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  • Seven Crashes

    The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

    by Harold James ...
    A leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apartThe eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into “good” crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and “bad” crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. ... Read more

    $38.99 AUD

  • Utopia for Realists

    And How We Can Get There

    by Rutger Bregman ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' GuardianIn Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable.... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Hard Labour

    wage theft in the age of inequality

    by Ben Schneiders ...
    A startling investigation of how some of Australia’s best-known companies have abused their power to systematically underpay their workers in recent years.Whether it’s at McDonald’s, Coles, 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the major banks, high-end restaurants, or on farms, wage theft has become endemic. Billions of dollars have been unlawfully taken from workers at countless businesses, large and small.Hard ... Read more

    $28.99 AUD

  • Battlers and Billionaires

    The Story of Inequality in Australia

    by Andrew Leigh ...
    Book 1 - Redback Quarterly
    Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway? In Battlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at its best. From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again, with ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Econobabble

    How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense

    by Richard Denniss ...
    Book 8 - Redback
    Economics is like a tyre lever: it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevitable or the inequitable seem fair. This book exposes the stupid arguments, bizarre contradictions ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • The Demographic Cliff

    How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019

    by Harry S. Dent Jr. ...
    “All bubbles collapse”, warns Harry Dent. Australia emerged remarkably unscathed from the last great global recession of 2008/09. But with heavily overvalued real estate and rapidly falling commodity and resource prices, are we heading for an economic downturn?As a leading economic forecaster, Harry Dent relies on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Dent can tell a client exactly when people ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

  • Zero Hour

    Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage

    by Harry S. Dent Jnr., Andrew Pancholi ...
    Will you be prepared to take advantage when the revolution comes or will you go down with the rest?Revolutions are cyclical. They run on a very specific timetable. You could be so much happier, healthier, and wealthier if you grasped the powerful cycles that influence everything from currency valuations to election returns.As the end of the decade draws near, we are approaching an extremely rare ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Talking to My Daughter

    The Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Yanis Varoufakis ...
    Translated by Jacob T. Moe ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Yanis Varoufakis, world renowned economist, writes to his daughter to teach her the hazards of capitalism.'Why is there so much inequality?' asked Xenia to her father. Answering her questions in a series of accessible and tender letters, Varoufakis educates her to what economics and capitalism is and why it is so dangerous.Taking from memories of her childhood and a ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Gen F'd?

    How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures

    by Alison Pennington ...
    series The Crikey Read
    In Gen F'd? economist Alison Pennington shows how the most educated generation in Australia’s history stands to be the first generation worse off than their parents, and gives young people the tools to create the change we need. This is the fifth book in The Crikey Read series from Crikey and Hardie Grant Books.Young people today are digital natives, encouraged to market their own uniqueness and ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

  • The New Great Depression

    Winners and Losers in a Post-Pandemic World

    by James Rickards ...
    A Wall Street Journal and National Bestseller!The man who predicted the worst economic crisis in US history shows you how to survive it.The current crisis is not like 2008 or even 1929. The New Depression that has emerged from the COVID pandemic is the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. Most fired employees will remain redundant. Bankruptcies will be common, and banks will buckle under the ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Sovereign Individual

    Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

    by James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg ...
    Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.Few observers of the late ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Radical Uncertainty

    Decision-making for an unknowable future

    by Mervyn King, John Kay ...
    'A brilliant new book'Daily Telegraph'Well written . . . and often entertaining'The Times'A sparkling analysis'ProspectWhen uncertainty is all around us, and the facts are not clear, how can we make good decisions?We do not know what the future will hold, particularly in the midst of a crisis, but we must make decisions anyway. We regula... ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Changing Jobs

    The Fair Go in the New Machine Age

    by Mike Quigley, Jim Chalmers ...
    series Redback
    An essential guide to the future of work in Australia.For many Australians, rapid progress in artificial intelligence, robotics and automation is a growing anxiety. What will it mean for jobs? What will it mean for their kids’ futures? More broadly, what will it mean for equality in this country?Jim Chalmers and Mike Quigley believe that bursts in technology need not result in bursts of inequality ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Limits to Growth

    The 30-Year Update

    by Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows ...
    In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD

  • Open Veins of Latin America

    five centuries of the pillage of a continent

    by Eduardo Galeano ...
    Translated by Cedric Belfrage ...
    Since its US debut, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx.Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organised the various facets ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD

  • The Kingdom and the Quarry

    China, Australia, Fear and Greed

    by David Uren ...
    China has rapidly become Australia’s most important trading partner. It is also the rising power in our region. In The Kingdom and the Quarry David Uren takes us inside the high-stakes world of the two countries’ relationship. From resource grabs to cybersurveillance, this is an authoritative and news-breaking book that investigates us inside key political and business events of recent times and ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Requiem for the American Dream

    The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power at work in America today? They're simple enough: reduce democracy, shape ideology, redesign the economy, shift the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD $21.99 AUD

  • The Growth Delusion

    The Wealth and Well-Being of Nations

    by David Pilling ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismAccording to the economy, we have never been wealthier or happier. So why doesn't it feel that way? The Growth Delusion explores how we prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs. So much of what is important to our well ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Faster, Higher, Farther

    The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal

    by Jack Ewing ...
    A shocking exposé of Volkswagen’s fraud by the New York Times reporter who covered the scandal.Updated with a New Afterword by the Author.When news of Volkswagen’s clean diesel fraud first broke in September 2015, it sent shockwaves around the world. Overnight, the company long associated with quality, reliability and trust became a universal symbol of greed and deception. Consumers were outraged, ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Street Smarts

    Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

    by Jim Rogers ...
    Wall Street legend and bestselling author Jim Rogers offers investing insights and economic, political, and social analysis, drawing on lessons and observations from his lifetime in the markets.Jim Rogers, whose entertaining accounts of his travels around the world--studying the markets from Russia to Singapore from the ground up--has enthralled readers, investors and Wall Street aficionados for ... Read more

    $13.99 AUD

  • On The Brink

    by Hank Paulson ...
    Fast-paced and dramatic re-telling of the financial crisis that nearly bought the developed world to its knees. Hank Paulson was at the absolute epicentre of the recent economic storm, and his account of how he dealt with the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression makes for absolutely fascinating reading. The book contains all the decisive moments in the economic crisis, including ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • Hoodwinked

    An Economic Hit Man Reveals Why the Global Economy IMPLODED -- and How to Fix It

    by John Perkins ...
    series John Perkins Economic Hitman Series
    John Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too familiar symptoms of a far greater disease. In his former life as an economic hit man, he was on the front lines both as an observer and a perpetrator of events, once ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD

  • The Great Depression

    America 1929-1941

    by Robert S. McElvaine ...
    One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today.In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Chasing Goldman Sachs

    How the Masters of the Universe Melted Wall Street Down...And Why They'll Take Us to the Brink Again

    by Suzanne McGee ...
    You know what happened during the financial crisis … now it is time to understand why the financial system came so close to falling over the edge of the abyss and why it could happen again.Wall Street has been saved, but it hasn’t been reformed. What is the problem?Suzanne McGee provides a penetrating look at the forces that transformed Wall Street from its traditional role as a capital-generating ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD