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Forgive Us Our Debts The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility
ISBN: PB: 9780300158632, Yale University Press, November 2020
184 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
In this immensely timely book, Andrew Yarrow brings the sometimes eye-glazing discussion of national debt down to earth, explaining in accessible terms why federal debt is rising (and will soon rise much faster), what effects it may have on Americans...
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£12,00
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Great British Reboot How the UK Can Thrive in a Turbulent World
ISBN: HB: 9780300243499, Yale University Press, November 2020
336 pp., 21x14 cm
Taking a refreshingly realistic approach, Alex Brummer outlines how our current moment can be reshaped into an unprecedented opportunity for economic prosperity. With a new long-term approach, Britain can capitalize on the ever-changing global market...
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£20,00
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Marginal Revolutionaries How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
ISBN: PB: 9780300255409, ISBN: HB: 9780300228229, Yale University Press, November 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The Austrian School of Economics – a movement that has had a vast impact on economics, politics, and society, especially among the American right – is poorly understood by supporters and detractors alike. Defining themselves in opposition to the main...
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£18,99
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£25,00
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Justice Is an Option A Democratic Theory of Finance for the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226734484, ISBN: HB: 9780226702889, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
More than ten years after the worst crisis since the Great Depression, the financial sector is thriving. But something is deeply wrong. Taxpayers bore the burden of bailing out "too-big-to-fail" banks but got nothing in return. Inequality has soared,...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Capitalism and Freedom
ISBN: PB: 9780226734798, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 50...
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£15,00
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Better Business How the B Corp Movement Is Remaking Capitalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300247152, Yale University Press, October 2020
312 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Businesses have a big role to play in a capitalist society. They can tip the scales toward the benefit of the few, with toxic side effects for all, or they can guide us toward better, more equitable long-term solutions. Christopher Marquis tells the...
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£20,00
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Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World Reforms and Retirement Incentives
ISBN: HB: 9780226674100, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
672 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 558 line drawings, 33 tables
This ninth phase of the International Social Security project, which studies the social security and retirement experiences of twelve developed countries, examines the effects of pension reform on employment at older ages. In the two decades since th...
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£120,00
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Invisible China How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
ISBN: HB: 9780226739526, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 figures, 2 tables
As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China...
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£22,00
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Leave Me Alone and I'll Make You Rich How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World
ISBN: HB: 9780226739663, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The economist and historian Deirdre Nansen McCloskey has been best known recently for her Bourgeois Era trilogy, a vigorous defense, unrivaled in scope, of commercially tested betterment.  Its massive volumes, The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity...
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Mismeasure of Progress Economic Growth and Its Critics
ISBN: HB: 9780226736303, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
Few ideas in the past century have had wider financial, political, and governmental impact than that of economic growth. The common belief that endless economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, is not only possible but actually essentia...
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£22,00
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