The Expendables: How the middle class got screwed by globalisation by Jeff Rubin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics
A provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalisation, and how the blowback — from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe — will change the developed world. Real wages have not risen much for decades. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is be ...Show more
Breaking The Banks by Joseph Healy
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics
What was once an industry built on trust, professionalism and value, has become synonymous with greed, complacency and everything that has gone wrong with capitalism. So how did Australian banks, which avoided much of the aftermath of the GFC, lose their way and become engulfed in scandal?Breaking the B ...Show more
Rockonomics How Music Explains Everything (about the Economy) by Alan Krueger
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Series: Economist using examples from music industry | Reading Level: very good
Alan Krueger, the former chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, uses the music industry, from rock artists to music executives, from managers to promoters, as a way in to explain the principles of economics, and the forces shaping our economic lives. As economists recognize, the music ...Show more
The New Climate War: The fight to take back our planet by Michael E Mann
$35.00 AUD
Category: Economics
A world-leading expert exposes how fossil-fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to blame individuals for climate change while taking no responsibility themselves, and offers guidance on what we must do now to reverse global warming. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the way ...Show more