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Forging Ahead, Falling Behind and Fighting Back: British Economic Growth from the Industrial Revolution to the Financial Crisis

By Nicholas Crafts (University of Warwick)

The Political Origins of Inequality: Why a More Equal World Is Better for Us All

By Simon Reid-Henry

The Betrayal of the American Dream

By Donald Barlett, James Steele

The Growth Delusion: The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations

By David Pilling

Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists

By Roger W. Spencer (Trinity University), David A. Macpherson (Trinity University)

Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

By Professor Steve Keen

A History of Ecological Economic Thought

By Marco P. Vianna Franco, Antoine Missemer

The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

By Jared Diamond

Camera Girl

By Doreen Spooner, Alan Clark

The Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy

By Tim Harford

Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives

By Alvin Toffler, Heidi Toffler

The Predators' Ball: The Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the JunkBond Raiders

By Connie Bruck

More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite

By Sebastian Mallaby

The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World

By Herman, Arthur

Addressing Tipping Points for a Precarious Future

By Timothy O'Riordan (University of East Anglia), Timothy Lenton (University of Exeter)

Spice: The History of a Temptation

By Jack Turner

International Trade

By Frank Rose

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

By Matt Taibbi

The Color Of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S Racial Wealth Divide

By Meizhu Lui, Barbara J. Robles, Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose M. Brewer, Rebecca Adamson

Adam Smith

By D. D. Raphael

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies

By Mariana Mazzucato, Rosie Collington

Toward the Next Economics, and Other Essays

By Peter F Drucker (Claremont Graduate School California)

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500-2000

By Paul M. Kennedy

Town Labourer and the Industrial Revolution

By Malcolm I. Thomis

The Workshop of the World: British Economic History from 1820 to 1880

By Jonathan David Chambers

WEST

By Davis, William C., Rosa, Joseph G.

Second Slump: Marxist Analysis of Recession in the Seventies

By Mandel, Ernest, Rothschild, J.

International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance Since 1850

By Craig N. Murphy (Wellesley College, Massachussetts, US)

Africa and the International Economy, 1800-1960

By J.Forbes Munro

Empire of Knowledge: Culture and Plurality in the Global Economy

By Vinay Lal