Helps to transform the way we look at the world.

In the seventh volume of the successful 50 Ideas series, Daily Telegraph economics editor Edmund Conway introduces and explains the central ideas of economics in a series of 50 clear and concise essays.

Over the years, some GBP3 trillion has been taken from us by the ruling elites. Half was wasted in a splurge of poorly-managed public spending in the 'boom', while the other half evaporated in the 'bust'. This title charts the greatest impoverishment and tax swindle of the public in British history.

Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and well-being for a global population projected to reach nine billion? Written by a top sustainability adviser to the UK government, this book makes a case against continued economic growth in developed nations.

Asking questions about human motivation and living and reaching some conclusions, this book aims to be at the heart of things we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us: from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams.

A brilliant and eye-opening explanation of the economics of everyday life - Britain's answer to FREAKONOMICS

One of the world's biggest and most successful banks, Lehman Brothers bank's downfall was the event that sparked the slide of the world economy toward a Great Depression II. This title presents the inside story of the dark characters who ruled Lehman and the crash that didn't have to happen.

A prescient book criticising the greed and unsustainable economic practices which have proved to be the seeds of a world-wide recession. It considers how the economic landscape has shifted in a decade, and asks the crucial question: where do we go from here?

Exposes the shock doctors and offers information and connections that show how the shock doctors' beliefs dominate our world - and how this domination has been achieved. This book tells the tale of how a few are making a killing while more are getting killed.

BBC Business Editor Robert Peston lifts the lid on credit crunch Britain and the rise of the super-rich.

As an EHM in the '60s and '70s, covertly recruited by the US National Security Agency, John Perkins helped further American imperial interests in countries such as Ecuador, Panama, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. He tried to write this book four times but was threatened or bribed each time to halt. The events of 9/11 forced him to reveal the truth.

In the financial crisis, John Maynard Keynes has been taken out of his cupboard, dusted down, consulted, cited, invoked and appealed to about why events have taken the course they have and how a rescue operation can be effected.

An accessible, compelling and authoritative account of the financial destruction of Iceland

Written by the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, this title shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up for the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. It also lays out the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis.

Explains the causes of the world economic crisis and how we should respond to the challenges it brings. This book urges readers to resist the siren voices that promote isolationism and nationalism as the answer to economic woes.

This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, and political structures, Professor Sen provides a useful overview of the development process.

From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. This book aims to challenge the economic wisdom that got us into this mess, and puts forward a fresh vision that can transform economics and restore prosperity.

The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as the best non-fiction book so far this year by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times.

Economics seventh edition is all new. A new co author Alison Wride from the University of Exeter has joined the team to build on the well known and well loved previous six editions. The new seventh edition continues to provide a comprehensive and completely up-to-date self-contained introduction to the world of economics.

A dazzling application of new economic theories to the world around us - by the author of THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST