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Adam Smith: Father of Economics
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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Author: Shoshana Zuboff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance...
Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future
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Author: Richard Davies (University of Bergamo Italy) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A New Statesman best book of the year New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
Author: Tom Burgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'STAND BY FOR FIREWORKS AS IT HITS THE SHELVES' SUNDAY TIMES 'IF ORWELL WERE WITH US TODAY, HE'D BE WRITING BOOKS...
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...
How The World Ran Out Of Everything
By the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey to understand the worldwide supply chain-exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your...
Free Market: The History of an Idea
Author: Jacob Soll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal....
Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
Author: Marissa Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 More than fifty years since the passage of the Equal Pay Act, the wage gap still hovers at 80 percent. Half...
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,...
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
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Huge swathes of people spend their days performing tasks they secretly believe are not really necessary. This book shows why, and what we can do about it Back in 1930,...
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
Misinformation affects us daily, from social media to politics and even personal relationships. Policing social media alone cannot solve the complex problem shaped by partisan politics and subjective interpretations of...
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
'Fascinating' Telegraph'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker'[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times'A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called copyright ... Not just...
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...
Misbelief: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things
"Timely... a crucial foundation for building a more empathetic and informed society." - Daniel H. Pink "An important book for those who want to understand... the increasingly complex world." -...
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
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Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance
I don't like the word 'sabotage',"--a former Goldman Sachs trader admitted. "It's just harsh.... Though, frankly, how else do you make money in this business...I mean, real money." The fundamental...
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...
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...
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and
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Awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics, Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson overturn conventional wisdom about how economies work--revealing the untold story of who wins and who loses the rewards...
Influence: Understand it, Use it, Resist it
One of the government's former behavioural scientists reveals how you can do what you want, whilst everybody tries to influence you into doing what they want. Influence makes you think...
Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political
Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets...
Unshakeable: Your Guide to Financial Freedom
Author: Tony Robbins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Tony Robbins, arguably the most recognizable life and business strategist and guru, is back...
Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
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In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur and 2024 presidential candidate makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis Relentless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Remorseless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is...
Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong
When Economyths was first published in 2010, David Orrell showed how mainstream economics is based on key myths such as fair competition, rational behaviour, stability and eternal growth - and...
The Return of Depression Economics
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Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism
Facing global climate crisis, Karl Marx's ecological critique of capitalism more clearly demonstrates its importance than ever. This book explains why Marx's ecology had to be marginalized and even suppressed...
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
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'A masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism ... Witty, iconoclastic and uncommonly commonsensical ... this book will be invaluable' Observer In 23 Things They Don't Tell You...
The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning
A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens next We live in a world made by machines; their development...
The Entrepreneurial State: 10th anniversary edition updated with a new
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From one of the world's leading economists, a bestselling expose of the state's crucial role in sparking innovation and growth - and the dangers of ignoring this truth Conventional wisdom...