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How The West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly - And the Stark
How the West was Lost charts how over the last 50 years the most advanced and advantaged countries of the world have squandered their dominant position through a sustained catalogue...
There's a Future: Visions for a Better World
The book presents eighteen essays that explore the future from very different perspectives, grouped under five overarching themes: Fundamentals, Science and Technology, The Environment, Global Society, and People. The final...
Tanked: Why the British Economy is Failing and How to Fix It
A rare book on economics that is actually written in English. Trenchant, clear and comes complete with solutions. Essential reading for the coming election. -- Simon Jenkins A lively review...
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...
Economics Without the Boring Bits
Where does wealth come from? How is it different from money? Does government intervention prevent or create crises? What is the most effective way to protect the environment? In Economics...
Economics Without the Boring Bits
Where does wealth come from? How is it different from money? Does government intervention prevent or create crises? What is the most effective way to protect the environment? In Economics...
Follow the Money: 'Gripping and horrifying... witty and brilliant. Buy it' The Times
What is the truth about Britain's finances? 'Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works' Laura Kuenssberg 'Paul Johnson - the oracle of fiscal - has provided the...
Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
A definitive and ambitious new history of the Indian subcontinent - this is Tony Judt's Postwar for South Asia Shadows at Noon is an ambitious synthesis of decades of research...
Bust?: Saving the Economy, Democracy and Our Sanity
'A brilliantly candid, timely and perceptive account.' Andy Haldane 'Asks all the right questions.' Mark Carney Has the West gone bust? Or is there another way? In their new book,...
Who Cares Wins: How to Protect the Planet You Love: A thousand ways to solve the climate crisis: from tech-utopia to indigenous wisdom
A radical guide to thinking differently about the world and initiating change Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naive and it is not impossible. We...
Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It
The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about...
Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance
I don't like the word 'sabotage',"--a former Goldman Sachs trader admitted. "It's just harsh.... Though, frankly, how else do you make money in this business...I mean, real money." The fundamental...
Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
THE SUNDAY TIME S BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back...
Slouching Toward Utopia: The Economic History of the Twentieth Century
An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists, offering a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever,...
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
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A groundbreaking exploration of the best possible solution to the climate crisis- a new economic model, and a new way of viewing our relationship with the natural world. 'A powerfully...
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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A classic work of social science from 'the twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect 'One of the most powerful books in social sciences ever written. ... A must-read'...
Capitalism and Slavery
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The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism 'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing...
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration
A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain...
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes
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Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
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An acclaimed historian of ideas shows how capitalist extremists profit from the collapse of the democratic nation Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork...
Regenesis: Feeding the World without Devouring the Planet
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A breath-taking first glimpse of a new future for food and for humanity For the first time since the Neolithic, we have the opportunity to transform not only our food...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
A reissue of Niall Ferguson's bestselling book with a major new chapter on the first ten years of the Financial Crisis Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you...
Flash Boys
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The Master of the Big Story is back If you thought Wall Street was about alpha males standing in trading pits hollering at each other, think again. That world is...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
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In Reefer Madness, the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation investigates America's black market and its far-reaching influence on our society through three of its mainstays -- pot, porn, and...
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...
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...
Seven Elements That Have Changed The World: Iron, Carbon, Gold, Silver, Uranium, Titanium, Silicon
With carbon we access heat, light and mobility at the flick of a switch, while silicon enables us to communicate across the globe in an instant. Yet our use of...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE NEW BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones...