Amazon Unbound by Brad Stone
28.00 NZD
Category: Economics
From the bestselling author of The Everything Store, an unvarnished picture of Amazon’s unprecedented growth and its billionaire founder, Jeff Bezos, revealing the most important business story of our time. With the publication of The Everything Store in 2013, Bloomberg journalist Brad Stone revealed ho ...Show more
The New Economics: A Manifesto by Steve Keen
34.00 NZD
Category: Economics
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church's internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen argues that economics needs its own R ...Show more
Reimagining Capitalism: How Business Can Save the World by Rebecca Henderson
40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions, and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But it's also on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society in its single-minded pursuit of maximizing shareholder value. Rebecca Henderson, McArthur Universi ...Show more
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
38.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A deeply curious and evenhanded report on our national appetites. --The New York TimesIn the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store The miracle of the supermarket has never been more app ...Show more
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles by William Quinn, John D. Turner
39.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting, among othe ...Show more
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
28.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year - An Economist Book of the Year Now With a New Afterword "A must-read for anyone wanting to better understand what has already happened here in America and what lies ahead if Trump is reelected in November.... A magisterial account of the money and violence b ...Show more
The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
25.00 NZD
Category: Economics
'Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what you would expect from Tim Harford'BILL BRYSON'Entertaining . . . A lively introduction to some of the most ingenious, yet often overlooked inventions that have changed the way we live' The Times'Every Tim Harford book is cause for celebration'MA ...Show more
The Velvet Rope Economy - How Inequality Became Big Business by Nelson Schwartz
25.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A gripping expose of the way inequality is built into our everyday world - and who profits.
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
28.00 NZD
Category: Economics
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a ...Show more
Mission Economy: A Moonshot Approach to the Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps most blatantly, the environmental crisis. Taking her inspiration from the 'moonshot' programmes which successfully co-ordinated public ...Show more
Is Capitalism Broken? by Yanis Varoufakis (Author) , Arthur Brooks (Author) , Katrina vanden Heuvel (Author) , David Brooks (Author
19.00 NZD
Category: Economics
'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' - Yanis Varoufakis 'Capitalism over the past twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.' - David Brooks There is a growing belief that the capitalist syste ...Show more
Value(s): Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney
40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Our world is full of fault lines – growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental ...Show more