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The Killing Fields of Inequality
Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health,...
Globalization and Its Discontents
A controversial and authoritative account of what the world's financial institutions were doing during the 1990s. It contains a powerful condemnation of their policies and methods of directing the economies...
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities...
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
This volume gives an account of financial scares through history which also provides insights into why market crashes remain a reality. This version draws on examples from 1618 to 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...
When Corporations Rule The World
When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest....
The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism
There is a deep chasm between the promises of the new global capitalism and the reality of social breakdown, spiritual emptiness, and environmental destruction it is leaving in its wake....
The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power
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Today, a host of forces are converging to challenge America's cherished notion of exceptionalism, and risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure that has been in...
Sack the Economists and Disband Their Departments
Mainstream economists completely failed to anticipate the financial market crash of 2007-8. They then called it an unforeseeable event. This is a clear admission that they don't understand how economies...
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what...
The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall
THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis. One of the world's most brilliant...
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this...
The Super Age: Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age-when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen-and explores what it could mean for our...
Globalization and Its Discontents
In this hugely controversial book, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics argues that though globalization should be a powerful force for good, it has been badly...
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
A trusted economic commentator provides a penetrating account of the threats to China's continued economic rise Under President Xi Jinping, China has become a large and confident power both at...
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...
Framing Play Design: A hands-on guide for designers, learners and
For many decades, play has been placed outside of learning spheres and only meant for children. What can be observed now is a revival of the phenomenal characteristics and potentials...
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...
Successful China: Guiding Values of China's Success
Anyone trying to understand the general means of political economy development, China's remarkable accomplishment is an exceptionally - and only - case study. As importantly, China's success holds solutions on...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle
New, practical approaches to confronting today's most daunting global issues. Fighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world's leaders continue to pursue outdated...
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers: How Diffusion Shapes Economic
A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powers. When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great...
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...
The Indonesian Economy since 1966: Southeast Asia's Emerging Giant
Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and the dominant power of Southeast Asia, was characterised in the early 1960s as a 'chronic economic dropout'. Out of the turbulence of...
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...
Trust: The New Foundations of Global Prosperity
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Explains the relationship between culture and economics and predicts which countries will win the ongoing battle for economic dominance.
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...
Zara and her Sisters: The Story of the World's Largest Clothing
Zara is the best known Spanish brand at an international level, and is listed among the hundred most valuable companies in the world. This insightful new book reveals the secrets...
The Enduring Enterprise: How Family Businesses Thrive in Turbulent
Family businesses thrive in some of the world's toughest environments, providing vital lessons for businesses everywhere. The bulk of the world's growth in population and economic activity in the foreseeable...
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global
Whether it's pumping oil, mining resources or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era,...
Trust: The Social Virtues And the Creation of Prosperity
After the end of the Cold War, it is clear that the chief policy issue facing the United States and other industrial democracies will be that of economic competitiveness. In...
The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for
US President Donald Trump has long complained that the nation's $3 trillion trade in goods deficit - when a country's imports exceed its exports - are evidence of global partners...
Capital and Ideology
A New York Times Bestseller An NPR Best Book of the Year The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of...
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A New York Times #1 Bestseller An Amazon #1 Bestseller A Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Sunday Times Bestseller Winner of the Financial Times and...
Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the
A sweeping and original history of how economists across two centuries have thought about inequality, told through portraits of six key figures. "How do you see income distribution in your...
Tropical Gangsters
Few people have heard of tiny, impoverished Equatorial Guinea. Robert Klitgaard spent 2 l/2 years there in charge of a multimillion dollar rehabilitations program. In this gripping account he leads...
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...
Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans
Why are Mexicans so successful in individual sports, but deficient in team play? Why do Mexicans dislike living in skyscrapers? Why do Mexicans love to see themselves as victims, but...
Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought
Reversed Realities uncovers the deeply entrenched, hence barely visible, biases which underpin mainstream development theory and account for the marginal status given to women's needs in current development policy. Naila...
Dancing with the Devil: The Political Economy of Privatization in
From 1978 through the turn of the century, China was transformed from a state-owned economy into a predominantly private economy. This fundamental change took place under the Chinese Communist Party...
Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives
Informal finance consists of nonbank financing activities, whether conducted through family and friends, local money houses, or other types of financial associations. It has provided much-needed financing to small and...
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2025
An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 This is the history of the institutions and individuals who have managed the global economy, from the World Monetary and...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance
A trillion dollar financial industry is revolutionising the global economy. Governments and corporations across the Islamic world are increasingly turning to finance that complies with Sharia law in order to...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong The Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi...
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
Golden ages are marked by periods of spectacular cultural flourishing, scientific exploration, technological achievement and economic growth: Ancient Greece gave us democracy and the rule of the law; out of...
Merchants in the Temple
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A veritable war is being waged in the Catholic Church: on one side, there is Pope Francis's strong message of one church for rich and poor alike; on the other,...
Africa's Moment
Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgotten by the world. Now, fifty...