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The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What
Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of...
Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade
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Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade
Economic Transition in Central and Eastern Europe: Planting the Seeds
Analysing the key problems facing the transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe, this accessible book describes the legacy of the central planners, the progress achieved so far and the...
In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and
In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, progressives the world over clamoured to resurrect the economic theory of John Maynard Keynes. The crisis seemed to expose the disaster of...
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...
The End of Poverty: How We Can Make it Happen in Our Lifetime
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Sufficiency Thinking: Thailand's Gift to an Unsustainable World
Our world is under pressure, with growing inequalities in wealth and access to food and clean water. We depend too heavily on polluting fuels and diminishing natural resources. Traditional cultural...
Moneyland: Why Thieves And Crooks Now Rule The World And How To Take
Once upon a time, if an official stole money, there wasn't much he could do with it. He could buy himself a new car or build himself a nice house...
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
How Rich Countries Got Rich is a narrative history of modern economic development from the Italian Renaissance to the present day.In it Erik S. Reinert shows how rich countries developed...
Fortress London: Why we need to save the country from its capital
A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today.'Intelligently written and powerfully argued.' Paul Mason'Witty, scathing, and entertaining.' Danny Dorling Journalist Sam Bright is a...
Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Forbes, Best Business Books of 2022Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022Immigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse-yet, in most cases, the...
The Ecology of Commerce: How Business Can Save the Planet
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Rorting, the Great Australian Crime
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Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
A Financial Times Economics Book of the YearA Times Business Book of the YearA Sunday Independent (Ireland) Book of the Year'People who like horror films will love this book' Financial...
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
The true, unvarnished history of the town at the heart of Silicon Valley. Palo Alto is nice. The weather is temperate, the people are educated, rich, healthy, enterprising. Remnants of...
Race for Tomorrow: Survival, Innovation and Profit on the Front Lines
As featured on CNN's Amanpour & Company and BBC Radio 4's Start the Week with Andrew MarrOne of the Financial Times' best books of 2021 In this extraordinary journey through...
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...
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings...
The Elements of Resume Style: Essential Rules for Writing Resumes and Cover Letters That Work
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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...
The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better
In The Price of Fish, Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris examine in a unique way the world's most abiding and wicked problems sustainability, global warming, over-fishing, overpopulation, the pensions crisis;...
Control
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The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and
New York Times Bestseller New York Times reporter and "Corner Office" columnist David Gelles reveals legendary GE CEO Jack Welch to be the root of all that's wrong with capitalism...
The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats - and Our Response - Will
New York Times Bestseller Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years-including the pandemic-to show how we can respond to three great crises...
Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America
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A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses
Day-to-day struggles, triumphant success stories, and unique circumstances. A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses takes you on an informative journey through the history (and future) of Black British entrepreneurship.With...
Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen's Remarkable Rise to Power and Her
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...
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...
A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses
Day-to-day struggles, triumphant success stories, and unique circumstances. A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses takes you on an informative journey through the history (and future) of Black British entrepreneurship.With...
Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential
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Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware
'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
Capital
Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each...
Zero Hour
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Harry Dent predicted the populist wave that has driven the Brexit vote, the election of Donald Trump, and other recent shocks around the world. Now he returns with the definitive...
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware
'A hymn to hardware, charming, lyrical' - The Sunday Times, BOOK OF THE WEEK'A paean to DIY' - The Times'Strung together very agreeably, with dry wit and, dare I say...
Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic
The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen-and how we can do it again.The American economy glitters on the outside, but...
Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and its Lessons
2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner and Hank Paulson...
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...
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...
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...