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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Paperback,
06/04/2006,
£9.99
Assume nothing, question everything. This book is about crack dealers, cheating teachers and bizarre baby names that turned everyone's view of the world upside-down and more.
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
200 years after it was written, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations is still debated by governments internationally. Smith argued that 'mercantilism'-the theory that the national economy exists solely to strengthen the government, thus the government should regulate the economy-was wrong.
John Maynard Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Paperback,
04/07/2017,
£6.50
Classical economics suggests that market economies are self-correcting in times of recession or depression, and tend toward full employment and output. But English economist John Maynard Keynes disagrees. In his ground-breaking 1936 study The General Theory, Keynes argues that traditional economics has misunderstood the causes of unemployment.
Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development
Paperback,
04/07/2017,
£6.50
Considered his most important work, Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development appeared at the end of his career in international development, and consolidates his revolutionary contribution to the discipline.
David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
Born in 1961, US anthropologist and activist David Graeber was weaned on leftist politics, and declared himself an anarchist at age 16. He became an anthropology professor, and his early cultural research in Madagascar exposed him to poverty that he saw as caused by pressures to repay excessive government debt.
Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
Ever since the nineteenth century, people have claimed that the prosperity enjoyed by the First World was the result of its devotion to unconstrained economic freedoms. Chang claims that, in fact, First World success was due to exactly the kinds of state intervention that traditional economic thinking consistently opposes today.
ACCA F9 Financial Management: Study Text
Paperback,
30/04/2015,
£32.00
Suitable for exams until August 2016
End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
Paperback,
09/03/2017,
£10.99
The former Governor of the Bank of England argues for fundamental changes to the financial system in order to reduce the risk of a new crisis.
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Paperback,
14/12/2014,
£10.99
In Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea, Mark Blyth, a renowned scholar of political economy, provides a powerful and trenchant account of the shift toward austerity policies by governments throughout the world since 2009.
Little History of Economics
Paperback,
01/05/2018,
£9.99
A lively, inviting account of the history of economics, told through events from ancient to modern times and through the ideas of great thinkers in the field
Macroeconomics for Dummies, UK Edition
Paperback,
06/11/2015,
£16.99
Provides an engaging introduction to macroeconomics and then delves into more specific topics, such as business cycles, inflation, unemployment, domestic output, monetary policy, and much more. This book helps you find out how many different financial, business, consumer, and more.
Economics: A Primer
Paperback,
19/02/2018,
£20.99
Concise, engaging and highly intuitive, Economics: a primer equips you with an understanding of all the basic principles of economics.
Wealth of Nations: Books I-III
Paperback,
25/02/1982,
£9.99
Gives a comprehensive treatment of political economy. Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, this book's includes the author's assessment of the mercantile system, his advocacy of the freedom of commerce and industry, and his famous prophecy that "America will be one of the foremost nations of the world".
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
Paperback,
28/02/2019,
£8.99
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER`Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world-famous economist Yanis Varoufakis.
Macroeconomics
Paperback,
15/02/2018,
£54.99
This groundbreaking new core textbook encourages students to take a more critical approach to the prevalent assumptions around the subject of macroeconomics, by comparing and contrasting heterodox and orthodox approaches to theory and policy.
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
Hardback,
23/04/2019,
£20.00
Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£9.99
If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that's because you didn't have a teacher like Bobby Seagull.***As seen on BBC 2's Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers.
Wealth of Nations
Paperback,
09/07/2012,
£3.99
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, it mixes plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology and sociology.
Foundations of Economics 5ed
Paperback,
13/04/2019,
£44.99
Foundations of Economics provides an engaging introduction to core economic concepts, consistently emphasising how and why an insight into economics helps us understand everything going on in the world today.
Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash
Hardback,
02/08/2019,
£18.99
Walden Bello, one of the leading figures of the anti-globalisation movement, reveals how an impending financial crash in China may well bring the rest of world's economy down with it.
Economics for the Many
Paperback,
28/01/2020,
£9.99
Our economy is rigged in favour of a wealthy elite. We need a new approach: an economics for the many
Introduction to Environmental Economics 3ed
Paperback,
30/01/2019,
£45.99
The only easy-to-read and practical non-specialist introduction to key concepts in environmental economics written by an international author team.
Economics for Business 3ed
Paperback,
13/04/2019,
£49.99
Economics for Business provides an engaging introduction to the core economic concepts that business students need to know, consistently emphasising how, and why, understanding economics is essential for their studies, and future business careers.
Economy, Society, and Public Policy
Paperback,
18/09/2019,
£34.99
Economy, Society, and Public Policy is a new way to learn economics. It is designed for students studying social sciences and other disciplines who want to understand how the economy works and how it can be made to work better. By addressing problems like inequality, climate crisis and financial instability, ESPP introduces economics as policy-oriented yet also quantitative and analytical.
Microeconomics and Behaviour
Paperback,
16/07/2016,
£69.99
Exploring the relationship between human behaviour and economic analysis, this book establishes the fundamentals of intermediate microeconomics and develops economic intuition about the world around us. It encourages the reader to think like an economist through the development of core analytical tools and Economic Naturalist examples.
Economics for Business 5ed
Paperback,
16/03/2016,
£48.99
An introduction to economics tailor-made for business students. It explains economic principles clearly within the context of modern business, drawing on a wealth of contemporary examples that bring the topics to life.
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
Paperback,
09/04/2020,
£9.99
Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It
Hardback,
12/05/2020,
£20.00
The story of how you can compete with Amazon's enormous success - and win.
Whoops!
Paperback,
07/10/2010,
£9.99
We are, to use a technical economic term, screwed. The cowboy capitalists had a party with everyone's money and now we're all paying for it. What went wrong? And will we learn our lesson - or just carry on as before, like celebrating surviving a heart attack with a packet of Rothmans? This book tells the true story of the economic crisis.
And the Weak Suffer What They Must?: Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability
Paperback,
02/02/2017,
£9.99
The crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this narrative of Europe's economic rise and spectacular fall, the author, former finance minister of Greece, shows that the origins of the collapse go far deeper than our leaders are prepared to admit - and that we have done nothing so far to fix them.
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
Paperback,
22/02/2007,
£8.99
Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, this work describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. Along the way, it provides an introduction to key economic factors and concepts such as individual choices, national policies, and equity.
Economics: The User's Guide: A Pelican Introduction
Paperback,
01/05/2014,
£9.99
What is economics? What can - and can't - it explain about the world? Why does it matter? This book teaches economics at Cambridge University, and writes a column for the Guardian.
Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
Paperback,
01/07/2002,
£14.99
Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
Paperback,
21/04/2016,
£9.99
Great Divide
Paperback,
25/04/2016,
£10.99
Why has inequality increased in the Western world - and what can we do about it? This title argues that inequality is a choice - the cumulative result of unjust policies and misguided priorities. It exposes the inequality that is afflicting America and other Western countries in thrall to neoliberalism.
Statistics for Business and Economics: First European Edition
Paperback,
27/03/2012,
£55.99
Every business area relies on an understanding of statistics to succeed. Statistics for Business and Economics by Carlos Cortinhas and Ken Black shows students that the proper application of statistics in the business world goes hand-in-hand with good decision making.
Global shift 7ed
Paperback,
17/12/2014,
£48.99
With over 120,000 copies sold worldwide, Peter Dicken's Global Shift has been the definitive work on economic globalization for almost 30 years now. A tried, trusted and unrivalled resource for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers across the social sciences, this is a seminal text from an internationally renowned author.
Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
Paperback,
01/05/2008,
£9.99
Argues that in theory the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions like the IMF, World Bank and WTO want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies. This book describes that in practice, though, those at the top are 'kicking away the ladder' to wealth that they themselves climbed.
Price of Inequality
Paperback,
08/04/2013,
£10.99
Explains why we are experiencing destructively high levels of inequality - and why this is not inevitable. This book focuses chiefly on the gross inequality to which these systems give rise, but also explains how inextricably interlinked they are.
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