Sort by:
The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats - and Our Response - Will
New York Times Bestseller Renowned political scientist Ian Bremmer draws lessons from global challenges of the past 100 years-including the pandemic-to show how we can respond to three great crises...
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities...
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionising both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and...
Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
Karl Marx (18181883) was living in exile in England when he embarked on an ambitious, multivolume critique of the capitalist system of production. Though only the first volume saw publication...
The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living
In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television...
End This Depression Now!
The Great Recession is more than four years old-and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge-all the ingredients for...
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick
National Bestseller CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year It's the biggest revolution you've never heard of, and it's hiding in plain sight. Over the past...
The Inequality of Wealth: Why it Matters and How to Fix it
The super-rich have never had it so good. But millions of us can't afford a home, an education or a pension. And unless we change course soon, the future will...
The Total Money Makeover Updated and Expanded: A Proven Plan for
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A Trusted Plan for Becoming Debt-Free with Over 8 Million Copies Sold. Do you want to build a budget that actually works for you Are...
Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?
The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe...
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World
Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance
'A historically insightful read' Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest 'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and...
Abundance: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and FT BUSINESS BOOK
The real threat to liberal democracy isn't autocrats - it's the lack of effective action by progressives. In Abundance , veteran journalists Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson reveal the structural,...
Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's
Winner of the 2020 Davitt Award for True Crime/Non-fiction. Against all the odds, Australia held a royal commission into the banking and financial services industries. Its revelations rocked the nation....
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering The Legacy Of Poverty In America
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you...
The New Geography of Innovation: The global contest for breakthrough
The US is the source of just about all the technologies that define modern life: personal computers, operating systems, smartphones, e-commerce, web browsers, email, search engines, social networks, electric cars...
Hormegeddon: How Too Much of a Good Thing Leads to Disaster
$12.00 AUD
"Hormegeddon" is the term coined by entrepreneur and New York Times Bestselling Author Bill Bonner to describe what happens when you get too much of a good thing in the...
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why
$10.00 AUD
Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have spent four years uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from terrorism to shark attacks, cable TV to...
The Business of Philanthropy: Perspectives and Insights from Global
A collection of one-on-one discussions with 40 of the world's greatest thought and action leaders and prominent philanthropic figures. THE BUSINESS OF PHILANTHROPY features diverse insights into the power of...
Why We're Getting Poorer: A Realist's Guide to the Economy and How We
An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. 'A fascinating examination of the failures of modern economics, and how these failures are harming us...
Game Theory Basics
Game theory is the science of interaction. This textbook, derived from courses taught by the author and developed over several years, is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to the mathematics of...
What Capitalism Needs: Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists
From unemployment to Brexit to climate change, capitalism is in trouble and ill-prepared to cope with the challenges of the coming decades. How did we get here? While contemporary economists...
Let Them Eat Carbon: The Price of Failing Climate Change Policies, and
Climate change is big business. Much of the money so-called green policies cost us goes straight into the pockets of a bewildering range of special interests. Around the world companies...
Globalization and Money: A Global South Perspective
Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families. Supriya Singh...
Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention
Reaching net zero emissions will not be the end of the climate struggle, but only the end of the beginning. For centuries thereafter, temperatures will remain elevated; climate damages will...
Between Friends: Perspectives on John Kenneth Galbraith
$12.00 AUD
Fifteen original essays by eminent personalities in public life, journalism, economics, and the arts, written to honor the ninetieth birthday of one of the world's most famous economists The wide...
Megatrends Asia: The Eight Asian Megatrends That are Changing the
While the attention of the West has been fixed on the USSR and Eastern Europe, a quieter, cumulative revolution has been taking place in Asia which may have even more...
The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto: A Fifteen-Year Quest to Unmask the Secret
'The Mysterious Mr Nakamoto could be the best mystery story of the past twenty years.' James Patterson 'This is, by far, the deepest investigation into possibly the biggest mystery of...
Economyths: 11 Ways Economics Gets it Wrong
When Economyths was first published in 2010, David Orrell showed how mainstream economics is based on key myths such as fair competition, rational behaviour, stability and eternal growth - and...
Governance in Pacific Asia: Political Economy and Development from
This book examines the political economy of the states of Pacific Asia, stretching from Japan to Burma since the end of WWII. "Governance in Pacific Asia" offers a comprehensive account...
For Profit: A History of Corporations
We have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power. But the story of the corporation didn't have to be like this. For most of...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel...
How to Write a Good Ad - Masters of Marketing Secrets: A Short Course
"Most advertising copywriters know their fundamentals. Many of us practice them. Some of us should get back to them. "Whether one is now studying to go into the field of...
A Land on Fire: The Environmental Consequences of the Southeast Asian
$12.00 AUD
The future of Earth's environment will be decided in Asia, home to 60 percent of the world's population and some of the world's fastest-growing economies. As an award-winning investigative journalist...
The Injustice of Place: Uncovering The Legacy Of Poverty In America
A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. "This book forces you...
The Antisocial Network
*Now a major movie starring Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan and Nick Offerman* The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders that...
International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and
This highly readable book is an invaluable resource for students, practitioners and policymakers as they confront the challenges of globalisation and of the information age.' Professor Janice Bellace, The Wharton...
Megathreats: Our Ten Biggest Threats, and How to Survive Them
The bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues that we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defend against ten terrifying threats. Renowned economist Nouriel...
Kochland
Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year. The extraordinary account of how the secretive Koch Industries became one of the largest private companies in...
Wealth and Freedom: An Introduction to Political Economy
Wealth and Freedom provides a comprehensive introduction to political economy for the student or other interested nonspecialist. The book explores such key issues as: the place of our economy in...
From Rice to Riches: a Personal Journey Through a Changing China
Jane Hutcheon's connection to China goes back more than one hundred and fifty years, when her great-great-grand-uncle Phineas, a Scottish tea merchant, was drawn to its shores. When Jane became...
East and West
In June of 1997, over a century and a half of British rule in Hong Kong came to an end. Chris Patten writes about his experiences as the last governor...
The Pound: A Biography
The author tells the biography of the pound from the Vikings to cyberspace, when - single European currency or not - it may have come to the end of its...
In the Loop & Up to Speed: Clever and Useful Business Terms Every
$12.00 AUD
In the Loop and Up to Speed uncovers the origins and meanings of many useful--and some not so useful--phrases that can be heard in the workplace and in everyday life....
The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
$12.00 AUD
After years of frustration at the stifling atmosphere of political correctness surrounding discussions of Africa, long time World Bank official Robert Calderisi speaks out. He boldly reveals how most of...