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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...
Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century
In all major regions of the world, the economic recession is deep-seated, resulting in mass unemployment, the collapse of state social programs and the impoverishment of millions of people. The...
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939
Author: Charles Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The Great Crash of 1929 violently disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The suddenness of the...
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The surprising story of [...]
'Here's the history that really matters' Financial TimesThe UK is, at the same time, both one of the world's most successful economies and one of Europe's laggards. The country contains...
The Undercover Economist
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Who makes most money from the demand for cappuccinos early in the morning at Waterloo Station Why is it impossible to...
Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist's Guide to the Economy and How We
An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us...
The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050
Author: Daniel Franklin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In 2050 there will be 9.3 billion people alive - compared with 7 billion today - and the number will still...
Decent Capitalism: A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to...
The Future of Capitalism: How Today's Economic Forces Will Shape
Capitalism stands alone, and apparently triumphant. Socialism is almost a memory. The social welfare state is under siege, if not already broke. But the economic, social and political forces heading...
A Defence of Economic Rationalism
This book provides a defence of the economic rationalist vision, bringing together prominent economic rationalists and providing them with an opportunity to defend their world-view over a range of issues.
Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist's Guide to the Economy and How We
An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us...
Economics: The Economist Guide
Economics. Sometimes called the "dismal science", it's a discipline and topic that's often seen as dull; mysterious at best. And yet it's crucial to understanding the world we live in...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel...
Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
Author: Angus Deaton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 280 From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and New York Times bestselling co-author of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid...
The Economist: Megachange: The world in 2050
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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
The book that redefines economics for a world in crisis Relentless financial crises. Extreme inequalities in wealth. Remorseless pressure on the environment. Anyone can see that our economic system is...
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...
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,...
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
A scathing examination of how, by making market efficiency our moral standard, we've come to believe that bad is good Over the past fifty years, the way we value what...
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....
Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political
Incisive commentary on the financial meltdown and its aftermath, from the author of the bestselling global phenomenon Capital in the Twenty-First Century Thomas Piketty's work has proved that unfettered markets...
The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis
A landmark study of of one of the most controversial periods in history, from an eminent historian The Enlightenment is popularly seen as the Age of Reason, a key moment...
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford' BILL BRYSON 'Entertaining . . ....
Slow Down or Die: The Economics of Degrowth
One of the most deeply ingrained beliefs of our age is that perpetual economic growth is the solution to most, if not all, of society's problems. In Slow Down or...
What Economists Know: An Economic Policy Primer for the 1990s and
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The book titled What Economists Know: An Economic Policy Primer for the 1990s and by the author Robert Barry Carson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
After the Storm: The World Economy and Britain's Economic Future
Author: Vince Cable Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Vince Cable's bestselling book, The Storm, explored and explained the causes of the 2008 world economic crisis and how Britain should...
Essays In Positive Economics
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of economic theory and empirical inquiry stands Milton Friedman's landmark collection, Essays in Positive Economics,...
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...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Are you a FREAKONOMIST? Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily- from parenting to...
Accounting For Economists
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA cornerstone text in the intersection of two disciplines, Accounting for Economists bridges the often-siloed worlds of financial accounting and economic analysis,...
The New Palgrave: The World Of Economics
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Author: John Eatwell, Murray Milgate, Peter NewmanBinding: HardbackPublished: W. W. Norton, 1991Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis authoritative collection, The New Palgrave: The World Of Economics, presents a...
The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period and the legacy of this development "Valuable . . . offers many lessons for Western policy...
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World
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....
Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Author: Tim Harford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Based on the series produced for the BBC World Service Who thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling...
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century
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An instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from one of the world's leading economists: this "magisterial history" offers a grand narrative of the century that made us...
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...
Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits, and job security decline....
Grand Pursuit: The Story of the People Who Made Modern Economics
From the bestselling author of A Beautiful Mind, a brilliant new approach to the story of modern economics and to understanding how we got into today's financial mess. As the...
Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us
In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism - the theory that markets...
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
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The legendary bestseller that made millions look at the world in a radically different way returns in a new edition, now including an exclusive discussion between the authors and bestselling...