Unfinished Business: Paul Keating’s Interrupted Revolution, is a must for anyone who wants to understand Economics in Australia in the 80’s and 90s. The fully revised and new edition  new edition by former economics journo David Love is a fascinating look at the  financial history of the past 15 years.
In the early 1980s, Paul Keating [...]

Value of Nothing – Raj Patel

Posted on November 30th, 2009 by Jarvis in Economics, Finance, Non-Fiction

in The Value Of Nothing, opening with Oscar Wilde’s observation that “nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing,” Raj Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced.
Credit has crunched, debt has turned toxic and the gears of the world economy have ground [...]

Sydney Morning Herald journalist Anne Davies interviewed US finance expert, author, commentator, and political analyst John R Talbot yesterday. Talbot predicted US and international economic crises in the past decade new book – The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street is out now.
How strong was the American economy going into the present crisis? How strong [...]

With real-life stories, case-studies and experiences gathered from years of working in the world of money, Sheconomics is no-nonsense-easy-to-follow financial guide, written for women by women.

Do you need to get back in control of your cash? Do you want to understand your money emotions? Are you happy to talk about sex, make-up and shoes, but [...]

In The Return of Depression Economics an updated edition of his landmark book, Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today’s economic crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression – and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.

Paul Krugman’s dazzling and prescient polemic The Return of Depression [...]

Dambisa Moyo is a Global Economist at Goldman Sachs in London. She previously worked at the World Bank in Washington DC. A native of Zambia, Southern Africa, Dambisa holds a Doctorate in Economics from Oxford University and a Masters from Harvard – her first book Dead Aid: Destroying the Biggest Global Myth of Our Time [...]

From Harry S Dent of the international bestseller The Roaring 2000s comes  The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash that Follows the Greatest Boom in History that predicts a major economic crash and offers advice on how to survive it.

Harry S. Dent has predicted changes in the [...]

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