Hospitality Management : Economics

The only intermediate resource with a truly Australasian focus, demonstrating economic ideas and issues with hundreds of local and international examples.

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 transformation.

The text puts economics in the context of the real world.

Katrine Marcal's sets the record straight and shows how, in a time of crisis, the ingenuity and intelligence of women is that very thing that can save us.

Can an algorithm take your job? Do algorithms dream of electric sheep? These questions and more are answered by this exciting and ground-breaking book, which includes nine rules for flourishing in the new economy of algorithms.

A bestselling economist's history of inequality and guide to a more just, sustainable world, distilled into an engaging and accessible pocket-sized text. In this unique work, Thomas Piketty presents a synthesis of his historical and comparative research on inequality.

In Deficit, Emma Holten traces how economic thinkers - from the Enlightenment onwards - created a value framework that left out 'women's work' and acts of care.

Drawing on his vast experience in global business and finance and his deep connection to Australia, Andrew offers a compelling analysis of how the Australian Way works and why it matters. The book is both a celebration of what Australia has achieved and a guide for other democracies seeking solutions to their own challenges.

Fully updated to take into account the global recession, ongoing problems in Eurozone economies, changing patterns in world trade, housing and currency markets.

Originally published in 1890, Principles of Economics was the first text to bring together the theories of supply and demand, marginal utility and cost of production into a coherent whole.

This book presents a macroeconomic framework for understanding and analyzing the global economy.

This book explains the intuition behind Keynesian and neoclassical macroeconomics using graphs and simple algebra.

Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole and of work and saving choices of individual economic agents from which macroeconomic activity emerges.

Featuring insights from leading economists--including Daron Acemoglu, Justin Yifu Lin, and Joseph Stiglitz--this volume offers expert commentary on economic transformation, development strategies, and the evolving global order.

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach.

This book presents a new transhistorical framework of defining production, work and consumption. It shows that they all share the common feature of intentional physical transformation of something external to the agent.

This book discusses alternative approaches to certain questions of economic growth, utilising conclusions that can be drawn from the Solow model.

Oliver Brown's biography of one of Australia's key financial figures includes rare interviews with former prime minister Paul Keating, Wall Street titans Jamie Dimon and James Gorman, Reserve Bank governors Bernie Fraser and Ian Macfarlane, Westpac CEOs Bob Joss and Gail Kelly.

More than 790 million people live in extreme poverty. Why is there still so much poverty in the world; how is it measured; and what is being done to end poverty in all its forms everywhere?

This book explains the economic fundamentals featuring the latest employment statistics and report findings. It also explores the inadequacy of welfare support and reviews government and social sector strategies for tackling unemployment and underemployment.

This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject and the current state of affairs with regard to the study of cooperation in the economy generally and of the cooperative and related sectors particularly.

This text remains a favorite among instructors and students for its clear, concise treatment of international trade and finance theory.

This is the 13th edition of a text that has enjoyed a flattering market success, having been adopted by more than 700 colleges and universities.

Combines rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today in this field.