Business & economics / Economics

Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World

by Adam LeBor

Tower of Basel is the first investigative history of the world’s most secretive global financial institution. Based on extensive archival research in Switzerland, Britain, and the United States, and in-depth...

Swap: How Trade Works

by Philip I. Levy & Claude Barfield

A concise introduction to the principles of world economics, Swap is an easy-to-understand resource for a general audience. This brief, practical volume covers the principles of specialization, comparative advantage,...

Interventionism: An Economic Analysis

by Ludwig Von Mises

Interventionism provides Mises's analysis of the problems of government interference in business from the Austrian School perspective. Written in 1940, before the United States was officially involved in World...

The Wisdom of Adam Smith

by John Haggarty

Adam Smith was an eloquent man of considerable philosophical and historical learning. His most incisive and enduring observations are collected here on subjects ranging from political and economic history to...

The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills

by David Stuckler & Sanjay Basu

Politicians have talked endlessly about the seismic economic and social impacts of the recent financial crisis, but many continue to ignore its disastrous effects on human health—and have even exacerbated...

Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

by Robert L. Heilbroner

Selections from great writings on economics, annotated and introduced by a distinguished economist and teacher.Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium...

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Myths in Risk and Innovation

by Mariana Mazzucato

This book, which builds on the author’s work for a high-impact DEMOS report, debunks the myth of the state as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facilitate the creative innovation which happens...

Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole & Howard Rosenthal

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from...

Money and Credit: A Sociological Approach

by Bruce G. Carruthers & Laura Ariovich

This book offers a fresh and uniquely sociological perspective on money and credit. As basic economic institutions, money and credit are easy to overlook when they work well. When they malfunction, as they did...

Is China Buying the World

by Peter Nolan

China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29 companies in the FT 500 list of the world's largest companies....

Blind Spot

by Gordon Rugg

What can chess masters teach us about how humans become experts?

Why can't race car drivers explain decisions they've made behind the wheel?

What does predicting the winner of a soccer match say about our ability...

Europe and problems of marketization: from Polanyi to Scharpf

by Colin Crouch

The author uses the theory of the 'Great Transformation' of the industrialisation of England developed by Karl Polanyi to describe the current situation in Europe. There is a strong marketisation of the economy...

Rational Expectations and Inflation (Third Edition)

by Thomas J. Sargent

This collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which Thomas Sargent...

Increasing Return

by G. T Jones

A fascinating study of the relationship between size and efficiency in industrial companies. Focusing on British and American industries between 1850 and 1910. Perfect for anybody with an interest in financial...

Economic Ideas - A Study of Historical Perspectives

by Ferdinand Zweig

The history of economic thought, like all other history, needs to be rewritten for every generation-not only because another chapter which has enriched our experience needs to be added to its books, but because...

New Normal, Radical Shift: Changing Business and Politics for a Sustainable Future

by Neela Bettridge & Philip Whiteley

New Normal, Radical Shift shows how ethical businesses can be commercially successful while both enhancing working lives and protecting the environment. Neela Bettridge and Philip Whiteley critique business...

On the Manipulation of Money and Credit: Three Treatises on Trade-Cycle Theory

by Ludwig Von Mises

The three treatises in On the Manipulation of Money and Credit were written in German between 1923 and 1931. Together they include some of Mises's most important contributions to monetary and trade-cycle theories...

Human Capitalism: How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter--and More Unequal

by Brink Lindsey

What explains the growing class divide between the well educated and everybody else? Noted author Brink Lindsey, a senior scholar at the Kauffman Foundation, argues that it's because economic expansion is creating...

Fast Food/Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System

by Richard Wilk

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe. The authors offer a cultural perspective that is missing in other economic...

The Manual of Strategic Planning for Museums

by Gail Dexter Lord & Kate Markert

While some view strategic planning with trepidation, it is one of a museum's strongest tools for improving quality, motivating staff and board members, adapting to environmental changes, and preparing the groundwork...