The Collapse Of Antiquity by Michael Hudson
$55.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization's Oligarchic Turning Point The Collapse of Antiquity, the sequel to Michael's "...and forgive them their debts, " is the second and latest book in his trilogy on the history of debt. It describes how the dynamics of interest-bearing debt led ...Show more
A World of Insecurity - Democratic Disenchantment in Rich and Poor Countries by Pranab Bardhan
$51.95 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An ambitious account of the corrosion of liberal democracy in rich and poor countries alike, arguing that antidemocratic sentiment reflects fear of material and cultural loss, not a critique of liberalism's failure to deliver equality, and suggesting possible ways out. The retreat of liberal democracy i ...Show more
The Four Workarounds - Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems by Paulo Savaget
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Oxford University professor and award-winning researcher Paulo Savaget reveals the ways the scrappiest organizations solve problems and explains how everyone can use the same tools at work and in life. We constantly encounter complex problems at home, in our places of work, and in society at large. Even ...Show more
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration by Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner
$37.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to an enormously successful product launch in eleven months. But they are the exception. Consider how London’s Crossrail project delivered five years l ...Show more
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
$37.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The world-famous #1 bestselling economist explains how capitalism has been usurped by a technologically enhanced form of feudalism. No one noticed when capitalism died. Perhaps we were too distracted by the implosion of global finance, or the rise of populism, or the demise of the planet - or all of th ...Show more
Edible Economics - A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
$25.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Bestselling author and economist Ha ...Show more
The Lazarus Heist: Based on the No 1 Hit Podcast by Geoff White
$27.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
BASED ON THE NO 1 HIT PODCAST 'The Lazarus Heist' 'You'll never see North Korea the same way again' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland 'One of the most incredible cyber-espionage stories I've ever heard, told by one of the UK's best tech journalists' Jamie Bartlett, author of The Missing Crypto Queen ...Show more
Why Empires Fall by John Rapley; Peter Heather
$45.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet. Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline.This is not the first time the global order has witnessed s ...Show more
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks by Scott Shapiro
$55.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them before. Fancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton, the elite hacking unit within Russian military intelligence broke into the Democratic National Committee network, grabbed what it could, and ...Show more
Virtuous Bankers - A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne Murphy
$60.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became "a great engine of state" The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that operated for the benefit of its shareholders--and yet came to be considered, as Adam Smith described it, "a g ...Show more
Culture Shock Gallup's solution to the biggest leadership issue of our time. by Jim Clifton, Jim Harter
$45.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an awakening that shocked the world -- a structural change in how and where people work and live. One thing we now know for certain: Nothing is going back to normal.How organizations adapt to this culture shock will determine whether they thrive or even survive and whether U ...Show more
The Edge by Jonathan Maxwell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics
We live in a World which, though the origins are long, seems suddenly transformed by economic events way out of our control. In seeking stability, we must acknowledge the seismic scale of the challenge, and understand the devastating impact of global energy inefficiency. Every society, organisation, bus ...Show more