Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler; Jamie Wheal
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics
NATIONAL BESTSELLER CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2017 "Steven and Jamie have done a wonderful job of balancing the promises, perils, and how-to prescriptions of engineering peak states such as 'flow.'" --Tim Ferriss, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The 4-Hour Workweek ...Show more
The Economics Book: From Xenophon to Cryptocurrency, 250 Milestones in the History of Economics by Steven G. Medema
$44.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Series: Sterling Milestones Ser.
This beautiful, authoritative volume in the popular Milestones series looks at the vital intersection among business, finance, and money. From the philosophical dialogues of Ancient Greece and the moral contemplations of Medieval Europe to deregulation and cryptocurrency, The Economics Book presents 25 ...Show more
Incentivology: The Forces That Explain Tremendous Success and Spectacular Failure by Jason Murphy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Rewards. Punishments. Prices. The Nobel Prize. Candy Crush. Incentives take more forms than you might expect and they can be hard to spot, but they shape our lives in ways that we rarely examine. Many of the most powerful incentives are accidental, and invisible even to those who designed them. Some ar ...Show more
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations - Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor by David S. Landes
$49.50 AUD
Category: Economics
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a compl ...Show more
Profits of Doom by Antony Loewenstein
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Vulture capitalism has seen the corporation become more powerful than the state, and yet its work is often done by stealth, supported by political and media elites. The result is privatised wars and outsourced detention centres, mining companies pillaging precious land in developing countries and strugg ...Show more
Zombie Economics:How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us by John Quiggin
$19.95 AUD
Category: Economics
In the graveyard of economic ideology, dead ideas still stalk the land. The recent financial crisis laid bare many of the assumptions behind market liberalism - the theory that markets always know best, regardless of the problem. For decades, their advocates dominated economics, and their influence crea ...Show more
Adam Spencer's Number Crunchers by Adam Spencer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Following of from 2015's runaway bestseller, Enormous Book of Numbers, Australia's funniest mathematician is back with another wacky, wild and weird activity book for kids aged 8 and above. Packed full of stuff to draw, colour in, puzzle over and drive your friends and parents crazy, Number Crunchers wi ...Show more
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic by Bill Gates
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economics
The COVID-19 pandemic isn't over, but even as governments around the world strive to put it behind us, they're also starting to talk about what happens next. How can we prevent a new pandemic from killing millions of people and devastating the global economy? Can we even hope to accomplish this?Bill Gat ...Show more
Economics in One Lesson by H Hazlitt
$26.99 AUD
Category: Economics
A million-copy seller, Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson is a classic economic primer. But it is also much more, having become a fundamental influence on modern "libertarian" economics of the type espoused by Ron Paul and others. Called by H. L. Mencken "one of the few economists in history who co ...Show more
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown by Philip Mirowski
$30.00 AUD
Category: Economics
At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators concluded that the economic convictions behind the disaster would now be consigned to history. Yet in the harsh light of a new day, attacks against government intervention and the global drive for austeri ...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