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  • 50 Economics Classics

    Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy

    Explore the ideas of some of the greatest thinkers in economics. Gain the insights and research of contemporary economists and commentators.WINNER - SILVER MEDAL, AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2018Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Palo Alto

    A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

    Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE • THE NEW REPUBLIC • DAZED • WIRED • BLOOMBERG • ESQUIRE • SALON • THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUBThe history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth).Palo ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Davos Man

    How the Billionaires Devoured the World

    A San Francisco Chronicle Bestseller • An NPR Best Book of the YearThe New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world—brazenly accelerated during the pandemic—has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.“Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a warning.” —Evan O... ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Supermarket USA

    Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race

    This cultural history examines the global rise of American-style supermarkets during the Cold War era and how they shaped the way we eat today.Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommunist ... Read more

    $28.99 USD $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Utopia for Realists

    How We Can Build the Ideal World

    Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of Europe's leading young thinkers shows how we can build an ideal world today."A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell." -- New York TimesAfter working all day at jobs we often dislike, we buy things we don't need. Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian, reminds us it needn't be this way -- and in some ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Vulture Capitalism

    Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

    Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for NonfictionA Next Big Idea Book Club Must-Read for March 2024In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political power brokers have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us—and how we can take back our economy for all.< ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mediocre

    The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

    by Ijeoma Oluo ...
    From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, an “illuminating” (New York Times Book Review) history of white male identity.What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments?Through the last ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Shutting Out the Sun

    How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation

    Series series Vintage Departures
    The world’s second-wealthiest country, Japan once seemed poised to overtake America. But its failure to recover from the economic collapse of the early 1990s was unprecedented, and today it confronts an array of disturbing social trends. Japan has the highest suicide rate and lowest birthrate of all industrialized countries, and a rising incidence of untreated cases of depression. Equally as ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Blood in the Machine

    The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

    "The most important book to read about the AI boom" (Wired): **The "gripping" (New Yorker) true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI todayNamed one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker, Wired, and the Financial Times • A Next Big Idea Book Club "Must-Read"**The most urgent story in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Streets of Gold

    America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success

    Forbes, Best Business Books of 2022Behavioral Scientist, Notable Books of 2022The facts, not the fiction, of America’s immigration experienceImmigration is one of the most fraught, and possibly most misunderstood, topics in American social discourse—yet, in most cases, the things we believe about immigration are based largely on myth, not facts. Using the tools of modern data analysis and ten ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Sovereignty without Power

    Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822–1980

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    What did independence mean during the age of empires? How did independent governments balance different interests when they made policies about trade, money and access to foreign capital? Sovereignty without Power tells the story of Liberia, one of the few African countries to maintain independence through the colonial period. Established in 1822 as a colony for freed slaves from the United States ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Medieval Market Morality

    Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200–1500

    by James Davis ...
    This important study examines the market trade of medieval England by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic considerations of price, quality, supply and demand, but also by the moral and cultural environment within which such deals were conducted. This ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Price of Peace

    Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of the influential economist and his transformative ideas“A timely, lucid and compelling portrait of a man whose enduring relevance is always heightened when crisis strikes.”—The Wall Street Journal* ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Herbert Hoover in the White House

    The Ordeal of the Presidency

    “A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to date” (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job.Herbert Clark Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States. He served one term, from 1929 to 1933. Often considered placid, passive, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Money and Government

    The Past and Future of Economics

    A critical examination of economics' past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our timeThe dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only minor roles in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best left to the "invisible hand" of the market. Yet these claims remain staunchly unsettled. The view taken in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Very British Affair

    Six Britons and the Development of Time Series Analysis During the 20th Century

    by T. Mills ...
    Series series Palgrave Advanced Texts in Econometrics
    This book develops the major themes of time series analysis from its formal beginnings in the early part of the 20th century to the present day through the research of six distinguished British statisticians, all of whose work is characterised by the British traits of pragmatism and the desire to solve practical problems of importance. ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The Economy of Cities

    by Jane Jacobs ...
    In this book, Jane Jacobs, building on the work of her debut, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, investigates the delicate way cities balance the interplay between the domestic production of goods and the ever-changing tide of imports. Using case studies of developing cities in the ancient, pre-agricultural world, and contemporary cities on the decline, like the financially irresponsible ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • The Everyday Practice of Valuation and Investment

    Political Imaginaries of Shareholder Value

    by Horacio Ortiz ...
    The financial industry derives its legitimacy through the claim that it acts in the interest of shareholders. A vast international network of funds, banks, insurance companies, brokerages, rating agencies, and regulatory agencies defends its status by asserting that market mechanisms determine a company’s true value and therefore enriching shareholders contributes to the socially optimal ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Collective Courage

    A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

    In Collective Courage, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles African American cooperative business ownership and its place in the movements for Black civil rights and economic equality. Not since W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1907 Economic Co-operation Among Negro Americans has there been a full-length, nationwide study of African American cooperatives. Collective Courage extends that story into the twenty ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Technofeudalism

    What Killed Capitalism

    **“Blending intellectual memoir, history, and economic and technological history, Varoufakis creates an intimate atmosphere that is a genuine pleasure to read ... It’s hard to read this book and deny its power ... illuminating.” - The Washington PostIn a revelatory and pathbreaking work, the #1 international bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Collusion

    How Central Bankers Rigged the World

    by Nomi Prins ...
    In this searing exposéformer Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order.Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have overstepped their traditional mandates by directing the flow of epic sums of fabricated money without any checks or balances. Meanwhile, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Inequality

    Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions

    by Per Molander ...
    “Virtually all human societies are marked by inequality, at a level that surpasses what could be expected from normal differences in individuals’ capabilities alone.”So begins this new approach to the greatest social ill of our time, and nearly every other era. From a country with one of the world’s lowest rates of income and social imbalance, award-winning Swedish analyst Per Molander’s book ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • California Burning

    The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires — including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise — and the human cost of infrastructure failure**Pacific Gas and Electric ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Babel Inc.

    Multiculturalism, Globalisation, and the New World Order

    by Kerry Bolton ...
    Babel Inc. is an essential primer on the politics of globalisation and multiculturalism. Bolton demonstrates that conventional distinctions between the political left and right have been transcended by transnational corporations who regard the remnants of the nation-state as the last hurdle for global domination and the attainment of their "new world order". Babel Inc. is an exposé of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD