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All The Devils Are Here: Unmasking the Men Who Bankrupted the World
According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together. The finger was pointed at...
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...
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing...
When We Sold God's Eye: 'A MODERN CLASSIC OF LITERARY NONFICTION' -
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...
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...
World of Contrasts: Studies in World Development
The book titled World of Contrasts: Studies in World Development by the author Stephen B. Codrington. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent
The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived...
Dear Undercover Economist: The very best letters from the Dear
Are there tangible benefits in flossing Is it wrong to fake orgasms What does the perfect online dating ad look like Should we bother doing the ironing Is it really...
The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture
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In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker ), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four...
Economica: A Financial Times Best Book of 2025
A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025, as chosen by Martin Wolf ' Economica is an epic story . . . an important retelling of global economic history that puts...
Two Paths to Prosperity: Culture and Institutions in Europe and China,
How the social organisation of Europe and China shaped their divergent economic and political trajectories over the past millennium. In the eleventh century, when Europe was still backward and poor,...
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 Miracle: The Epic Story of Asia's Quest for Wealth
We all know that China is becoming an economic powerhouse, India is close on China's heels, Korea is a leader of high tech innovations, and Japan has some of the...
Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution
Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity....
American Politics and Society
Revised and updated to take into account recent changes in the nature of American government, this edition provides an introduction to US politics for all students of political science. It...
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About
The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Tim Harford is one of my favourite writers in the world. His storytelling is gripping but never overdone, his intellectual honesty is rare and inspiring, and...
Blur: The Speed of Change in the Connected Economy
Get ready for a whole new world--a world of blur in which traditional boundaries between product and service, capital and people, buyer and seller, and real and virtual no longer...
How Google Works
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Seasoned Google executives Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg provide an insider's guide to Google, from its business history and disruptive corporate strategy to developing a new managment philosophy and creating...
Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth
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Women's work fuels the economies of every country in the world. Yet no value is placed on this labour. Marilyn Waring analyses economics from a feminist perspective and explores the...
The City of London: v. 2: Golden Years, 1890-1914
Between 1890 and 1914 the city of London was all dominant, as Britain's legendary gold-standard reigned supreme across the globe. The author shows how this was possible, anatomizes an elite...
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...
The Royal Mint Puzzle Book: 125 rewarding puzzles for all the family
A brilliantly engaging and richly rewarding puzzle book from one of Britain's oldest and most respected institutions Sharpen your wit and delve into the fascinating world of British currency with...
Environment and Sustainability Policy
Stephen Dovers argues that better public policy is the key to creating a more sustainable environment. Environment and Sustainability Policy: Creation, Implementation and Evaluation shows what this might involve. It...
Money For Nothing: The South Sea Bubble and the Invention of Modern
A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year A brilliant narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer...
Theory of the Consumption Function
In this groundbreaking work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist addresses the consumption behavior of individuals and how it can be defined in a way that is supported by empirical evidence and...
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Once considered tedious, the field of statistics is rapidly evolving into a discipline Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, has actually called "sexy." From batting averages and political polls to...
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the
In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical - and accessible - plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time...
Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World
This is the ugliest chapter in global economic affairs since slavery - and secretive offshore tax havens are at the heart of the trouble. WITH NEW AND UPDATED MATERIAL Billionaire...
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
**Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year** Wherever you look, money is being re- placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone...
The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? Most political commentators point to heads of state, such as the Presidency, and other formal institutions of the state....
An Economist's Guide to Environmentalism: A Toolkit for Understanding
Explains how economics can be used to solve an array of environmental issues from endangered species to global warming. Many species are threatened with extinction and landscapes are being destroyed....
Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet
'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot 'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UK In...
The Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet
For readers of Brett Christophers, Yanis Varoufakis and Grace Blakeley, Pettifor unpacks the hidden world of shadow banking and show how global markets really work. Wall Street controls the price...
How Will Capitalism End?: Essays on a Failing System
After years of ill health, capitalism is now in a critical condition. Growth has given way to stagnation; inequality is leading to instability; and confidence in the money economy has...
Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pelerin Society and the
Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pelerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von...
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not capitalist profiteering from the energy transition, but that saving the planet is...
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and How to Build a Better
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Essential' Guardian 'Stephanie Kelton is an indispensable source of moral clarity ... the truths that she teaches about money, debt, and deficits give us the tools we...
The Big Short: Film Tie-In
From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, Michael Lewis's No.1 bestseller, tells the outrageous story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries...
Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure
The inside story of the race to develop Ozempic - the world's first truly effective and safe obesity drug - and its potentially revolutionary effects on public health, and our...
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...
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....
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR...
The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore
`The thesis presented here will not only change the way in which we understand contemporary Singaporean society and the relationship between the state and its citizens, but will also provoke...
Behind the Myth: Business, Money and Power in South East Asia
Twenty years of headlong economic growth made the free marketeering Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) the world's fastest growing region from the 1960s to the 1980s. However, the...
Great Expectations: Microeconomic Reform and Australia
The 1980s and `90s have been a period of unprecedented microeconomic reform in Australia, in a bid to make the nation s enterprise environment more competitive. With the full implementation...