Economics & Finance

A revelatory and entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy and how to correct them, by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismIn The Growth Delusion, author and prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists and their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making and infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work.

This title was first published in 2002: There are few students of European economic history who will not have come across the writings of Derek H. Aldcroft.

When Deng Xiaoping introduced market reforms in the late 1970s, few would have imagined what the next four decades would bring.

Risk Adjustment, Risk Sharing and Premium Regulation in Health Insurance Markets: Theory and Practice describes the goals, design and evaluation of health plan payment systems.

Microeconomics, Health economics, Insurance & actuarial studies

• A systematic analysis of the Great Recession, austerity, and subsequent recovery in Ireland
• Up to date analysis provides new information on the recovery
• Unique collection of chapters, each authored by experts in their fields Systematic assessment of the impact of the austerity programme
• Examines the effects of the recession on businesses, consumption, work, the labour market, migration, political and financial institutions, social inequality and cohesion, housing, and cultural expression

According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way.

As seen on Sky News All Out Politics`There's no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. It is a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better.

'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father.

'A panorama of the unravelling world order as riveting as any beach read' New Yorker

The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the "miracle growth" period.