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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...
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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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
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,...
How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
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A maverick economist explains how protectionism makes nations rich, free trade keeps them poor---and how rich countries make sure to keep it that way. Throughout history, some combination of government...
The Multi-Hyphen Method
Author: Emma Gannon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In The Multi-Hyphen Method award-winning blogger / social media editor / podcast creator, Emma Gannon, teaches that it doesn't matter...
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
Author: Daniel Coyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A ground-breaking exploration of how successful groups operate - whether in sport, business or society as a whole - and what...
The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Author: Peter Zeihan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 A New York Times Bestseller! 2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting...
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR...
The Invention of Power: Popes, Kings, and the Birth of the West
In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization in the world?Western exceptionalism-the...
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...
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Art of Disruption
From an award-winning financial historian comes the gripping, character-driven story of venture capital and the world it made Innovations rarely come from "experts." Jeff Bezos was not a bookseller; Elon...
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...
1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History
From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, comes a riveting, fly-on-the-wall account of the most infamous stock market crash in history In 1929, the world watched in shock...
The Umami Strategy: Stand Out by Mixing Business with Experience
Creating a unique value for your customers is crucial if you want to differentiate in an overcrowded market. To do so, you need to define a powerful strategy that determines...
Australia's Second Chance: What our history tells us about our future
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Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
One 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...
Growth: A Reckoning
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Author: Hans Rosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' *...
The Wealth of Nations: Books IV-V
The second part of Adam Smith's economic theory, stating the argument for free trade Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in...
Money: A Story of Humanity
*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION...
Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom: Quarterly Essay
In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton shows that China's growth model is now reaching its limit, and the world's most populous economy faces a challenging transition. In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton...
The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry
The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power?...
Gittinomics: Living the good life without money stress, overwork and joyless consumption
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Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff...
Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
A world-leading expert in inequality makes the case for a hard limit on personal wealth We all notice when the poor get poorer- when there are more rough sleepers and...
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret
'The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.' James Patterson 'This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of...
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author presents his radical and subversive answer 'A landmark work' Brian Eno Imagine a world...
These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs-and Wrecks-America
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Pulitzer Prize -winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity...
The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
Capital: Volume III
Unfinished at the time of Marx's death in 1883 and first published with a preface by Frederick Engels in 1894, the third volume of Das Kapital strove to combine the...
No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and
The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as soon as we can. Failure to do so will cause catastrophic climate damage...
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
A provocative, original and compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences Disasters are by their very nature hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, financial crises and wars, are not...
The Culture of Contentment
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great
The final revision of this classic bestseller, the 7th edition defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. Hailed by Galbraith...
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development "Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy...
John Maynard Keynes 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative account of the great economist-statesman's life. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this abridged biography offers us...
Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate
A riveting and smashmouth journalistic deep-dive into the progressive madness that has infected and corrupted the world's biggest corporations, threatening the stability of the global economy-and life as we know...
The Hydrogen Revolution: a blueprint for the future of clean energy
A Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike...
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World
From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the surprising and profound story of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky- the two men whose ideas changed...
Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the
The first book to study women's poverty over the life course, this wide-ranging collection focuses on the economic condition of single mothers and single elderly women--while also considering partnered women...
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and
What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers'...
Making Progress: How Good Policy Happens
Learn about transformational reforms like paid parental leave, the NDIS, the Apology to the Stolen Generations, and revolutionising pensions from Labor's Jenny Macklin, with insights from Julia Gillard, Ross Garnaut,...
Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can
Written by an award-winning historian of science and technology, Planet in Peril describes the top four mega-dangers facing humankind - climate change, nukes, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. It outlines the...
Food or War
Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history...
The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister -
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and...