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  • Gittins

    A life among budgets, bulldust and bastardry

    by Ross Gittins ...
    For forty years Ross Gittins has had a ringside seat as the Australian economy has gone through radical change. He's covered forty budgets and sixteen elections, he's watched thirteen treasurers and eight prime ministers wrestle with boom and recession, debts and deficits. Few economic journalists have earned such respect for their views from participants and readers alike. His even-handedness and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Happy Economist

    Happiness for the hard-headed

    by Ross Gittins ...
    Most economists are obsessed with financial and economic measures, but not Ross Gittins. In The Happy Economist he mounts a provocative and persuasive case for a different approach. He argues that happiness is our most important measure of economic success.Distilling the practical wisdom from all the recent scientific study of happiness by psychologists and economists, Ross claims that happiness ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gittins' Gospel

    The economics of just about everything

    by Ross Gittins ...
    Can any other economics guru claim to write the column in a daily newspaper that people turn to first?Or to pack the auditorium at a literary festival?Be it climate change, productivity, fairness, industrial relations, terrorism, media, the mining boom, the GFC, refugees and even economists themselves, every thorny topic under the sun is covered in sane and rational fashion.Gittins' Gospel ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gittinomics

    Living the good life without money stress, overwork and joyless consumption

    by Ross Gittins ...
    Ross Gittins is the economics guru of Australia. He has the extremely rare and enviable knack of making economics relevant, accessible and, most importantly of all, interesting. And Ross is a man on a mission. He wants to help us to understand just how the economy around us works, and more importantly, to help us take control of our lives, do less of what doesn't satisfy us and more of what does. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gittins' Guide to Economics

    by Ross Gittins ...
    A clear, concise and entertaining introduction to the economics of today, written by Sydney Morning Herald/The Age economics guru Ross Gittins.Drawing on many of Ross's popular columns and the needs of final year high school economics students, Gittins' Guide provides bite-sized, easy-to-follow explanations of the key issues in economics and macroeconomics that shape our world. Featuring Ross's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Happy Economist: Happiness For The Hard-Headed

    by Ross Gittins ...
    A provocative look at an area few economists dare to tread, by Australia's most read economic commentator. Most economists are obsessed with financial and economic measures, but not Ross Gittins. In The Happy Economist he mounts a provocative and persuasive case for a different approach. He argues that happiness is our most important measure of economic success. Distilling the practical wisdom ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • How Australia Compares

    by Rodney Tiffen, Ross Gittins ...
    How Australia Compares is a handy reference that compares Australia with seventeen other developed countries across a wide range of social, economic and political dimensions. Whenever possible, it gives not only snapshot comparisons from the present, but charts trends over recent decades or even longer. Encyclopaedic in scope, it provides statistics for a huge range of human activity, from ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • How America Compares

    by Rodney Tiffen, Anika Gauja, Brendon O'Connor, Ross Gittins, David Smith ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book is a reference work with an encyclopedic range, offering contemporary and systematic comparisons between the United States and 17 other economically advanced, stable liberal democracies, as well as some more global comparisons. It offers international data on as many aspects of social life as possible, from taxation to traffic accidents, homicide rates to health expenditure, and interest ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

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  • A Dangerous Fortune

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  • The Independent Member for Lyne

    A memoir

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    Passionate, vivid and immediate, and full of insights, this is Rob Oakeshott's honest and real story of life in Australian politics. From his apprenticeship in the NSW parliament to the last days of the Gillard government, he tells it as it was.When the results of the 2010 federal election became known, no party had a majority in the House of Representatives it was the first hung parliament for ... Read more

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  • The Australian Disease

    On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom

    by Richard Flanagan ...
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