Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
$9.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit. In a striking analysis ...Show more
Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People? by John Kay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics
We all depend on the finance sector. We need it to store our money, manage our payments, finance housing stock, restore infrastructure, fund retirement and support new business. But these roles comprise only a tiny sliver of the sector's activity: the vast majority of lending is within the finance secto ...Show more
Double Entry by Jane Gleeson-White
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: good
How the merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make or break the planet. A fascinating exploration of how a simple system used to measure and record wealth spawned a cultural revolution. Prepare to have your idea of accounting changed forever. 'The rise and metamorph ...Show more
Positively Geared - How to Build a Multi-Million Dollar Property Portfolio from a $40K Deposit by Lloyd Edge
$29.95 AUD
Category: Economics
Do you want to build wealth and live on your own terms, starting today? What if you could quit the nine-to-five grind with stress-free property investment? Author Lloyd Edge has lived the dream himself, retiring from his teaching job at age 40 to live his dream, thanks to a lucrative real estate portf ...Show more
Hoodie Economics: Changing Our Systems to Value What Matters by Jack Manning Bancroft
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics
In Hoodie Economics, Jack Manning Bancroft builds a values system revolution that centres a relational economy, offering urgent and transformative solutions to embrace Indigenous thinking and ideas from outside the margins and pushing the focus from capitalism to relationships - from the people in suits ...Show more
This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we em ...Show more
The Total Money Makeover: Classic Edition by Dave Ramsey
$37.99 AUD
Category: Economics
New York Times bestseller More than Five million copies sold You CAN take control of your money. Build up your money muscles with America's favorite finance coach. Okay, folks, do you want to turn those fat and flabby expenses into a well-toned budget? Do you want to transform your sad and skinny lit ...Show more
The Stock Market Explained: Your Guide to Successful Investing by Alvin D. Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Whether you are saving for a particular goal, planning towards retirement or simply maximising your capital, financial guru Alvin Hall helps you to: Make more informed choices about your investments. Learn basic analysis techniques to minimize risk and maximize reward. Understand your own risk tolerance ...Show more
Think Like A Freak by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics
The Freakonomics books have come to stand for challenging conventional wisdom; using data rather than emotion to answer questions. Now Levitt and Dubner have turned what they've learned into a readable and practical toolkit for thinking smarter, harder, and different - thinking, that is, like a Freak. T ...Show more
Gittins' Gospel: The Economics of Just About Everything by Ross Gittins
$26.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Can any other economics guru claim to write the column in a daily newspaper that people turn to first? Or to pack the auditorium at a literary festival? Be it climate change, productivity, fairness, industrial relations, terrorism, media, the mining boom, the GFC, refugees and even economists themselves ...Show more
Killing Fairfax : Packer, Murdoch and the Ultimate Revenge by Pamela Williams
$39.99 AUD
Category: Economics
'Not since The Latham Diaries came out in 2005 has a book delivered so many scoops, insights and revelations into how power is wielded in Australia ...a treasure trove of gems' Crikey An incisive, hard-hitting and utterly compelling expose of media, powerful mates and multimillion-dollar deals, KILLING ...Show more
Contagious by Jonah Berger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economics
Why are some products and ideas talked about more than others? Why do some articles make the most emailed list? Why do some YouTube videos go viral? Word-of-mouth. Whether through face-to-face conversations, emails from friends, or online product reviews, the information and opinions we get from others ...Show more