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Kontoret : en historia om arbetsplatserna som formade Sverige
AvCarl Cederström
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
279 kr
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Det börjar 1622 med att det regnar in på ett kontor i Stockholm. Sedan följer en vindlande berättelse från Axel Oxenstiernas statsapparat, via Skeppsbrons handelshus, fram till modern tid då Sverige plötsligt hade fler tjänstemän per capita än något annat land i världen. "Kontoret" är en rik och levande kulturhistoria om kontorsbyggnader och livet innanför deras fasader. Men det är också berättelsen om personerna som format kontoret, från arkitekterna och ingenjörerna till kontorsråttorna, sekreterarna och byråcheferna. Resultatet är en berättelse om en sällsam arbetsplats som sällan varit i strålkastarljuset, men som präglat Sverige mer än vi anat.
Förbannelsen : hur Sverige fastnade i 90-talet och förlorade framtiden
AvKarin Pettersson
Pocket, Svenska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
99 kr
Jag tillhör välfärdsstatens barn, den generation som blev vuxen på 90-talet och formades då – politiskt, kulturellt och moraliskt. Det var en tid när ekonomi alltid trumfade politik, och själv gick jag från att vara en aktivistisk vänstertjej till att studera på Handels och sedan få anställning på Finansdepartementet. Jag växte upp med drömmen om marknaden.” 90-talet var tiden då det sades att historien skulle ta slut, men då den egentligen fortsatte i en helt ny riktning. På ytan var det ett ljust och optimistiskt decennium, men därunder fanns något annat, något mörkt och kaotiskt. "Förbannelsen" är en personlig berättelse och en politisk undersökning av hur Sverige fastnade i 90-talets löften, och vilket pris vi betalar för det idag.
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1929: Historien om den största kraschen i Wall Streets historia
AvAndrew Ross Sorkin
Inbunden, Svenska, 2026
275 kr
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Internationellt hyllad, nu kommer äntligen Andrew Ross Sorkin på svenska.
Andrew Ross Sorkin är journalist och författare, mest känd som finanskrönikör på New York Times och skapare av tv-serien Billions. Han har gjort sig ett namn genom att skildra finansvärlden med både skärpa och berättarglädje.
I hyllade 1929 tar han med läsaren rakt in i den dramatiska börskraschen som krossade Wall Street och utlöste den stora depressionen. Med journalistisk nerv och en imponerande bredd av källor skildrar han inte bara vad som hände, utan varför. Genom att följa bankirer, politiker, spekulanter och beslutsfattare visar Sorkin hur eufori förvandlades till panik, och hur en kombination av övermod, skuldsättning och kollektivt självbedrägeri banade väg för katastrofen.
En berättelse om människor snarare än siffror, och samtidigt en varning: historien upprepar sig oftare än vi vill tro.
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De ekonomiska idéernas historia
AvMartin Kragh
Häftad, Svenska, 2015
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
449 kr
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Människan har genom alla tider resonerat kring ekonomiska fenomen. Denna bok spårar framväxten av ett ekonomiskt tänkande genom historien, från dess tidigaste rötter i filosofi, juridik och teologi. Vi lär känna några av ämnets mest namnkunniga representanter – som Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus och John Maynard Keynes – men även mindre uppmärksammade tänkare som Ibn Khaldun, Henry Thornton och Joan Robinson.I en värld där resurser är begränsade uppstår alltid frågor om pengar, marknader, priser och produktion. Men förståelsen av dessa frågor har varierat över tid. Ett centralt tema är därför betydelsen av idéernas historiska sammanhang. På ett tillgängligt sätt ger boken en vision av det ekonomiska tänkandets framväxt, från Kina och antiken fram till idag. Sålunda berörs äldre tänkande inom områden som islam och kristendom, men också mer moderna idéer om socialism, välfärd och spelteori. En ansats har gjorts för att täcka in alternativa skolbildningar som ekonomisk sociologi, postkeynesianism och feministisk ekonomi.
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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500
AvWim Blockmans,Peter Hoppenbrouwers
Häftad, Engelska, 2023
569 kr
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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy, the growth of cities, the Crusades, the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages. The book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this, the authors cover a wide geographic expanse, including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire, the Islamic World, North Africa and Asia. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect moves toward teaching the Middle Ages in a global context and contains a wealth of new features and topics that help to bring this fascinating era to life, including:West Europe’s catching up through intensive exchange with the Mediterranean Islamic worldgrowth of autonomous cities and civic libertiesemergence of an empirical and rational worldviewclimate change and intercontinental pandemicsEuropean exchange with Africa and Asiachapter introductions to support students’ understanding of the topicsa fully updated glossary to give modern students the confidence and language to discuss medieval historyClear and stimulating, the fourth edition of Introduction to Medieval Europe is the ideal companion to studying the entirety of medieval history at undergraduate level.
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How Progress Ends
Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
AvCarl Benedikt Frey
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
364 kr
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Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year AwardHow 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and even collapseIn How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world’s largest, most advanced economies—the United States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change.By examining key historical moments—from the rise of the steam engine to the dawn of AI—Frey shows why technological shifts have shaped, and sometimes destabilized, entire civilizations. He explores why some leading technological powers of the past—such as Song China, the Dutch Republic, and Victorian Britain—ultimately lost their innovative edge, why some modern nations such as Japan had periods of rapid growth followed by stagnation, and why planned economies like the Soviet Union collapsed after brief surges of progress. Frey uncovers a recurring tension in history: while decentralization fosters the exploration of new technologies, bureaucracy is crucial for scaling them. When institutions fail to adapt to technological change, stagnation inevitably follows. Only by carefully balancing decentralization and bureaucracy can nations innovate and grow over the long term—findings that have worrying implications for the United States, Europe, China, and other economies today.Through a rich narrative that weaves together history, economics, and technology, How Progress Ends reveals that managing the future requires us to draw the right lessons from the past.
Breakneck
China's Quest to Engineer the Future
AvDan Wang
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
145 kr
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The New York Times bestseller, Financial Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearThe book we need to understand China today: a riveting, first-hand account of its seismic progress from an indispensable expert voice For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and sprawling factories to improve economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain throughout society.China has grown so quickly in part by beating America at its own game: capitalism and harnessing the restless energy of a vast population. Here Wang blends political and economic analysis with reportage into a provocative new framework for understanding China – one that helps us see America more clearly, too. Whereas China is an engineering state, relentlessly building big, the United States has transformed into a lawyerly society, stalling every attempt to make change, both good and bad.As relations between the US and China are tense and uncertain and the potential for dreadful conflict looms, Wang offers an inventive new way of thinking about the two superpowers. Breakneck reveals that each country points towards a better path for the other. How much better the world would be, he argues, if Americans could live in a society not only governed by lawyers, and Chinese citizens could live with a state that values their individual liberties.‘An illuminating account of China’s dizzying rise and its deepening pathologies’ Chris Miller 'One of the best books published on China this year' The Times
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Superrika och jämlika : hur kapital och ägande lyfter alla
AvDaniel Waldenström
Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
3,8 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(6)
139 kr258 kr
För länge sedan fanns prinsar och bönder, och mycket få däremellan. Klyftorna mellan rika och fattiga finns fortfarande kvar i vårt samhälle, men den stora berättelsen är en annan. Idag är vi rikare än någonsin tidigare – och trots ett stigande antal miljardärer också jämlikare.
I Superrika och jämlika berättas en ny historia om denna fascinerande historiska utveckling, och en riktning pekas ut för framtiden: Vägen motjämlikhet handlar inte främst om att beskatta framgångsrika entreprenörer – utan om att tvärtom göra det möjligt för fler att bygga en privat förmögenhet.
»Fascinerande … Det här är ett viktigt perspektiv.«Martin Wolf, Financial Times
»En viktig bok.«John Rentoul, The Independent
»Daniel Waldenström, som är professor i nationalekonomi, har skrivit vad jag ser som årets viktigaste bok om ekonomi och politik på svenska. I Superrika och jämlika (2024) tar han hål på den i debatten dominerande föreställningen om att vår tid präglas av snabbt växande ekonomisk ojämlikhet.«Svend Dahl, timbro
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Daniel Waldenström är professor i ekonomi vid Institutet för Näringslivsforskning, där han leder forskningsprogrammet Skatter och samhälle. Tidigare har han undervisat vid Uppsala universitet, Paris School of Economics och UCLA. Hans forskning handlar om ekonomisk ojämlikhet, finanspolitik och ekonomisk historia.
Förbannelsen : hur Sverige fastnade i 90-talet och förlorade framtiden
AvKarin Pettersson
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
4,6 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(18)
281 kr
Jag tillhör välfärdsstatens barn, den generation som blev vuxen på 90-talet och formades då – politiskt, kulturellt och moraliskt. Det var en tid när ekonomi alltid trumfade politik, och själv gick jag från att vara en aktivistisk vänstertjej till att studera på Handels och sedan få anställning på Finansdepartementet. Jag växte upp med drömmen om marknaden.” 90-talet var tiden då det sades att historien skulle ta slut, men då den egentligen fortsatte i en helt ny riktning. På ytan var det ett ljust och optimistiskt decennium, men därunder fanns något annat, något mörkt och kaotiskt. "Förbannelsen" är en personlig berättelse och en politisk undersökning av hur Sverige fastnade i 90-talets löften, och vilket pris vi betalar för det idag.
