Economic Controversies

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Economic Controversies is published by Zed Books

Innovative and thought-provoking, the Economic Controversies series strips back the often impenetrable façade of economic jargon to present bold new ways of looking at pressing issues, while explaining the hidden mechanics behind them. Concise and accessible, the books bring a fresh, unorthodox approach to a variety of controversial subjects.

Titles in series

The Global Minotaur

America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

Yanis Varoufakis
With a Foreword by Paul Mason

How Capitalism Failed the Arab World

The Economic Roots and Precarious Future of the Middle East Uprisings

Richard Javad Heydarian

How Numbers Rule the World

The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

Lorenzo Fioramonti

The Great Eurozone Disaster

From Crisis to Global New Deal

Heikki Patomaki
Translated by James O'Connor

Gross Domestic Problem

The Politics Behind the World's Most Powerful Number

Lorenzo Fioramonti

Confronting Managerialism

How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw Our Lives Out of Balance

Robert R. Locke and J.-C. Spender

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