alain Anderton 9780993133107
$70.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993133107Author Alain AndertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 700Imprint Anderton Press LtdPublisher Anderton Press Ltd -
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691183299
RRP: $20.63$16.13Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and... -
Public Choice: A Primer by Eamonn Butler 9780255366502
RRP: $16.13$14.90'Market failure' is a term widely used by politicians, journalists and university and A-level economics students and teachers. However, those who use the term often lack any sense of proportion about the ability of government to correct market failures... -
Economics Rules: Why Economics Works, When It Fails, and How To Tell The Difference by Dani Rodrik 9780198736905
RRP: $16.76$11.73The economics profession has become a favourite punching bag in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Economists are widely reviled and their influence derided by the general public. Yet their services have never been in greater demand. To... -
Money: The Unauthorised Biography by Felix Martin
RRP: $16.76$11.73What is money, and how does it work?The conventional answer is that people once used sugar in the West Indies, tobacco in Virginia, and dried cod in Newfoundland, and that today's financial universe evolved from barter. Unfortunately, there is a problem... -
CCEA GCSE Home Economics: Food and Nutrition by Nicola Anderson
$40.35Exam Board: CCEALevel: GCSESubject: Home EconomicsFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: June 2019Fully updated to cover the 2017 CCEA Home Economics: Food and Nutrition GCSE specification, this new edition of the market-leading textbook will guide... -
The Silo Effect: Why Every Organisation Needs to Disrupt Itself to Survive by Gillian Tett
RRP: $12.89$8.77Ever since civilised society began, we have felt the need to classify, categorise and specialise. It can make things more efficient, and help give the leaders of any organisation a sense of confidence that they have the right people focusing on the... -
My Journeys in Economic Theory by Edmund Phelps 9780231207300
RRP: $28.38$21.52Edmund Phelps is among the most important economists of his generation. He developed a new understanding of unemployment and inflation and went on to rethink the roots of innovation. His work represents a lifelong project to put "people as we know them"... -
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities by John Cassidy
RRP: $16.76$11.73How did we get to where we are? John Cassidy shows that the roots of our most recent financial failure lie not with individuals, but with an idea - the idea that markets are inherently rational. He gives us the big picture behind the financial... -
Prosperity without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow by Tim Jackson 9781138935419
RRP: $28.37$21.76What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental and social limits?The publication of Prosperity without Growth was a landmark in the sustainability debate. Tim Jackson's piercing challenge to conventional economics openly questioned the... -
The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America by Jim Marrs
RRP: $14.18$9.35"Jim Marrs can't be ignored. Few in this country shout about The Truth louder than he." -Dallas Observer In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Marrs, the New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of The Fourth Reich,... -
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
RRP: $19.34$14.13Best 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... -
The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek 9780199328505
RRP: $47.07$28.24This book challenges the widely held view that inmates create prison gangs to promote racism and violence. On the contrary, gangs form to create order. Most people assume that violent inmates left to themselves will descend into a chaotic anarchy, but... -
The End of the Experiment?: From Competition to the Foundational Economy by Andrew Bowman 9780719096334
RRP: $19.34$14.34For thirty years, the British economy has repeated the same old experiment of subjecting everything to competition and market because that is what works in the imagination of central government. This book demonstrates the repeated failure of that... -
Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures by Michael Goodwin
RRP: $21.92$16.00Stimulus: plans: good or bad? Jobs: can we afford them? Money: who's got it? Everybody's talking about the economy, but how can you evaluate what they're saying? How can we, the people, understand what the banks or government knows (or says they know)?... -
The Invisible Hand by Adam Smith
RRP: $9.02$6.62Adam Smith's landmark treatise on the free market paved the way for modern capitalism, arguing that competition is the engine of a productive society, and that self-interest will eventually come to enrich the whole community, as if by an 'invisible hand'... -
Essential Maths Skills for AS/A Level Economics by Tracey Joad
RRP: $16.13$15.27If you struggle with index numbers or calculations of elasticity, this is the book for you. This textbook companion will help improve your essential maths skills for economics, whichever awarding body specification you're following. You can use it... -
The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime by Jeffrey Sachs
RRP: $16.76$11.73Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the... -
Prepare for Success: Economics for the IB Diploma by Paul Hoang
$39.68Support your students to achieve their best grade with the ultimate course companion; providing clear and concise explanations of all new framework requirements and topics, with exam practice questions to strengthen and develop learning.- Build... -
The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community by Stephen A. Marglin 9780674047228
RRP: $36.06$35.98Economists celebrate the market as a device for regulating human interaction without acknowledging that their enthusiasm depends on a set of half-truths: that individuals are autonomous, self-interested, and rational calculators with unlimited wants and... -
The Shifts and the Shocks: What we've learned - and have still to learn - from the financial crisis by Martin Wolf
RRP: $16.76$11.73In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis of the economic course of the last seven yearsThere have... -
Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton
RRP: $15.47$13.09One of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation forcefully argues against Marx's irrelevancy "[Eagleton is] a witty, insightful thinker with a penchant for glib asides and wry dashes of humor. It's probably the only book that makes references to... -
In Defence of Open Society: The Legendary Philanthropist Tackles the Dangers We Must Face for the Survival of Civilisation by George Soros 9781529343502
RRP: $14.18$9.55George Soros is among the world's most prominent public figures. He is one of the history's most successful investors and his philanthropy, led by the Open Society Foundations, has donated over $14 billion to promote democracy and human rights in more... -
Marxism: Philosophy and Economics by Thomas Sowell
RRP: $49.01$43.06First published in 1985, Thomas Sowell's book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx's own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowell's... -
Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters by David D. Friedman
RRP: $45.15$35.78What does economics have to do with law? Suppose legislators propose that armed robbers receive life imprisonment. Editorial pages applaud them for getting tough on crime. Constitutional lawyers raise the issue of cruel and unusual punishment. Legal... -
Introduction to Spatial Econometrics by James P. LeSage
RRP: $56.75$49.59Although interest in spatial regression models has surged in recent years, a comprehensive, up-to-date text on these approaches does not exist. Filling this void, Introduction to Spatial Econometrics presents a variety of regression methods used to... -
Where Next?: Finding our place in a world falling apart by Lisa Nandy
RRP: $21.92$19.49'A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.' Observer Book of the Day Britain is in crisis. This timely book by one of the stars of frontline politics shows a way out. In this brilliant and accessible... -
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: $19.34$14.13Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz explains why we are experiencing such destructively high levels of inequality - and why this is not inevitable The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but... -
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
RRP: $23.22$14.60One 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... -
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Perez 9781843763314
RRP: $41.22$37.53Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital presents a novel interpretation of the good and bad times in the economy, taking a long-term perspective and linking technology and finance in an original and convincing way.Carlota Perez draws upon... -
The Return of Depression Economics by Paul Krugman
RRP: $14.18$10.02Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman... -
Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan
RRP: $21.92$13.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062116932Author Chade-Meng TanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Corporate Governance and Chairmanship: A Personal View by Sir Adrian Cadbury 9780199252008
RRP: $114.81$87.38Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.