A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year

‘Spectacular ... this work is planetary in scale’ Independent

‘It offers real, rich hope’ Observer, Books of the Year

We still have time to change the world. From the world's leading climate activist, this is the essential book for making it happen.

Created by Greta Thunberg in partnership with over 100 climate experts working around the globe, with her commentaries throughout and updates for this new paperback edition to ...

The final revision of this classic bestseller, the 7th edition defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. Hailed by Galbraith as a "brilliant achievement", The Worldly Philosophers with over 2 million copies sold worldwide, not only enables us to see more deeply into our history, but helps us to better understand our own times. Heilbroner provides the new theme that connects thinkers as different as Adam Smith and...

In which the book's central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents howpeople would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually doeswork.Why the conventional wisdom is so often wrong...How "experts"-fromcriminologists to real-estate agents to political scientists-bend the facts...Whyknowing what to measure, and how to measure it, is the key to understandingmodern life...

Offers real, concrete ways to deal with third world debt, make trade fair and tackle global warming. In this title, the author changed the views of the public and world leaders alike by showing why globalization doesn't work for the world's poor.