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<b>* Longlisted for the inaugural Women's Prize for Non-Fiction *</b><br/><b>*A Foyles Top 10 Read for March and one of <i>Glamour's </i>Best Books of March*</b><br/><br/>'Blakeley charts a path forward based in home, democracy and liberation' <b>NAOMI KLEIN</b><br/><br/>'A must-read for anyone keen to put the demos back in democracy'<b> YANIS VAROUFAKIS</b><br/><b><br/>Everything you know about capitalism is wrong.</b><br/><br/>Free markets aren't really free. Record corporate pro fits don't trickle down to everyone else. And we aren't empowered to make our own choices - they're made for us every day.<br/><br/>Taking on the world's most powerful figures and corporations - from JP Morgan to Boeing, Henry Ford<br/>to Richard Nixon - Vulture Capitalism uncovers the causes of our modern crisis to reveal the true motives of our capitalist system. Because it isn't broken: it's working exactly as planned.<br/><br/>This is the book you need to understand what is happening in the world around you - and what you can do to change it.<br/><br/><b>'Read this book if you want to make fundamental changes to the world'</b> HA-JOON CHANG<br/><b>'If you've ever wondered why you (and everyone you know) feel so out of control of the world around you, this book will give you the answer'</b> ASH SARKAR

<b>'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES</b><br/><br/><b>'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases' BARACK OBAMA</b><br/><br/>The international bestseller, inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, <i>Factfulness</i> is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world, and make you realise things are better than you thought.<br/><br/><b>*#1 <i>Sunday Times bestseller </i>* <i>New York Times</i> bestseller * <i>Observer</i> 'best brainy book of the decade' * <i>Irish Times</i> bestseller * audiobook bestseller * <i>Guardian </i>bestseller * </b>

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In <i>Doughnut Economics</i>, Oxford academic Kate Raworth identifies the seven critical ways in which mainstream economics has led us astray - from selling us the myth of 'rational economic man' to obsessing over growth at all costs - and offers instead an alternative roadmap for bringing humanity into a sweet spot that meets the needs of all within the means of the planet. Ambitious, radical and thoughtful, she offers a new, cutting-edge economic model fit for the challenges of the 21st century.

<strong><em>The sequel nobody wants. After a decade of the Tories, could it get any worse? Spoiler - it does.</em></strong><br/><br/>Towards the end of 2021, Britain had been frogmarched into an escalating series of surreal calamities. Brexit was a disaster, the NHS was in crisis, the government was bathed head-to-toe in impropriety, senior Tories were still acting as though the public purse was their personal feed-trough, and the air crackled with anger about PartyGate. All of which led to an inglorious start to 2022: the year the UK saw two monarchs, three prime ministers and four chancellors.<br/><br/>From Boris Johnson, who trashed our international reputation and handed billions to his mates so they could ineptly fight a pandemic while he stayed at home, shagging and acting as a super-spreader; to Liz Truss, a drive-by prime minister who managed to kill off the queen and crash the economy in a single week. And now we're led by Rishi Sunak, who doesn't know how to use a credit card, drives a pretend car, and grinningly promises even more poverty.<br/><br/><em>Four Chancellors and a Funeral</em> delivers more of Russell Jones's signature scathing wit, combining a detailed historical record of 2021 and 2022, with acerbic commentary, all of it leavened by jokes at the seemingly endless maelstrom of failures, nincompoops and hypocrisies.

Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the four most influential companies on the planet. Just about everyone thinks they know how they got there. Just about everyone is wrong. For all that&rsquo;s been written about the Four over the last two decades, no one has captured their power and staggering success as insightfully as Scott Galloway. Instead of buying the myths these compa­nies broadcast, Galloway asks fundamental questions. How did the Four infiltrate our lives so completely that they&rsquo;re almost impossible to avoid (or boycott)? Why does the stock market forgive them for sins that would destroy other firms? And as they race to become the world&rsquo;s first trillion-dollar company, can anyone chal­lenge them? In the same irreverent style that has made him one of the world&rsquo;s most celebrated business professors, Galloway deconstructs the strategies of the Four that lurk beneath their shiny veneers. He shows how they manipulate the fundamental emotional needs that have driven us since our ancestors lived in caves, at a speed and scope others can&rsquo;t match. And he reveals how you can apply the lessons of their ascent to your own business or career. Whether you want to compete with them, do business with them, or simply live in the world they dominate, you need to understand the Four.

 Raghuram Rajan, author of the 2010 FT &amp; Goldman-Sachs Book of the Year Fault Lines, has an unparalleled vantage point onto the social and economic consequences of globalization and their ultimate effect on politics and society.<br/><br/>In The Third Pillar he offers up a magnificent big-picture framework for understanding how three key forces - the economy, society, and the state - interact, why things begin to break down, and how we can find our way back to a more secure and stable plane. <br/><br/>The 'third pillar' of the title is society. Economists all too often understand their field as the relationship between the market and government, and leave social issues for other people. That's not just myopic, Rajan argues; it's dangerous. All economics is actually socioeconomics - all markets are embedded in a web of human relations, values and norms. As he shows, throughout history, technological innovations have ripped the market out of old webs and led to violent backlashes, and to what we now call populism. Eventually, a new equilibrium is reached, but it can be ugly and messy, especially if done wrong.<br/><br/>Right now, we're doing it wrong. As markets scale up, government scales up with it, concentrating economic and political power in flourishing central hubs and leaving the periphery to decompose, figuratively and even literally. Instead, Rajan offers a way to rethink the relationship between the market and civil society and argues for a return to strengthening and empowering local communities as an antidote to growing despair and unrest.<br/><br/>The Third Pillar is a masterpiece of explication, a book that will be a classic of its kind for its offering of a wise, authoritative and humane explanation of the forces that have wrought such a sea change in our lives. His ultimate argument that decision-making has to be watered at the grass roots or our democracy will continue to wither is sure to be both provocative and agenda-setting across the World.