Popular Economics

"Willem Middelkoop and The Big Reset is right in the thick of the action! Great book; awesome statistical reference to go along with the analysis.-...

An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalism. In Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessib...

Denmark is set to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. Iceland has topped the gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. South ...

From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and mu...

A chronicle of recent events that have shaken the world, from the author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century  “What makes this manifesto notewor...

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...

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

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...

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

Combining commercial success with philanthropy and social activism, ‘Quakernomics’ offers a compelling model for corporate social responsibility in...

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...

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...

Economists and bankers have long been much maligned individuals; but never more so than in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Working as an e...

From one of the most respected economic thinkers and writers of our time, a brilliant argument about the history and future of economic growth. The...

Economics in Minutes condenses key economics concepts into 200 short and easily digested essays. Featuring not only fundamental ideas, such as the ...

Stimulus: plans: good or bad? Jobs: can we afford them? Money: who's got it? Everybody's talking about the economy, but how can you evaluate what t...

In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! pl...

Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This book provides the information you need to understand how capitalism works (and how it...

From the bottom to the top of our economy, capitalism is too blunt an instrument to tackle Britain's epidemic of inequality. Soaring rents, unfair...

A Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the Year“Superbly argued and important…Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defec...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Fortune Best Book of the YearA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the YearAn essential guide to the ...

We are told that the future of work will be increasingly automated. Algorithms, processing massive amounts of information at startling speed, will ...

Overtime is about the politics of time, and specifically the amount of time that we spend labouring within capitalist society. It argues that react...

Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering... These might sound like plot lines of a thriller, but they are true stories fro...

A riveting history of raw capitalism that exposes the unscrupulousness at its heart Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascin...

*FEATURED IN BILL GATES'S 2019 SUMMER READING RECOMMENDATIONS* 'This is a beautifully written and important book. Read it' Martin Wolf, Financial...

Money is changing, and this book looks at where the technology of money might be taking us in the future. Technology has moved our concept of money...

'Refreshingly clear and engaging' Tim Harford'Delightful . . . full of unique insights' Prof Sir David SpiegelhalterThere's no getting away from st...

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 world’s leading experts on international trade explains that we must look beyond globalization to explain rising inequality.Globalizatio...