Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and beco ...Show more
Future Files - A History of the next 50 years by Richard Watson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
Filled with provocative forecasts about how the world might change in the next half century, this examines emerging patterns and development in society, technology, economy, and business, and makes educated speculations as to where they might take us. First published August 2007.
Global Brand Strategy: Unlocking Branding Potential Across Countries, Cultures and Markets by Sicco Van Gelder
$50.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
"A triumph...the definitive work on the subject. Should be obligatory reading for academics and practitioners alike." (Simon Anholt, Chairman, Earthspeak, and author of "Brand New Justice"). "His analyses are accurate and enlightening, explained in a clear concise fashion without being unduly simplified ...Show more
The China Dream : The elusive quest for the greatest untapped market on earth (3nd edition 2005) by Joe Studwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
A provocative, in-depth look at China - potentially the world's largest market - and the hopes and disappointments of politicians and companies in their search for new riches For 700 years, ever since outsiders first wrote about the place, the world has believed there are untold riches to be harvested ...Show more
Macrowikinomics : Rebooting Business and the World by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
The era of the monolithic, self-contained, inwardly focused corporation is over. In Wikinomics Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams showed how the internet is changing the way the very smartest business managers think about structures and strategies in the 21st century. Now, in MacroWikinomics, they dem ...Show more
The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street by John Talbott
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
How strong was the American economy going into the present crisis? How strong will it be a year from now? How about five years from now? Investors and citizens around the world realize, as never before, that we were misled-lied to-about the stability of our financial system. But what now? John R. Talbot ...Show more
The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
$55.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
The distinguished sociologist Richard Sennett here surveys major differences between earlier forms of industrial capitalism and the more global, more febrile, ever more mutable version of capitalism that is taking its place. He shows how these changes affect everyday life - how the work ethic is changin ...Show more
Twilight in the Desert : The coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy by Matthew R. Simmons
$44.95 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World EconomyTwilight in the Desert reveals a Saudi oil and production industry that could soon approach a serious, irreversible decline. In this exhaustively researched book, veteran oil industry analyst Matthew Simmons draws on his three-plus decades of insider exper ...Show more
The Price Of Civilization: Economics And Ethics After The Fall by Jeffrey D. Sachs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
We have less time for the needed global transformation than many had hoped or expected. Resource scarcity is already upon us in the form of soaring oil and food prices and a cascade of climate shocks. The soaring prices are not merely cyclical or the result of financial speculation - these remarkable pr ...Show more
Next Now: Trends for the Future by SALZMAN MARIAN
$33.00 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Infectious Greed : How deceit and risk corrupted the financial markets by Frank Partnoy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
From the author of the best-selling F.I.A.S.C.O., a riveting chronicle of the terrifying rise of financial skulduggery and the damage it is doing. F.I.A.S.C.O. was 'Blood in the Water on Wall Street', this is blood and guts everywhere. The still-unfolding financial story is scary. One by one major com ...Show more
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
$39.99 AUD
Category: Economic History/ Global Business
The sub-prime mortgage crisis is only the beginning: A more profound economic and political restructuring is on its way.We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions.According to Charles R Morris, the ast ...Show more