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Winds of Change: Britain in the Early Sixties
The third volume of Peter Hennessy's landmark postwar history of Britain Harold Macmillan - the presiding figure in Peter Hennessy's magnificent new history - famously said in 1960 that the...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le Carre Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power...
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
From the #1 bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the high-octane story of the enigmatic figure at the heart of one of the 21st century's most spectacular...
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...
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 Essential Keynes
The essential writings of the 20th century's most influential economist, collected in one volume John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of...
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...
Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful
A revealing, empowering vision of how the law can work better for all of us, from Jolyon Maugham KC, one of the most prominent, outspoken lawyers in the UK, and...
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and
A former Wall Street data scientist sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabric We live in the...
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,...
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...
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
\"A great iconoclast. . . Taleb, a Wall Street trader turned essayist, is a thinker touched by genius\" Matthew Syed, author of Black Box Thinking Why should we never listen...
An Economic History of the English Garden
The first and only in-depth economic history of England's gardens, from 1660 to today At least since the seventeenth century, most of the English population have been unable to stop...
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
'A masterful debunking of some of the myths of capitalism ... Witty, iconoclastic and uncommonly commonsensical ... this book will be invaluable' Observer In 23 Things They Don't Tell You...
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...
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...
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics
The renowned behavioural economist exposes the irrational tendencies in our thinking and illuminates the way to make clear, logical decisions Why are we more likely to forgo the opportunity to...
Is It Tomorrow Yet?: Paradoxes of the Pandemic
One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic and helps us think our way through it 'We are able to imagine anything because we...
The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith, one of America's foremost economists, follows the incredible economic rise and fall that lead to the great crash of 1929 No account of the financial insanity of...
Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st
A profound investigation into the deeper reason for our political alienation The coronavirus pandemic taught us something we ought already to have known- that care workers, supermarket shelf-stackers, delivery drivers...
Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters
A brilliant account of the life, thought and continuing importance of the world's greatest economist Adam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most...
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
A scathing examination of how, by making market efficiency our moral standard, we've come to believe that bad is good Over the past fifty years, the way we value what...
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....
The Entrepreneurial State: 10th anniversary edition updated with a new
From one of the world's leading economists, a bestselling expose of the state's crucial role in sparking innovation and growth - and the dangers of ignoring this truth Conventional wisdom...
The Meritocracy Trap
A revolutionary argument from an eminent Yale Law professor, attacking the myth of meritocracy to show how it has caused today's political, economic, and psychological crises - and how we...
The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
'A stimulating analysis of the underlying causes of inequality and growth which forces us to confront long-held beliefs about how economies work and who benefits' Martin Wolf, Financial Times Who...
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...
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 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...
Kaput: The End of the German Miracle
'Compelling' Guardian 'Eloquent and comprehensive' Financial Times 'Excellent' The Telegraph 'Astonishing' The Times 'An eye-opener' Gavin Esler Until recently, Germany appeared to be a paragon of economic and political success....
Rivets, Trivets and Galvanised Buckets: Life in the village hardware (SIGNED)
'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...
Women Money Power: The Rise and Fall of Economic Equality
For centuries, women were denied equal access to money and the freedom and power that came with it. They were restricted from owning property or transacting in real estate. Even...
In Defense of Globalization
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Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
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Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic...
We Need to Talk: The Number 1 Bestseller: SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH
Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the public during the Covid 19 pandemic. During this time his...
Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions -
'At a time when democracy feels threatened, Simon Kuper is fighting hard for a better vision of politics - he is brutally honest about our problems but never loses hope...
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...
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...
Sustainable Consumption: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives In Honour of
If global society is to address the many environmental and other sustainability challenges that confront us in the twenty-first century, such as climate change and water resources, it will be...
High-Frequency Financial Econometrics
High-frequency trading is an algorithm-based computerized trading practice that allows firms to trade stocks in milliseconds. Over the last fifteen years, the use of statistical and econometric methods for analyzing...
Transition to an Industrial South: Athens, Georgia, 1830-1870
Renowned New South booster Henry Grady proposed industrialization as a basis of economic recovery for the former Confederacy. Born in 1850 in Athens, Georgia, to a family involved in the...
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...
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...