Atlas of Finance
Mapping the Global Story of Money
ISBN: HB: 9780300253054,
Yale University Press,
September 2024
240 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 98 colour illus.
240 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 98 colour illus.
A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history.
From the emergence of money in the ancient world to today's interconnected landscape of high-f...
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£30.00
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Plastic Capitalism
Banks, Credit Cards, and the End of Financial Control
ISBN: HB: 9780300247343,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
How bankers created the modern consumer credit economy and destroyed financial stability in the process.
American households are awash in expensive credit card debt. But where did all this debt come from? In this history of the rise of postwar Amer...
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£25.00
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Mixed Signals
How Incentives Really Work
ISBN: PB: 9780300276749,
ISBN: HB: 9780300255539,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 37 black&white illus.
320 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 37 black&white illus.
An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world.
Incentives send powerful signals that aim to influence behavior. B...
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£20.00
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Rich World, Poor World
The Struggle to Escape Poverty
ISBN: HB: 9780300214284,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
688 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 figures, 13 tables
688 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 figures, 13 tables
A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment.
Over the past two decades, experiments in neoliberal economics have opened up a chasm of inequality between the Global South an...
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Economist Goes to the Game
How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports
ISBN: PB: 9780300274127,
ISBN: HB: 9780300218244,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
216 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 3 black&white illus.
216 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm, 3 black&white illus.
An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field.
Are ticket scalpers good for teams? Should parents push their kids to excel at sports? Why do Koreans dominate women's golf, while Kenya...
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£20.00
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Forgive Us Our Debts
The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility
ISBN: PB: 9780300158632,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
184 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 14 black&white illus.
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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Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War
ISBN: PB: 9780300276718,
ISBN: HB: 9780300251029,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
472 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
472 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth.
Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to th...
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£23.00
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£35.00
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Adventurers
The Improbable Rise of the East India Company: 1550-1650
ISBN: PB: 9780300276497,
ISBN: HB: 9780300250725,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 16 colour illus.
The East India Company was the most powerful commercial enterprise in British history. Yet its speculative, highly risky origins are now all but forgotten. A revolution in commerce during the Tudor period led to a bold search for new forms of investm...
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We Need to Talk About Inflation
14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years
ISBN: PB: 9780300276084,
ISBN: HB: 9780300270471,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
240 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
240 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
A FINANCIAL TIMES "BOOK TO READ IN 2023"
A myth-busting explanation of inflation, the desperate gullibility of central bankers and finance ministers – and our abject failure to learn from history.
From investors and monetary authorities to govern...
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£20.00
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Just Price in the Markets
A History
ISBN: HB: 9780300268331,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 16 black&white illus.
A concise history of "just price", from Aristotle to the present day.
The question of what constitutes a fair price has been at the center of market interactions since the time of Aristotle. Should a seller sell to the highest bidder, or is there s...
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