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1	This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly more books like this by Carmen M Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff add to wishlist "This is quite simply the best empirical investigation of financial crises ever published. Covering hundreds of years . . . Reinhart and Rogoff have made a truly heroic contribution to financial history."--Niall Ferguson, author of "The Ascent of Money." see all copies from £11.44! new only from £15.10!
2	Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financialsystem---And Themselves more books like this by Andrew Ross Sorkin add to wishlist Sorkin delivers the first true, behind-the-scenes, moment-by-moment account of how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami. b&w photo insert. see all copies from £15.55! new only from £15.55!
3	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man more books like this by John Perkins add to wishlist An extraordinary, real-life tale of international intrigue and corruption, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" reveals the hidden mechanics of imperial control behind such major international events as the fall of the Shah, the death of Panamanian president Omar Torrijos, and the invasions of Panama and Iraq, as well as providing an inside view of ... see all copies from £2.45! new only from £4.65! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System more books like this by Charles Gasparino add to wishlist In the spirit of classics such as "Barbarians at the Gate" and "Liar's Poker", Charles Gasparino traces the rise in power and wealth of America's largest investment banks and brokerage houses beginning in 2002. He shows how and why several of these storied institutions have suffered staggering losses in assets and influence since then, triggering ... see all copies from £14.59! new only from £14.59!
5	Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty more books like this by Muhammad Yunus add to wishlist A founder of a bank in rural Bangladesh shows how he combated poverty through microlending, the practice of making small loans to the poor in order to provide for basics and to encourage small scale private enterprise. The result was the breaking of the cycle of poverty and improved living standards. Yunus has been doing this since 1976 with ... see all copies from £6.20! new only from £6.77! \| first editions
6	The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life more books like this by Richard Florida add to wishlist The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new ... see all copies from £5.86! new only from £8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism more books like this by Max Weber add to wishlist For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - one of the seminal works in sociology - will be published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering ... see all copies from £3.64! new only from £4.63! \| first editions
8	Globalization and Its Discontents more books like this by Joseph E Stiglitz add to wishlist Joseph Stiglitz served as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers for seven years, and he was also chief economist at the World Bank. In this book, Stiglitz recounts his experiences in such places as Ethiopia, Thailand and Russia. He finds repeatedly that the International Monetary Fund puts the interests of its "largest ... see all copies from £1.79! new only from £6.24! \| first editions
9	The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 more books like this by Paul Krugman add to wishlist The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the Great Depression-and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. see all copies from £1.71! new only from £1.71!
10	New ideas from dead economists : an introduction to modern economic thought. more books like this by Todd G. Buchholz add to wishlist 'Outstanding ...Fun to read' - "Wall Street Journal". Would Karl Marx have to revise his theories since the collapse of the Soviet Union? What would Adam Smith make of the Japanese economic miracle turning into an economic morass? The great economists of the past 200 years may no longer be with us, but their ideas are very much alive - and they ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.07! \| first editions
11 view cover	The Ecology of Commerce more books like this by Paul Hawken add to wishlist Provides a visionary blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign and manufacture products in innovative ways, reeducate customers, and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive, and ecologically sound future. see all copies from £5.72! new only from £6.75! \| first editions
12 view cover	The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century more books like this by Paul Krugman add to wishlist In this collection of Krugman's most influential columns and additional commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unravelled and how exuberance gave way to pessimism. He tells the uncomfortable turth about how the US lost its way, and offers a road map for getting it back on track. see all copies from £3.21! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Undercover Economist more books like this by Tim Harford add to wishlist Harford ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and of course the United States to reveal how supermarkets, airlines, health care providers, and coffee chains--to name just a few--are vacuuming money from our wallets. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.22!
14 view cover	Wealth of Nations more books like this by Adam Smith add to wishlist Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But "Wealth of Nations" (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity. What set this work apart was its statement of the doctrine of natural liberty. Smith ... see all copies from £3.42! new only from £4.39! \| first editions
15 view cover	World Regional Geography: A Development Approach more books like this by Christopher A Airriess (Editor), Robert L Argenbright (Editor), Samuel A Aryeetey-Attoh (Editor) add to wishlist For introductory courses in World Regional Geography. This unique volume covers the world's regions by 11 experts in their respective fields who are intimately familiar with their material through research, fieldwork, and teaching. Each author employs the central theme of human development to present a vital, issues-oriented overview of the topic. ... see all copies from £9.88! new only from £19.18!
16 view cover	False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World more books like this by Alan Beattie add to wishlist An important book for turbulent times-an accessible and engaging economic history of the world, by a leading economic writer. Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries, economies, and societies-why some fail and some succeed. Here, he weaves together elements of economics, history, politics, and human stories, ... see all copies from £6.85! new only from £6.85! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Wages of Whiteness: Race & the Making of the American Working Class more books like this by David R Roediger add to wishlist Combining classical Marxism, psychoanalysis and the new labor history pioneered by E.P. Thompson and Herbert Gutman, David Roediger's widely acclaimed book provides an original study of the formative years of working class racism in the United States. This, he argues, cannot be explained simply with reference to economic advantage; rather, white ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £10.11! \| first editions
18 view cover	Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century more books like this by Jeffry A Frieden add to wishlist International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before...Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalisation to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet, the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. ... see all copies from £9.51! new only from £9.51!
19 view cover	Competitive Advantage of Nations more books like this by Michael E Porter add to wishlist 'Professor Michael Porter [is] one of the world's most influential authorities on corporate strategy...[the book] stands to become a standard text for the analysis of relative national economic performance.' - Independent on Sunday 'Michael Porter builds up an all-embracing view of economic change that amounts in the end to a powerful analytical ... see all copies from £2.66! new only from £7.72! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy more books like this by Adam Tooze add to wishlist This chilling, fascinating new book is the first to get to grips with how Hitler's Nazi empire really functioned. There was no aspect of Nazi power untouched by economics - it was Hitler's obsession and the reason the Nazis came to power in the first place. The Second World War was fought, in Hitler's view, to create a European Empire strong ... see all copies from £6.24! new only from £7.39! \| first editions
21 view cover	The great transformation more books like this by Karl Polanyi add to wishlist One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century." -R. M. MacIver see all copies from £14.37! new only from £18.10!
22 view cover	Principles of Political Economy and Taxation more books like this by David Ricardo add to wishlist Written in 1817, this famous treatise lays the groundwork for the principles of the market economy. It established the guiding ideas behind the economic concepts of diminishing returns and economic rent. As a leading master of economic principles of his time, Ricardo developed the theories now identified as distribution theory and international ... see all copies from £1.42! new only from £1.42!
23 view cover	A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present more books like this by Rondo Cameron add to wishlist This book highlights events and policies that have contributed to prosperity and material well-being throughout the world - as well as those that have resulted in continued "underdevelopment" for many nations. The first half of the book surveys world history (with an emphasis on Europe) from ancient times to the end of the 18th century, seeking ... see all copies from £7.48! new only from £38.87! \| first editions
24 view cover	Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent more books like this by Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (Translator) add to wishlist Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, ... see all copies from £6.34! new only from £6.34! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy 1400 to the Present more books like this by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik add to wishlist Why are railroad tracks separated by the same four feet, eight inches as ancient Roman roads? How did 19th-century Europeans turn mountains of bird excrement from Peru into mountains of gold? Where has most of the world's oil come from in the 20th century? This new edition of "The World That Trade Created" reveals the answers to dozens of ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £15.58!

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