Penguin Books Australia

The bestselling author of Traders, Guns & Money on how money and finance enslaved the world.

Once, we built things – useful things.  Now, we construct immense financial structures from thin air and lies.  We have crafted a colossal worldwide financial machine that makes a few individuals staggeringly wealthy and sacrifices everyone else at its altar of risk.

THE INSIDE STORY OF BERNIE MADOFF AND HIS $65 BILLION PONZI SCHEME, WITH SURPRISING AND SHOCKING NEW DETAILS FROM MADOFF HIMSELF

Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?

'Excellent . . . One is left with utter disbelief that people could return to normality from such a monetary madhouse.' Financial Times

Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed eighty years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day.

In Plenitude economist and bestselling author Juliet Schor offers a groundbreaking intellectual statement about the economics and sociology of ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.

Keating's revolution was based on...

The basic concept behind free-market economics was simple and seductive: the government should not attempt to pick winners by granting assistance to specific industries, and it should only intervene in the market in circumstances where there has been a substantial market failure. The only trouble with this theory ­— as the global economic disaster has shown — is that it is based on...

'We think we are the lucky country, but what we really have is dumb luck—a lot of luck without the planning or strategy to make sure our good fortune lasts.'—Paul Cleary

In Too Much Luck , Paul Cleary shows that the resources boom, which seems like a blessing, has the potential to become a curse – unless our governments take urgent action.

A HARVARD-TRAINED ECONOMIST'S STARTLING PREDICTIONS REVEAL THE KEY CHALLENGES OF THE DECADES AHEAD – AND HOW BEST TO MEET THEM.

As we deal with the aftermath of the financial crisis, many of us are focused on forecasts for the next week, month or quarter.  Instead we should be asking what the global economy will look like in years to come: where will the long-term risks and opportunities...

The world is drowning in debt, in paper promises. Can we stay afloat?

We all know the world's resources - the commodities that underpin our daily lives and economies - are scarce. But how many of us know what that really means for the global economy today?

We all know the world's resources the commodities that underpin our daily lives and economies are scarce. But how many of us know what that really means for the global economy today?

One man saw it coming.

As far back as 2005, Professor Nouriel Roubini aka Dr Doom warned that the US housing bubble was set to crash, and what would begin as a national disease would soon spread overseas resulting in a deep recession. Free market fundamentalism would fail and we'd be faced with the worst economic crisis in history, crippling our global economy and bringing the world's financial systems...

One of this century's greatest surprises has been the economic and social revolution in India. A country long characterized by such adjectives as 'timeless', 'spiritual' and 'backward' is now viewed through a new set of clichés: 'hi-tech', 'materialistic', 'go-getting'. But what is the real nature of this rapid change, and what are its roots?