Beyond the Profits System by Harry Shutt
$45.00 AUD
Category: Economics
While many have claimed that no one could have foreseen the financial crisis, Harry Shutt was predicting just such a collapse as far back as 1998 in his book, "The Trouble With Capitalism". In "Beyond the Profit System", Shutt offers a radically different analysis to the mainstream, establishment commen ...Show more
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World by Jeremy Rifkin
$55.00 AUD
Category: Economics
The industrial revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame: the prices of energy and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt are soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a s ...Show more
The Great Disruption: How the Climate Crisis Will Transform the Global Economy by Paul Gilding
$19.99 AUD
Category: Economics
It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The 'Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not sim ...Show more
Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness (International Edition 2009) by Richard H. THALER and Cass R. SUNSTEIN
$26.95 AUD
Category: Economics
Every day we make decisions: about the things that we buy or the meals we eat; about the investments we make or our children's health and education; even the causes that we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. We are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad ...Show more
The Growth Delusion by David Pilling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Series: ECONOMICS | Reading Level: very good
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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied.Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling ou ...Show more
Trustees on Trial: Recovering the Stolen Wages by Rosalind Kidd
$39.95 AUD
Category: Economics
Details the Qld government's nearly 100 year stranglehold on Aboriginal people's lives and earnings. Lays bare its (mis)management, and its conditional offer of up to $4000 compensation, representing for some a lifetime's work. Refutes the Beattie Government's claim it would win legal action by demonstr ...Show more
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David Landes
$10.00 AUD
Category: Economics
In this exploration of the complex causes of the wealth and poverty of nations, the answers are found not only in the large forces at work in economies - geography, religion, the broad swings of politics - but also in small details.