The Data Detective - Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics by Tim Harford
$45.00 AUD
Category: Economics
From "one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics" (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics. Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers used to mislead and confuse us. That's a mistake, Tim Harford says in The Data Detecti ...Show more
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How ending consumerism gives us a better life and a greener world by J. B. MacKinnon
$35.00 AUD
Category: Economics
We are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shopped before. And whilst we can do it more responsibly, the scale of our consumption remains the biggest factor in the ruination of the planet. Yet our relian ...Show more
The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken
$37.99 AUD
Category: Economics | Series: Collins Business Essentials
A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.
The Essential Adam Smith by Robert L. Heilbroner (Editor)
$40.95 AUD
Category: Economics
The sheer strength of his great work, The Wealth of Nations, discourages many from attempting to explore its rich and lucid arguments. In this brilliantly crafted volume, one of the most eminent economists of our day provides a generous selection from the entire body of Smith's work, ranging from his fa ...Show more
The Great Economists by Linda Yueh
$22.99 AUD
Category: Economics
A Times Best Business Book of 2018 What can the ideas of history's greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time? 'The best place to start to learn about the very greatest economists of all time' Professor Tyler Cowen, author of The Complacent Class and The Great Stagnation ...Show more
The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman
$33.95 AUD
Category: Economics
We are well aware of the rise of the 1% as the rapid growth of economic inequality has put the majority of the world's wealth in the pockets of fewer and fewer. One much-discussed solution to this imbalance is to significantly increase the rate at which we tax the wealthy. But with an enormous amount of ...Show more
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality by Oded Galor
$35.00 AUD
Category: Economics
A grand unifying theory of human flourishing and inequality from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersA bold retelling of the entire human story from one of the world's pre-eminent thinkersWhat causes living standards to rise?Why are some countries so much richer than others?How might all humans thriv ...Show more
The Logic of Life by Tim Harford
$27.99 AUD
Category: Economics
'Truly eye-opening ...There is almost no situation that Harford cannot dissect with his sharp economist's tools ...economics has never been this cool' NEW STATESMAN If humans are so clever, why do we smoke and gamble, or take drugs, or fall in love? Is this really rational behaviour? And how come your i ...Show more
The Lucky Laundry: longlisted for 2022 Walkley Award and 2022 winner of Financial Crime Fighter Award by Nathan Lynch
$34.99 AUD
Category: Economics
How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks. Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates r ...Show more
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
$26.99 AUD
Category: Economics
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FT AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 'Reads more like a delicious page-turning novel...Put it on your holiday gift list for your favourite hedge-fund honcho' Bloomberg 'A compelling read' Economist 'Captivating' New York Times book review Jim Simons is the greates ...Show more
The Millionaires' Factory: The inside story of how Macquarie Bank became a global giant by Joyce Moullakis, Chris Wright
$36.99 AUD
Category: Economics
The extraordinary and revealing story of the Australian bank that took on the world, and the culture that lies behind its entrepreneurial approach. Macquarie is everywhere. As an investment bank, a commodities player and an international leader in infrastructure fund management, Macquarie has inserted ...Show more