10 Jahre nach der Finanzkrise und 25 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von "Nieten in Nadelstreifen" sind Verantwortungsgefühl und Vorbildcharakter noch immer Mangelware.
How human institutionsmarkets, states, communities, religions, guilds and familieshave helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
One of the most powerful books in the social sciences ever written Thomas Piketty'The twentieth century's most prophetic critic of capitalism' Prospect Polanyi s revolutionary work is a must-read Mariana MazzucatoKarl Polanyi's landmark 1944 work is one of the earliest and most powerful critiques of unregulated markets.
Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the YearNominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionAmazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell Black Edge has the grip of a thriller Everyone should read this book - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of THE LOST CITY OF Z How do super-rich bankers get away with it?
*The #1 Sunday Times bestseller*'Explosive and beautifully told these truths can set us free' - Danny Dorling'This book is dynamite shining a spotlight on the evils of neoliberalism, shattering the myth that there is no alternative , and laying the foundations for a new politics' - Caroline LucasHow can you fight something if you don t know it exists?
The 19th-century MP John Burns described the Thames as 'liquid history' and ever since the Romans founded Londinium in 43 AD, the river has played a key cultural and economic, political and social role in the history of England.
A new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contestAmerican money and American democracy have always been in tension, pitting political equality against economic inequality.
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTERA Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year'Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain' ALASTAIR CAMPBELL?
Die brachiale politische Durchsetzung eines sozialistischen Herrschafts- und Gesellschaftssystems nach 1945 in Mitteldeutschland verlief parallel zu einer fundamentalen Veränderung der dort bestehenden Wirtschaftsordnung.
Das Buch schließt eine lang bestehende Forschungslücke und beleuchtet erstmalig umfassend die Entwicklung des Konzepts der "agrarischen Übervölkerung" und seine Anwendung auf Südosteuropa.
Als eine der Formen des kulturellen Überbaus war Kunst – ob als ideologisches Bekenntnis, Machtinstrument oder kommerziell gehandelte Ware – stets auf das Engste mit den sozioökonomischen Wandlungsprozessen der jeweils herrschenden Gesellschaftsverhältnisse verbunden.
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Bedeutung regionaler, nationaler und globaler Räume für die Genese einer agrarwissenschaftlichen Tabakforschung während der Sattelzeit.
A new interpretation of the American Revolution as a transformative monetary contestAmerican money and American democracy have always been in tension, pitting political equality against economic inequality.
Als der Danziger Großkaufmann, Johan Pyre, im Jahre 1455 verstarb, hinterließ er ein Kaufmannsbuch, in welches er umfassende Daten und Details zu seiner 35-jährigen Geschäftstätigkeit eingetragen hatte.
*AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* THE INTERNATIONAL #1 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2024 NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ANOBSERVERBOOK OF THE YEAR 2024AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A FINANCIAL TIMES ECONOMICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ';A breathtaking, expansive and imaginative ride through the history and future of money from an author who truly understands it'PROFESSOR BRIAN COX ';Exceptional' FINANCIAL TIMES ';A cracking book that is as enjoyable as it is readable'PETER FRANKOPAN ';Equally entertaining and insightful'YANIS VAROUFAKIS _______________________________________________________ MONEY.
A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of goods from Portuguese trading voyagesfruits of empire that included luxury goods, exotic animals and even enslaved people.
Im vorliegenden Werk mit dem Titel ›Die Erfindung der Sklaverei‹ entfaltet der Autor eine fesselnde Analyse, die den Ursprung und die Entwicklung der Sklaverei in verschiedenen Gesellschaften kritisch beleuchtet.
In ›Die Erfindung des Zufalls‹ taucht der Leser in eine faszinierende Welt ein, in der das scheinbar Unvorhersehbare eine tiefgreifende Ordnung offenbart.
A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.
A Nobel Prize-winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuriesThe world is a better place than it used to be.
La historia económica de España y muchos de los problemas actuales no se entienden sin la influencia de los grupos de presión y los pactos de sangre de las élites con el poder político.