China Matters - Getting it Right for Australia by Bates Gill; Linda Jakobson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
Australia and China face a new era, but are we ready? Australia's prosperity and security are linked to China as never before. But what kind of a country is China becoming? Will its demand for Australian goods and services increase? Can the Communist Party continue to keep the middle class satisfied whi ...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
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 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
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
Anarchy, State and Utopia by Robert Nozick
$55.00 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: good
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is a powerful,philosophical challenge to the most widely held political andsocial positions of our age -- liberal, socialist andconservative. "Individuals have rights," Nozick writes in his openingsentence, "and there are things no person or group may do to the ...Show more
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood and the World by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
$26.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
The "extraordinary" (Financial Times) instant New York Times bestseller exposing how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others--a "must read" (Booklist) tale of finance run amok and "the heist of the century" (Axios). In 2009, with the dust yet to settle on the ...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