Caliban and the Witch
Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
AvSilvia Federici
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
141 kr
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'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It Is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood.'Rewarding . . . allows us to better understand the intimate relationship between modern patriarchy, the rise of the nation state and the transition from feudalism to capitalism' Guardian
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Surviving Rome
The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent
AvKim Bowes
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
465 kr
A radical revision—and worker’s-eye view—of everything we thought we knew about the ancient Roman economyThe story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived through a combination of grit and grinding labor.Focusing on the working majority, Kim Bowes tells the stories of people like the tenant farmer Epimachus, Faustilla the moneylender, and the pimp Philokles. She reveals how the economic changes of the period created a set of bitter challenges and opportunistic hustles for everyone from farmers and craftspeople to day laborers and slaves. She finds working people producing a consumer revolution, making and buying all manner of goods from fine pottery to children’s toys. Many of the poorest working people probably pieced together a living from multiple sources of income, including wages. And she suggests that Romans’ most daunting challenge was the struggle to save. Like many modern people, saving enough to buy land or start a business was a slow, precarious slog. Bowes shows how these economies of survival were shared by a wide swath of the populace, blurring the lines between genders, ages, and legal status.Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world.
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Global Economic History
A Very Short Introduction
AvRobert C. Allen
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
113 kr
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringWhy are some countries rich, and some poor? Does this status persist throughout time, and if so, why? How can a country escape poverty?In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen explores the interplay of geography, globalization, technological change, economic policy, and institutions, to show how they have determined the wealth and poverty of nations around the world. Using historical examples to analyse the factors that have influenced growth, he exposes what has caused the unequal world we live in today, focusing on recent changes in equality and world economic disruption. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity - FROM THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS
AvDaron Acemoglu
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
204 kr
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'Timely ... an important call to arms' FINANCIAL TIMES'A must-read' THOMAS PIKETTY, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century'A thoughtful solution to the most important question of modern democracy' JARED DIAMOND, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel'Brilliant and insightful a tour de force' STEVEN LEVITT, author of FreakonomicsFrom its inception, liberalism offered a glittering promise of shared prosperity, equality, democratic values and the free pursuit of knowledge. At first, it flourished. And then it faltered. Once a tantalising beacon of hope, it began to erode and decay at the hands of elitism, intolerance and rising autocracy. One could say that liberalism is broken. So what comes next? Nobel prize-winning co-author of Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu charts the rise and fall of liberal democracy, and offers hope for a way forward: a new theory that lays the groundwork for how we can - and must - remake liberalism before it's too late.
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Vår världs ekonomiska historia. D. 1, Den förindustriella tiden
AvJohan Söderberg
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
373 kr
Vår världs ekonomiska historia - den förindustriella tiden ger en bred översikt av de stora dragen i världens ekonomiska historia under flera tusen år, från mänsklighetens begynnelse fram till 1800. Vi följer hur ekonomierna i de olika världsdelarna formades och förändrades, och hur de med tiden kom att mötas och samspela med varandra.För tusen år sedan var Europa en glesbefolkad och ganska primitiv del av världen. I Kina och Mellersta Östern fanns då mer utvecklade ekonomiska system. Först under medeltiden började Europa att förändras på ett sätt som gav kontinenten ett ekonomiskt och militärt försteg gentemot andra delar av världen.Praktiskt tillämpad kunskap började spela en större roll i ekonomin. Med boktryckarkonsten blev det mycket billigare att lagra och sprida kunskap. Kunskapen bidrog till att driva fram tekniska, kulturella och ekonomiska nyheter. Den förändrade också människors anspråk på livet och efterfrågan på en mängd varor ökade. Kolonialvaror som bland annat socker, kakao och kaffe fick stor betydelse i den internationella handeln. På andra sidan Atlanten ledde denna handel till uppkomsten av plantager som drevs med slavar som tagits som fångar i Afrika. Ekonomierna i de olika världsdelarna påverkade varandra alltmer, men på ett ojämlikt sätt.Denna fjärde upplaga innehåller inga förändringar av innehållet jämfört med den tredje upplagan.
