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Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? by Robert Kuttner 9780393609936
Booksplease Price: £20.47In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and the polity-between the engine of capitalism and the egalitarian... -
India and the Global Financial Crisis: Managing Money and Finance by Y. V. Reddy 9781843318835
Booksplease Price: £20.10'India and the Global Financial Crisis' offers a collection of essays based on the speeches delivered by Reddy during his tenure as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between September 2003 and... -
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz 9780241687888
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.53A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedomDespite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the... -
Industrial Policy and Development: The Political Economy of Capabilities Accumulation by Mario Cimoli 9780199235278
Booksplease Price: £68.28In the 1990s, development policy advocated by international financial institutions was influenced by Washington Consensus thinking. This strategy, based largely on liberalization, privatization, and... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218566
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters by Anya Schiffrin 9780231131759
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51The first journalism textbook for reporters who cover finance and economics in developing and transitional countries, Covering Globalization is an essential guide to the pressing topics of our times... -
Limits to Privatization: How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing - A Report to the Club of Rome by Ernst U. von Weizsacker 9781844073399
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79Limits to Privatization is the first thorough audit of privatizations from around the world. It outlines the historical emergence of globalization and liberalization, and from analyses of over 50... -
The Price of Inequality by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Nobel 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... -
Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom Akeel Bilgrami 9780231218559
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.23States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which... -
No Finish Line: Lessons on Life and Career by Meyer Feldberg
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.09Meyer Feldberg is a storyteller. The source of his stories is his rich and unique life, which took him from South Africa under apartheid to a C-Suite in present-day New York, from the hallowed halls... -
Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters by Anya Schiffrin 9780231131742
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.76The first journalism textbook for reporters who cover finance and economics in developing and transitional countries, Covering Globalization is an essential guide to the pressing topics of our times... -
What Caused the Financial Crisis by Jeffrey Friedman 9780812221183
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that... -
Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey by Gary S. Fields 9780199794645
Booksplease Price: £48.61More than three billion people, nearly half of humankind, live on less than two-and-a-half U.S. dollars per person per day. Studies have shown repeatedly that the main and often the sole asset of the... -
The Washington Consensus Reconsidered: Towards a New Global Governance by Narcís Serra 9780199534098
Booksplease Price: £58.91This 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,... -
The Future of Work in Developing Countries Akbar Noman 9780231220330
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £53.87One of the most pressing issues in development today is the employment challenge in low- and middle-income countries. As more young people enter the labor force-and as structural transformation... -
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Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz 9780141010380 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.49From Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives. Our world is changing. Globalization is... -
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi 9780241685556
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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'... -
Poverty and Inequality by David B. Grusky 9780804748421
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £67.40This volume brings together leading public intellectuals-Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, Francois Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman-to take stock of current... -
The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: An Agenda by Ajay Agrawal
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £109.94Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the... -
The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too by James Galbraith 9781416576211
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.68For nearly three decades, Washington has been in the grip of an economic orthodoxy defined by Ronald Reagan and embraced ardently by George W. Bush. It rests on four pillars: 1) Cut taxes on the... -
Lectures on Public Economics: Updated Edition by Anthony B. Atkinson
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £50.39This classic introduction to public finance remains the best advanced-level textbook on the subject ever written. First published in 1980, Lectures on Public Economics still tops reading lists at... -
Poverty and Inequality by David B. Grusky
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46This volume brings together leading public intellectuals-Amartya Sen, Martha C. Nussbaum, Francois Bourguignon, William J. Wilson, Douglas S. Massey, and Martha A. Fineman-to take stock of current... -
The Media and Financial Crises: Comparative and Historical Perspectives Steve Schifferes (City University London, UK) 9781138022799
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The Media and Financial Crises provides unique insights into the debate on the role of the media in the global financial crisis. Coverage is inter-disciplinary, with contributions from media studies,... -
Growth and Policy in Developing Countries: A Structuralist Approach by Jose Antonio Ocampo 9780231150149
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Economic structuralists use a broad, systemwide approach to understanding development, and this textbook assumes a structuralist perspective in its investigation of why a host of developing countries... -
Transition and Beyond by Saul Estrin 9780230546974
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also... -
Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis by James Kenneth Galbraith
RRP: £26.49Booksplease Price: £24.24Inequality is a charged topic. Measures of income inequality rose in the USA in the 1990s to levels not seen since 1929 and gave rise to a suspicion, not for the first time, of a link between radical... -
The Arrow Impossibility Theorem by Eric Maskin 9780231153287
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.67Kenneth J. Arrow's pathbreaking "impossibility theorem" was a watershed innovation in the history of welfare economics, voting theory, and collective choice, demonstrating that there is no voting... -
Capital Market Liberalization and Development by José Antonio Ocampo 9780199238446
Booksplease Price: £76.37Capital market liberalization has been a key battle in the debate on globalization for much of the previous two decades. Many developing countries, often at the behest of international financial... -
Law and Economics with Chinese Characteristics: Institutions for Promoting Development in the Twenty-First Century by David Kennedy 9780199698554
Booksplease Price: £71.06Policymakers and economists largely agree that 'rule of law' and property rights are essential for a sound economic policy, particularly for most developing countries. But it is becoming increasingly... -
Moral Hazard in Health Insurance by Amy Finkelstein 9780231163804
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.69Moral hazard-the tendency to change behavior when the cost of that behavior will be borne by others-is a particularly tricky question when considering health care. Kenneth J. Arrow's seminal 1963... -
Transition and Beyond by Saul Estrin 9781349361250
Booksplease Price: £92.20This book covers a wide variety of aspects of transition in Central and Southeast Europe and the CIS, including the socialist legacy, privatization and growth, skills, and banking reforms. It also... -
Good Growth and Governance in Africa: Rethinking Development Strategies by Akbar Noman 9780199698578
Booksplease Price: £69.57Why has the economic growth performance of Sub-Saharan Africa been disappointing on balance over the past 50 years? More importantly, what can be done to reverse that trend and to sustain and improve... -
Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity Ha-Joon Chang 9781905211371
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81It's rare that a book appears with a fresh perspective on world affairs, but renowned economist Ha-Joon Chang has some startlingly original things to say about the future of globalization. In theory,... -
The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal by Felix Salmon
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £20.56An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysis-drawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular culture-of the profound and transformative years of the early 2020s, both for... -
The Origins of Inequality Joseph Stiglitz 9780198799597
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.63Joseph Stiglitz has had a remarkable career. He is a brilliant academic, capped by sharing the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Nobel Peace Prize, and honorary degrees from Harvard,... -
International Labour Organization and Global Social Governance by Tarja Halonen 9783030554026
Booksplease Price: £91.98This open access book explores the role of the ILO (International Labour Organization) in building global social governance from multiple and mutually complementary perspectives. It explores the... -
Measuring Poverty around the World Anthony B. Atkinson 9780691271125
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of... -
Stability with Growth: Macroeconomics, Liberalization and Development by Joseph Stiglitz 9780199288144
Booksplease Price: £48.61There is growing dissatisfaction with the economic policies advocated by the IMF and other international financial institutions - policies that have often resulted in stagnating growth, crises, and... -
Escaping the Resource Curse by Macartan Humphreys
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.80The wealth derived from natural resources can have a tremendous impact on the economics and politics of producing countries. In the last quarter century, we have seen the surprising and sobering... -
Measuring Poverty around the World by Anthony B. Atkinson 9780691191225
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70The final book from a towering pioneer in the study of poverty and inequality-a critically important examination of poverty around the worldIn this, his final book, economist Anthony Atkinson, one of...