DECOLONIZING WEALTH, SECOND EDITION by Villanueva Edgar
$40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
This second edition expands the provocative analysis of the racist colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance into other sectors and offers practical advice on how anyone can be a healer. The world is out of balance. With increasing frequency, we are presented with the inescapable truth that ...Show more
Econobabble: How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense by Richard Denniss
$30.81 NZD
Category: Economics
'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 inevit ...Show more
Figuring Out the Past - The 1,073 Vital Statistics That Explain World History by Peter Turchin; Dan Hoyer
$32.99 NZD
Category: Economics
What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in Old Kingdom Egypt? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ritual human sacrifice ever? We are used to thinking abou ...Show more
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History by Liam Vaughan
$35.00 NZD
Category: Economics
'The UK's pre-eminent chronicler of financial crime' New Yorker For fans of Bad Blood and Flash Boys, the story of a trading prodigy who amassed $70 million from his childhood bedroom-until the US government accused him of helping trigger an unprecedented market collapse. On May 6, 2010, financial marke ...Show more
Growth: A Reckoning by Daniel Susskind
$40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethink it Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from poverty and made our lives far healthier and longer. As a result, the unfettered pursuit of growth defines economic life around the ...Show more
Growth - From Microorganisms to Megacities by Vaclav Smil
$39.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental ...Show more
Money in One Lesson: How it Works and Why by Gavin Jackson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Economics
Understanding cash, currencies and the financial system is vital for making sense of what is going on in our world, especially now. Since the 2008 financial crisis, money has rarely been out of the headlines. Central banks have launched extraordinary policies, like quantitative easing or negative intere ...Show more
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century by Brad de Long
$40.00 NZD
Category: Economics
From one of the world's leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied.Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling ou ...Show more
Sold Out!: How Severed Supply & Surging Inflation Will End Consumer Choice by James Rickards
$35.00 NZD
Category: Economics
Empty shelves, petrol station queues and energy shortages- crises more familiar to those who lived through the 1960s and 1970s have now become a reality for many as global shipping times are squeezed, containers lie unopened at docks and supply shortages push up inflation, increasing the cost of consume ...Show more
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism by Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter, Aaron Vansintjan (editors)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Economics
We need to break free from the capitalist economy. Degrowth gives us the tools to bend its bars. Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled industrialization, and capitalist modern ...Show more
The Little Book of Economics by DK
$24.00 NZD
Category: Economics
This book is the perfect introduction to the subject of economics and economic ideas through history. From the earliest forms of currency to the Industrial Revolution, and from the birth of the stock market to free-market capitalism and globalized trade, The Little Book of Economics brings economic the ...Show more
The Paradox of Debt - A New Path to Prosperity Without Crisis by Richard Vague
$45.00 NZD
Category: Economics
When we talk about debt and its economic impact, we usually centre on "government debt," and overlook the debt owed by individuals and firms that is vital to truly understanding the economy. In this iconoclastic book, Richard Vague examines the assets, liabilities, and incomes of the American economy a ...Show more