1929
Inside the Crash
AvAndrew Ross Sorkin
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
188 kr
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A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times'Superb... brings the great drama to life' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesA spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society todayIn 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.With unparalleled access to historical records and newly uncovered documents, New York Times bestselling author Andrew Ross Sorkin takes readers inside the chaos of the crash, behind the scenes of a raging battle between Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose ambition and naivety in an endless boom led to wreckage. The dizzying highs and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’s world—where markets soar, political tensions mount, and the fight over financial influence plays out once again.This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.Hailed as a landmark book, Too Big to Fail reimagined how financial crises are told. Now, with 1929, Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.*The Atlantic Monthly
Debt
The First 5,000 Years, Updated and Expanded
AvDavid Graeber
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
239 kr
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Abundance
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD: How We Build a Better Future
AvEzra Klein,Derek Thompson
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
166 kr
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2025**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR'A must-read for progressives' BARACK OBAMA'Downing Street's current hot read' ANDREW MARR'Forceful, quick-moving, important' FINANCIAL TIMESThe threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of effective action by so-called progressives.We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer deliver on big ideas. It's time for change.Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have spent decades analysing the political, economic and cultural forces that have led us here. In this once-in-a-generation intervention, they unpick the barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds. From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.
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Sveriges ekonomiska historia
AvLars Magnusson
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
2,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
575 kr
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Detta är historien om hur det svenska samhället har löst sina försörjningsproblem från forntiden fram till idag.Hur stor betydelse har egentligen dramatiska ekonomiska händelser i vår egen tid? Är de långsamma förändringarna i samhällets struktur mer avgörande för samhällsutvecklingen? I Sveriges ekonomiska historia belyser Lars Magnusson båda dessa rörelser - de långa vågorna som till exempel kännetecknas av jordbrukets införande, den industriella revolutionen och förändringar i samhällets sociala struktur samt de plötsliga förändringsprocesserna såsom Sveriges förlust av Baltikum, börskraschen 1929 eller finanskrisen på 1990-talet. Mot bakgrund av internationell och utländsk forskning tecknar han huvuddragen i denna mer än tusen år långa utveckling.Den sjätte utgåvan har uppdaterats och reviderats och tar oss hela vägen fram till vår egen samtid då mycket håller på att förändras som kommer att påverka vår ekonomi för lång tid framåt.Denna sjunde upplaga innehåller inga förändringar av innehållet jämfört med den sjätte upplagan.
Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
AvJoseph Henrich
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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204 kr
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'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or achievements, rather than your family network? Do you cultivate your unique attributes and goals? If so, perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. Unlike most who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, nonconformist, analytical and control-oriented. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically peculiar? What part did these differences play in our history, and what do they mean for our collective identity? Joseph Henrich, who developed the game-changing concept of WEIRD, uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today. Brilliant, provocative, engaging and surprising, this landmark study will revolutionize your understanding of who - and how - we are now. 'Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale' Washington Post'You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values' Uta Frith, Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London
Great Transformation
The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
AvKarl Polanyi
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
141 kr
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‘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. Tracing the history of capitalism from the great transformation of the industrial revolution onwards, he shows that there has been nothing 'natural' about the market state. Instead of reducing human relations and our environment to mere commodities, the economy must always be embedded in civil society. Describing the 'avalanche of social dislocation' of his time, Polanyi’s hugely influential work is a passionate call to protect our common humanity.‘Polanyi's vision for an alternative economy re-embedded in politics and social relations offers a refreshing alternative’ Guardian‘Polanyi exposes the myth of the free market’ Joseph E. StiglitzWith a new introduction by Gareth Dale
