The distinguished economist presents the radical idea that a healthy economy should involve collective benefits rather than a rigid preoccupation with the bottom line.
Unaccountable, opaque and opportunistic, private equity owns more and more of the stuff of day-to-day life, from petrol stations to care homes - and then loads it all with debt. A terrifying... read more
Following The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, Gingeras has turned his attention to the shadowy history of the relations between gangsters, corporations and political leaders.
The Shah was the victor in a power struggle with his prime minister in 1953, following a coup masterminded by Britain and the United States. This is the political history of that turning poi... read more
A deadpan memoir of hard-scrabble work in the gig economy with its performance metrics, night shifts and low pay. This has been a best-seller in China.
Undoing our preconceptions about the world's dominant economic system, Beckert proposes a novel argument for how capitalism is as much a product of merchant societies in the Far East and Glo... read more
As the old world dies and the new world struggles to be born, da Empoli assembles a rogues' gallery of the tyrants, tech bros and billionaires constructing our present dystopia. Acerbic yet ... read more
The author is of course the distinguished Law Lord who presided over the Supreme Court's carefully-argued judgement that Johnson's prorogation of Parliament in 2016 was an impossibility unde... read more
A tale of precarious monopolies and feuding factions, redolent of warring Renaissance merchant families. We know them from their brand logos and app icons; we read the salient points of thei... read more
From Brexit in the west to territorial war in the east, this book makes sense of the political, economic and social tumult of contemporary Europe. Rich in both archival and anecdotal detail.
How, whether made on tally sticks or via electronic portal, systems of debt and credit have been a driving force in the development of states from Pisa in the C12th to the Bolshevik Revoluti... read more
An original and entertaining book on the smoke and mirrors of the modern consumer's world - case studies that take apart our ideas of the real and the fake, of appearance and deception.