Correcting insidious greenwashing practices in favor of long-term sustainability solutions... Zobraziť viac
Visionary Oxford professor Ian Goldin and The Economist's Tom Lee-Devlin show why the city is where the battles of inequality, social division, pandemics and climate change must be faced... Zobraziť viac
Anthropologist Kristen Ghodsee looks at pioneering experiments in communal living to present a rousing argument for rethinking what we mean by home... Zobraziť viac
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio... Zobraziť viac
Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is... Zobraziť viac
The world is moving towards replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy. But building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires digging more mines... Zobraziť viac
This book documents the role of social capital in accelerating poverty alleviation and rural development. Zobraziť viac
THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb ... It is tremendous fun, tremendously told' The Times 'A fluid intellectual thriller' Daily Telegraph From the global bestselling author of The Big Short, the gripping story of the maverick... Zobraziť viac
A bestselling author draws on interviews with dismissed IBM executives bakers, a bartender turned-ad executive, and many others to call into question the terms of a new economy. Zobraziť viac
In this accessible, brilliantly argued book, leading political economist Ann Pettifor explains in straightforward terms history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Pettifor argues that democracies can, and indeed must, reclaim... Zobraziť viac
From the former Treasury Secretary comes the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the U.S. economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. STRESS TEST reveals a side of Timothy... Zobraziť viac
From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economy... Zobraziť viac
The effects of 2008 are still with us today. As restricted growth and austerity have endured, so has the profound crisis of ideas the financial crisis precipitated. In Money and Government, Robert Skidelsky accounts for the causes of the crash.... Zobraziť viac
The world is changing. It's time for a new financial playbook... Zobraziť viac
Signalsis the story of the world economy, told in the language of everyday objects, places and events - from magazine covers and supermarkets to public protests. Pippa Malmgren argues that by being alert to the many signals around us, we can ... Zobraziť viac
The crisis of 2008 ended the illusion of a golden era in which many people imagined that prosperity and political calm would continue to spread indefinitely. In a world now... Zobraziť viac
Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe... Zobraziť viac
A leading social critic recounts capitalism's finest hour and shows us how we might achieve it once again. In the years surrounding the Second World War, a serendipitous confluence of events created a healthy balance between the market and ... Zobraziť viac
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent years. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from there in ... Zobraziť viac
A radical reappraisal of the nature and activities of business - what it is for and how it works... Zobraziť viac
