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The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge ask: what is the state actually for? Their remarkable book describes the three great revolutions in its history, and the fourth which... -
Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £16.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510768611Author Adrian WooldridgeFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher... -
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World by Adrian Wooldridge
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled... -
The Right Nation: Why America is Different by Adrian Wooldridge 9780141015361 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.54The Right Nation is the definitive portrait of the America that few outsiders understand: the America that votes for George Bush, that supports the death penalty and gun rights, that believes in... -
Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England c.1860-c.1990 by Adrian Wooldridge 9780521395151
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03The central claim of Measuring the Mind is that, contrary to popular opinion, the psychologists who dominated educational policy-making between the wars were educational progressives and political... -
Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England c.1860-c.1990 by Adrian Wooldridge 9780521026185
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.34The central claim of Measuring the Mind is that, contrary to popular opinion, the psychologists who dominated educational policy-making between the wars were educational progressives and political... -
God is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World by Adrian Wooldridge 9780141024745 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £2.29As the world becomes more modern, it is not becoming more secular. Instead, on the street and in the corridors of power, religion is surging. As God is Back shows, for better or for worse, faith is... -
Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse by Adrian Wooldridge 9780061771132
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.83Fifteen years ago, after, having completed a two-year research study, long-time Economist journalists and editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge published an explosive critique of management... -
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03A new type of Cold War is emerging between China and the West. . The global order is being simultaneously shaken by climate change and the shale revolution in oil and gas - and now by the coronavirus... -
Brazil: A Biography by Heloisa M. Starling
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Shortlisted for the Jabuti Prize for the Best Brazilian Book Published Abroad'Engrossing ... eye-opening ... an enormously refreshing treat' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesSince Europeans first... -
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us by Jonathan Aldred
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21'It is going to change the way in which we understand many modern debates about economics, politics, and society' Ha Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismOver the past... -
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.28Winner of the 2019 Lionel Gelber Prize'Majestic, informative and often delightful ... insights on every page' Yanis Varoufakis, ObserverThe definitive history of the Great Financial Crisis, from the... -
Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization by James N. Rosenau
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £43.31Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying... -
Operating Globally: Operations 06.02 by Amy Zuckerman 9781841122281
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.61This title offers a fast track route to mastering global operations. It covers the key areas of international marketing and distribution, logistics, import/export compliance and government... -
The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea by John Micklethwait
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.22A unique history of Britain's most influential invention - from the East India Company to EnronThe present day might be called a corporate age but the power of the company is nothing new: From... -
Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan 9780241365908 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £2.65'An inspiring, rip-roaring read - like the astonishing story it describes' Liam Halligan, Daily Telegraph Where does prosperity come from, and how does it spread through a society? What role does... -
Capitalism in America: A History by Alan Greenspan
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.03Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2018'An inspiring, rip-roaring read - like the astonishing story it describes' Liam Halligan, Daily TelegraphWhere does prosperity come... -
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691236032
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.75From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting... -
All Souls and the Wider World: Statesmen, Scholars, and Adventurers, c. 1850-1950 by S. J. D. Green
Booksplease Price: £81.43All Souls College, Oxford, has been both widely praised and roundly abused for its fellows' non-academic pursuits. How was it that members of the college so often held dual citizenship in the worlds... -
The Wake-Up Call: Why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West - and how to fix it by John Micklethwait 9781780724829 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.13An urgent and informed look at the challenges Britain and world governments will face in a post-Covid-19 world.The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is... -
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy by Jonathan Haskel 9780691211589
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.50From the acclaimed authors of Capitalism without Capital, radical ideas for restoring prosperity in today's intangible economyThe past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting... -
The Wake-Up Call: Why the pandemic has exposed the weakness of the West - and how to fix it John Micklethwait 9781780724829
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.05An urgent and informed look at the challenges Britain and world governments will face in a post-Covid-19 world.The Covid crisis has not just highlighted the failures of certain governments, it is... -
Holy Wars and Holy Alliance: The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage by Manlio Graziano
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.18Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular... -
The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization by Stephen M. Bainbridge
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £76.60What responsibility, if any, does a corporation have to society? How should corporations balance environmental, social, and governance factors? The Profit Motive addresses these questions of... -
The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization by Stephen M. Bainbridge 9781009012157
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £22.80What responsibility, if any, does a corporation have to society? How should corporations balance environmental, social, and governance factors? The Profit Motive addresses these questions of... -
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future Julia Hobsbawm 9781529396560
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.83As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future... -
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future Julia Hobsbawm 9781529396522
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.84As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future... -
Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal by Brink Lindsey 9780691157320
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.63What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic... -
Authenticity: Reclaiming Reality in a Counterfeit Culture by Alice Sherwood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.06'Wide-ranging, witty and fresh ... a stimulating read. Authentic fun'Tim Harford, Financial Times Best Summer Books 2022 'Brilliantly witty, profoundly illuminating, Alice Sherwood is a... -
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less by Garett Jones 9781503628977
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.08During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were hurting the economy. But, drawing together evidence and theory from across economics, political... -
Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order by Paul Tucker
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £27.95How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics? Democracies are... -
10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less by Garett Jones 9781503603578
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.41During the 2016 presidential election, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders argued that elites were hurting the economy. But, drawing together evidence and theory from across economics, political... -
Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena by James Hankins
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £36.97The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi-the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli-who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and... -
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption by Sebastian Mallaby
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.95From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it madeInnovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller;... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9780241573099 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £8.91There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our... -
The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato 9781802060263
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our...