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For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War by Melvyn P. Leffler 9780374531423
Booksplease Price: £18.42To the amazement of the public, pundits, and even the policy-makers themselves, the ideological and political conflict that endangered the world for half a century came to an end in 1990. How did... -
Comparative Performance of US Econometric Models by Lawrence R. Klein 9780195057720
Booksplease Price: £83.25Lawrence Klein won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his original work in developing models One of the most important, and visible, things economists do is to forecast what will happen in the... -
Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.40The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single most important... -
Doing Business in China: How to Profit in the World's Fastest Growing Market by Ted Plafker 9780446696968
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00It's common knowledge that China has the fastest growing economy in the world. What is not common knowledge is exactly how Western companies can gain a foothold and increase their profits by doing... -
Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics: Keynes and Lucas by Allessandro Vercelli 9780521392945
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.30This book is an investigation of the methodological and epistemological foundations of macroeconomic theory, based on an examination of the theories of Keynes and Lucas. It is divided into two parts... -
Predictability and Nonlinear Modelling in Natural Sciences and Economics by J. Grasman 9789401044165
Booksplease Price: £47.08Researchers in the natural sciences are faced with problems that require a novel approach to improve the quality of forecasts of processes that are sensitive to environmental conditions. Nonlinearity... -
The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect by Steven Brakman 9781107402430
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.51In 1977 a seminal paper was published by Avinash Dixit and Joseph Stiglitz that revolutionized the modeling of imperfectly competitive markets. It launched what might be called the second... -
Recovering Power: The Conservatives in Opposition Since 1867 by S. Ball 9781403932426
Booksplease Price: £91.83The Conservative Party's periods in opposition have been of crucial importance. They have seen major changes in direction, and often been the springboard for recovering power. There have also been... -
Philosophers of Capitalism: Menger, Mises, Rand, and Beyond by Edward W. Younkins 9780739110775
Booksplease Price: £46.74Philosophers of Capitalism provides an interdisciplinary approach, attempting to discover the feasibility of an integration of Austrian Economics and Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. In the... -
Predictability and Nonlinear Modelling in Natural Sciences and Economics by J. Grasman 9780792329435
RRP: £92.50Booksplease Price: £72.86Researchers in the natural sciences are faced with problems that require a novel approach to improve the quality of forecasts of processes that are sensitive to environmental conditions. Nonlinearity... -
Methodological Foundations of Macroeconomics: Keynes and Lucas by Allessandro Vercelli 9780521074735
Booksplease Price: £32.12This book is an investigation of the methodological and epistemological foundations of macroeconomic theory, based on an examination of the theories of Keynes and Lucas. It is divided into two parts... -
Noisy Information and Computational Complexity by Leszek Plaskota 9780521553681
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £112.23In this volume, which was originally published in 1996, noisy information is studied in the context of computational complexity; in other words the text deals with the computational complexity of... -
Strengths Book: Discover How To Be Fulfilled in Your Work and in Life Sally Bibb 9781911498476
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.74It's human nature to focus more on our weaknesses because we are programmed to be alert to risks in our environment. We end up focusing on what isn't working, often overshadowing all the positives... -
What's Right with Macroeconomics? by Robert M. Solow 9781781007440
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £35.00Global crises are very rare events. After the Great Depression and the Great Stagflation, new macroeconomic paradigms associated with a new policy regime emerged. This book addresses how some... -
The Strengths Book: Discover how to be fulfilled in your work and in life Sally Bibb 9781911687559
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.74It's human nature to focus more on our weaknesses because we are programmed to be alert to risks in our environment. We end up focusing on what isn't working, often overshadowing all the positives... -
Higher Education in Europe and the United States of America: A Diverse Collection of Essays by Henry Wasser 9780761837794
Booksplease Price: £40.38This is an assembling of papers presented at conferences in the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Portugal, Canada, Norway, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. They analyze such topics as structure;... -
Recovering Power: The Conservatives in Opposition Since 1867 by S. Ball 9781403932419
Booksplease Price: £91.71The Conservative Party's periods in opposition have been of crucial importance. They have seen major changes in direction, and often been the springboard for recovering power. There have also been... -
Developments in Macro-Finance Yield Curve Modelling by Jagjit S. Chadha 9781316623169
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £47.48Changes in the shape of the yield curve have traditionally been one of the key macroeconomic indicators of a likely change in economic outlook. However, the recent financial crises have created a... -
The Black Madonna Peter Millar 9781906413934
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78In the ruins of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian city that has been a metropolis since the time of the Pharaohs, a plucky young female archaeologist has made a remarkable find: possibly the earliest... -
Wage-Fixing: Stagflation - Volume 1 by J. E. Meade
