Popular Economics

A deeply human-centered perspective on the origins of America's food Where Am I Eating? bridges the gap between global food producers and the Ameri...

This is an iconoclastic work, based on a vast knowledge of the relevant literature and on archival materials in French, English, and Russian. It ef...

A Financial Times Book of the Year. A clear, readable analysis of the inescapable fact that Generation Y (and subsequent generations) will be poor...

''Enthralling'' PHILIP PULLMAN''Such a hopeful book'' ELIZABETH DAY''GO BIG should be the rallying cry of progressives around the world'' RUTGER BR...

***SHORTLISTED FOR FT & MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*** FT Best books of 2020: Business 'In a world on fire, status quo is not a gre...

We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shop...

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ''Superb ... It is tremendous fun, tremendously told'' Tom Whipple, The Times''A fluid intellectual ...

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century has been hailed as a masterpiece, making a powerful case that wealth inequality is not an acci...

This book shows how our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.From dating, school and university application...

It's no secret that the 1%-the business elite that commands the largest corporations and the connected network of public and private institutions-e...

'An entertaining guide to economics by a former adviser to Barack Obama that uses the lessons of the music business to explain what is happening in...

''Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford'' BILL BRYSON''Entertaining . . . A lively introducti...

Discover why it is that women are poorer than men in this intelligent dissection of the gender wealth gap.''A nuanced look at the institutional opp...

From Nobel Prize-winning economist and bestselling author Joseph Stiglitz, this account of the dangers of free market fundamentalism reveals what h...

The City, as London's financial centre is known, is the world's biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the development ...

In this searing and entertaining indictment of the super-rich, Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks challenge the idea that todays cavernous income inequa...

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the...

Economists and theologians usually inhabit different intellectual worlds. Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical qu...

What is a market? To most people it is a shopping center or an abstract space in which stock prices vary minutely. In reality, a market is somethin...

In 1776 Adam Smith (1723-90) wrote The Wealth of Nations , a book so foundational it has led to him being called the 'father of economics'. Today h...

Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919-96). Although a handful of economists raised ala...

The Equality Effect is almost magical. In more equal countries, human beings are generally happier and healthier, there is less crime, more creativ...

Our planet's resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land,...

Few people could tell you what happened on 11th December 2001, yet China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will define the geopolit...