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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,... -
New Capitalism in Turkey: The Relationship between Politics, Religion and Business Ayse Bugra 9781783473120
Booksplease Price: $220.50'This theoretically informing book provides one of the strongest analyses of Turkish political economy. Bu ra and Sava kan decisively dispel myths regarding the new, allegedly self-made and 'small'... -
Taking Back Control?: States and State Systems After Globalism Wolfgang Streeck 9781839767296
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.28The era of hyperglobalization once hailed as the 'end of history' was characterised by boundless capitalist expansion. The neoliberal revolution gave rise to a politics of scale aimed at the... -
Political Economy in Macroeconomics by Allan Drazen
RRP: $193.20Booksplease Price: $166.55Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from... -
Angrynomics by Eric Lonergan
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.88Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise, when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting... -
Diverse Development Paths and Structural Transformation in the Escape from Poverty by Martin Andersson 9780198803706
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $88.52This volume analyzes the experiences of developing countries in Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa, and examines how they might catch up. Based on growth performance across the developing... -
Where Economics Went Wrong: Chicago's Abandonment of Classical Liberalism by David Colander 9780691179209
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $52.94How modern economics abandoned classical liberalism and lost its wayMilton Friedman once predicted that advances in scientific economics would resolve debates about whether raising the minimum wage... -
Real World Economic Outlook: The Legacy of Globalization: Debt and Deflation by Ann Pettifor 9781403917959
Booksplease Price: $190.18Real World Economic Outlook is a yearly publication that will review issues in the global economy from a different, radical and more realistic perspective. In stark contrast to the output of other... -
Law and the Wealth of Nations: Finance, Prosperity, and Democracy by Tamara Lothian 9780231174671
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Economic 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... -
Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery by Menzie D. Chinn 9780393344103
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $37.95The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery... -
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tufekci
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.81From New York Times opinion columnist Zeynep Tufekci, an firsthand account and incisive analysis of the role of social media in modern protest"[Tufekci's] personal experience in the squares and... -
The Political Economy of Collective Action, Inequality, and Development by William D. Ferguson
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $84.42This book examines how a society that is trapped in stagnation might initiate and sustain economic and political development. In this context, progress requires the reform of existing arrangements,... -
The Lies We Were Told: Politics, Economics, Austerity and Brexit Simon Wren-Lewis (The University of Oxford) 9781529202137
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.68"This is a book you should read, for understanding what went wrong in the past is our only hope of doing better in the future?" - Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winner Why did governments adopt... -
Real World Economic Outlook: The Legacy of Globalization: Debt and Deflation by Ann Pettifor 9781403917942
Booksplease Price: $190.18Real World Economic Outlook is a yearly publication that will review issues in the global economy from a different, radical and more realistic perspective. In stark contrast to the output of other... -
Just Work for All: The American Dream in the 21st Century Joshua Preiss (Minnesota State University, USA) 9780367694883
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47This is a book about the American Dream: how to understand this central principle of American public philosophy, the ways in which it is threatened by a number of winner-take-all economic trends, and... -
Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography by Michele Alacevich 9780231199834
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Italian Association for the History of Economic ThoughtOne of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly... -
Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? by Nita Rudra 9780521886987
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $181.52The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and... -
Diaspora, Development, and Democracy: The Domestic Impact of International Migration from India by Devesh Kapur 9780691125381
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $85.53What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy... -
Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual Biography by Michele Alacevich
RRP: $281.40Booksplease Price: $223.71Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Italian Association for the History of Economic ThoughtOne of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly... -
Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment: From Asia to Argentina by Padma Desai 9780691113920
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $139.94This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked East Asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the Thai baht in 1997... -
Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies by Brian Levy 9780199363803
Booksplease Price: $246.54This book builds on cutting-edge scholarship and the author's quarter century of hands-on experience at the World Bank to lay out an innovative with-the-grain approach to integrating governance and... -
From Equity to Growth: Social Discontent in Developing Countries José Antonio Ocampo 9780231222914
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $82.01In many emerging economies, impressive progress in reducing poverty has been overshadowed by persistent inequality and growing frustration with political elites. This widespread social discontent has... -
Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? by Nita Rudra 9780521715034
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $55.17The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and... -
Working with the Grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies by Brian Levy 9780199363810
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $79.76This book builds on cutting-edge scholarship and the author's quarter century of hands-on experience at the World Bank to lay out an innovative with-the-grain approach to integrating governance and... -
The Tragic Science: How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good) by Professor George F Demartino
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $53.19A forceful critique of the social science that has ruled-and damaged-the modern world. The practice of economics, as economists will tell you, is a powerful force for good. Economists are the... -
The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions by Matt Andrews 9781107016330
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $199.50Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make... -
The Culture and Development Manifesto by Robert Klitgaard
Booksplease Price: $159.16With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "manifesto" shows how to account for cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development. Around the world, the... -
Chipping Away at Public Debt: Sources of Failure and Keys to Success in Fiscal Adjustment Paolo Mauro 9781118043387
RRP: $73.48Booksplease Price: $54.41Path-breaking research on one of the most important macroeconomic policy challenges in the post-crisis world, presented in accessible language Written and researched by a team of experts from the... -
The Culture and Development Manifesto by Robert Klitgaard 9780197517741
RRP: $57.73Booksplease Price: $55.15With fascinating examples from around the world, this inspiring "manifesto" shows how to account for cultural diversity in reshaping economic and political development. Around the world, the... -
The Populist Temptation: Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era by Barry Eichengreen 9780190058821
RRP: $34.63Booksplease Price: $27.64Populism, 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... -
Free Trade Reimagined: The World Division of Labor and the Method of Economics by Roberto Mangabeira Unger 9780691145884
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade. Roberto Mangabeira Unger does not, however, defend... -
The Limits of Institutional Reform in Development: Changing Rules for Realistic Solutions by Matt Andrews 9781107684881
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $86.06Developing countries commonly adopt reforms to improve their governments yet they usually fail to produce more functional and effective governments. Andrews argues that reforms often fail to make... -
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It by Yascha Mounk 9780674237681
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $34.67A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book."-Anne-Marie Slaughter"A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic... -
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth by Jonathan D. Ostry
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $179.28Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected... -
The Future of National Development Banks by Stephany Griffith-Jones 9780198827948
Booksplease Price: $197.80For a long time the topic of national development banks was limited to a debate between admirers and detractors of these institutions, often inserted into a more general debate of state versus... -
Confronting Inequality: How Societies Can Choose Inclusive Growth by Jonathan D. Ostry 9780231174695
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $47.52Inequality has drastically increased in many countries around the globe over the past three decades. The widening gap between the very rich and everyone else is often portrayed as an unexpected... -
Worlds Apart: Measuring International and Global Inequality by Branko Milanovic 9780691130514
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13We are used to thinking about inequality within countries--about rich Americans versus poor Americans, for instance. But what about inequality between all citizens of the world? Worlds Apart... -
Empowerment on an Unstable Planet: From Seeds of Human Energy to a Scale of Global Change by Daniel C. Taylor 9780199842964
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $90.22Since World War II, development projects have invested more than two trillion dollars towards health services, poverty alleviation, education, food security, and environmental initiatives around the... -
Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe by Alessio Terzi
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $45.61A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight... -
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi 9780241685556
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38'One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written' Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect'Polanyi's revolutionary work is a must-read'...