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Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Branko Milanovic
Visions of Inequality

Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key economists, from Quesnay to Kuznets. In their work and lives, we see how differentl…

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Natasha Piano
Democratic Elitism

Natasha Piano argues that the Italian School of Elitism-comprising Pareto, Mosca, and Michels-has been consistently misread. These thinkers did not, as alleged, oppose electoral politics. Rather, they saw…

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Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Naomi Oreskes, Erik M Conway
The Big Myth

The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America's most tenacious-and destructive-false ideas: the "magic of the marketplace."

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Toke S Aidt, Raphaël Franck
Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights

In Peaceful and Violent Origins of Voting Rights, Toke S. Aidt and Raphaël Franck articulate a new process-based perspective on the study of democratization through a detailed analysis of the Great Reform…

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Anne O'Donnell
Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution

A history that reframes the Bolsheviks' unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia's governing authority but also th…

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John Cassidy
Capitalism and Its Critics

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2025 A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. Capitalism has long bee…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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John Cassidy
Capitalism and Its Critics

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2025 A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. Capitalism has long bee…

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Geoffrey M Hodgson
The Wealth of a Nation

How the development of legal and financial institutions transformed Britain into the world's first capitalist countryModern capitalism emerged in England in the eighteenth century and ushered in the Indus…

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Varieties of Economic Nationalism in Cold War Europe

Investigating the trajectories of economic nationalisms in Cold War Europe, this open access book explores the scope and limits of small (nation-)state actors pursuing and defending national economic inte…

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Richard Holden
Money in the Twenty-First Century

"A layperson's guide to the way in which digital currencies may evolve over the coming decades and what this means for government-issued currency. This is the issue that will confront policy makers. …

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Michael J Graetz
The Power to Destroy

How the antitax fringe went mainstream---and now threatens America's futureThe postwar United States enjoyed large, widely distributed economic rewards---and most Americans accepted that taxes were a reas…

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Edmund S Phelps
Mass Flourishing

"Anyone who finds today's economic debates too small-minded for the immense challenges we face should be drawn to this important work. Only Edmund Phelps would place ultimate blame for the Great Rece…

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Nadia Almasalkhi, Daniel Egel, Aaron B Frank
U.S.-China Economic Competition

U.S.-China competition, including economic competition, has come to define U.S. foreign policy since 2017. This report, the first of a four-part series, includes economic and institutional analyses of U.S…

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Isaak Illich Rubin,
Contemporary Economists in the West

An incisive critique of the Austrian School's failure to reduce political economy to individual psychology by one of the foremost Soviet economists of the twentieth century.Emphasising the sociological di…

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Richard N Langlois
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

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Bronwen Everill
Africonomics

A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of CambridgeFor centuries, Westerners have tried to "fix…

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Iosif Kovras
Accountability After Economic Crisis

This book explores how countries responded to the 2008 economic recession and explains the variations in policies of accountability. By comparing five case studies, it considers why some sought to hold th…

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