Business & finance
False Dawn
By John Gray
Paperback
Published 05-Oct-2009
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A prescient book criticising the greed and unsustainable economic practices which have proved to be the seeds of a world-wide recession. It considers how the economic landscape has shifted in a decade, and asks the crucial question: where do we go from here?
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Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
By Philip Augar
Paperback
Published 04-Dec-2008
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Looks at how and why the British merchant banks and brokers sold out, and where that leaves us. This book takes us through the Thatcher years, the crash of 1987, Big Bang, and the aggressive invasion of the American banks.
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Constant Economy
By Zac Goldsmith
Paperback
Published 01-Sep-2010
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The earth's resources are finite, climate change threatens to dramatically transform how and where we live, and the global economic system is in disarray. One way or another we have to change. In this brilliant and timely book Zac Goldsmith argues here for the creation of what he calls 'a constant economy'.
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Do it Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management
By Mark Forster
Paperback
Published 20-Jul-2006
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A totally updated time management system to follow the author's highly successful 'Get Everything Done'
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Economics For Dummies
By Peter Antonioni
Paperback
Published 23-Nov-2010
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Untangle the jargon and understand how you're involved in everyday economics If you want to get to grips with the basics of economics and understand a subject that affects British citizens on a daily basis, then look no further than Economics For Dummies.
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Art of Captaincy
By Mike Brearley
Paperback
Published 20-Jul-2001
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A classic work republished to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the momentous Ashes series of 1981 when Mike Brearley led England to victory.
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Undercover Economist
By Tim Harford
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Antifragile
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hardback
Published 27-Nov-2012
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Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil. In this title, the author shows that highly improbable and unpredictable events underlie almost everything about our world.
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Who Owns the Future?
By Jaron Lanier
Hardback
Published 07-Mar-2013
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Shows how the new power paradigm operates, how it is conceived and controlled, and why it is leading to a collapse in living standards. Arguing that the 'information economy' ruins markets, this title reminds us that markets should reward more people, not fewer.
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End This Depression Now!
By Paul Krugman
Hardback
Published 11-May-2012
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A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman.
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