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order
Why Nations Succeed or Fail
AvRay Dalio
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
309 kr
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From legendary investor Ray Dalio, author of the international bestseller Principles, who has spent half a century studying global economies and markets, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes - but similar to those that have happened many times before. A few years ago, Ray Dalio noticed a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before. They included huge debts and zero or near-zero interest rates that led to massive printing of money in the world’s three major reserve currencies; big political and social conflicts within countries, especially the US, due to the largest wealth, political and values disparities in more than 100 years; and the rising of a world power (China) to challenge the existing world power (US) and the existing world order. The last time that this confluence occurred was between 1930 and 1945. This realisation sent Dalio on a search for the repeating patterns and cause/effect relationships underlying all major changes in wealth and power over the last 500 years.In this remarkable and timely addition to his Principles series, Dalio brings readers along for his study of the major empires - including the Dutch, the British and the American - putting into perspective the 'Big Cycle' that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history.Dalio reveals the timeless and universal forces behind these shifts and uses them to look into the future, offering practical principles for positioning oneself for what’s ahead.
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Vad är ekonomisk historia?
AvLena Andersson-Skog,Oskar Brobergm. fl.
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
431 kr
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Boken är ett unikt nationellt projekt genom dess representation av författare från samtliga svenska lärosäten som undervisar i ekonomisk historia på alla utbildningsnivåer. Bokens 25 författare är också aktiva forskare och bidragen bygger på en stor samlad erfarenhet av aktuell svensk och internationell forskning inom ämnet.Vad är ekonomisk historia? är en introducerande lärobok i ekonomisk historia som syftar till att väcka nyfikenhet för ämnet, samt visa på dess möjligheter som akademisk disciplin och tillämpad samhällsvetenskap. Boken visar hur ekonomisk-historiska perspektiv, teorier och metoder kan användas för att analysera olika utvecklingsförlopp med avgörande betydelse för samhällsutvecklingen då som nu.Genom att använda olika verktyg ur de historiska och ekonomiska verktygslådorna vänder och vrider forskare inom ekonomisk historia på begrepp som tillväxt, industrialisering, resursfördelning, kapital och arbete. På detta sätt bidrar ämnet till vår förståelse av mänsklighetens långa historia, samtidigt som det också bidrar med nya perspektiv på vår egen samtid.Vad är ekonomisk historia? består av 13 kapitel, de tre första kapitlen behandlar ämnets historia, teorier och metoder. De därpå följande kapitlen lyfter ett urval av de frågor som ekonomhistoriker arbetar med. Boken vänder sig främst till universitets- och högskolestudenter på grundläggande nivå och fungerar utmärkt som en introduktion till ämnet.
Why Nations Fail
The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
AvDaron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
204 kr
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Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of what the right policies are? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Otherwise, how to explain why Botswana has become one of the fastest growing countries in the world, while other African nations, such as Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Sierra Leone, are mired in poverty and violence? Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Korea, to take just one of their fascinating examples, is a remarkably homogeneous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The south forged a society that created incentives, rewarded innovation, and allowed everyone to participate in economic opportunities. The economic success thus spurred was sustained because the government became accountable and responsive to citizens and the great mass of people. Sadly, the people of the north have endured decades of famine, political repression, and very different economic institutions—with no end in sight. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created these completely different institutional trajectories. Based on fifteen years of original research Acemoglu and Robinson marshall extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, medieval Venice, the Soviet Union, Latin America, England, Europe, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, including: - China has built an authoritarian growth machine. Will it continue to grow at such high speed and overwhelm the West? - Are America’s best days behind it? Are we moving from a virtuous circle in which efforts by elites to aggrandize power are resisted to a vicious one that enriches and empowers a small minority? - What is the most effective way to help move billions of people from the rut of poverty to prosperity? More philanthropy from the wealthy nations of the West? Or learning the hard-won lessons of Acemoglu and Robinson’s breakthrough ideas on the interplay between inclusive political and economic institutions? Why Nations Fail will change the way you look at—and understand—the world.
