Econobabble
How to Decode Political Spin and Economic Nonsense
$30.00
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2021
Summary
A fully updated and expanded edition of Richard Denniss’s clear, witty guide to understanding political jargon about the economy.
‘Economics is like a tyre lever: it can be used to solve a problem, or to beat someone over the head.’
What is econobabble? We hear it every day, when politicians and commentators use incomprehensible economic jargon to dress up their self-interest as the national interest, to make the absurd seem inevitable or the inequitable seem fair. This book e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760643225 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176064322X |
| Author: | Richard Denniss |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | Black Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 135mm x 208mm |
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Richard Denniss
Richard Denniss is chief economist at the Australia Institute. He is the author of Econobabble, Curing Affluenza and Dead Right, and the co-author of Affluenza. He writes for The Monthly, The Guardian, The Saturday Paper and the Australian Financial Review.
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