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How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark

How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark

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How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

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'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century

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A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century

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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023

The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023

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An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 In 1933, Keynes reflected on the crisis of the Great Depression that arose from individualistic capitalism- 'It is not intelligent,...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

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An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

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Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe

The Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe

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The Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author of Globalization and Its Discontents explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the Euro Designed to bring Europe closer together, the euro has...
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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The celebrated CNN journalist and leading global commentator examines how COVID-19 will fundamentally reshape our world Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been shaken to its...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

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An explosive new vision of geopolitics from two trail-blazing political scientists Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known....
The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

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A revolutionary economic and political history of 20th century Britain Out of a liberal, capitalist, genuinely global power of a unique kind, there arose from the 1940s a distinct British...
Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties

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The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them

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A Financial Times Economics Book of the YearA Times Business Book of the YearA Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year'People who like horror films will love this book' Financial...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia

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'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the face...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

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Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...