In einer zunehmend komplexen globalen Wirtschaft spielt die Rolle des Staates eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Gestaltung von Inflation und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit.
'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong KongThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.
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 historyHow do societies tackle epidemic disease?
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.