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An Economic History of Europe
Knowledge, Institutions and Welfare, Prehistory to the Present
AvKarl Gunnar Persson,Paul Sharpm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
484 kr
In this revised and updated edition, An Economic History of Europe re-establishes itself as the leading textbook on European economic history. With an expanded scope, from prehistory to the present, it will be invaluable source for students, educators and researchers seeking to better understand Europe's long-run economic development. The authors cover key themes including the rise of institutions, technological advancements, globalization, and the Industrial Revolution, with a fresh emphasis on the wider impact of economic policies on welfare reflecting a broader understanding of societal well-being. The chronological structure, clear explanations, case studies, and minimal use of complex mathematics make this an accessible approach that allows students to apply economic theories in historical practice. The new edition also connects historical development to urgent contemporary issues such as modern-day sustainability goals. This comprehensive guide provides students with both a historical narrative of Europe's economic transformation, and the essential tools for analysing it.
Capital Order
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
AvClara E. Mattei
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
248 kr
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A Financial Times Best Book of the Year"A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas PikettyA groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins. For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the economic policies of austerity—cuts to wages, fiscal spending, and public benefits—as a path to solvency. While these policies have been successful in appeasing creditors, they’ve had devastating effects on social and economic welfare in countries all over the world. Today, as austerity remains a favored policy among troubled states, an important question remains: What if solvency was never really the goal? In The Capital Order, political economist Clara E. Mattei explores the intellectual origins of austerity to uncover its originating motives: the protection of capital—and indeed capitalism—in times of social upheaval from below. Mattei traces modern austerity to its origins in interwar Britain and Italy, revealing how the threat of working-class power in the years after World War I animated a set of top-down economic policies that elevated owners, smothered workers, and imposed a rigid economic hierarchy across their societies. Where these policies “succeeded,” relatively speaking, was in their enrichment of certain parties, including employers and foreign trade interests, who accumulated power and capital at the expense of labor. Here, Mattei argues, is where the true value of austerity can be observed: its insulation of entrenched privilege and its elimination of all alternatives to capitalism. Drawing on newly uncovered archival material from Britain and Italy, much of it translated for the first time, The Capital Order offers a damning and essential new account of the rise of austerity—and of modern economics—at the levers of contemporary political power.
1873
The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World
AvLiaquat Ahamed
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
265 kr
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***LONGLISTED FOR THE FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2026***From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity.On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial markets, some countries defaulted on their debts, while the Bank of England was forced to raise its rates to their highest level in a century. It was the first global crash in history. And it was to have calamitous consequences.In his powerful new book, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance tells the epic story of that crash and explores its economic and human costs. He describes how the growth of the international bond market in the 1850s and 60s funded a frenzy of speculation in railways, construction and nation-building. He examines those who became swept up in the boom, from leading bankers like the Rothschild dynasty to national leaders both visionary and venal, to rogues and chancers like the shameless Jay Gould, to such sceptical onlookers as Mark Twain and Karl Marx. He then traces how, in the subsequent panic, investors were left with catastrophic losses, while governments on both sides of the Atlantic rushed misguidedly to reorder the world’s financial system.As he shows, the blunders made as the crisis unfolded set the stage for twenty years of deflation, and a punitive legacy of aggrieved populism that infected every part of the globe. Amid the crash’s many aftershocks, the US abandoned Reconstruction, European powers staged an economic takeover of the heavily indebted Ottoman Empire, and the principle of international free trade came under pressure. Meanwhile there was a revival of antisemitic movements in Europe that blamed ‘Jewish finance’ for the disaster.A brilliant evocation of a key turning point in world history, 1873 is also a masterly examination of the unforeseen political and social consequences of financial misjudgements.
Crack-Up Capitalism
Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
AvQuinn Slobodian
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
125 kr
