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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial RevolutionDuring the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much...
Post-work: What It Is, Why It Matters and How We Get There
What does the future hold for work in our new age of crisis? How do we make sure that the uncertain future into which we are heading is heavenly and...
How to Argue with an Economist: Reopening Political Debate in
This fascinating book reflects on how economics has become central to our lives, and how the 'economic rationalist' perspective has become the lens through which all matters in Australian public...
Wall Street
Wall Street is the stuff of legend and a source of nightmares, a force so powerful in American societyDSand, indeed, in world economics and cultureDSthat it has become an almost...
Liberating Abortion: Claiming Our History, Sharing Our Stories, and
"A gift to future generations."-Cecile Richards, author of Make Trouble "Our storytellers meet the moment with powerful insight and testimonials."-Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley A galvanizing history of abortion recentering people of...
Open to Work: How to Get Ahead in the Age of AI
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ' Open To Work helps you stop fearing the future and start shaping it with purpose.' Jay Shetty 'An instantly useful guide to futureproofing...
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...
Inglorious Empire: What the British did to India
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - and reveals how...
The Total Money Makeover Workbook Updated: The Essential Companion for
Introducing Your Financial Solution Are you tired of working hard day after day-and still feeling broke when you look at your bank account Nationally syndicated radio host and money expert...
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do
"Enshittification" is Doctorow's word to describe the decay of online platforms, from exciting novelty to everyday essential, to what we have today. "Enshittification" has been word of the year in...
The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future
Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, sometimes chilling and often unexpected. In The Next...
Liberal Fascisms
With an apparently contradictory and characteristically makeshift term, 'Liberal Fascisms', Slavoj Zizek captures the paradoxical nature of political populism. To see this phenomenon as purely liberal and dictatorially fascistic is...
North Korea: A History
North Korea is perhaps the most intriguing, infamous and enigmatic nation of our modern world. Yet how many of us know its full history, and how it came to be?...
How Stella Saved the Farm: A Tale about Making Innovation Happen
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How Stella Saved the Farm is a simple parable about making innovation happen, written by the authors of the New York Times bestselling Reverse Innovation : Create Far From Home,...
The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Forgot About the
For decades now, mainstream economics has lost contact with reality. As early as 1974, the great Robert Solow made the outlandish claim that 'the world can, in effect, get along...
See No Evil: Uncovering The Truth Behind The Financial Crisis
The story of the recent global economic crisis is told in the words of the main players in the drama. Including quotes from bankers, rating agencies, housing agencies, regulators, politicians...
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
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"Ridley writes with panache, wit, and humor and displays remarkable ingenuity in finding ways to present complicated materials for the lay reader." -- Los Angeles Times In a bold and...
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...
The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and
In his late writings, Marx traveled beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. In research notebooks, letters, and brief essays during the...
Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 'A galvanising takedown of neoliberalism's "free market" logic, one rooted in as much history as it is in current events' NAOMI KLEIN 'A...
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things
*the #1 Sunday Times bestseller * instant New York Times bestseller * an Observer 'best brainy book of the decade' * #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller * Irish Times bestseller...
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data
How can statistics help us understand the world? Can we come to reliable conclusions when data is imperfect? How is statistics changing in the age of data science? Statistics has...
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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...
The Economic Modernisation of Iran, 1953-1968: Architects, Agents, and
In 1953, Iran was at loggerheads with the US and UK, after Prime Minister Mossadegh nationalised Iran's oil reserves. By 1968, under the autocratic rule of the Shah, Iran was...
Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition
The transition to a decarbonized economy has ignited a new arena of class conflict, one that subtly invades our home, workplaces, and across our communities. Our rush toward net zero...
Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle
The fact that communism did not prevail does not mean we are still in capitalism. Capitalist relations are undergoing systemic transformation, and becoming something that might even be worse. Bringing...
The Next Crisis: What We Think About the Future
Every month, surveys around the world ask people to tell them what they are really thinking. The results are at times reassuring, sometimes chilling and often unexpected. In The Next...
Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the
The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for...
Uncommon Sense: Shortcomings of the Human Mind for Handling
Plenty of evidence points to environmental catastrophe, economic collapse, and resultant human misery in the decades to come, yet we fail to respond in rational, meaningful ways. Uncommon Sense identifies...
Local Is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness
From a renowned pioneer of the anti-globalization movement, a primer on working towards a localized world From disappearing livelihoods to financial instability, from climate chaos to an epidemic of depression,...
The Big Myth: With a New Afterword by the Authors
"[A] scorching indictment of free market fundamentalism . . . and how we can change, before it's too late."- Esquire The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound,...
Steady State: Alternative to Endless Economic Growth
The economic growth obsession that dominates our lives cannot go on for ever. Our world is finite and has limits. Sooner or later, one way or another, this way of...
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
In this landmark book, Richard Layard shows that there is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income. Yet as societies become richer, they do...
Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are
Financial market behavior and key trading strategies-illuminated by interviews with top hedge fund experts Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world...
The Crisis Of Global Capitalism
The global economy, on which the world now depends more than ever, is in crisis. The Russian economy has collapsed, leading to punishing inflation and economic hardship. Scores of Japanese...
The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Comes of Age
Exploring many of the most pertinent ethical and economic issues of our time, this book offers both new insights and innovative solutions. Including case studies of international companies and analysis...
The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane
Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got...
The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity With Nature
Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with The Plundered Planet, he has set himself an even more ambitious goal: to...
Future Wealth
The authors argue that wealth accumulation is shifting from income that is earned (salaries) to unearned (investments). They show how the current shift from computing to communicating will alter the...
Scarcity
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"Extraordinarily illuminating...Mullainathan and Shafir have made an important, novel, and immensely creative contribution." -- The New York Review of Books In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan...
The Spy in the Bookshop: Letters Between Heywood Hill and John
Whilst compiling and editing "The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street", described as 'a little gem' by the "Sunday Times", John Saumarez Smith discovered that one side of that 'elegant and...
Only in Australia: The History, Politics, and Economics of Australian
This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special...
The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of
The book titled The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of by the author Robert J. Samuelson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...
The Women's Land Army in Old Photographs
This text collects black-and-white photographs which together record not only the operations of the WLA, but also scenes of the countryside between 1939 and 1950. The collection, drawn from the...
An Environmental History of France: Making the Landscape, 1770-2020
The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked...
Zero Footprint: The True Story of a Private Military Contractor's
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This national bestseller is a dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting. Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and top-secret missions -- this is the life of...
When Bubbles Burst: Surviving the Financial Fallout
John Calverley's new book is about understanding what s going on, how policy impinges on it, what investors can do and what is likely to happen. This extremely topical and...
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've...