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Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia: Redbacks (Paperback, New)
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Battlers and Billionaires: The Story of Inequality in Australia: Redbacks (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R545
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'This is required reading for every Australian who seriously cares
about the fair go enduring.' - Peter FitzSimons 'Be warned: this
book will open your eyes and prick your conscience.' - Ross Gittins
Is Australia fair enough? And why does inequality matter anyway?
InBattlers and Billionaires, Andrew Leigh weaves together vivid
anecdotes, interesting history and powerful statistics to tell the
story of inequality in this country. This is economics writing at
its best. From egalitarian beginnings, Australian inequality rose
through the nineteenth century. Then we became more equal again,
with inequality falling markedly from the 1920s to the 1970s. Now,
inequality is returning to the heights of the 1920s. Leigh shows
that while inequality can fuel growth, it also poses dangers to
society. Too much inequality risks cleaving us into two Australias,
occupying fundamentally separate worlds, with little contact
between the haves and the have-nots. And the further apart the
rungs on the ladder of opportunity, the harder it is for a kid born
into poverty to enter the middle class. Battlers and
Billionairessheds fresh light on what makes Australia distinctive,
and what it means to have - and keep - a fair go. 'A
thought-provoking book which emphasises how far we have strayed
from confidently discussing public policies that seek to give
meaning to our egalitarian spirit.' - Laura Tingle About the
author: Andrew Leigh is the federal MP for Fraser and a former
economics professor at the Australian National University. He holds
a PhD from Harvard and in 2011 received the Economics Society of
Australia's award for the best Australian economist under forty. He
is the author of Disconnected, co-author of Imagining Australia and
co-editor of The Prince's New Clothes. Redbacks - books with bite.
Short books on big issues by leading Australian writers and
thinkers.
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