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Radical Uncertainty: Decision-making for an unknowable future
Uncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives. How much should we pay into our pensions each month? Should we take regular exercise? Expand the business? Change...
Angola: The Political Economy of a Petro-diamond State
The book titled Angola: The Political Economy of a Petro-diamond State by the author Tony Hodges. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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 Undercover Economist Strikes Back: How to Run or Ruin an Economy
A million readers bought THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST to get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news....
Winner Take All: China's Race For Resources and What It Means For Us
Our planet's resources are running out. And in the race for global resources, China is way out in front. Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with...
Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate
A riveting and smashmouth journalistic deep-dive into the progressive madness that has infected and corrupted the world's biggest corporations, threatening the stability of the global economy-and life as we know...
The Hydrogen Revolution: a blueprint for the future of clean energy
A Financial Times BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 'Engaging, authoritative and very timely. Marco Alvera spells Hydrogen's critical role as an energy store in the clean power transition' - Mike...
Humankind: A Hopeful History - from the presenter of the 2025 BBC
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - FROM THE 2025 BBC REITH LECTURER A Guardian , Daily Telegraph , New Statesman and Daily Express Book of the Year 'Hugely, highly and happily recommended'...
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
A Sunday Times Bestseller We live in a time of unprecedented upheaval, with questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family and money, and yet no political party of the...
How to Think Like an Economist: Great Economists Who Shaped the World
Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today. We live in the...
The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a
The bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers was the pivotal event of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession that followed. Ever since the bankruptcy, there has been...
The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry
The CEOs of Britain's largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power?...
Global Spin: the Corporate Assault on Environmentalism
The book titled Global Spin: the Corporate Assault on Environmentalism by the author Sharon Beder. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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...
The Long Wave in the World Economy
Long waves are cycles of some fifty years duration in which a period of rapid expansion is followed by one of slow growth of stagnation. This book provides a critical...
Choose Wisely: Rationality, Ethics, and the Art of Decision-Making
A leading psychologist and philosopher challenge the shortcomings of rational choice theory-and propose a new framework for understanding decision-making For many decision scientists, their starting point-drawn from economics-is a quantitative...
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...
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 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...
Capitalism And Underdevelopment In Latin America
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in dependency theory, Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America...
The Truth About A Publisher
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact hardcover. A candid and authoritative autobiography, The Truth About a...
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...
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...
Communicating Ideas: The Crisis Of Publishing In A Post-Industrial Society
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good, no visible yellowing from the title page shown. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears tight and intact. A...
An Occupation For Gentlemen
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — cloth boards in burgundy/red, showing some wear. Page Condition: Pages appear aged with slight yellowing. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Tight...
Courtaulds: An Economic And Social History; The Nineteenth Century Silk And Crape
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A landmark work of British economic and business history,...
Strong Medicine
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Some moisture damage Markings: No markingsA gripping work of commercial fiction, Strong Medicine chronicles the high-stakes world of the pharmaceutical industry through the...
The Rise And Decline Of The Asian Century: False Starts On The Path To The Global Millennium (SIGNED)
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: Signed with inscriptionA sharp work of political economy and geopolitical analysis, The Rise and...
The City Of London: Volume I: A World Of Its Own 1815–1890
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe first volume of David Kynaston's monumental history of the City of London chronicles...
Laurie's Decimal Tables Of Simple Interest: At 5, 4½, 4, 3½, 3, 2½, 2, 1½ Per Cent, Per Annum Calculated Per Day, Per Month And Per Year
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A specialized financial reference work, Laurie's Decimal Tables Of Simple Interest:...
Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son
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Edition: colonial ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards - some moisture damage. Internally sound. A beloved classic of American humorous literature, Old Gorgon...
The Rise & Fall Of King Cotton
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA richly detailed work of economic and social history, The Rise & Fall of King Cotton chronicles the extraordinary dominance...
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...