A captivating economic history of government all over the world

How quantum economics can dispel the illusions surrounding money and help us reform finance

'A majestic must-read' - Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England.

In a new preface, Shiller reflects on some of the challenges facing narrative economics, discusses the connection between disease epidemics and economic epidemics, and suggests why epidemiology may hold lessons for fighting economic contagions.

A guide to the essentials of the finance and investment sectors. Covering the fundamentals of finance - including an overview of business finance, the basics of accountancy, financial risk and investment vehicles - it helps us gain an understanding of the basic principles of finance, to which complicated financial models can then be applied.

This volume discusses diverse methodologies in economics education, focusing on experiential economic education away from campus through study abroad, study away, and other off-campus programs.

A scathing and well-informed critique of the financial industry by leading economist John Kay.

Offers a bold solution to our recurring economic crises: innovative new forms of institutional ownership.Takes the reader on a global journey to meet the people and organizations that are pioneering new forms of life - sustaining ownership.By the author of the classic The Divine Right of Capital.Looking around at the wreckage left...

Written by bestselling finance author Guy Fraser-Sampson, this is a provocative account of the severe limitations of modern finance, advocating a bold new way forward for the finance industry. The Pillars of Finance is a lively and provocative read, challenging some of the core beliefs of modern finance.

According to the author, the mechanistic viewpoint of conventional economics is drastically limited - because it cannot comprehend the vital nature of networks. In this book, he shows, network effects make conventional approaches to policy, whether in the public or corporate sectors, much more likely to fail.

Our social and economic worlds have been revolutionised by a massive increase in our awareness of the choices, decisions, behaviours and opinions of other people. In this title, the author shows network effects make conventional approaches to policy, whether in the public or corporate sectors, more likely to fail.

This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth. It offers a toolkit of concepts and examples for urban scholars, activists, and designers seeking to make cities prosper within planetary boundaries.

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.

A groundbreaking book by leading authors that fundamentally challenges the central tenets of development discourse - as relevant today as when it was originally published in 2004.

This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available.

Sociologist Mike Savage shows how economic inequality aggravates cultural, social, and political conflicts, challenging the framework of liberal democracy. By fracturing social bonds, inequality turns back the clock, reviving conditions we have struggled for centuries to escape, including empire, dynastic elitism, and explosive ethnic division.

A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment

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.

William is an economist, which means he is good at reducing an infinitely complex world into a set of clear, rational principles about the way people and markets behave. Unfortunately, he has never been able to replicate this in the world of romance. In this book, he sets out to apply the rules of economics to save his floundering love life.

From acclaimed thinker and former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich: how capitalism can be fixed.

Presents analysis of the economic course of the last seven years. This book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and our dangerously fragile financial system.