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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Paperback,
06/04/2006,
£9.99
£8.99
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.
Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge
Paperback,
20/07/2017,
£24.49
£22.04
This book addresses some of the many social challenges created by migration flows over the past decades. The volume brings together research from three different fields: economics, sociology and political science.
Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the Twenty First Century': An Introduction
Paperback,
01/08/2017,
£7.99
£7.19
An introduction to Thomas Piketty's monumental work
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
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.
Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Paperback,
03/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Focusing on the differences he observed in economic behavior between Catholics and Protestants, Weber's seminal 1905 work examines the role that morality plays in the lives people choose to lead seeking to isolate beliefs and practices that influenced economic behaviour.
Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom (1944) analyzes the ways in which excessive government planning can erode democracy. The work draws influential parallels between the totalitarianism of both left and right, questioning the central government control exerted by Western democracies.
Thomas Pikkety's Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Paperback,
05/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
In his best selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, economist Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism has no tendency towards a fair distribution of wealth taking issue with the idea that inequality declines as capitalism matures.
Thomas Malthus' An Essay on the Principle of Population
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
One of the most influential books on economics ever written, An Essay on the Principle of Population remains one of the most controversial, too.
John Maynard Keynes' The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Paperback,
04/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
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.
Charles Kindleberger's Manias, Panics and Crashes
Paperback,
04/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
When Manias, Panics, and Crashes was published (1978), the world was entering a new period of global economic turbulence. Economists based their analyses on the assumption that investors act rationally and often communicated their ideas with dry, technical language.
Eric Lybeck's Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Paperback,
05/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Europeans once thought all swans were white, and white' was part of how they defined 'swan.' Then black swans were discovered, and the definition changed forever. I
Mahbub ul Haq's Reflections on Human Development
Paperback,
04/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
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.
Robert E. Lucas Jr.'s Why doesn't capital flow from rich to poor countries?
Paperback,
05/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
Because the potential returns appear to be greater in poorer countries than in the developed world, modern economic theory implies that rich countries should continually invest in poor countries until returns balance out.
David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years
Paperback,
15/07/2017,
£6.50
£5.85
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
£5.85
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.
Pocket Piketty
Paperback,
01/09/2017,
£6.99
£6.29
A handy introduction to one of the 21st century's most important works on the economy.
End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy
Paperback,
09/03/2017,
£10.99
£8.00
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.
Oxford Dictionary of Economics 4ed
Paperback,
15/03/2012,
£11.99
£10.79
A bestselling dictionary. Wide-ranging and authoritative, it covers all aspects of economics, including economic theory as well as applied micro and macroeconomics and now also terms relevant to the financial crisis. An essential book for professional economists as well as for students and teachers of economics, business, and finance.
Storm: The World Economic Crisis and What It Means
Paperback,
01/02/2010,
£8.99
£8.09
In his number 1 bestseller, Vince Cable, 'the sage of the credit crunch' (Daily Telegraph) explains how we got in to this mess and what it means.'The best book you can read to understand what on earth is going on out there.' Independent
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
Paperback,
22/02/2018,
£9.99
£8.99
The Sunday Times BestsellerLonglisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017`The John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century.' George Monbiot, Guardian`This is sharp, significant scholarship .
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Paperback,
14/12/2014,
£10.99
£9.89
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
£8.99
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
Is God an Economist?: An Institutional Economic Reconstruction of the Old Testament
Hardback,
30/01/2009,
£109.99
£98.99
This book offers a radical new way of approaching the Old Testament. Sigmund Wagner-Tsukamoto argues that rational, institutional and constitutional economic lessons can be derived from the Old Testament, with applications to social conflict and resolution. The book suggests that this religious text also anticipated many modern economic advances.
Macroeconomics for Dummies, UK Edition
Paperback,
06/11/2015,
£16.99
£15.29
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
£18.89
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
£8.99
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
£8.09
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,
£52.99
£47.69
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
£18.00
Life-Changing Magic of Numbers
Paperback,
04/07/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
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
£3.59
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
£40.49
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
£17.09
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
£8.99
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
£41.39
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
£44.99
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
£31.49
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.
Economics 11ed
Paperback,
16/01/2014,
£54.99
£49.49
Economics affects almost everything we do: from our decisions at work to our shopping habits, voting preferences and social attitudes. This book surveys the ideas and issues - such as the role of regulation in banking, the consequences of globalization and monetary union, and the efficacy of our economic models.
Microeconomics and Behaviour
Paperback,
16/07/2016,
£69.99
£62.99
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.
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