Economic History

A Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the YearSuperbly argued and importantDonald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defecti...

WINNER OF THE 2023 RALPH GOMORY BOOK PRIZE   A superb book.Jerry Brotton   Wonderfully wide-ranging and deeply-researched.William Dalrymple   Sharp...

FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021'A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve....

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economie...

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This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year- the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won and lo...

How can the simple choice of a mens suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown...

Capitalism shapes every aspect of our world, beyond just our economic structures; it moulds our values and influences the way we write laws, wage w...

Campbeltown was once the whisky capital of the world with 29 distilleries operating simultaneously in 1835. How had this remote fishing port and ro...

From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did...

A provocative account of capitalism's rise to global dominance and, as different models of capitalism vie for world leadership, a look into what th...

An award-winning journalist's insights into the auto industry, the decline of once-great companies, and the failures of management The collapse of ...

Exploring a range of poverty experiences-socioeconomic, moral and spiritual-this collection presents new research by a distinguished group of schol...