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A World of Insecurity: Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries by Pranab Bardhan
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.95An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of... -
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Blyth
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.36Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the... -
Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise by Christopher Marquis
Booksplease Price: £26.04A thoroughly researched assessment of how China's economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of Chairman Mao A Financial Times "Best Book of 2022" Tied for the 2023 Axiom... -
Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy Teresa Ghilarducci 9780226849195
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94A damning portrait of the dire realities of retirement in the United States-and how we can fix it.While the French went on strike in 2023 to protest the increase in the national retirement age,... -
The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism by William J. Baumol
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Why has capitalism produced economic growth that so vastly dwarfs the growth record of other economic systems, past and present? Why have living standards in countries from America to Germany to... -
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2020The Sunday Times Best Business Books of the Year 2020The Times of London Best Business Books of the Year 2020The Financial Times... -
Growth: A Reckoning by Daniel Susskind 9780241542309
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.08Shortlisted for the 2024 Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the YearA revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink itOver the past two... -
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time Yascha Mounk 9781802062861
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'A fascinating account of the intellectual origins of identity politics' Financial Times, Books of the YearThe origins, consequences and limitations of an ideology that has quickly become highly... -
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability Yanis Varoufakis 9781784704117
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.69**THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** ... -
The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off by Justin Yifu Lin 9780691155890
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £18.87How can developing countries grow their economies? Most answers to this question center on what the rich world should or shouldn't do for the poor world. In The Quest for Prosperity, Justin Yifu... -
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley Marietje Schaake 9780691241173
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £14.45An insider offers a "forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy" (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop itOver the past decades, under the cover of "innovation,"... -
Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46** The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller**'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' GuardianWhat happens when you take on the European establishment? Read as world-famous, provocative economist,... -
The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World by Ruchir Sharma 9780393354157
Booksplease Price: £10.46Shaped by his twenty-five years traveling the world, and enlivened by encounters with villagers from Rio to Beijing, tycoons, and presidents, Ruchir Sharma's The Rise and Fall of Nations rethinks the... -
Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand by Mike Konczal
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.64The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom "Mike Konczal [is] one of our most powerful advocates of financial reform' [a] heroic critic of austerity'... -
Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends by Anne Applebaum
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020'The most important non-fiction book of the year' David HareIn the years just before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people... -
American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle over Gold by Sebastian Edwards 9780691161884
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economyThe American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in... -
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World by J. Doyne Farmer 9780141981208
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'Doyne Farmer is the world's leading thinker on technological change. For decades he has focused on the question of how we can make sense of the data of today to see where the world is going tomorrow... -
Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit by Charles W. Calomiris 9780691168357
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.68Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries--but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has had none. The banking systems of Mexico... -
The Longevity Imperative: Building a Better Society for Healthier, Longer Lives Andrew J. Scott 9781399801065
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Persuasive, uplifting and wise' Niall Ferguson'A revelation on every page' David Sinclair'A must-read book with an important message and many lessons' Daron AcemogluA leading expert on longevity... -
1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin 9780141994970
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.05A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York... -
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019 One of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2019 Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize'As enjoyable as it is thought-provoking' Jared DiamondBy the authors... -
Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson 9780198864981
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £15.75Getting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises faced by Western democratic societies in the 2020s. The 21st century has brought a powerful tide of... -
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World by Mary Beard 9781324095606
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.52In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean... -
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead by Kenneth Rogoff 9780300292282
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £9.78A National Bestseller * Recommended by Financial Times as "What to Read in 2025" "The central argument of Our Dollar, Your Problem-that the greenback's pre-eminence was never guaranteed and might... -
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanovic 9780674264144
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £22.80A Financial Times Best Book of the Year.A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures."How do you see... -
Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World by Grzegorz W. Kolodko 9780231150699
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy and a key architect of Poland's successful economic reforms, applies his far-reaching knowledge to the... -
China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei
Booksplease Price: £28.72The rise of China as a great power is one of the most important developments in the twenty-first century. But despite dramatic economic progress, China's prospects remain uncertain. In a book sure to... -
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691175034
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.32The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies... -
Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatile World by Grzegorz W. Kolodko 9780231150682
RRP: £134.00Booksplease Price: £106.53Grzegorz W. Kolodko, one of the world's leading authorities on economics and development policy and a key architect of Poland's successful economic reforms, applies his far-reaching knowledge to the... -
Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World by Dan Breznitz 9780197508114
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.39A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on... -
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future Ed Conway 9780753559178
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.78THE TIMES SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR**Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award**Picked as a Book of the Year by FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST and NEW STATESMANA BBC RADIO 4 Book... -
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible by William N. Goetzmann 9780691178370
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.05"[A] magnificent history of money and finance."--New York Times Book Review "Convincingly makes the case that finance is a change-maker of change-makers."--Financial Times In the aftermath of... -
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller Professor Mary Beard 9781846683794
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.46THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'Extraordinary ... a deliciously... -
Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World by Mary Beard 9780871404220
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.29In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean... -
Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State by Paul Tucker 9780691176734
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21Guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common goodCentral bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great... -
War: What is it good for?: The role of conflict in civilisation, from primates to robots by Ian Morris
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41War is one of the greatest human evils. It has ruined livelihoods, provoked unspeakable atrocities and left countless millions dead. It has caused economic chaos and widespread deprivation. And the... -
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life - Revised Edition by Paul Seabright
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter analyzing how the rise and fall... -
Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell 9781847928146
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.44*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*An essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist & Labour rising star'Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic' Rory Stewart'Refreshingly... -
If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!: Strategies for Long-Term Growth by Leonard Sherman 9780231174831
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Businesses often find themselves trapped in a competitive dogfight, scratching and clawing for market share with products consumers view as largely undifferentiated. Conventional wisdom suggests that... -
Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World by Marc-William Palen 9780691277882
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05The forgotten history of the liberal radicals, socialist internationalists, feminists, and Christians who envisioned free trade as the necessary prerequisite for anti-imperialism and peaceToday, free...