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Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, ...

Have you ever wondered why we can afford to buy far more clothes than our grandparents ever could . . . but may be less likely to own a home in whi...

America's economic revolution isn't just driven by technology. It's about markets.The past twenty-five years have witnessed a remarkable shift in h...

The United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. It shouldn''t take a worldwide pandemic and nationwide protests to bring e...

The aim of this book is to document, on a solid and convincing foundation, two public policy mistakes of the United States Government that have bee...

This beautiful, authoritative volume in the popular 'Sterling Milestones' series looks at the vital intersection among business, finance and money....

In this collection British and Argentinian historians analyze the Asiatic, Germanic, peasant, slave, feudal, and tributary modes of production by e...

People tend to be penny wise and pound foolish and cry over spilt milk, even though we are taught to do neither. Focusing on the present at the exp...

The GND has the potential of becoming one of the largest global campaigns of our times, and it started in Ann Pettifor's flat. In 2008, the first G...

Government collapsing? Zombies hunting you down? Everyone you know killed by a global epidemic? Not to worry! Economics holds the keys to survival....

A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain. Observer Book of the Day Britain is in crisis. This timely book by one of the s...

The book that has been waiting to be written how Irelands housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we sho...

Its one of the big questions of our time: Are there too many people in the world? Or too few? Whichever way, how would we decide? Here, economist S...

What is one of the best ways to successfully predict the future? Winston Churchill believed that the further back you look, the further forward yo...

Each book is summarised to convey a brief idea of what each one has to offer the interested reader, while a 'Speed Read' for each book delivers a q...

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spendi...

This was supposed to be the era when democracy came into its own, but instead power and wealth in Britain have slowly been consolidated the hands o...

Housing matters a great deal. The present housing market has worked well for many of us (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of our homes) ...

Our growing national debt has dropped out of the headlines recently - but that doesn't mean that the problem has gone away. The national debt recen...

In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics , Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, examines the reasons for large differences in...

Since the revelation of its massive hidden deficit in late 2009, Greece has been at the centre of the world's attention. Observers around the globe...