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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...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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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...
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,...
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world Capitalism is dead. Welcome to technofeudalism. In his boldest and most...
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...
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically
An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind Do you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do...
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...
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...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
Author: Ian Kumekawa Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography...
Talking to My Daughter: The Sunday Times Bestseller
The number-one bestselling, world renowned economist writes a series of letters to his daughter to explain what economics is and why it is so dangerous. **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** Yanis...
Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
THE SUNDAY TIME S BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back...
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for
An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual' Observer In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes 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...
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...
The Undercover Economist
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station Why is it impossible to...
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...
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
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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...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily- from parenting to...
Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution
Author: Parag Khanna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into...
The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
Penguin Classics relaunch Smith's THE WEALTH OF NATIONS was the first comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, the book's publication in 1776...
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...
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...
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...
Figuring Out The Past: A History of the World in 3,495 Vital Statistics
Author: Peter Turchin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval...
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 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...
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...
Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist's Guide to the Economy and How We
An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us...
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...
Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and FT BUSINESS BOOK
The real threat to liberal democracy isn't autocrats - it's the lack of effective action by progressives. In Abundance , veteran journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson reveal the structural,...
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 Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are...
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes
Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The surprising story of [...]
'Here's the history that really matters' Financial TimesThe UK is, at the same time, both one of the world's most successful economies and one of Europe's laggards. The country contains...
Complexity and Evolution: Toward a New Synthesis for Economics: Volume 19
An exploration of how approaches that draw on evolutionary theory and complexity science can advance our understanding of economics.Two widely heralded yet contested approaches to economics have emerged in recent...
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Groundbreaking call to action by Donella Meadows, the bestselling author of Thinking in Systems ! Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse the Guardian The updated...
Curing Affluenza: How to Buy Less Stuff and Save the World
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Them and Us: How immigrants and locals can thrive together
Author: Philippe Legrain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 What do we really know about immigration? The defining issue in the world right now is immigration. Taking back control. Building...
China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle
Author: Dinny McMahon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The world has long considered China a juggernaut of economic strength, but since the global financial crisis, the country's economy has...
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
A dramatic and powerful call for a new approach to society and government, using the determined co-ordination of the moon landings as a blueprint for change The extraordinary efforts that...
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...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V....
Capitalism and Slavery
The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
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...
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
A Sunday Times Bestseller We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the...
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...