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Obama's Challenge: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a
Barack Obama approaches the US presidency at a critical moment in American history - facing simultaneous crises of war, the environment, and healthcare, but most especially in the economy. If...
The Myth of the Asian Century | A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin
It's time to peel away the layers of a cliche that is not just useless, but harmful. The claim that the twenty-first century will be Asian, just as the twentieth...
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
In Termites of the State, renowned public economist Vito Tanzi presents a sweeping account of the industrialized world's economic development during the twentieth century to today. In the tradition of...
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Ireland
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The Republic of Ireland, described variously as "The Emerald Tiger", "The Celtic Tiger" and "The Tiger Economy of Europe", is apparently one of the great success stories of 20th-century Europe....
Slouching Towards Utopia: An 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: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...
Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution
Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity....
Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic world in this Sunday Times bestseller All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of...
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists
From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists...
Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention
Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel...
East and West
In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'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...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the
An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...
Edge of Chaos
Why our democracies need urgent reform, before it's too late A generation after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the world is once again on the edge of chaos. Demonstrations...
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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,...
Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy
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 Euro: And its Threat to the Future of Europe
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
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
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
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
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...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'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...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'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
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...