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London: Routledge, 1996. A near Fine unmarked copy. The book is a concise introduction to microeconomics, specifically designed to provide students and practitioners of business with an understanding of the workings of the market system. It examines key aspects of market demand and supply, structure, conduct and performance, in terms of relevance to both the achievement of corporate success and the efficient use of economic resources to the benefit of society at large. First pubished in 1994. C3C. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Little Brown, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The legendary financier dissects the current state of the global economy and reveals how theoretical assumptions have combined with human behaviour to lead to today's calamities and shows how unquestioning faith in market forces blinds us to crucial instabilities, and how these have chain reacted to cause the situation. He offers solutions to the global meltdown, based on years of his own experience as a financier and philanthropist. 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Macdonald and Evans, 1958. Silver title and motif on grey boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear and just a very small portion of fading to spine head. Internally very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has age darkening to spine and a little wear to spine head and is not price clipped. xiii + 369 pages. 11 diagrams. 39 tables. The book aims to provide an introduction to economics which stress those aspects relating to industry and commerce. The subject matter is divided into eight parts which deal with: The Purpose of Production; The Planning and Organisation of Production; Problems of Production; The Determination of Price and Output; Problems of Distribution; Money and Banking; International Economic Relations; The Impact of the State. B2B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Butterworths, 1961. Gilt title on green cloth boards which, apart from a small single bump at base, are clean and unmarked with no wear, Internally there is a neat signature to fep else clean and unmarked VG+. A very comprehensive work which sets out the geography of Russia at the beginning of the 1959-1965 seven year plan and covers territorial and economic growth, aims of the communist party, evolution of Marxist-Leninist theories and their application to economic planning, population, transport, agriculture, industry, economic planning regions, foreign trade, economic race with the USA et al. 4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Fourth Estate, 2004. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. x + 288 pages. INCLUDES the original postcard accompanying the book, addressed to the Prime Minister. The author, a leading expert on globalisation, sets out the account of the greed and corruption, economic globalisation and external pressures which have caused Third World debt and provides a radical blueprint for addressing the crisis. She analyses the facts that 30 million people have HIV/AIDS and the world is letting them die, genocide is taking place in Africa, rainforests are disappearing and in Asia extremist organisations are gaining public support. Argued by Bob Geldof that 'Everyone should read this book' and praised by many such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu it is a compelling argument against an unjust international order. 22. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Routledge, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from minor light bumping to top corner tips) and light creasing to the top margin corners of two pages. xiii + 255 pages. The book is concerned with privatisation in the UK, with whole industries such as water, electricity and gas supply have been afected. Companies studied comprise: British Airways, British Airports Authority, Britoil, British Gas, British Steel, British Aerospace, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, National Freight Corporation, Associated British Ports, British Telecomm. **** NOT AN EX LIBRARY DISCARD **** 14. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 1999. First Edition, First Printing. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The author was industrial editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, Demos research associate and a consultant to leading companies.The book is about how we can create an environment that is both innovative and inclusive, our societies should be organised around the creation of knowledge capital and social capital, rather than being dominated by the power of financial capital. B2A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1944. Gilt title on red cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear but with gentle bumping to front corner tips. Internally there is a small name to front pastedown and light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has some fading and chipping and is not price clipped.viii + 318 pages. The experience of the past provides both inspiration and salutary warnings, and here the leading economic historian of the time, in a book distinguished by its cogency of argument and clarity of style, presents us with many illuminating parallels from England's first planned economy. **** NOT EX LIB **** A1D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped.xv + 383 pages. 68 illustrations. The book tells the story of the rise and the fall of whole economies and nations, the ascent - and frequent pauses - of mankind as the only economic animal, as producer, consumer and accumulator of wealth. It tells how we have grown from being one species among many on earth, to regard ourselves as the master species. It is a gripping story of triumph and iniquity, posing a stupendous puzzle: How and why did it happen? What were the decisive moments and advances? Why was progress so uneven? Was there a single recipe for progress? Have we finally inherited the earth? Peter Jay reaches beyond the narrow limit of economics for the answers that can explain the wealth of man and the road to riches. 16. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Sampson Low,Marston, 1896. Gilt titles on red cloth boards. Very slight wear to spine head and tail and corner tips. Internally the front hinge is cracked but very clean and unmarked with many pages unopened. Fore edge uncut. Second edition with letters from Herbert Spencer, W.E.H. Lecky, Dr. John Tyndall and Professor J.A. Froude. 8 pages of press criticisms to front and publisher's advertisements to rear. The Book of Problems contains essays on - Anarchism: The Jewish Question (Farm Colonies); The People's Banks; Agricultural Credit Societies; The Immigration Question; 8 Hours a Day and Foreign Competition; Anglo Irish History in Relation to Home Rule; The British Constitution; The House of Lords; The House of Commons and the Franchise; Education; Our Volunteers; The Disarmament of Europe; Russia's Affairs and Anti-English Projects; France and Colonial Enterprise; Italy Our Mediterranean Ally; The Affairs of the United States as regards their reaction upon English Affairs and… Leer más

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is an inscription to front endpaper (possibly by author but signature is just 'John'), pages 137 -144 have neat highlighting in pink to some lines and there are pencil equations to one page adjacent to the textual equations of that page else a clean, tight copy. ix + 326 pages. Comprises: Decision-making under uncertainty by Adrian Darnell; Industrual economics by Roger Clarke; Labour economics by Zafiris Tzannatos; Welfare economics by Peter Jackson; Macroeconomic theory by Michael Artis; Monetary economics by David Gowland; International trade by Keith Bain; Macroeconomic policy by Kent Matthews; International monetary economics by Lynne Evans. C3A. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1981. First UK edition. A Fine copy in Fine but price clipped dustjacket. The journalist, ex politician and economist confronts the most important crisis of our generation, analysing it's roots and offering a challenging blueprint for our survival. He puts his finger on the problem, more prevalent now, of the effect of more expensive energy and the technological revolution on our declining economies; the historical forces that have led OPEC countries to seek, in the rise of oil prices, compensation and revenge for generations of exploitation and poverty; the despair of the Third World which has neither oil, industry nor capital; the former industrial giants such as the USA seeing their immense wealth drained by the cost of oil, their technological supremacy lost. An important and far seeing work which belies todays world situation. **** NOT EX LIB **** 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.