The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work by Jan Eeckhout
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Category: Economics | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
A pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power—and how it stifles workers around the world In an era of technological progress and easy communication, it might seem reasonable to assume that the world’s working people have never had it so good. But wages are stagnant and prices are risi ...Show more
The Classical School - The Turbulent Birth of Economics in Twenty Extraordinary Lives by Callum Williams
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Category: Economics
A breezy, bracingly irreverent introduction to the founders of economics - how they lived, what they thought, what they got wrong and which of their ideas we still need,
Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
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Category: Economics
A lively and accessible history of humanity's greatest - and strangest - creation: money.
How to Reform Capitalism by The School of Life
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Category: Economics | Series: Essay Bks.
It is quite normal to feel frustrated and sorrowful about aspects of modern capitalism, but realistic hope of change can seem either utopian or demented. In fact, the way that capitalism works is inherently open to alteration and improvement. This is because the problems of capitalism are, in their esse ...Show more
No Logo by Naomi Klein
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Category: Economics
NO LOGO was an international bestseller and "a movement bible" (The New York Times). Naomi Klein's second book, The Shock Doctrine, was hailed as a "master narrative of our time," and has over a million copies in print worldwide. In the last decade, No Logo has become an international phenomenon and a ...Show more
Debt : The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded by David Graeber
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Category: Economics
Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems-to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to sup ...Show more
Postcapitalist Desire - Mark Fisher The Final Lectures by Mark Fisher; Matt Colquhoun (Editor)
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Category: Economics
A collection of transcripts from Mark Fisher's final series of lectures at Goldsmiths, University of London, in late 2016. Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element -- the classro ...Show more
GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change by Ehsan Masood
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Category: Economics
A highly topical look at the formula that dominates economics, and why it has outlived its usefulness. 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 a porte ...Show more
Austerity (Vintage Minis) by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Economics | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this rousing book, he charts the absurdities that underpin calls for ...Show more
Money and Power: The World Leaders Who Changed Economics by Vincent Cable
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Category: Economics
Through economics our politicians have the power to transform people's lives for better or worse. Think Deng Xiaoping who lifted millions out of poverty by opening up China; Franklin D Roosevelt whose 'New Deal' helped the USA break free of the Great Depression. Or Peron and his successors in Arg ...Show more
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