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The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties by Paul Collier
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95*FEATURED IN BILL GATES'S 2019 SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS* 'This is a beautifully written and important book. Read it' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesFrom world-renowned economist Paul Collier, a... -
The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption's Wake Glenn Hubbard 9780300271164
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.55An informed argument for an economic policy based on bridges of preparation and adaptation rather than walls of protection and exclusion "When technological change and globalization in recent... -
The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance by Eswar S. Prasad 9780691161129
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51The U.S. dollar's dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such... -
Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism by Paul Collier
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity 'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful... -
Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't by Alberto Alesina 9780691172217
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeed-and those that don'tFiscal austerity is hugely controversial. Opponents argue that it can trigger downward growth spirals and become... -
The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market by Paul de Grauwe 9780198784289
Booksplease Price: £45.03The old discussion of 'Market or State' is obsolete. There will always have to be a mix of market and state. The only relevant question is what that mix should look like. How far do we have to let... -
Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to How the Economy Works Cahal Moran 9780008637958
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.05Economics is too important to be left to the experts. But if we understand our economic system, we can change it. ... -
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.9510TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: UPDATED WITH A NEW PREFACE'Superb ... At a time when government action of any kind is ideologically suspect, and entrepreneurship is unquestioningly lionized, the book's... -
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West by John Rapley 9780141991160
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigateOver the last three centuries, the West rose to... -
Russia's Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy by Anders Aslund
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future "Full of insight and informed judgment, former diplomat Anders Aslund takes aim at... -
Economics for Policy Makers: A Guide for Non-Economists Gustavo Rinaldi 9781138388819
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Certain key economic decisions taken by organizations and indeed countries are often not made by economists but by businessmen, trade unionists, politicians and policy-makers. Those who employ... -
Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back Torsten Bell 9781529932393
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Updated with a new Foreword*An essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist and Labour rising star'No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our... -
The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It by Jon Danielsson
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.38A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail Finance plays a key role in the... -
Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment by Lucas Chancel
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice... -
Housing: Where's the Plan? by Kate Barker 9781907994111
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.95Housing matters a great deal. The present housing market has worked well for many of us (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of our homes) which is why change, especially new building, is... -
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters by Jesse Norman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the YearAdam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential economist who ever lived. But what he really ... -
Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979–2003 by Harold James
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.82Making a Modern Central Bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy. This authoritative guide explores how the Bank of England shifted its traditional mechanisms to accommodate a newly... -
Meeting Globalization's Challenges: Policies to Make Trade Work for All by Luis Catao 9780691188935
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32Leading economists propose solutions to the problems of globalizationGlobalization has expanded economic opportunities throughout the world, but it has also left many people feeling dispossessed,... -
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke 9780393353990
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.58In 2006, Ben S. Bernanke was appointed chairman of the Federal Reserve, capping a meteoric trajectory from a rural South Carolina childhood to professorships at Stanford and Princeton, to public... -
Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good by Colin Mayer 9780198866824
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £10.46What is business for? Day one of a business course will tell you: it is to maximise shareholder profit. This single idea pervades all our thinking and teaching about business around the world but it... -
Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives by Stephen Roach 9780300273991
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The misguided forces driving conflict escalation between America and China, and the path to a new relationship"A timely, fluid, readable assessment of a testy and rapidly changing global relationship... -
Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It by Krzysztof Pelc
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.78'Lucid, smartly written ... A welcome intervention into the debate surrounding the future of liberalism' Financial Times 'It takes scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith, but this is... -
King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency Paul Blustein 9780300288469
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78An award-winning economic journalist on why the US dollar is positioned to maintain global primacy-and what that means for America and the world "Magisterial."-Edward Chancellor, Reuters ... -
Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State by Roman Frydman 9780691145778
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem, Roman Frydman and Michael... -
Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000 Year History Ian Morris 9781781258361
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Ian Morris has established himself as a leader in making big history interesting and understandable' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel 'Morris succeeds triumphantly at cramming... -
Silent Retreats by Philip F. Deaver 9780820330662
RRP: £28.95Booksplease Price: £17.71Caught in the muddle of modern life, eyes gazing at the middle distance, the characters in Silent Retreats search, down roads paved by custom and dotted by the absurd, for escape, refuge, or, at... -
Growth: A Reckoning Daniel Susskind 9780141998718
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDaniel Susskind is a Research Professor in Economics at King's College London and a Senior Research... -
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What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It by Peter Foster 9781805301257 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £7.46ONE OF 2023'S BIGGEST NEW BOOKS (GUARDIAN)A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023A GUARDIAN 'IF YOU READ ONE BOOK ABOUT . . .' POLITICS PICKA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POLITICSA THE WEEK CHRISTMAS... -
What Went Wrong With Brexit: And What We Can Do About It by Peter Foster 9781805301257
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51ONE OF 2023'S BIGGEST NEW BOOKS (GUARDIAN)A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2023A GUARDIAN 'IF YOU READ ONE BOOK ABOUT . . .' POLITICS PICKA WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: POLITICSA THE WEEK CHRISTMAS... -
Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace by Christopher Blattman 9780241989258
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Why do human beings fight one another?In this exhilarating and bracing book, we learn the common logic driving vainglorious monarchs, dictators, mobs, pilots, football hooligans, ancient peoples and... -
Six Steps Back to the Land: Why we need small mixed farms and millions more farmers Colin Tudge 9781399420914
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.79An exploration into how we can have truly sustainable, resilient and productive farms.In the 1930s, nutritionists claimed that the increase in population size would soon make it challenging to eat... -
Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.47If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So... -
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck
Booksplease Price: £21.24After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has all but... -
A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility by Nicola Gennaioli 9780691182506
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40How investor expectations move markets and the economyThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other... -
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society by Minouche Shafik 9780691207643
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £15.35From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract... -
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles William Quinn (Queen's University Belfast) 9781108431651
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.95Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and... -
The Oxford Book of Money by Kevin Jackson 9780192142009
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £75.37When Paul Dombey asks `what's money?' in Charles Dickens's novel, his father is hard put to find an answer. The Oxford Book of Money sets out to explore the question with the help of writers, poets,... -
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better Economy by Stephanie Kelton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.13THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Kelton has succeeded in instigating a round of heretical questioning, essential for a post-Covid-19 world, where the pantheon of economic gods will have to be... -
India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity by Jean Dreze 9780198290124
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £103.45An analysis of endemic deprivation in India and of the role of public action in addressing that problem. The analysis is based on a broad view of economic development, focusing on human well-being... -
What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society by Minouche Shafik
Booksplease Price: £28.17From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract...