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  • Economics for Lovers of Literature

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides an engaging introduction to economics through a literary lens. Drawing on writers such as James Joyce, George Eliot, Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell, each chapter is framed around a quote from a classic text of English literature that helps tease out a key economic concept and demonstrate its broader relevance. While rigorous, the book is ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Capitalism

    Money, Morals and Markets

    by John Plender ...
    Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale. And yet, capitalism is unloved. From its discontents to its outright enemies, voices compete to point ... Read more

    $17.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Get Smarter

    Life and Business Lessons: Leader Edition

    Seymour Schulich is a self-made billionare whose career has spanned stock brokerage, investment counseling, mining and the oil industry. He is amoung Canada's greatest philanthropists, having donated in excess of $350 million to a vast number of university faculties, educational scholarships and medical health centres.  In Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons, Leader Edition, Mr. Schulich ... Read more

    $5.67 USD

  • What Everyone Needs to Know about Tax

    An Introduction to the UK Tax System

    by James Hannam ...
    You are paying much more in tax than you think you areWhat Everyone Needs to Know About Tax takes an entertaining and informative look at the UK tax system in all its glory to show you just how much you pay, how the money is collected and how it affects ordinary people every day. Giving context to recent controversies including the Panama Papers, tax avoidance by multinationals, Brexit and more, ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Great Investors, The

    Lessons on Investing from Master Traders

    by Glen Arnold ...
    Series series Financial Times Series
    Glen Arnold is a businessman, investor and a professor of finance at Salford University. He’s the author of numerous finance and investing books including Corporate Financial Management, The Handbook of Corporate Finance and The Financial Times Guide to Investing, all published by Financial Times-Prentice Hall. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Masters of Nothing

    How the crash will happen again unless we understand human nature

    Behaviour is important. Whether this be the behaviour of those who saw it coming, or of those who constantly berated them. The behaviour of those who rode the boom and switched at the tipping point to ride the bust, or the behaviour of those who held on to their principled as the system collapsed around them. It was human behaviour after all, that led us to construct a bubble nobody suspected was ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ship of Fools

    How Stupidity and Corruption Sank the Celtic Tiger

    The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed. The "Irish Economic miracle" was built on good old-fashioned subsidies (from the European Union) and the simple fact that until the 1980s Ireland was by the standards of the developed world so economically backward that the only way was up ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • In Place of Fear II

    A Socialist Programme for an Independent Scotland

    by Jim Sillars ...
    Jim Sillars argues convincingly that the referendum gives the Scottish people the power to create a better country, helps renew our belief in socialism as the answer to the economic and social crisis facing the country, and challenges the idea in the Yes campaign that independence means “change but no change” and that a Yes voter endorses Alex Salmond and the SNP. There is a far more radical road, ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • Crash Bang Wallop

    The Inside Story of London's Big Bang and a Financial Revolution that Changed the World

    by Iain Martin ...
    Published to mark the 30th anniversary of the financial revolution known as 'Big Bang', Crash Bang Wallop will tell the gripping story of how the changes introduced in the 1980s in the City of London transformed our world.Attitudes to money and the way we measure value and status were completely reshaped by Big Bang, and it had an extraordinary impact on politics, on style, on technology, on the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Jilted Generation

    How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth

    Why are so many adult children living still living with mum and dad? Why do young people seem so disinterested in politics? And what are the hidden threats to Britain's long-term prosperity lurking in the next few decades?First published in 2010, Ed Howker and Shiv Mailk's Jilted Generation answers fundamental questions about the society you thought you knew. It identified, for the first time, the ... Read more

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  • The Case for a Basic Income

    The Basic Income is, for many people, a very appealing idea: Pay every citizen a fixed, non-means-tested amount every week, sufficient to pay for essentials.The potential advantages of such a system are enormous. The basic income could replace a wide range of existing means-tested benefits and result in a massive reduction in bureaucracy, huge cost-savings and greatly improved economic incentives. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • City State

    An engaging account of the rise and dominance of the City of London, arguably the most important phenomenon of British history in the last 300 years. 'The City today is the most dynamic and world-beating sector of the British economy. Increasingly, it is the City that calls the shots. More than ever, governments and industry are constrained in their conduct by the fear of the judgement of the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD