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The Lonely Century - Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
$38.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
A radical call to arms and a bold new vision of how we must act, fast, to reconnect society at individual, government and business level, from a global economist hailed by the Observer as 'one of the world's leading thinkers'. Professor Noreena Hertz has travelled the world to explore the loneliness epi ...Show more
The Number Bias by Sanne Blauw
$38.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not high up on a pedestal, or out on the curb, but right where they belong: beside words. It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. Th ...Show more
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo
$26.00 NZD
Category: Economics
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 'Wonderfully refreshing . . . A must read' Thomas Piketty In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems o ...Show more
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women by Linda Scott
$33.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
Women's economic development expert Linda Scott coined the paradigm-shifting concept of the 'double X economy' to describe both the shocking gender inequalities that are built into our global economy, and the collective power of women that could be harnessed to combat those inequalities. Drawing on a w ...Show more
The Spirit Level : Why Equality is Better for Everyone by Richard Wilkinson; Kate Pickett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's The Spirit Level: Why Equality is Better for Everyone is the most influential and talked-about book on society in the last decade - now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited. Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than in Japan? Why do ...Show more
How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford
$38.00 NZD
Category: Economics
'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative . . . Every politician and jour ...Show more
Talking to My Daughter - A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
$25.00 NZD
Category: Economics
'Why is there so much inequality?' Xenia asks her father, the world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis. Drawing on memories of her childhood and a variety of well-known tales - from Oedipus and Faust to Frankenstein and The Matrix - Varoufakis explains everything you need to know in order to understand w ...Show more
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
$28.00 NZD
Category: Economics
The book behind the hit TED Talk** The Sunday Times Bestseller**** Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017** 'The John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century.' George Monbiot, Guardian' This is sharp, significant scholarship . . . Thrilling.' Times Higher Education Economics is ...Show more
Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet by Tim Jackson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? In this explosive book, Tim Jackson - a top sustainability adviser to the UK government - makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nation ...Show more
Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics by Edited by Margunn Bjornholt and Ailsa McKay
$67.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
This edited volume maps new advances in theories and practices in feminist economics and the valuation of women, care and nature since Marilyn Waring’s groundbreaking critique of the system of national accounts, Counting For Nothing/If Women Counted 1988/1989.It features theoretical, practical and polic ...Show more
How to Speak Money by John Lanchester
$35.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A funny, clear and brilliantly entertaining guide to the world of finance from the bestselling author of Capital and Whoops! The biggest problem for outsiders in the world of economics is that most of the time, we don't know what the hell the insiders are talking about. To know that, you have to unders ...Show more
Caring Economics by Tania Singer
$30.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Can the hyper-ambitious, bottom-line-driven practices of the global economy incorporate compassion into the pursuit of wealth? Or is economics driven solely by materialism and self-interest? In Caring Economics, experts consider these questions alongside the Dalai Lama in a wide-ranging, scientific-base ...Show more
