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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...
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...
The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the [...]
The startling picture of how China s revolution in finance and technology is changing both Wall Street and the way individuals manage their personal finances.The future of finance the way...
Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and [...]
When President Biden announced Janet Yellen as his choice for secretary of the treasury, it was the peak moment of a remarkable life. Not only the first woman in the...
The End of Money: The Story of Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies and the [...]
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The End of Money is an essential introduction to cryptocurrencies and the blockchain revolution. On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an...
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
This volume was first published in 1978, and dealt with financial crises that were, for the most part, before World War II. Black Monday of October 1987, along with other...
Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on creditEven before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America...
The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Economics
Latin America has been central to the main debates on development economics, ranging from the relationships between income inequality and economic growth, and the importance of geography versus institutions in...
New Perspectives on Malthus
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was a pioneer in demography, economics and social science more generally whose ideas prompted a new 'Malthusian' way of thinking about population and the poor. On...
Left and Right in Global Politics
Few notions are as universal as the idea of a left-right divide in politics. Despite its death being frequently foretold, the left-right metaphor remains the most common lens through which...
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of...
The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War
An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century...
The First Serious Optimist: A. C. Pigou and the Birth of Welfare Economics
A groundbreaking intellectual biography of one of the twentieth century's most influential economists The First Serious Optimist is an intellectual biography of the British economist A. C. Pigou (1877-1959), a...
Poor Women in Rich Countries: The Feminization of Poverty Over the Life Course
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...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL'This will be the most important political book of...
Of Greed and Glory: In Pursuit of Freedom for All
A ground-breaking, personal exploration of America's obsession with continuing human bondage from the editor of the New York Times-bestselling Barracoon.Freedom and equality are the watchwords of American democracy. But like...
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...
Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China
This revelatory account of the ways silver shaped Chinese history shows how an obsession with "white metal" held China back from financial modernization. First used as currency during the Song...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c.1300-1520
Author: P. J. P. Goldberg (Lecturer in History, Lecturer in History, University of York)Format: Hardback, 147mm x 225mm, 680g, 420 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, 1992This is an innovative...
General Equilibrium Theory of Value
Author: Yves BalaskoFormat: Hardback, 152mm x 235mm, 567g, 192 pagesPublished: Princeton University Press, United States, 2011The concept of general equilibrium, one of the central components of economic theory, explains the...
The Romantic Economist: A Story of Love and Market Forces
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Economic Rationalism in Canberra: A Nation-Building State Changes its Mind
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You Gotta Get in the Game: Playing to Win in Business Sales and Life
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Global Squeeze: The Coming Crisis for First-World Nations
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This I Believe and Other Essays
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Misunderstood Economy: What Counts and How to Count it
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How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
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The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford' BILL BRYSON'Entertaining . . . A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet...
Share Power: Why the financial system should work for everyone: and how YOU have the power to change it
Author: Merryn Somerset Webb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'Lively, intelligent and packed with revelations, Share Power explains how even the smallest of investors can make themselves heard. A...
Property: The myth that built the world
Author: Rowan Moore (Architecture Critic) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also...
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
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The Modernization of Rural France: Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century
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Cost Estimation Handbook for the Australian Mining Industry
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The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th - 18th Century - Volume Two
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The Great Crash 1929
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The Liberal Hour
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More. Numbers. Every. Day.: How Figures Are Taking Over Our Lives - And Why It's Time to Set Ourselves Free
Author: Micael Dahlen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 How many steps have you done today? How many emails answered? How much money have you spent this week And how...
Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
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The Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great Britain
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Eastern Industrialization and its Effect on the West
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Land of Fortune: A Study of the New Australia
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Balanced Growth: a History of the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
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Boganaire: the rise and fall of Nathan Tinkler
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The TCS Story and Beyond
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After the Storm: The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future
Author: Vince Cable Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Vince Cable's bestselling book, The Storm, explored and explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis and how Britain should...
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
Author: Heather McGhee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with concrete rather than opening them to everyone?...