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.

Are ever-increasing incomes for the already-rich still a legitimate goal for advanced nations? Or should we be aiming for prosperity without growth? This book explains that society faces a profound dilemma: economic growth is unsustainable; but economic contraction is unstable. It examines the economic structure and social logic of consumerism.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A story of how one man, one bank and one country experienced and affected the course of world economic history. It tells how Armann Thorvaldsson, a former CEO at Kaupthing in the UK and his company was transformed into a GBP6 billion international bank.

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.

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.

Distinguished by its analytical approach, this book covers applications and examples that analyse the important lessons offered by eBay, drug companies, the Yellow Pages and even Maine Lobstermen.

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.

Combining a global approach with examples from everyday life, this work describes the lives of two children who live very different lives in different parts of the world: in the Mid-West USA and in Ethiopia. Along the way, it provides an introduction to key economic factors and concepts such as individual choices, national policies, and equity.

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