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The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And
Why globalization failed so many Americans and why we must defend it in the face of burgeoning economic nationalism. The triumphant globalization of the 1990s and early 2000s has given...
Mean Streak: A moral vacuum, a dodgy debt generator and a
From award-winning journalist and writer Rick Morton comes Mean Streak , a gripping and horrifying account of how, over the course of four and a half years, Australia's government turned...
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...
GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the world's economic health-check, an influential ranking of global prosperity. A rising number is manna for markets and keeps business buzzing; a falling one is...
Food or War
Ours is the Age of Food. Food is a central obsession in all cultures, nations, the media, and society. Our future supply of food is filled with risk, and history...
Feeding the People: The Politics of the Potato
Potatoes are the world's fourth most important food crop, yet they were unknown to most of humanity before 1500. Feeding the People traces the global journey of this popular foodstuff...
The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister -
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year. The recent political chaos enfolding Downing Street provides the framing for the extraordinary story of the office of Prime Minister, and...
How To Think About Climate Change: Insights from Economics for the
Caught in the crossfire between climate deniers and catastrophists, the intelligent layperson is understandably bewildered when faced with the complexity of climate change. How To Think About Climate Change shows...
Hijacked: How Neoliberalism Turned the Work Ethic against Workers and
What is the work ethic? Does it justify policies that promote the wealth and power of the One Percent at workers' expense? Or does it advance policies that promote workers'...
No Miracles Needed: How Today's Technology Can Save Our Climate and
The world needs to turn away from fossil fuels and use clean, renewable sources of energy as soon as we can. Failure to do so will cause catastrophic climate damage...
Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can
Written by an award-winning historian of science and technology, Planet in Peril describes the top four mega-dangers facing humankind - climate change, nukes, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. It outlines the...
After the Virus: Lessons from the Past for a Better Future
Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and...
The Land Where Nothing Works: How Britain Lost the Plot
What has happened to Britain? As drivers on its roads can attest, it is the pothole capital of Europe. Once-beautiful towns now feature peeling paint, weeds, and broken railings. Public...
Money Beyond Borders: Global Currencies from Croesus to Crypto
Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction, and fraying international alliances. Will the dollar continue to reign supreme? In Money...
The Voltage Effect
The definitive guide to the science of scalability- how to make good ideas great, and great ideas scale Why do some ideas make it big while others fail to take...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments,...
The Theory of the Leisure Class
A classic of sociology and economics, originally published in 1899 With exquisite irony, Veblen, the "best critic of America that America has produced" (C. Wright Mills), lays bare the hollowness...
The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over
A dazzling and infuriating portrait of fifty years of corporate influence in Washington, The Wolves of K Street is a "not-so-guilty pleasure" ( The New York Times ): irresistibly dramatic,...
False Dawn: The Delusions Of Global Capitalism
In the midst of the current financial crisis, John Gray revisits his brilliant polemic against the forces of global capitalism and deregulation. Written over ten years ago, False Dawn is...
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Sunday Times Best Business Books of 2020 New York Times Notable 100 Science News...
Capital: Volume II
The "forgotten" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories. The \"forgotten\" second volume of...
The Essential Adam Smith
In this volume one of the most eminent economists of the day provides a selection from the entire body of Smith's work, ranging from his observations on the psychological nature...
These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs-and Wrecks-America
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller Pulitzer Prize -winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist Gretchen Morgenson and financial policy analyst Joshua Rosner investigate the insidious world of private equity...
The Lost Continent: The BBC's Europe Editor on Europe's Darkest Hour
A pillar of the post-war European dream was a shared currency, and with it came easy money, seducing some countries into a wild spending binge. After the financial crash in...
When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder and a Clash of Worlds in the
'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...
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...
Meatonomics: How the Rigged Economics of the Meat and Dairy Industries
According to the conventional wisdom, factors like taste, dietary beliefs and cultural traditions drive our decisions to buy animal foods. But the reality is that price plays a huge role...
The End of Imperial Russia, 1855-1917
This book explores the long-term reasons for the demise of Imperial Russia, examining the failure of the autocratic state to strengthen its own political position while economic change transformed Russian...
Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day
A fully updated edition of the seminal work in which the Nobel Prize-winning economists upend assumptions by revealing the unexpected choices that the poorest people make Why would a man...
The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge
A world-leading scholar reveals how knowledge moves, grows, and drives progress We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us...
Capitalism: A Global History
A brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years A Financial Times Book of the Year No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively...
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history. Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands...
Fixed: Why Personal Finance Is Broken and How to Make It Work for
Two leading economists reveal why today's personal finance markets are rigged against us and offer practical steps to fix them. We interact with the financial system every day, whether taking...
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...
How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
**Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award** How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation...
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
A New York Times BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of 2020A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business...
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic
Stories people tell - about financial confidence or panic, housing booms, or Bitcoin - can go viral and powerfully affect economies, but such narratives have traditionally been ignored in economics...
The Tyranny of Metrics
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government - and the quality of our lives Today, organisations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that...
Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy
Selected for Askblog's Books of the year 2017, chosen by Arnold Kling One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books of 2017: Economics One of the Economist.com "Wise Words 2017 Books...
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 Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters
Why do we use eighty-year-old metrics to understand today's economy? The ways that statisticians and governments measure the economy were developed in the 1940s, when the urgent economic problems were...
Irrational Exuberance: Revised and Expanded Third Edition
In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs...
Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion...
Seeds of Wealth
Following "Seeds of Change", with its investigation of the seminal role of plants in human social and economic history, Henry Hobhouse here focuses on the economic consequences of the exploitation...
End of an Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining Its
China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterised it - political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth - are unravelling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected...
Winning the War for Talent: How to Attract and Retain Top Performers
The ultimate success of any organisation comes down to its ability to consistently hire the best talent and to retain that talent. Richard Triggs, one of Australia's top executive search...
Markets, Money and Empire: Political Economy of the Australian Wool
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This provocative analysis challenges the belief that, in the first half of this century, Australia was dependent on Great Britain. Instead, "Markets, Money and Empire", suggests that Australia enjoyed considerable...
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...