Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in 2012, and now dominates Japanese democracy as no leader has done before.

Abe has inspired fierce loyalty among his followers, cowing Japan's left with his ambitious economic program and support for the security and armed forces. He has staked a leadership role for Japan in a region being rapidly transformed by the rise of China and India, while carefully preserving an ironclad relationship with Trump's America.

The Iconoclast tells the story of Abe's meteoric rise and stunning fall, his remarkable comeback, and his unlikely emergence as a global statesman laying the groundwork for Japan's survival in a turbulent century.

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS and A level Subject: Economics First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 This Student Book + ActiveBook covers both the AS and A level courses for the Edexcel Economics 2015 specification. Written by Alain Anderton, it takes you through the essential content of the course and supports the development of quantitative skills, synopticity, evaluative and analytical skills, helping you to develop conceptual understanding of each topic. It also provides assessment support for both AS and A level with sample answers, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the exam questions. This latest edition of the Student Book comes with 3 years' access to ActiveBook - an online digital version of the textbook. You can personalise your ActiveBook with notes, highlights and links to wider reading - perfect for supporting your coursework and revision activities.

We need to think differently about African economics.

For centuries, Westerners have tried to ‘fix’ African economies. From the abolition of slavery onwards, missionaries, philanthropists, development economists and NGOs have arrived on the continent, full of good intentions and bad ideas. Their experiments have invariably gone awry, to the great surprise of all involved.

In this short, bold story of Western economic thought about Africa, historian Bronwen Everill argues that these interventions fail because they start from a misguided premise: that African economies just need to be more like the West. Ignoring Africa's own traditions of economic thought, Europeans and Americans assumed a set of universal economic laws that they thought could be applied anywhere. They enforced specifically Western ideas about growth, wealth, debt, unemployment, inflation, women’s work and more, and used Western metrics to find African countries wanting.

The West does not know better than African nations how an economy should be run. By laying bare the myths and realities of our tangled economic history, Africonomics moves from Western ignorance to African knowledge.