Business & Economics

The idea of artificial intelligence - job-killing robots, self-driving cars, and self-managing organisations - captures the imagination, evoking a combination of wonder and dread for those of us who will...

Anthony Marshall is a Melbourne bookseller with over 20 years experience of bookdealing in England and Australia. Here, he mixes anecdote and practical advice, humour and provocative comment to review...

Financial market behavior and key trading strategies-illuminated by interviews with top hedge fund experts Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world...

The best known and most highly regarded book on financial crises. Financial crises and speculative excess can be traced back to the very beginning of trade and commerce. Since its...

The global economy, on which the world now depends more than ever, is in crisis. The Russian economy has collapsed, leading to punishing inflation and economic hardship. Scores of Japanese...

Exploring many of the most pertinent ethical and economic issues of our time, this book offers both new insights and innovative solutions. Including case studies of international companies and analysis...

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got...

Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with The Plundered Planet, he has set himself an even more ambitious goal: to...

The authors argue that wealth accumulation is shifting from income that is earned (salaries) to unearned (investments). They show how the current shift from computing to communicating will alter the...

"Extraordinarily illuminating...Mullainathan and Shafir have made an important, novel, and immensely creative contribution." -- The New York Review of Books In this provocative book based on cutting-edge research, Sendhil Mullainathan...

Whilst compiling and editing "The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street", described as 'a little gem' by the "Sunday Times", John Saumarez Smith discovered that one side of that 'elegant and...

This edited volume is about the Australian difference and how Australia's economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries. Australia seems to be following a 'special...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the cutthroat world of high-stakes corporate warfare, few battles in Australian business history have rivalled the ferocity of the attempted takeover...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of economic theory and colonial history stands a work of formidable scholarly ambition: N....

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedCondition remarks: pages can have notes/underlining.Published in 1859, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy stands...

Edition: 6th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped djIn an era of postwar prosperity, John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of ambition, power, and ruthless capitalism stands one of the most...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished to mark a defining milestone, A Jubilee History: 1928-1978 chronicles five decades of professional development, institutional...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt a pivotal moment in the post-war world, Australia: Its Resources and Development presents a sweeping...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the brilliant satirical mind that gave the world Parkinson's Law comes a razor-sharp critique of taxation and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodBehind every great economy stands a story of meticulous expertise, professional integrity, and institutional memory — and River of Experience:...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Australian commercial history command as much fascination as Sidney Myer — the penniless Russian immigrant who arrived in Melbourne in 1899 and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat if a historian from the year 2024 looked back to chronicle the sweeping transformations that reshaped human civilisation over the preceding...

Edition: 13th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerFew works in the history of social thought match the sheer...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedIn an era of growing inequality, Ferdinand Lundberg's The Rich and the Super-Rich: A Study in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodWhat if the most powerful thinking tools in the world were not locked away in specialist journals,...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn 1494, a Franciscan friar named Luca Pacioli published a mathematical compendium that would quietly revolutionise...

The book titled The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of by the author Robert J. Samuelson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...

This text collects black-and-white photographs which together record not only the operations of the WLA, but also scenes of the countryside between 1939 and 1950. The collection, drawn from the...

According to Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, two of America's most acclaimed business journalists, no-one has put all the pieces of the financial crisis together. The finger was pointed at...

The French countryside is as beloved by the many millions of tourists who visit it each year as it is of French people themselves. But it has not always looked...

This national bestseller is a dramatic insider account of the world of private military contracting. Armored cars, burner phones, top-notch weaponry and top-secret missions -- this is the life of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat separates a forgettable speaker from one who moves audiences to action? In The 16 Undeniable Laws of Communication, John C. Maxwell — one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew institutions embody the arc of modern legal and commercial history quite like King & Wood Mallesons, and Patrick Mullins' meticulous two-volume chronicle presents the...

You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism - its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing...

'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG 'A non-fiction novel of modern conquest, capitalism and murder...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA rare and remarkable window into Depression-era Australian agriculture, the Farm Booklet 1931-32 is a trade...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the modern world, Britain stood as the forge of a global empire — and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of agrarian life and early capitalist enterprise, Peasants, Landlords and Merchant Capitalists presents a sweeping...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne man's courage against one of the world's most powerful pharmaceutical corporations makes for one of the most gripping and consequential whistleblower stories...

Edition: reissued ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: GoodCondition remarks: Minor marks and flecks on the boards. Few forces have shaped civilization...

John Calverley's new book is about understanding what s going on, how policy impinges on it, what investors can do and what is likely to happen. This extremely topical and...

At the onset of the Great Recession, as house prices sank and joblessness soared, many commentators thought that neoliberalism itself was in its death throes. And yet it seems that-post-apocalypse-we've...

The book titled World of Contrasts: Studies in World Development by the author Stephen B. Codrington. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of ancient Rome is predominantly one of great men with great fortunes. Surviving Rome unearths another history, one of ordinary Romans, who worked with their hands and survived...

Are there tangible benefits in flossing Is it wrong to fake orgasms What does the perfect online dating ad look like Should we bother doing the ironing Is it really...

In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker ), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2025, as chosen by Martin Wolf ' Economica is an epic story . . . an important retelling of global economic history that puts...