To predict our future, we must look to the extremes. So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond.

Winner of the Enlightened Economist Prize 2019Longlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2019'A highly original approach to u

A New Statesman best book of the year | New York Times Editors' Choice pick A Financial Times best economics book of 2019 An accessible, story-driven look at th

A new, more balanced system of economic production and wealth distribution that fundamentally rethinks the definition of value.

Viewed from a global scale, steady progress has been made in reducing extreme poverty—defined by the $1.25-a-day poverty line—over the past three decades. T