The history of the dot-com stock rise and fall from an economics reporter and staff writer for The New Yorker .The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traders trying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an America that believed it had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity: it said something about all of us, and what we thought a...

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics.Capitalism has long been understood as a driving force behind the biggest political, economic, and social dislocations of our time. But in this sweeping, kaleidoscopic history of the economic system that has shaped our world, the Pulitzer Pr...

Behind the alarming headlines about job losses, bank bailouts, and corporate greed is a little-known story of bad ideas. For fifty years or more, economists have been busy developing elegant theories of how markets work—how they facilitate innovation, wealth creation, and an efficient allocation of society's resources. But what about when markets don't work? What about when they lead to stock market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, real estate crashes, and credit crunches?...

Wie lässt sich eine gerechtere, zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft denken?Diese zentrale Frage eint Kapitalismuskritiker durch die Jahrhunderte. Rasant und gewinnbringend porträtiert John Cassidy die wichtigsten Denker und Denkerinnen, deren Ideen für die Gegenwart genauso relevant sind wie vor 250 Jahren.Von Adam Smiths Kolonialkritik über Rosa Luxemburgs sozialistischer Utopie bis zu den ökologischen Visionen des indischen Ökonomen J. C. Kumarappa entfaltet er i...

Behind the alarming financial headlines is a little-known story of bad ideas. For over fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories of how markets work. What about when markets don’t work? What about when they lead to stock-market bubbles, glaring inequality, polluted rivers, real-estate crashes, and credit crunches?In How Markets Fail, Cassidy describes the influence “utopian economics” thinking that is blind to how real people act and that denies the way...

An overview of witchcraft in Ireland over seven centuries

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics.At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company and Industrial Revolution to the digital revo...

When a little girl gets trapped within a terrible storm, the mouse size creatures of Willow Creek risk paw and tail to rescue her as they are bombarded by ravenous crows, hampered by a battalion of ants, besieged by angry bees, attacked by a gruesome mole, flooded by a raging sprinkler system, and still they have yet to travel a single block. Welcome to Willow Creek, home of the rarest pups on earth; they also happen to be the most self-absorbed, neurotic, ill-mannered, chatterboxes this s...

Shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger 2023**'A rich, gut-punch of a crime thriller' Ashley Audrain, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Push**It's every mother's worst fearOn a sun-hazed afternoon in the Florida Keys, a child goes missing from the beach. Dr Mirren Fitzpatrick appeals to the world to help find her eight-year-old adopted daughter. The family are on holiday from Ireland, far from home and desperate to retur...

It was a fateful night for more than a few people once the White Event struck. It was the night that Bass Reeves Jr. lost his old job, and gained a new one. It was the night that changed the lives of many of the residents of the fast-growing town of Cassidy. The town was already in the midst of change, as it was slowly migrating from a cattle drive town, to a mining one. The White Event simply brought even more change to Cassidy, much of which was unexpected and not for the better.

In "The Life and Times of Gen. John Graves Simcoe," D. B. Read deftly intertwines biography with historical narrative, crafting a vivid portrayal of one of Canada's most pivotal figures. The book employs a meticulous chronological structure, allowing readers to traverse Simcoe's life from his military exploits during the American Revolution to his tenure as the first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada. Read's literary style is characterized by eloquent prose, well-researched anecdotes, an...

It was a fateful night for more than a few people once the White Event struck. It was the night that Bass Reeves Jr. lost his old job, and gained a new one. It was the night that changed the lives of many of the residents of the fast-growing town of Cassidy. The town was already in the midst of change, as it was slowly migrating from a cattle drive town, to a mining one. The White Event simply brought even more change to Cassidy, much of which was unexpected and not for the better.