Penguin Books Australia

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...

'Nouriel Roubini was right'
Paul Krugman, Time

'This is a wake-up call'
Observer

'The only professional economist who really predicted the crisis, and perhaps the only independent thinker in that business' 
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
 
In this myth-busting book Nouriel Roubini shows that everything we think about economics is wrong. Financial crises are not unpredictable 'black swans', but an...

'Bang on the money . . . both welcome and important . . . the economist unafraid to ask tough questions . . . we need more of his ilk'  Will Hutton, Observer

When the world economy went into freefall, so too did our unquestioning faith in markets. But what happens now? Are bailouts and stern lectures enough, or do we need a rethink of our entire financial system?

'An important book . . . Tom Friedman . . . is a major interpreter of the confusing world we inhabit'
Joseph S. Nye Jr. Washington Post

Thomas Friedman's phenomenal The World is Flat helped millions of people see globalization in a new way. Now he takes a fresh, provocative look at the biggest challenge facing us today – our hot, flat and crowded world.

Why doesn't Africa grow cocaine?
Does believing in God make your country richer?
How can a diamond mine be a bad business?

Alan Beattie wants to alter the way you think about the world. Filled with extraordinary stories of financial triumph and disaster, False Economy provides a counterintuitive look at how the world really works, and asks why it all too frequently doesn't. Provocative, witty and erudite...

Essential reading . . . could easily end up serving as the manifesto for global affairs'  
ALLISTER HEATH, LITERARY REVIEW

For the first time, a look at the universal market dynamics critical to any profitable investment strategy and relevant to all asset classes

Only book to clearly introduce each leading venue for trading currencies, including Forex spot markets, currency futures, and currency ETFs.

First complete guide to China's economic statistics: how to find, interpret, and use them to invest more profitably.

CHINA is now the greatest threat to America.

An insider's account of the three days that brought the financial world to its knees

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing currency war that had destroyed faith in the U.S. dollar. Today we are engaged in a new currency war, and this time the consequences will be far worse than those that confronted Nixon.

The impact of emerging economies and sovereign wealth funds on capital markets: what investors must know to profit in the coming decade.

What happens when your government goes bust? How the sovereign debt crisis will impact you, your investments, the economy, and the world.

In Private Empire, Steve Coll investigates the notoriously secretive ExxonMobil Corporation, revealing the true extent of the power wielded by a company whose annual revenues are larger than the total economic activity in most countries. In many of the countries where it operates, ExxonMobil has a greater sway than that of the US embassy and in Washington it spends more on lobbying than any other corporation...