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.66This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected... -
Wage-Fixing: Stagflation - Volume 1 by J. E. Meade 9780415670487
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.95This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected... -
On Economic Inequality by Amartya Sen 9780198281931
RRP: £54.00Booksplease Price: £47.39First published in 1973, this book presents a systematic treatment of the conceptual framework as well as the practical problems of measurement of inequality. Alternative approaches are evaluated in... -
Revival: Democracy and Religion (1930): A Study in Quakerism (Swarthmore Lecture, 1930) by Gerhart von Schulze-Gavernitz
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.28The Swarthmore Lectureship was established by the Woodbrooke Extension Committee, at a meeting held December 7th 1907: the minutes of the Committee provided for "an annual lecture on some subject... -
Paying the Carbon Price: The Subsidisation of Heavy Polluters under Emissions Trading Schemes by Elena de Lemos Pinto Aydos 9781786439406
Booksplease Price: £110.08Paying the Carbon Price analyses the practice of freely allocating permits in Emissions Trading Schemes (ETSs) and demonstrates how many heavy polluters participating in ETSs are not yet paying the... -
The Behavioral Economics and Politics of Global Warming: Unsettling Behaviors by Hersh Shefrin 9781009454896
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.07The main goal of this Element is to provide a psychological explanation for why actual global climate policy is so greatly at odds with the prescriptions of most neoclassical economists. To be sure,... -
Industrial Economics for Countries in Transition: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific by Philippe R. Scholtès 9781858985213
Booksplease Price: £111.10This important and accessible book focuses on the problems confronting public authorities in transitional economies. It is based on a large, diversified and first-hand body of empirical research,... -
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East David D. Kirkpatrick 9781408898499
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individuals A FINANCIAL TIMES AND AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'This will be the must read on the... -
Essays in Econometrics: Collected Papers of Clive W. J. Granger by Clive W. J. Granger 9780521796491
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44This book, and its companion volume in the Econometric Society Monographs series (ESM number 32), present a collection of papers by Clive W. J. Granger. His contributions to economics and... -
The Shameful Suicide of Winston Churchill by Peter Millar
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64The year is 1949 and the Allied Powers' advance on Moscow in the wake of Nazi defeat has failed. As Stalin's tanks rumble through the streets of London, Winston Churchill decides to put an end to his... -
Lucky Boy in the Lucky Country: The Autobiography of Max Corden, Economist by Warner Max Corden 9783319879642
Booksplease Price: £75.80Corden has written a charming and insightful account of his professional and personal life, from his childhood in Breslau, Germany, until his retirement in Melbourne. The book is divided into two... -
Enterprise and Competitiveness: A Systems View of International Business by Mark Casson 9780198289579
Booksplease Price: £32.92Mark Casson demonstrates how the economic effects of culture--social values such as honesty, dedication, and loyalty--can be analysed in a rigorous fashion. He argues that gains from technology in... -
Risk Management in East Asia: Systems and Frontier Issues by Yijia Jing 9789813345850
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book is a joint endeavour of the three partner universities to develop a book with in-depth and state-of-art analysis for the academic community of East Asia and the world. Past disasters, like... -
Sibelius Volume I: 1865-1905 by Erik Tawaststjerna 9780571247721
Booksplease Price: £29.69Erik Tawaststjerna embarked on his authoritative study of Sibelius in 1960, and it occupied him for over a quarter of a century. His book differs from other work on the composer in one important... -
Marx on Money by Suzanne De Brunhoff
Booksplease Price: £13.53The republication of Suzanne de Brunhoff's classic investigation into Karl Marx's conception of "the money commodity" shines light on commodities and their fetishism. The investigation of money as... -
Risk Management in East Asia: Systems and Frontier Issues by Yijia Jing 9789813345881
RRP: £119.99Booksplease Price: £112.12This book is a joint endeavour of the three partner universities to develop a book with in-depth and state-of-art analysis for the academic community of East Asia and the world. Past disasters, like... -
Applications of Formal Philosophy: The Road Less Travelled by Rafal Urbaniak 9783319585055
Booksplease Price: £46.58This book features mathematical and formal philosophers' efforts to understand philosophical questions using mathematical techniques. It offers a collection of works from leading researchers in the... -
New International Poverty Reduction Strategies by Jean-Pierre Cling 9780415406949
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.11The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the fight against poverty at the heart of their development... -
The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 by Tim Blanning
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.37'The Penguin History of Europe series ... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New StatesmanThe Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European... -
The Economics of Prosperity: Rethinking Economic Growth and Development by Shawn Ritenour
Booksplease Price: £102.19This book presents a general theory of the economics of prosperity. Drawing upon both historic and contemporary Austrian economic thinking, it looks beyond merely identifying various isolated causes... -
A. W. H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective by Robert Leeson 9780521168458
RRP: £51.00Booksplease Price: £50.13Virtually all of contemporary macroeconomics is underpinned by a Phillips curve of one variety or another; yet most of this literature displays a curious neglect of the theoretical dynamic...