Ekonomisk historia
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Pocket, Svenska, 2026
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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Inbunden, Svenska, 2024
139 kr258 kr
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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.
Häftad, Svenska, 2025
374 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.
Häftad, Svenska, 2015
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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
145 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
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
468 kr
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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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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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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
Inbunden, Svenska, 2025
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.
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Del 117 - Konferenser / Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien
Lantmäteriet och Karl XI:s reduktion : statsförvaltningens utveckling under 1600-talets slut
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
289 kr
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I Lantmäteriet och Karl XI:s reduktion bidrar geografer, historiker och en konstvetare med perspektiv på utvecklingen av Sveriges lantmäteri och statsförvaltning i slutet av 1600-talet. Här ryms detaljerade studier av storskalig geometrisk och småskalig geografisk kartläggning samt analyser av breda politiska förändringar under en formativ fas i statsförvaltningens historia. Tillsammans synliggör forskarna hur lantmäteriet, som hade startats 1628, under det sena 1600-talet kom att bli ett modernt och effektivt instrument för hantering av ägoregleringar och skattereduktion. I ett politiskt landskap, präglat av Karl XI, skiftade maktbalansen mellan frälset, kronan och skattebönderna. Reduktionskarteringarna stärkte kronans intressen och minskade högadelns inflytande.
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This anthology comprises 14 chapters that expand our understanding of a formative phase in the development of Sweden’s land surveying and state administration in the late 17th century. The contributions range from detailed studies of large-scale geometric and smallscale geographic maps to analyses of broader political transformations. Following Gustav II Adolf’s distribution of estates and declining tax revenues, survey activity declined around 1650 but was vigorously resumed under Karl XI, when the Reduction demanded extensive mapping of noble and Crown estates, soldiers’ crofts, forests and commons. In a political landscape marked by absolutism and shifting balances of power between the nobility, the crown and freeholders, mapping strengthened the state’s interests and reduced the old nobility’s influence. Taken together, the volume shows how an initially vague defined project evolved into a modern, legally effective instrument that laid the groundwork for later land enclosure, land reforms and a more efficient state administration.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
263 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
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
263 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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
239 kr
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
507 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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.
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
Häftad, Svenska, 2024
576 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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
333 kr
One of the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2026 So Far"How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.Yuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a very real demographic: a wave of hundreds of thousands of highly educated young professionals that washed over New York during that decade. As Wall Street moved to the center of American life, it drew a generation of young people into its vortex. For the first time, banks recruited roughly one-third of graduating classes from top universities.America’s economy had a new main character. Young bankers extracted profits from waning industries, shattering the foundations on which stable middle-class employment had long rested. Yuppie lawyers devised deals and tax strategies that eroded workers’ power and wages. As consumers, yuppies created new cultures of fitness and of excess, popularizing marathon running and fine dining as status markers. As city-dwellers, they were pioneers of gentrification. And as voters and political donors, yuppies engineered a takeover of local and national government, using their wealth to back candidates who would remake the country in their image.Yuppies reminds us that we still live in the shadow of the greed-is-good 1980s: Our cities are playgrounds for the wealthy, and Wall Street and Washington remain locked in a tight embrace. Dylan Gottlieb’s exquisite recounting leaves no doubt that the yuppie takeover of New York began a more unequal chapter in American life—one we continue writing today.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
370 kr
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Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the YearThe most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods.The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines-on punishment of death-and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it?The answers lie in Blood in the Machine. Brian Merchant intertwines a lucid examination of our current age with the story of the Luddites, showing how automation changed our world-and is shaping our future.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
113 kr
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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
250 kr
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How much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How much does it influence our children? More than we wish to believe. While it has been argued that rigid class structures have eroded in favor of greater social equality, The Son Also Rises proves that movement on the social ladder has changed little over eight centuries. Using a novel technique--tracking family names over generations to measure social mobility across countries and periods--renowned economic historian Gregory Clark reveals that mobility rates are lower than conventionally estimated, do not vary across societies, and are resistant to social policies. Clark examines and compares surnames in such diverse cases as modern Sweden and Qing Dynasty China. He demonstrates how fate is determined by ancestry and that almost all societies have similarly low social mobility rates. Challenging popular assumptions about mobility and revealing the deeply entrenched force of inherited advantage, The Son Also Rises is sure to prompt intense debate for years to come.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
185 kr
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** A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2025**A sweeping history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest criticsAt a time when we are faced with fundamental questions about the sustainability and morality of the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from colonialism and the Industrial Revolution to the ecological crisis and artificial intelligence.John Cassidy adopts a bold new approach: he tells the story through the eyes of the system’s critics. From eighteenth-century weavers who rebelled against early factory automation to Eric Williams's paradigm-changing work on slavery and capitalism, to the Latin American dependistas, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement, this absorbing narrative traverses the globe. It looks at familiar figures – Smith, Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, Polanyi – from a fresh perspective, but also focuses on many less familiar, including William Thompson, the Irish proto-socialist whose work influenced Marx; Flora Tristan, the French proponent of a universal labour union; John Hobson, the original theorist of imperialism; and J. C. Kumarappa, the Indian exponent of Gandhian economics.Blending biography, panoramic history, and lively exploration of economic theories, Capitalism and Its Critics illuminates the deep roots of many of the most urgent issues of our time.
