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Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £26.53A New York Times BestsellerAn NPR Best Book of the YearThe epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.17A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argument about the origins of inequality and his program... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £16.37A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial... -
The Economics of Inequality by Thomas Piketty 9780674504806
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £18.99Thomas Piketty-whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate-wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual... -
Chronicles: On Our Troubled Times by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.59The return of the best-selling, award-winning economist extraordinaireWith the same powerful evidence, and range of reference, as his global bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century - and in... -
Nature, Culture, and Inequality Thomas Piketty 9781915590886
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Guardian book to look out for in 2024 An insightful exploration of the nature of inequality by the internationally bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century. In his newest work,... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty 9780674430006
RRP: £33.95Booksplease Price: £29.50A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial... -
A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty 9780674295469
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £13.75A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year"A profound and optimistic call to action and reflection. For Piketty, the arc of history is long, but it does bend... -
Capital & Ideology: A Graphic Novel Adaptation: Based on the Book by Thomas Piketty, the Bestselling Author of Capital in the 21st Century and Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty 9781419777059
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.68Thomas Piketty's powerful and bestselling Capital and Ideology is now available in this accessible and richly illustrated full-color graphic novel format. Praised by Piketty himself as a "magnificent... -
Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction by Stephan Kauffmann 9781784786144
Booksplease Price: £14.34Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century: Inequality and Redistribution, 1901-1998 by Thomas Piketty
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in the twentieth century. On its publication in French... -
Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy by Göran Therborn 9781788738996
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.32Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative... -
Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021 by Thomas Piketty 9780300268126
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.61A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century "What makes this manifesto noteworthy is that it comes from . . . an economist who... -
Short Cuts: Economics: Navigate Your Way Through the Big Ideas Robert Brandt 9781837731084
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Your expert guide to understanding the models, morals, minefields and mechanisms of the modern global marketplace.What with trickle down and level up, boom and bust, stimulus and stagflation, green... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Nick Broten
Booksplease Price: £6.98Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating... -
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Nick Broten 9781912302307
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained explanations of why he sees existing arguments relating... -
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.2310TH 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... -
Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth Timothée Parrique 9781805227090
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems. In Slow Down or Die, French economist Timothee... -
Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Jesper Roine 9781944869359
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94We all know the book: it's been hailed as one of the most important documents on how the world economy works, or doesn't work, and it's been a colossal bestseller since it first appeared in 2014,... -
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.68SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century..... -
The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey 9781780326351
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.27Deliberate ignorance has been known as the 'Ostrich Instruction' in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political... -
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth Ingrid Robeyns 9781802060478
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78We all notice when the poor get poorer: when there are more rough sleepers and food bank queues start to grow. But if the rich become richer, there is nothing much to see in public and, for most of... -
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System by Wolfgang Streeck 9781804298503
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.51In How Will Capitalism End?, the acclaimed analyst of contempo rary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that the world is on the cusp of enormous change. The marriage between democracy and... -
The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World by Michael Marmot
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.17'Punchily written ... He leaves the reader with a sense of the gross injustice of a world where health outcomes are so unevenly distributed' Times Literary Supplement 'Splendid and necessary'... -
Great Economists and the Evolution of Economic Liberalism: How Philosophy Has Helped Shape Economics Peter de Haan 9783031938306
Booksplease Price: £111.03This book explores the broad range of intellectual influences, ranging from the history of economic thought to political philosophy, that have shaped economics and its leading thinkers. It examines... -
Globalization and Its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23**Over 1 million copies sold worldwide**MAJOR NEW EDITIONFrom Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling expose of the all-powerful organizations that... -
Social Class in the 21st Century by Mike Savage
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?How has the meaning of class changed?What does... -
Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism by Prof. Slavoj Zizek
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.40In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.There... -
GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change by Ehsan Masood
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'[A] tale of cloak and dagger intrigue, intense rivalries and political machinations you'd expect in a spy thriller.' Engineering & TechnologyGross Domestic Product is failing. For decades it has... -
The Wealth of Humans: Work and Its Absence in the Twenty-first Century by Ryan Avent 9780141981185
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.47'Ryan Avent is a superb writer ... highly readable and lively' Thomas Piketty'A pleasure to read. This is an important argument on a subject that will shape the coming decades' Duncan Weldon,... -
The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy by Mervyn King
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50'A fearless and important book . . . The End of Alchemy isn't just an elegant guide to the history of economic ideas. It also gives a genuine insider's account' TelegraphThe past twenty years saw... -
Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West by Daniel Waldenstroem (Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Sweden; Uppsala University; Paris School of Economics; UCLA) 9781509557790
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed... -
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019 by Shoshana Zuboff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.50THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S TOP BOOKS OF THE YEAR Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2020 Shortlisted for the FT Business... -
This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World by Yancey Strickler
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Break free from a wealth-obsessed worldWestern society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) we're individuals trapped in an... -
The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab by Carl Miller
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81**Winner of the Transmission Prize 2019**THE OLD GODS ARE DYING.Giant corporations collapse overnight. Newspapers are being swallowed. Stock prices plummet with a tweet.NEW IDOLS ARE RISING IN THEIR... -
Follow the Money: 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times by Paul Johnson 9780349144665
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £8.39THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times'A treasure trove of killer facts' Guardian'Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country... -
The Dreadful Monster and its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707-2021 by Julian Hoppit
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'An invaluable primer to some of the underlying tensions behind contemporary political debate' Financial TimesIt has always been an important part of British self-image to see the United Kingdom as... -
The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15'A brief but crucially important book'Marcus ChownIn The Joy of Tax, tax campaigner Richard Murphy challenges almost every idea you have about tax. For him, tax is fundamentally about the ideas that... -
Labours of Love: The Crisis of Care by Madeleine Bunting
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING Long before the pandemic, care work has been underpaid and its values disregarded. In this remarkable and compassionate book, Madeleine... -
Know Your Place by Faiza Shaheen 9781398505391
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'A stunning and devastating indictment of a society scarred and defined by inequality, by one of the most charismatic and compelling voices in politics today' Owen Jones 'Faiza's work is living proof...