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  • Economics: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Economics has the capacity to offer us deep insights into some of the most formidable problems of life, and offer solutions to them too. Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, Partha Dasgupta 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. He compares the obstacles facing them, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • American Flannel

    How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home

    by Steven Kurutz ...
    **“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” —Stephen King, bestselling author (and onetime millworker)“American Flannel is a wonderful book--surprising, entertaining, vivid and personal, but also enlightening on the largest questions of America's economic and social future.” —James Fallows, co-author of Our Towns**The little-engine-that-could story of how a band of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • El valor de las cosas

    Quién produce y quién gana en la economía global

    Translated by Ramón González Férriz ...
    ¿En qué mundo queremos vivir?Mariana Mazzucato, la economista del momento, prende la mecha de un debate necesario.«Mucho ojo con Mazzucato, la economista más temible del mundo.»Helen Rumbelow, The Times<... ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • China's Economy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    China's economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world's second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and trading nation, the consumer of half the world's steel and coal, the biggest source of international tourists, and one of the most influential investors in developing countries from southeast Asia to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Land and Freedom

    The MST, the Zapatistas and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism

    The Zapatistas of Chiapas and the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil are often celebrated as shining examples in the global struggle against neoliberalism. But what have these movements achieved for their members in more than two decades of resistance and can any of these achievements realistically contribute to the rise of a viable alternative?Through a perfect balance of grassroots ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • How to Reform Capitalism

    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 essence, not about money, law or politics, but about human psychology – the field of expertise of ... Read more

    $6.56 USD

  • The Essential Hirschman

    Some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkersThe Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Bright Continent

    Breaking Rules & Making Change in Modern Africa

    by Dayo Olopade ...
    “For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters).Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges.She found what cable ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender, Development and Globalization

    Economics as if All People Mattered

    Gender, Development, and Globalization is the leading primer on global feminist economics and development. Lourdes Benería, a pioneer in the field of feminist economics, is joined in this second edition by Gunseli Berik and Maria Floro to update the text to reflect the major theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions and global developments in the last decade. Its interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Freedom from National Debt

    America is needlessly worried about “national debt,” believing it can no longer do the many things that mark it as a great nation. Discussions of national undertakings including infrastructure repair, jobs programs, and military modernization - have all been stifled through fear of insolvency. America has convinced itself that it can no longer afford, as a nation, to do many of the productive ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Nature, Choice and Social Power

    We are at an environmental impasse. Many blame our personal choices about the things we consume and the way we live. This is only part of the problem. Different forms of social power - political, economic and ideological - structure the choices we have available. This book analyses how we make social and environmental history and why we end up where we do.Using case studies from different ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • China Dream And The China Path, The

    by Tianyong Zhou ...
    Series Book 4 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    Since its reform and opening up, China has experienced unprecedented social and economic development. It is important to understand the biggest and fastest growing economy's policy and strategy. As a key director in Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the author proposes a development path and reform strategies for China in the next three decades.This book ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Public Wealth of Nations

    How Management of Public Assets Can Boost or Bust Economic Growth

    We have spent the last three decades engaged in a pointless and irrelevant debate about the relative merits of privatization or nationalization. We have been arguing about the wrong thing while sitting on a goldmine of assets.Don’t worry about who owns those assets, worry about whether they are managed effectively.Why does this matter? Because despite the Thatcher/ Reagan economic revolution, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Health Economics

    An International Perspective

    Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly international, comparative treatment of health economics. Offering an analysis of health systems across borders, the fourth edition of this key text has been updated and revised to take account of changes in a host of countries.This edition features an expanded introduction, providing better grounding for many ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Family Life in China

    Series series China Today
    The family has long been viewed as both a microcosm of the state and a barometer of social change in China. It is no surprise, therefore, that the dramatic changes experienced by Chinese society over the past century have produced a wide array of new family systems.Where a widely accepted Confucian-based ideology once offered a standard framework for family life, current ideas offer no such ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Think Like a Freak

    The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

    The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything. Then came SuperFreakonomics, a documentary film, an award-winning podcast, and more.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award“It seems safe to say that ... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Por eso estamos como estamos

    Un libro de referencia necesaria para entender por qué México no crece económicamente. De manera clara y para todo público, este es un análisis serio y muy bien argumentado sobre las grandes debilidades del Estado mexicano.Nueva edición actualizada.Un libro indispensable para entender porqué "estamos como estamos".Con rigor analítico e imparcialidad, Carlos Elizondo formula en Por eso estamos como ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Poor Economics

    A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

    The winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics upend the most common assumptions about how economics works in this gripping and disruptive portrait of how poor people actually live.Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two award-winning MIT professors, answer these ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Doughnut Economics

    Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    by Kate Raworth ...
    *The Sunday Times Bestseller*A Financial Times Book of the Year*A Forbes Book of the Year*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017*Porchlight “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs”The book that redefines economic... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Crashed

    How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

    by Adam Tooze ...
    **WINNER OF THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK"An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature of the European and American financial systems."--The New York ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Capitalism in America

    An Economic History of the United States

    **From the legendary former Fed Chairman and the acclaimed Economist writer and historian, the full, epic story of America's evolution from a small patchwork of threadbare colonies to the most powerful engine of wealth and innovation the world has ever seen.Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award**From even the start of his fabled career, Alan ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • China Road

    A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power

    by Rob Gifford ...
    Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of the social and economic revolution that is turning China upside down.In this utterly surprising and deeply personal book ... Read more

    $4.99 USD