The Value of Everything - Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation- the productive process that drives a healthy econ ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The 10th anniversary edition, with new chapters on the crash, Chimerica, and cryptocurrency In this updated edition, Niall Ferguson brings his classic financial history of the world up to the present day, tackling the populist backlash that followed the 2008 crisis, the descent of "Chimerica" into a ...Show more
Good Economics for Hard Times - Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee; Esther Duflo
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS 'Wonderfully refreshing . . . A must read' Thomas Piketty In this revolutionary book, prize-winning economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of ...Show more
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
$34.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and interruption, whether because of the incessant pinging of devices, noisy open-plan offices or the difficulty of deciding what deserves your attention the most. When Cal Newport coined the term 'deep work' on his p ...Show more
The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office by Gideon Haigh
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office's final triumph? For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the office. During the COVID-19 crisis, employees around the globe got a taste of it. Confined by lockdown to t ...Show more
The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023 by Martin Daunton
$80.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An epic history of money, trade and development since 1933 In 1933, Keynes reflected on the crisis of the Great Depression that arose from individualistic capitalism- 'It is not intelligent, it is not beautiful, it is not just, it is not virtuous - and it doesn't deliver the goods ... But when we wonde ...Show more
Doughnut Economics - Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The book behind the hit TED Talk** The Sunday Times Bestseller**** Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017** 'The John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century.' George Monbiot, Guardian' This is sharp, significant scholarship . . . Thrilling.' Times Higher Education Economics is ...Show more
Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven Levitt, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
$24.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Sequel to the international bestseller "Freakonomics", Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner's "Superfreakonomics" is an irresistible look at the counterintuitive science of everyday life. The Freakquel is here. In "Superfreakonomics" Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner look deeper, question harder and uncover ...Show more
Basic Income : And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
$22.99 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Pelican Bks.
'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it...Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason 'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough survey he explains how it works and why it has the ...Show more
And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability by Yanis Varoufakis
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Category: Business & Economics
THE SUNDAY TIMESNUMBER 1 BESTSELLERThe crisis in Europe is not over, it's getting worse. In this dramatic narrative of Europe?s economic rise and spectacular fall, Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, 'the emerging rock star of Europe?s anti-austerity uprising? (Telegraph), shows that th ...Show more
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy by Jonathan Taplin
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Category: Business & Economics
The question isn't who's going to let me: it's who is going to stop me."A powerful argument for reducing inequality and revolutionizing how we use the web for the benefit of the many rather than the few." Kirkus"Jonathan Taplin, more than anyone I know, can articulate the paralyzing complexities that ha ...Show more
A World Without Work - Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind
$45.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
From mechanical looms to combustion engines to early computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. In the past, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. Yet in A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind shows wh ...Show more