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The Number Bias by Sanne Blauw
$37.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
Even if you don't consider yourself a numbers person, you are a numbers person. The time has come to put numbers in their place. Not high up on a pedestal, or out on the curb, but right where they belong: beside words. It is not an overstatement to say that numbers dictate the way we live our lives. Th ...Show more
Is Capitalism Broken? by Yanis Varoufakis (Author) , Arthur Brooks (Author) , Katrina vanden Heuvel (Author) , David Brooks (Author
$18.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' - Yanis Varoufakis 'Capitalism over the past twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.' - David Brooks There is a growing belief that the capitalist syste ...Show more
Kleptopia - How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World (US ED) by Tom Burgis
$69.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
'If you think the UK isn't corrupt, you haven't looked hard enough ... This new and terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it' George Monbiot, Guardian 'When you pick this book up, you won't be able to put it down' Misha Glenny, autho ...Show more
The Lonely Century - Coming Together in a World that's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz
$37.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics | Reading Level: near fine
A radical call to arms and a bold new vision of how we must act, fast, to reconnect society at individual, government and business level, from a global economist hailed by the Observer as 'one of the world's leading thinkers'. Professor Noreena Hertz has travelled the world to explore the loneliness epi ...Show more
How to Make the World Add Up by Tim Harford
$37.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
'If you aren't in love with stats before reading this book, you will be by the time you're done. Powerful, persuasive, and in these truth-defying times, indispensable' - Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women 'Fabulously readable, lucid, witty and authoritative . . . Every politician and jour ...Show more
Principles of Microeconomics by Joshua Gans; Stephen King; N. Gregory Mankiw; Martin Byford
$178.00 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
Principles of Microeconomics 7th edition caters for a single semester introductory unit in Microeconomics. The latest edition of this text continues to focus on important concepts and analyses necessary for students in an introductory economics course. In keeping with the authors' philosophy of showing ...Show more
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund
$27.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics | Reading Level: near fine
'A hopeful book about the potential for human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent biases.' BARACK OBAMA 'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world.' BILL GATES 'Hans Rosling tells the story of "the secret silent mirac ...Show more
Bitcoin Billionaires - A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich
$27.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House, comes Bitcoin Billionaires - the fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on crypto-currency and its dazzling pay-off. Ben Mezrich's 2009 bestseller The Accide ...Show more
Uncommon Knowledge by Tom Standage
$24.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of th ...Show more
Basic Income : And How We Can Make It Happen by Guy Standing
$28.00 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics | Series: Pelican Bks.
'Basic Income is an idea whose time has come, and Guy Standing has pioneered our understanding of it...Standing's analysis is vital' Paul Mason 'Guy Standing has been at the forefront of the movement for nearly 4 decades, and in this superb and thorough survey he explains how it works and why it has the ...Show more
More from Less: How We Finally Stopped Using up the World - and What Happens Next by Andrew McAfee
$37.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
Bestselling author and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Andrew McAfee says there's a new reason for optimism: we're past the point of 'peak stuff' - from here on out, it'll take fewer resources to make things, and cost less to lead a comfortable life. This turn of events invalid ...Show more
Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Finance & Economics
'A devastating exposé.' Mail on Sunday The world's 'Big Four' accountancy firms - PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and KPMG - have become a gilded elite. Up in the high six figures, an average partner salary rivals that of a Premier League footballer. But how has the seemingly humdrum profession of ac ...Show more
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