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'Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining' Financial Times'Revelatory reading' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed'After reading Quinn Slobodian's new book, you are not likely to think about capitalism the same way' JacobinLook at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: tax havens, free ports, city-states, gated enclaves and special economic zones. These new spaces are freed from ordinary forms of regulation, taxation and mutual obligation - and with them, ultracapitalists believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether.Historian Quinn Slobodian follows the most notorious radical libertarians - from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel - around the globe as they search for the perfect home for their free market fantasy. The hunt leads from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the medieval City of London, and finally into the world's oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where capitalism and democracy can be finally uncoupled.Crack-Up Capitalism is a propulsive history of the recent past, and an alarming view of our near future.
Breakneck
China's Quest to Engineer the Future
AvDan Wang
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(3)
309 kr
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The New York Times bestseller, Financial Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearShortlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the YearThe book we need to understand China today: a riveting, first-hand account of its seismic progress from an indispensable expert voice For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and sprawling factories to improve economic outcomes in record time. But rapid change has also sent ripples of pain throughout society.China has grown so quickly in part by beating America at its own game: capitalism and harnessing the restless energy of a vast population. Here Wang blends political and economic analysis with reportage into a provocative new framework for understanding China – one that helps us see America more clearly, too. Whereas China is an engineering state, relentlessly building big, the United States has transformed into a lawyerly society, stalling every attempt to make change, both good and bad.As relations between the US and China are tense and uncertain and the potential for dreadful conflict looms, Wang offers an inventive new way of thinking about the two superpowers. Breakneck reveals that each country points towards a better path for the other. How much better the world would be, he argues, if Americans could live in a society not only governed by lawyers, and Chinese citizens could live with a state that values their individual liberties.‘An illuminating account of China’s dizzying rise and its deepening pathologies’ Chris Miller 'One of the best books published on China this year' The Times
Capitalism and Freedom
AvMilton Friedman
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(1)
244 kr
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One of TIME magazine's All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books One of Times Literary Supplement's Hundred Most Influential Books Since the War One of National Review's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Century One of Intercollegiate Studies Institute's 50 Best Books of the 20th Century How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. First published in 1962, Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom is one of the most significant works of economic theory ever written. Enduring in its eminence and esteem, it has sold nearly a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and continues to inform economic thinking and policymaking around the world. This new edition includes prefaces written by Friedman for both the 1982 and 2002 reissues of the book, as well as a new foreword by Binyamin Appelbaum, lead economics writer for the New York Times editorial board.
Succér & skandaler : 24 händelser som format näringslivet
AvWeje Sandén
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
3,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster:(2)
214 kr
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Succér och skandaler tar dig med på en spännande läsupplevelse genom några av det svenska näringslivets mest händelserika kapitel de senaste 125 åren. Boken behandlar lättsamt och initierat 24 händelser som format näringslivet. Boken riktar sig till intresserade av ekonomi, näringsliv, börs och nutidshistoria, såsom aktieintresserade, yrkesverksamma och studenter inom ekonomi och finans.

Ekonomisk historia

Kontoret : en historia om arbetsplatserna som formade Sverige

Förbannelsen : hur Sverige fastnade i 90-talet och förlorade framtiden

1929: Historien om den största kraschen i Wall Streets historia

De ekonomiska idéernas historia

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

How Progress Ends

Breakneck

Superrika och jämlika : hur kapital och ägande lyfter alla

Förbannelsen : hur Sverige fastnade i 90-talet och förlorade framtiden

Caliban and the Witch

Surviving Rome

Global Economic History

What Happened to Liberal Democracy?

Vår världs ekonomiska historia. D. 1, Den förindustriella tiden

1929

Debt

Abundance

Sveriges ekonomiska historia

Weirdest People in the World

Great Transformation

Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order

Vad är ekonomisk historia?

Why Nations Fail

An Economic History of Europe

Capital Order

1873

Crack-Up Capitalism

Breakneck

Capitalism and Freedom

Succér & skandaler : 24 händelser som format näringslivet