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Choosing Openness: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Why global engagement is best for Australia by Andrew Leigh
9.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials
Across the developed world, global engagement has become a major political fault line. Populists say that we should hunker down in the face of difference, that trade is a zero-sum game, and that foreign investment will cost us in the long run. They say openness is the cause of the growing income gap. Th ...Show more
Economics of Just About Everything: The hidden reasons for our curious choices and surprising successes by Andrew Leigh
26.99 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management
A fun and illuminating book full of surprising facts and amazing insights about how the laws of economics affect our everyday lives.
Innovation + Equality - How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator by Joshua Gans; Andrew Leigh; Lawrence H. Summers (Foreword by)
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Artificial intelligence, genetics research, and materials science study have benefited society collectively and rewarded innovators handsomely- we get cool smartphones and technology moguls become billionaires. This contributes to a growing wealth gap; in the United States; the wealth controlled by the ...Show more
Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World by Andrew Leigh
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employment rates, and improve living standards among the poo ...Show more
Reconnected by Andrew Leigh
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Friends are good for your health. The strength of your social relationships is a remarkably good predictor of how long you will live. Strong social connections also make communities more resilient, efficient and satisfying. But today Australians have fewer close friends and local connections than in the ...Show more
The Luck of Politics: True Tales of Disaster and Outrageous Fortune by Andrew Leigh
24.99 AUD
Category: Australian Studies
A delightful look at chance and outrageous fortune. In 1968, John Howard missed out on winning the state seat of Drummoyne by just 420 votes. Howard reflects- 'I think back how fortunate I was to have lost.' It left him free to stand for a safe federal seat in 1974 and become one of Australia's longest- ...Show more
The Shortest History of Economics: The Powerful Story of Economic Ideas and Forces that Shape Our World by Andrew Leigh
27.99 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management
'The secret of economics is that the most powerful insights come from a handful of big ideas that anyone can follow.' This small book tells a big story. From ancient times to the modern world, The Shortest History of Economics unearths the hidden economic forces behind war, innovation and social transf ...Show more
What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics by Andrew Leigh
44.99 AUD
Category: History
Why catastrophic risks are more dangerous than you think, and how populism is making them worse. Did you know that you're more likely to die from a catastrophe than in a car crash? The odds that a typical US resident will die from a catastrophic event--for example, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or out- ...Show more
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