Getting the Measure of Money
£12.50This book examines the measure of money and, in that light, the actions of the Bank of England in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath.
School of Thought: 101 Great Liberal Thinkers
£15.00School of Thought: 101 Great Liberal Thinkers profiles the lives and ideas of some of the leading thinkers on individual liberty, from ancient times to the present day.
The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony
£18.99Money is changing and this may mean a new world order. David Birch sets out the economic and technological imperatives of digital money, discussing the potential impact of it and the political tensions involved, as a contribution to the debate that we must have to shape the International Monetary and Financial System of the near future.
Gaming Trade: Win–Win Strategies for the Digital Era
£14.99Trade is no longer just the ships, planes and lorries that move the goods we buy around the world or the services we consume either physically or digitally. This book examines the US, Chinese and Russian approaches to `strategic trade’ and argues that Europe must adapt or lose out.
Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money That We Understand To Money That Understands Us (revised paperback edition)
£14.99Money is changing, and this book looks at where the technology of money might be taking us in the future. Technology has moved our concept of money from physical things, to unseen bits of information. But the shape of the future can be seen in the distant past.
The Weaponization of Trade: The Great Unbalancing of Politics and Economics
£9.99Trade is being weaponized – and this isn’t good. As politicians on both sides of the Atlantic raise the stakes, trade is increasingly a tool of coercion to achieve strategic influence. This book looks at the risks for us all as trade becomes an instrument of foreign policy, and shows how politicians could turn things around.
The Itinerant Economist: Memoirs of a Dismal Scientist
£14.99A fly on the wall, warts and all, description of what it was like to be a market economist during the extraordinary 25-year period that finance came to exert a disproportionate influence on the lives of almost everyone on the planet. It was quite a ride and not without its moments of pathos and humour.
The Rise of the Reluctant Innovator
£12.99A book of innovation and entrepreneurship case studies, all related to work in developing countries.
The Future of Finance: The LSE Report
£14.99We invited eighteen leading British thinkers on the reform of the world financial system and what a financial system is for to form a Future of Finance Group. They included journalists, academics, financiers and officials from the Financial Services Authority, the Bank of England and the Treasury. The result is this book.
Safe as Houses? A Historical Analysis of Property Prices
£17.99This book looks at house prices over the long term in several countries including the UK, the US, France, Holland, Norway, Germany and Australia to find out what has happened to house prices and why. The author illustrates his findings with authoritative data on trends and provides intriguing details including a century long index of UK house prices, an analysis of the value of the White House and a fascinating four-hundred-year story of houses in Amsterdam.
What’s the Use of Economics? Teaching the Dismal Science after the Crisis
£14.99The gap between important real-word problems and the workhorse mathematical model-based economics being taught to students has become a chasm. This book examines what economists need to bring to their jobs, and the way in which economics education in universities could be improved to fit them better for the real world.