The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
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
Meritocracy Trap, The by Daniel Markovits
$55.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
A revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through ability and effort. Even as the country divides itself at every turn, the meritocratic ideal - that social ...Show more
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' TOP BOOK "An intelligent explanation of the mechanisms that produced the crisis and the response to it...One of the great strengths of Tooze's book is to demonstrate the deeply intertwined nature o ...Show more
Second Chance - For Your Money, Your Life and Our World by Robert T. Kiyosaki
$19.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Few would argue with the fact that, on many fronts, we are a world in crisis. And there are two sides to every crisis, be it a leadership crisis, an economic crisis, an education crisis or a moral crisis. The two side to crisis are danger and opportunity. Robert Kiyosaki's new book, Second Chance...for ...Show more
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Amazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017 'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell 'Black Edge has the grip of a thriller a Everyone should read this book' - David Grann, New York T ...Show more
It’s Your Money: How Banking Went Rogue, Where It Is Now and How To Protect and Grow Your Money by Alan Kohler
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Series: Australian on ABC TV
Now, more than ever, we all need to invest wisely and prudently.Want to invest in shares but don't know where to start? Worried about how to make the most of your super? Need a financial adviser but don't know how to find someone reliable? In It's Your Money, Alan Kohler, one of Australia's most truste ...Show more
The Finance Curse by Nicholas Shaxson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Global finance is a system that works for the few and against the many. We need finance - but when finance grows too big it becomes a curse. The City of London is the single biggest drain on our resources; it sucks talent out of every sphere, it siphons wealth and hoovers up government time. Yet to be ...Show more
Wrong Way: How Privatisation and Economic Reform Backfired by Damien Cahill
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Since the 1980s, waves of neoliberal 'economic reform' have transformed Australia. Privatisation, deregulation, marketisation and the contracting out of government services: for three decades now, there has been widespread agreement among policymakers on the desirability of these strategies. But the be ...Show more
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call if what you like, it matters now more than ever. In The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that financial history is the back-story to all history. From the banking dynasty who funded the Italian Renaissance to the stock market bubble that caused the French Revol ...Show more
Asia's Reckoning by Richard McGregor
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
'Stunningly good' Michael Burleigh, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 2017A Financial Times Best Book of 2017'A shrewd and knowing book.' Robert D. Kaplan, The Wall Street Journal'A compelling and impressive read.' The Economist'Skillfully crafted and well-argued.' Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Financial Times ...Show more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
$59.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack o ...Show more
Hyper-Capitalism: The Modern Economy, its Values, and How to Change Them by Larry;Kasser Gonick
$35.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
An acerbic graphic takedown of capitalismIn Hyper-Capitalism, cartoonist Larry Gonick and psychologist Tim Kasser offer a vivid and an accessible new way to understand how global, privatising, market-worshipping hyper-capitalism is threatening human well-being, social justice, and the planet.Drawing fro ...Show more