Summer Catalogue 2011-12 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Economic Thought
When Money Dies
Adam Fergusson
PB $29.95
In 1923, with its currency
effectively worthless, the
Weimar Republic was all
but reduced to a barter
economy. People watched
helplessly as their life
savings disappeared and
their loved ones starved.
First published in 1975,
When Money Dies is the
classic history of what happens when a nation’s
currency depreciates beyond recovery and is a
vivid, compelling, sobering moral tale.
The Price Of
Civilization
Jeffrey Sachs
PB $35.00
We have less time for the
needed global
transformation than many
had hoped or expected.
Resource scarcity is already
upon us in the form of
soaring oil and food prices
and a cascade of climate
shocks. The Value of
Everything serves as a guide to action – one that
goes beyond the remit of traditional economic
frameworks and helps us understand how each part
of the world can best ensure its own prosperity.
Grand Pursuit:
The Story Of
Economic Genius
Sylvia Nasar
HB $59.99
In a sweeping narrative,
the author of A Beautiful
Mind takes us on a
journey through the epic
story of the making of
modern economics and of
how economics rescued
mankind from squalor and
deprivation. Nasar’s account begins with Charles
Dickens and Henry Mayhew observing and
publishing the condition of the poor majority in
mid-19th-century London.
Boomerang: The
Meltdown Tour
Michael Lewis
HB $39.95
Having made the U.S.
financial crisis
comprehensible in The
Big Short, Michael Lewis
realized that he hadn’t
begun to get grips with
the full story. How
exactly had it come to hit
the rest of the world in
the face too? Just how broke are we really?
Boomerang is a tragi-comic romp across Europe, in
which Lewis gives full vent to his storytelling
genius.
Keynes Hayek: The
Clash that Defined
Modern Economics
Nicholas Wapshott
PB $35.00
As the stock-market crash
of 1929 plunged the
world into turmoil, two
men emerged with
competing claims about
how to restore balance
to economies gone awry.
Nicholas Wapshott here
unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes
and Hayek, as arguments over the virtues of the
free market and government intervention rage with
the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s.
Extreme Money
Satyajit Das
PB $32.95
Once, we built things –
useful things. Now, we
construct immense
financial structures from
thin air and lies. We have
crafted a colossal
worldwide financial
machine that makes a few
individuals staggeringly
wealthy and sacrifices
everyone else at its altar of risk. Bestselling author
Satyajit Das draws on over 30 years of personal
experience at the heart of modern global finance
to narrate this story.