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Bad Investment
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Don’t Panic, It’s Only a Recession
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Martin Vander Weyer
It Lost Its Spark
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Jonathan Healey
For King & Capitalism
Merchants: The Community that Shaped England’s Trade and Empire, 1550–1650
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Zareer Masani
Two Economists Go to War
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Frances Cairncross
Be Thankful I Don’t Take It All
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The Dreadful Monster and Its Poor Relations: Taxing, Spending and the United Kingdom, 1707–2021
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Judith Flanders
When Cash Became Kin
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Charles Elliott
The £569 Pineapple
An Economic History of the English Garden
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Howard Davies
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Alan Ryan
From the Mayflower to Microsoft
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In Mammon We Trust
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Niall Ferguson
Into the Fire?
From Empire to Europe: The Decline and Revival of British Industry since the Second World War
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Alan Ryan
Knowledge is Power
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The Buck Starts Here
Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America
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Alan Ryan
The Moral Scientist
Keynes: The Return of the Master
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Murkywater
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Vernon Bogdanor
The Long View
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John Gray
Under Western Eyes
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Paul Addison
A Nation of Shoppers
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Kathleen Burk
Follow the Money
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