The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Angus Deaton--one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty--te ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty; Arthur Goldhammer (translator)
$72.95 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Profit - An Environmental History by Mark Stoll
$51.95 AUD
Category: Economics | Series: Environmental History Ser.
Profit -- getting more out of something than you put into it -- is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, oft ...Show more
The Price of Peace - Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes by Zachary D. Carter
$59.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: near fine
A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the transformative ideas that outlived him At the dawn of World War I, a young academic named John Maynard Keynes hastily folded his long legs into the sidecar of his brother-in-law's motorcycle for an odd, frantic journey that ...Show more
The Shortest History of Economics: The Powerful Story of Economic Ideas and Forces that Shape Our World by Andrew Leigh
$26.99 AUD
Category: Economics
'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.' This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transf ...Show more
Are Numbers Real? by Brian Clegg
$37.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organised their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things, but mathematics rapidly took on a life of its own, occupyi ...Show more
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One Journalist's Fight for the truth. by Adele Ferguson
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Series: Corporate Greed/Broken Governance Failed Aust.
Winner of the Davitt Award for Non-fiction Crime 2020 The shocking truth about Australia's financial institutions, as told by the journalist who did most to bring about Australia's banking royal commission. Against all the odds Australia ended up with a banking royal commission. Since hearings began i ...Show more
The Deficit Myth - Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton
$55.00 AUD
Category: Economics
'Game-changing ... Read it!' - Mariana Mazzucato 'In a world of epic, overlapping crises, Stephanie Kelton is an indispensable source of moral clarity ... the truths that she teaches about money, debt, and deficits give us the tools we desperately need to build a safe future for all. Read it - then put ...Show more
People, Power and Profits (HB) by Joseph Stiglitz
$45.00 AUD
Category: Economics
We all have the sense that the American economy-and its government-tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his powerful new book, People, Power, and Profits, the situation is dire. A few corporations have come to dominate entire sectors of the economy, contributing to skyrocket ...Show more
The Australian Stockmarket - A Guide for Players, Planners and Procrastinators by Ron Bennetts
$21.91 AUD
Category: Economics
The aim of this book is to enable novices tocruise safely and enjoyably. It will cover the preparations needed beforeundertaking a cruise, operating the boat under different and sometimeschallenging conditions, advise how to cope when things go wrong, how to conform to therules and regulations, and how ...Show more