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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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
141 kr
*The #1 Sunday Times bestseller*'Explosive and beautifully told … these truths can set us free' - Danny Dorling'This book is dynamite – shining a spotlight on the evils of neoliberalism, shattering the myth that ‘there is no alternative’, and laying the foundations for a new politics' - Caroline LucasHow can you fight something if you don’t know it exists?We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our relationships and our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law.But trace it back to its roots, and we discover that it is neither inevitable nor immutable. It was conceived, propagated, and then concealed by the powerful few. Our task is to bring it into the light—and to build a new system that is worth fighting for.Neoliberalism. Do you know what it is?
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
507 kr
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*A New York Times Notable Book * A Financial Times Best Book of the Year'A learned, formidable and vivid story… Readers around the world will study and ponder this monumental work of history, agreeing and arguing with it, all the while affirming its generational importance, for decades to come' The New York Times'Epic… Read this book and you will learn innumerable things you did not previously know culled from places you have never been' Financial TimesA brilliant global narrative that unravels the defining story of the past thousand years No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situates the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework in this fascinating new book.Capitalism, argues Beckert, was born global. Emerging from merchant communities across Asia, Africa and Europe, capitalism’s radical recasting of economic life rooted itself only gradually. Then it burst onto the world scene, as European states and merchants built a powerful alliance that would propel them across the oceans. This epic drama corresponded at no point to an idealised dream of free markets. All along, state-backed institutions and imperial expansions shaped its dynamics.Capitalism decentres the European perspective, highlighting agency, resistance, innovation and ruthless coercion around the world through to the present with the rise of Asian economies, particularly China. Sven Beckert doesn’t merely add up capitalism’s debits and credits in this monumental book, but allows us to think afresh about the past to help us re-imagine the future.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
312 kr
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A #1 international bestseller Named a BEST BOOK OF 2025 in The Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times One of Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2025'One of the best narrative histories I've read' Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,”* comes a 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
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
141 kr
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**A Sunday Times Bestseller****An Economist Best Book of the Year**The celebrated historian and journalist uncovers the networks trying to destroy the democratic worldAll of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man at the top. But in the 21st century, that cartoon bears little resemblance to reality. Nowadays, autocracies are run not by one bad guy, but by sophisticated networks composed of kleptocratic financial structures, security services and professional propagandists. The members of these networks are connected not only within a given country, but among many countries. The corrupt, state-controlled companies in one dictatorship do business with corrupt, state-controlled companies in another. The police in one country can arm, equip, and train the police in another. The propagandists share resources—the troll farms that promote one dictator’s propaganda can also be used to promote the propaganda of another—and themes, pounding home the same messages about the weakness of democracy and the evil of America.Unlike military or political alliances from other times and places, this group doesn’t operate like a bloc, but rather like an agglomeration of companies: Autocracy, Inc. Their relations are not based on values, but are rather transactional, which is why they operate so easily across ideological, geographical, and cultural lines. In truth, they are in full agreement about only one thing: Their dislike of us, the inhabitants of the democratic world, and their desire to see both our political systems and our values undermine.That shared understanding of the world—where it comes from, why it lasts, how it works, how the democratic world has unwittingly helped to consolidate it, and how we can help bring it down—is the subject of this book.
Weirdest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
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
Häftad, Svenska, 2026
214 kr
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.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
125 kr
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*An Economist, Financial Times, Times and New Statesman Book of the Year*Shortlisted for the FT Business Book of the Year Award and the British Academy Book Prize, Longlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize'Compelling' TIM MARSHALL'Lively, rich and exciting' PETER FRANKOPAN'Vitally important' TIM HARFORD_____________Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take these six crucial materials completely for granted.In Material World, Ed Conway travels the globe to uncover a secret world we rarely see. As we wrestle with climate change, energy crises and the threat of new global conflict, Conway shows why these substances matter more than ever before, and how the hidden battle to control them will shape our geopolitical future.