Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud by Ben McKenzie, Jacob Silverman
45.00 NZD
Category: Economics
From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a spectacular crashAt the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Gotham) was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency: a dad stuck at ...Show more
New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism by Keyu Jin
40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A revelatory, myth-dispelling exploration of China's juggernaut economy. 'Essential reading' - Tony Blair Although China's economy is one of the largest in the world, Western understanding of it is oftenbased on dated assumptions and incomplete information. In The New China Playbook, Keyu Jin burrowsdee ...Show more
When Mckinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich; Michael Forsythe
30.00 NZD
Category: Economics
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST's 50 NOTABLE WORKS OF NONFICTION An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often d ...Show more
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long
30.00 NZD
Category: Economics
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR AND THE ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of the world's leading economists, a sweeping new history of the twentieth century - a cent ...Show more
The Great Crashes by Linda Yueh
45.00 NZD
Category: Economics
What causes financial crashes? What lessons can we learn from them? And how can we mitigate them in the future?From the Wall Street Crash in 1929 to the global financial crisis of 2007-08,the great crashes have altered the course of history. In this accessible and authoritative book, renowned economist ...Show more
The Capitalist Manifesto by Johan Norberg
37.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society as a whole.
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis
26.00 NZD
Category: Economics
'One of my few heroes. As long as people like Varoufakis are around, there still is hope' Slavoj Zizek Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. Imagine if Occupy and Extinction Rebellion actually won. In Another Now world-famous economist, Yanis Varoufakis, shows ...Show more
How to Teach Economics to Your Dog - A Quirky Introduction by Rebecca Campbell; Anthony McGowan
45.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A fun take on some of the biggest questions in economics, made accessible for non-experts (and dogs) Monty is a dog, not a financial genius, but economics still shapes his everyday life. Over the course of seventeen walks, Dr Rebecca Campbell chews over economic concepts and investigates how the ...Show more
Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The surprising story of Britain's economy from boom to bust and back again by Duncan Weldon
30.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A pick for The Economist Books of the Year 2021The UK is, at the same time, both one of the world's most successful economies and one of Europe's laggards. The country contains some of Western Europe's richest areas such as the south east of England, but also some of its poorest such as the north east o ...Show more
Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Economic thinking - about climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible formFor decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy - like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and Cambridge eco ...Show more
The End Of The World Is Just The Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
38.00 NZD
Category: Economics
2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made ...Show more
Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It by Krzysztof Pelc
35.00 NZD
Category: Economics
'It takes scholarly courage and knowledge to upend Adam Smith, but this is what Krzysztof Pelc has done . . . Profound and brilliant' Robert Skidelsky'A fascinating book, bursting with paradoxes, riddles and counterintuitive ideas that will challenge some of your strongest beliefs about how society work ...Show more