Popular Economics

Rewards. Punishments. Prices. The Nobel Prize. Candy Crush. Incentives take more forms than you might expect and they can be hard to spot, but they...

One of the worlds leading experts on international trade explains that we must look beyond globalization to explain rising inequality.Globalization...

'A Malcolm Gladwell-style social psychology/behavioural economics primer' Evening StandardLow-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of e...

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?What does ...

This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations Levitt and Dubner have carefully curated the v...

Forget the 1% - it's time to get to grips with the 0.1% ...There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and ...

In the next twenty years the world economy will enjoy one of its strongest periods of growth.Opportunities, life expectancy, income and educational...

Since the financial collapse of 2000, the 'flat white economy'-named after the coffee popular with young workers of media, internet and creative bu...

'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it... Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason'Gu...

How do you predict something that has never happened before? There's a useful calculation being employed by Wall Street, Silicon Valley and maths ...

That we need money to live like it or not is a self-evident truism. Right? Not anymore. Drawing on almost three years of experience as The Moneyles...

Why do heroes fight each other? Why do villains keep trying even though they almost never win? Why don't heroes simply take over the world? Econ...

This book argues that identity is changing profoundly and that money is changing equally profoundly. Because of technological change the two trends...

Economists and economics have been harshly criticised recently. This book accepts many of the criticisms of conventional theory but argues that the...

A practical, easy-to-follow guide to understanding and responding to Australian economic trends How does the fall in the Dow Jones or the rise in t...

Money is our global language. Yet so few of us can speak it. The language of the economic elite can be complex, jargon-filled and completely baffli...

While everyone is talking about big data, the truth is that understanding the little data--the stats that underlie newspaper headlines, stock repor...

In this witty and revelatory investigation of the so-called dismal science, University of British Columbia professor Marina Adshade skips the usual...

Western society has faced many challenges in the last few years. Economies have come under extreme pressure, and so have governments and business, ...

An intriguing look at the exploding phenomenon of unregulated private currencies and how they will change our economy forever Private currencies ha...

In this bold history and manifesto, a former White House director of economic policy exposes the economic, political, and cultural cracks that weal...