Aftershock - The next economy and America's future by Robert B. Reich
$12.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
The author of 12 acclaimed books, Robert B. Reich is a Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served in three national administrations. While many blamed Wall Street for the financial meltdown, Aftershock points a finger at a national economy in which ...Show more
Superfreakonomics - A Tale of Altruism, Terrorism and Poorly Paid Prostitution by Steven D Levitt; Stephen J Dubner
$12.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: good-very good
Here at last is the long awaited sequel to the international bestselling phenomenon, Freakonomics. Steven Levitt, the original rogue economist, and Stephen Dubner have been working hard, uncovering the hidden side of even more controversial subjects, from charity to terrorism and prostitution. And with ...Show more
The End of Poverty: How we can make it happen in our lifetime by Jeffrey Sachs
$12.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
Jeffrey Sachs draws on his remarkable 25 years' experience to offer a thrilling and inspiring vision of the keys to economic success in the world today. Marrying vivid storytelling with acute analysis, he sets the stage by drawing a conceptual map of the world economy and explains why, over the past 200 ...Show more
Doughnut Economics - Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
$12.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
The book behind the hit TED Talk** The Sunday Times Bestseller**** Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017** 'The John Maynard Keynes of the 21st century.' George Monbiot, Guardian' This is sharp, significant scholarship . . . Thrilling.' Times Higher Education Economics is ...Show more
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight over Taxing Inherited Wealth by Michael J. Graetz; I. Shapiro
$30.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Reading Level: very good
This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support? The m ...Show more
The New Zealand CPI at 100 - History and Interpretation by Sharleen Forbes and Antong Victorio (eds)
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Very few New Zealanders have lives unaffected by the Consumers Price Index, or CPI. It is used by the New Zealand government to adjust student allowances, welfare benefits and superannuation; by the Reserve Bank to guide monetary policy; by the old Court of Arbitration, and by employers and employees, t ...Show more
No Ordinary Deal: Unmasking the Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement by Jane Kelsey
$25.00 NZD
Category: Economics | Series: Series 21 - Into a New Century | Reading Level: Very Good
The Trans Pacific Partnership is no ordinary free trade deal. Billed as an agreement fit for the twentyfirst century, no one is sure what that means. For its champions in New Zealand a free trade agreement with the US is a magic bullet - opening closed doors for Fonterra into the US dairy market. Presid ...Show more