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The Upside of Down
Shows in lucid and compelling terms how breakdown looms when a society outgrows its capacity to sustain itself. Homer-Dixon argues we are equipped to avert disaster. Armed with hindsight, increasingly...
The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality is Essential for
How are we to regain economic growth? In this seminal new book based on 60 years of data, economist Stewart Lansley shows that economic equality is necessary for economic growth....
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the
The most up-to-date and well-informed book on the global financial crisis. We are living in the most uncertain financial environment in recent history. A quarter-century of reckless lending, asset stripping,...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour....
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our...
It's Your Money: How banking went rogue, where it is now and how to
The essential guide to navigating the financial industry after the banking crisis, by one of Australia's most trusted financial experts, Alan Kohler You don't need to be an expert to...
Triumph Of The Market
The unifying theme of the essays in this volume is the increasing national and global power and reach of the market and its growing impact on all aspects of human...
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can't afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional...
Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century
In all major regions of the world, the economic recession is deep-seated, resulting in mass unemployment, the collapse of state social programs and the impoverishment of millions of people. The...
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A scathing portrait of an urgent new American...
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...
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Using a vast swath of data spanning the past six decades, Unequal Democracy debunks many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the...
Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
This volume gives an account of financial scares through history which also provides insights into why market crashes remain a reality. This version draws on examples from 1618 to the...
Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy: An Agenda for Growth and
Inequality is a choice. The United States bills itself as the land of opportunity, a place where anyone can achieve success and a better life through hard work and determination....
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming
With the KeystonePipelinedominating the news, and America's addiction to oil showing no signs of waning, it is more urgent than ever that we reconsider our energy needs in light of...
The Royal Mint Puzzle Book: 125 rewarding puzzles for all the family
A brilliantly engaging and richly rewarding puzzle book from one of Britain's oldest and most respected institutions Sharpen your wit and delve into the fascinating world of British currency with...
Media Monitors Australia 1904-2004
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor a century, the pulse of Australia's public discourse has been captured, catalogued, and preserved by a single...
45 Years With Philips
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Australia's Two-Airline Policy
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of government regulation and commercial aviation, Stanley Brogden's Australia's Two-Airline Policy presents a meticulous account...
The American Disease
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a moment when America's economic dominance seems unassailable, George C. Lodge issues a penetrating diagnosis: the United...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the...
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Groundbreaking call to action by Donella Meadows, the bestselling author of Thinking in Systems ! Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse the Guardian The updated...
The End of Wall Street
The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall...
Supercapitalism: the Transformation of Business, Democracy, and
Mid-twentieth-century capitalism has turned into global capitalism, and global capitalism - turbocharged, Web-based, and able to find and make almost anything just about anywhere - has turned into supercapitalism. But...
When Corporations Rule The World
When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest....
The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World
In this searing and entertaining indictment of the super-rich, Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks challenge the idea that today's cavernous income inequality is the result of merit, and reveal how...
Progressive Capitalism
The neoliberalism that has dominated economic thinking since Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan first came to power is now seen to have serious flaws, and 'Progressive Capitalism' seeks to replace...
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome...
Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win
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Ralph Nader's Getting Steamed will make you repeat that phrase from the movie Network : I'm as mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore! His compendium...
Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and
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This acclaimed paradigm-shifting work identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crises of our time--the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the...
The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power
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Today, a host of forces are converging to challenge America's cherished notion of exceptionalism, and risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure that has been in...
Sack the Economists and Disband Their Departments
Mainstream economists completely failed to anticipate the financial market crash of 2007-8. They then called it an unforeseeable event. This is a clear admission that they don't understand how economies...
The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We
EXPLODING THE MYTHS ABOUT MONEY Our money system is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been "privatized," or taken over by a private...
Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits, and job security decline....
The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What
Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of...
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism is a modern classic of critical philosophy and political economy, renowned for its depth and comprehensive research. It provides a step-by-step diagnosis of the continuing...
Decent Capitalism: A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to...
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what...
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity
Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out,...
The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall
THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis. One of the world's most brilliant...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book...
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of
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"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations." -Noam Chomsky One economist has called Ha-Joon Chang "the most exciting thinker our profession has turned out in the past fifteen years."...
Enchanted Objects
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In the tradition of Who Owns the Future, an MIT Media Lab scientist imagines how everyday objects can intuit our needs, improve our lives, and form "an ethereal interconnection of...
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the
On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control. Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering. Market...
The Short Goodbye: Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust
"The Short Goodbye is the untold story of a nation forever changed by the global financial crisis." "Elisabeth Wynhausen was at her desk writing a story about people being sacked...
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this...
The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World
How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world. How tech companies like Google, Airbnb, StubHub, and Facebook learn from experiments in our data-driven world-an excellent...
Money: The Unauthorised Biography
Money was one of man's greatest inventions. But we have become its slaves. Felix Martin takes us to the heart of society's misunderstanding of money and sets us straight. What...