Results for 'adam tooze'

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  1. The Great Transformation
    1. Karl Polanyi

    The Great Transformation

    The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

    ‘One of the most powerful books in social sciences ever written. Polanyi convincingly shows that market fundamentalism, the religion of competition and the commodification of social relations largely contributed to fragilize Western societies and to lead to the authoritarian and totalitarian nightmare of 1914-1945. The same risk applies today at the global scale. A must-read.’

    € 17,95
  2. Control Science
    1. Henry Snow

    Control Science

    How Management Made the Modern World

    What are the rules that govern our workday? Who made them? And how do these rules dominate the rest of our lives?

    € 30,50
  3. The Great Wave
    1. Michiko Kakutani

    The Great Wave

    The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

    An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today’s world – from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth ‘A profoundly inspiring and prophetic perspective on the contemporary world’ Ai Weiwei

    € 13,95
  4. The Big Short
    1. Michael Lewis

    The Big Short

    Inside the Doomsday Machine

    From the jungles of the trading floor to the casinos of Las Vegas, The Big Short, this title tells the story of the misfits, renegades and visionaries who saw that the biggest credit bubble of all time was about to burst, bet against the banking system - and made a killing.

    € 17,95
  5. Unpaid
    1. Matthew Cole

    Unpaid

    The Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft

    Why work doesn't pay

    € 23,50
  6. How Will Capitalism End?
    1. Wolfgang Streeck

    How Will Capitalism End?

    Essays on a Failing System

    THIS IS THE WAY CAPITALISM ENDS, NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER

    € 16,50
  7. Shutdown
    1. Adam Tooze

    Shutdown

    How Covid Shook the World's Economy

    A complex story, which Tooze tells with clarity and verve... The world is unlikely to be treated to a better account of the economics of the pandemic.

    € 16,50
  8. The Shield of Achilles
    1. Philip Bobbitt

    The Shield of Achilles

    War, Peace and the Course of History

    Sets out to interpret history of the twentieth century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic 'cold' competition lasted from the outbreak of the first world war until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

    € 27,50
  9. Extraction
    1. Thea Riofrancos

    Extraction

    The Frontiers of Green Capitalism

    Thea Riofrancos has been featured in Granta, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She is a political science professor at Providence College, and a strategic codirector of the Climate and Community Institute. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

    € 16,50
  10. Adam Tooze

    Adam Tooze

    Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. J. Adam Tooze (* 1967) ist ein britischer Wirtschaftshistoriker. Tooze studierte am King's College (Cambridge) Volkswirtschaftslehre und an der FU Berlin. Er erlangte 1996 eine Ph.D. in Wirtschaftsgeschichte an der London School of Economics and Political Science. Tooze lehrte seit 1996 Wirtschaftsgeschichte am Jesus College der University of Cambridge. Seit 2009 ist er Professor für moderne deutsche Geschichte an der Yale University. Der unabhängigen Historikerkommission, die vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen am 14. Juli 2009 eingesetzt wurde, um die NS-Verstrickungen des Reichsfinanzministeriums aufzuklären, gehört Tooze an. Einer breiteren deutschen Öffentlichkeit wurde Tooze mit seiner Kritik an dem Buch Hitlers Volksstaat von Götz Aly bekannt.

    € 136,00
  11. America's Fatal Leap
    1. Paul W. Schroeder

    America's Fatal Leap

    1991-2016

    A decisive analytic critique of US foreign policy by one of America's greatest historians

    € 23,50
  12. Die Ökonomie des Überlebens

    Die Ökonomie des Überlebens

    Mit dem Klimakollaps droht eine Verwüstung des Planeten. Nur ein anderes Wirtschaften kann ihn aufhalten.

    € 9,00