The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn
By: Avner Offer
3.86
Format: 344 pages, Unknown Binding
How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the …
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By: Adam Tooze
4.20
Format: 42 pages, Hardcover
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2. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
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3. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
4. The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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"I appeared as counsel in the first case, in a barrister’s wig and gown at a hearing in a makeshift courtroom in Hamburg’s Town Hall; years later, Judge Mensah told me, with a big grin, that he wonder…"-Philippe Sands, The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
5. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies
By: Mariana Mazzucato
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A vital and timely investigation into the opaque and powerful consulting industry and what to do ab… read more
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6. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
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"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
7. The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn
By: Avner Offer
3.86
Format: 344 pages, Unknown Binding
How the creation of the Nobel Prize in Economics changed the economics profession, Sweden, and the … read more
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8. Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War
By: Michael de Groot
3.75
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
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