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Summer reading guide from The Conversation's business economics writers

  • Written by Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University

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In his 2016 book Richard Denniss calls out politicians and vested interests for using “econobabble” – which he defines as “incomprehensible economic jargon and apparently simple words that have been...

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