The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting by Alan Greenspan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Like all of us, though few so visibly, Alan Greenspan was forced by the financial crisis of 2008 to question some fundamental assumptions about risk management and economic forecasting. No one with any meaningful role in economic decision making in the world saw beforehand the storm for what it was. How ...Show more
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Dreze
$22.99 AUD
Category: Economics
After regaining independence in 1947, India immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system. The famines of the British era disappeared, along with economic stagnation; despite a recent dip, India's growth remains among the fastest in the world. Yet, Dreze and Sen argue, there have been failure ...Show more
The DivideAmerican Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap by Matt Taibbi
$33.00 AUD
Category: Economics
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA scathing portrait of an urgent new American crisis Over the last two decades, America has been falling deeper and deeper into a statistical mystery: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles. Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. ...Show more
Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy by Joseph Stiglitz
$24.95 AUD
Category: Economics
This devastating and inspiring book, by one of the world's leading economic thinkers, lays out not only the course of the financial crisis which began in 2007, but its underlying causes, and shows why much more radical reforms are needed than are currently being contemplated if we are to avoid similar ' ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller is now available in Encore at a great low price.A small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, ...Show more
The Great Disruption: How Business is Coping with Turbulent Times by Adrian Wooldridge
$27.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Based around a compilation of his popular Schumpeter columns, Adrian Wooldridge takes a look at the forces that are disrupting today's fast-moving business world. The disruption has many causes: the internet's rapid spread; the challenge from emerging markets in innovation and manufacturing; clever mana ...Show more
When To Rob a Bank by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken? Over the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakonomics.com. Now the very best of this writing has been ...Show more
The Critique of Digital Capitalism: An Analysis of the Political Economy of Digital Culture and Technology by Michael Betancourt (Professor, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Economics
Anything that can be automated, will be. The "magic" that digital technology has brought us - self-driving cars, Bitcoin, high frequency trading, the internet of things, social networking, mass surveillance, the 2009 housing bubble - has not been considered from an ideological perspective. "The Critiqu ...Show more
7 Secrets to Investing Like Warren Buffett by Mary Buffett, Sean Seah
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics
A clear, simple, and complete guide for beginning investors from bestselling author Mary Buffett and Sean Seah that explains Warren Buffett's techniques of Value Investing and his proven strategies to ensure long-term success.For twelve years, Mary Buffett was part of the Buffett inner circle. During th ...Show more
Money Basics for Tough Times by David Koch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Get the money basics right and get back on your feet after financial disaster. Australia hasn't had a recession in 30 years - so how can you recover from it? The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the global economy into chaos and stock market on a wild rollercoaster ride. But what about your finances? Wheth ...Show more
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality by Oded Galor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Technology
A grand unifying theory of human flourishing and inequality from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersA bold retelling of the entire human story from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersWhat causes living standards to rise?Why are some countries so much richer than others?How might all humans thriv ...Show more
Pivot: Eight Principles for Transforming your Business in a Time of Disruption by Will Page
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Taking the lessons learned from his years studying the rise and fall of the modern music industry, Spotify's Chief Economist has crafted "a compelling and generous read" (Scott Galloway) that provides the tools to recognize and adapt to disruption in any industry. As the chief economist at Spotify, ...Show more