Economics Books

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

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.

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.

Economics doesn't just happen in classrooms or international banks. It is everywhere and influences everything we do and see, from the cinema screen to the streets. This book reveals why many of the most puzzling parts of everyday life actually make perfect (economic) sense.

From Black Monday to the Asian financial crisis, from the internet bubble to mortgage meltdown, our lives are ruled by crazy cycles of euphoria and hysteria that manage to grip the world but are all-too-soon forgotten. This book gives us an insight into how markets really operate - and who really knows what they're talking about.

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

With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce recession. This work explains the arcane financial instruments, the chicanery, the policy mis-judgments, the dogmas, and the delusions that created the greatest credit bubble in world history.

The most remarkable thing that happened to the world economy after 9/11 was nothing. The post 9/11 global economy is a turbulent system, flexible, resilient, open, and self-directing. This title offers a reckoning with the nature of this world - how we got here, what we're living through, and what lies over the horizon, for good or ill.

wHAT HAPPENED & 99 OTHER QUESTIUONS EVERYONE IS ASKING ABOUT THE FINAMCIAL CRISIS

With its succinct, focussed and easy-to-follow approach covering both AS and A2, Revision Express is the fast and effective route to exam success. This new edition has been fully revised and updated for the new A-levels.

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.

Examines the emerging patterns and developments in society, technology, economy, and business, and makes educated speculations as to where they might take us. This work is suitable for business analysts, strategists and organisations who need to stay ahead of the game.

Includes material on the market crisis. This book presents models where the complex gyrations of the FTSE 100 and exchange rates can be reduced to straightforward formulae that yield a much more accurate description of the risks involved.

Reveals the dogma that has brought us to the brink of disaster, and show us how to escape from the coils of faith-based thinking. This book argues that as market forces bear down on health, education and the professions, the middle classes are starting to feel the squeeze.

Simplifies the history, principles, theories, and terminology behind micro and macroeconomics, helping readers get to grips with how economic decisions affect them, their finances, and the world around them.

The subprime mortgage crisis wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and threatened to derail the US economy and economies around the world. This book calls for a restructuring of the institutional foundations of the financial system that can allow people once again to buy and sell homes with confidence.

Offers an analysis of the forces behind the economic crisis. In a series of disarmingly simple arguments, this work challenges the core principles of the economic orthodoxy, explaining why financial markets do not obey the efficient market principles described in economic textbooks but are instead inherently unstable and habitually crisis prone.

A guide to economics that leads you through many of the mysteries of the economy. It makes the economics pages of the newspaper intelligible and addresses the concerns that worry us all.

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.

Argues that the financial turmoil signals a crisis in globalisation that will challenge the free market economic model. This book shows that the housing bubbles in the West were deliberately created to mask the damage inflicted by companies shifting production abroad in an attempt to boost profits.