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The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance by Narcís Serra 9780199534098
Booksplease Price: $123.71This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard,... -
Globalisation, Development and Transition: Conversations with Eminent Economists Brian Snowdon 9781848448155
RRP: $140.60Booksplease Price: $129.70This unique book provides a comprehensive survey of the major economic issues that have helped shape the modern world. It includes discussions of the latest research findings in the international... -
Economy 2.0: Microeconomics by The CORE Econ Team 9781647921606
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $92.27The Economy 2.0 equips students with the tools to address today's pressing problems by facilitating mastery of the conceptual and quantitative tools of contemporary economics. It challenges students... -
How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World's Last Developmental Frontier Joe Studwell 9781788167994
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58The birth of new nations, independent democracies, the unprecedented growth of cities from Lagos to Cairo; the African continent is booming. So why do myths about underdevelopment, unproductive land... -
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Failing Markets, Weak States by Tilman Altenburg 9781781000250
Booksplease Price: $229.03Industrial Policy in Developing Countries offers an in-depth assessment of both the potentials and perils of designing and implementing policy in countries at early stages of economic development... -
State of Innovation: The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development Fred L. Block 9781594518249
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has generated a fundamental re-evaluation of the free-market policies that have dominated American politics for three decades. State of Innovation... -
Aftermath: A New Global Economic Order? by Craig Calhoun 9780814772836
RRP: $142.80Booksplease Price: $116.59The global financial crisis showed deep problems with mainstream economic predictions, as well as the vulnerability of the world's richest countries and the enormous potential of some poorer ones... -
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong 9780253066640
RRP: $134.40Booksplease Price: $106.01Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations... -
Industrial Policy in Developing Countries: Failing Markets, Weak States by Tilman Altenburg 9781786439833
RRP: $69.20Booksplease Price: $66.09Industrial Policy in Developing Countries offers an in-depth assessment of both the potentials and perils of designing and implementing policy in countries at early stages of economic development... -
Case Studies in Public Governance: Building Institutions in Singapore June Gwee 9781032928036
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35The case study, whether a simple scenario about choices in decision-making or a multi-dimensional narrative of conflicts and dilemmas, is a rich source of knowledge, ideas, and insights. Using case... -
Environmentalism in Turkey: Between Democracy and Development? by Fikret Adaman 9781138271210
RRP: $115.48Booksplease Price: $102.98Bringing together a mixture of theoretical discussion, political analyses and illustrative case studies, this volume provides the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the tension between... -
Case Studies in Public Governance: Building Institutions in Singapore by June Gwee
RRP: $83.98Booksplease Price: $76.19The case study, whether a simple scenario about choices in decision-making or a multi-dimensional narrative of conflicts and dilemmas, is a rich source of knowledge, ideas, and insights. Using case... -
Independent Africa: The First Generation of Nation Builders by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong 9780253066657
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.31Independent Africa explores Africa's political economy in the first two full decades of independence through the joint projects of nation-building, economic development, and international relations... -
Free Traders: Elites, Democracy, and the Rise of Globalization in North America by Malcolm Fairbrother 9780190635459
Booksplease Price: $169.28Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their economies to the forces of globalization. In Free... -
The Globalization and Development Reader: Perspectives on Development and Global Change J. Timmons Roberts (Brown University, Rhode Island, USA) 9781118735107
RRP: $67.10Booksplease Price: $66.07This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected... -
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller
Booksplease Price: $19.53'This lucid guide is essential reading' GuardianFrom Donald Trump to Recep Erdogan, populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall... -
Free Traders: Elites, Democracy, and the Rise of Globalization in North America by Malcolm Fairbrother 9780190635466
RRP: $66.13Booksplease Price: $57.10Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their economies to the forces of globalization. In Free... -
Smart Globalization: The Canadian Business and Economic History Experience by Smith Andrew 9781442616127
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $46.03Today's globalization debates pit neoliberals, who favour even deeper integration into the global economy, against neo-mercantilists, who call for a relatively selective approach to globalization and... -
Rethinking Productive Development: Sound Policies and Institutions for Economic Transformation by Eduardo Fernandez-Arias 9781137405593
Booksplease Price: $192.53Productive transformation requires seizing the opportunities available and opening new ones in a competitive world. Rethinking Productive Development examines the market failures impeding... -
Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy by Tamara Lothian
RRP: $281.40Booksplease Price: $223.08Economic stagnation, financial crisis, and increasing inequality have provoked worldwide debate about the reshaping of the market economy. But few are willing to risk a reorientation of dominant... -
Ttip: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership by Ferdi De Ville 9781509501014
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $85.16The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and... -
Rethinking Productive Development: Sound Policies and Institutions for Economic Transformation by Eduardo Fernandez-Arias 9781137397164
Booksplease Price: $190.81Productive transformation requires seizing the opportunities available and opening new ones in a competitive world. Rethinking Productive Development examines the market failures impeding... -
Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most Thomas Hale (University of Oxford) 9780745662398
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $50.06The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental... -
Debates in Macroeconomics from the Great Depression to the Long Recession: Cycles, Crises and Policy Responses by Arie Arnon 9783030977054
RRP: $188.98Booksplease Price: $95.13This book assesses major schools of thought in macroeconomic theory between the Great Depression and the Long Recession, focusing on their analysis of cycles, crises and macro-policy. It explores the... -
Social Policy in Capitalist History: Perspectives on Poverty, Work and Society by Ayşe Buğra 9781802209495
Booksplease Price: $214.60This invigorating book approaches social policy as a response to socioeconomic tensions and conflicts brought about by capitalist development, exploring how such policy reflects and shapes the world... -
Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most by David Held 9780745662381
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $112.56The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental... -
TTIP: The Truth about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Ferdi De Ville 9781509501021
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.86The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) has stirred passions like no other trade negotiation in recent history. Its supporters maintain that TTIP will produce spectacular growth and... -
Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World by Amir Lebdioui 9781009500517
Booksplease Price: $117.87The pathways to economic development are changing. Environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy. Just like in nature, where... -
Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World by Dan Davies
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.50Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In fact, there are four. A veteran regulatory economist and market analyst, Dan... -
Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress Michael J. Trebilcock 9781848447103
RRP: $111.20Booksplease Price: $103.76This important book addresses a number of key issues regarding the relationship between the rule of law and development. It presents a deep and insightful inquiry into the current orthodoxy that the... -
Survival of the Greenest: Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World by Amir Lebdioui 9781009339384
RRP: $37.80Booksplease Price: $34.69The pathways to economic development are changing. Environmental sustainability is no longer a choice but a necessity to maintain a competitive edge in the global economy. Just like in nature, where... -
The Tortuous Path of South Korean Economic Development by Jaymin Lee 9781009419314
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $59.30This book explains how South Korea has uniquely transformed itself from a developing to a developed country by combining economic analysis with historical perspective, an approach badly needed but... -
The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits) Maximilian Kasy 9780226839530
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $34.80An eye-opening examination of how power-not technology-will define life with AI. AI is inescapable, from its mundane uses online to its increasingly consequential decision-making in courtrooms, job... -
The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era by Barry Eichengreen
RRP: $51.43Booksplease Price: $40.36In the last few years, populism -- of the right, left, and center varieties -- has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached its apogee in the United States with the election of... -
Globalization and Progressive Economic Policy by Dean Baker 9780521643764
RRP: $92.40Booksplease Price: $90.41The authors of this book challenge mainstream thinking about the nature of globalization. While not hostile to markets per se, they believe that capitalist market processes, left to operate freely,... -
Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Matthew C. Klein
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Winner of the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize: A provocative look at how today's trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests of elites at the expense of workers"The authors weave a... -
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age by Mordecai Kurz 9780231206525
RRP: $281.40Booksplease Price: $223.08Since the 1980s, the United States has regressed to a level of economic inequality not seen since the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century. At the same time, technological innovation has... -
The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age by Mordecai Kurz
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Since the 1980s, the United States has regressed to a level of economic inequality not seen since the Gilded Age in the late nineteenth century. At the same time, technological innovation has... -
Meeting Globalization's Challenges: Policies to Make Trade Work for All by Luis Catao 9780691188935
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $61.57Leading economists propose solutions to the problems of globalizationGlobalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it has also left many people feeling dispossessed,... -
What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Mueller 9780812248982
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $35.22Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chavez-populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be...