{"product_id":"fortunes-fool-satyajit-das-9781922633071","title":"Fortune's Fool: Australia's Choices","description":"Australia's prosperity relies on the continent's extraordinary natural--primarily mineral--riches and good fortune. But economic, financial, environmental, geopolitical, and societal pressures now threaten the nation's high living standards. The COVID-19 pandemic is the first of many trials to come. Lacklustre reform proposals are mired in ideological necrophilia: ideas which have been tried and failed. Politics is trading insults and slogans. Institutions lack the quality, skills, organisational memory, and courage to deliver the required solutions. A disengaged citizenry are focused on preserving their entitled way of life, refusing to accept that the well of plenty is approaching exhaustion. Written in accessible, acerbic prose, \u003ci\u003e Fortune's Fool \u003c\/i\u003ecuts through these issues to expose Australia's current dilemmas and choices. It dissects the pandemic, global trends, Australia's narrow 'house and holes' economy and its dependency on China, spotlighting a political paralysis that must be overcome and the changes that are urgently needed. For Australians remotely concerned about their own future and their children's, as well as the country's, \u003ci\u003eFortune's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Satyajit Das\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1922633070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781922633071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Monash University Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.80h x 4.20w x 0.40d","brand":"Satyajit Das","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44056790761727,"sku":"9781922633071","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bddeef9a-d702-40ce-afba-77fae74d4ea6.jpg?v=1685043289","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fortunes-fool-satyajit-das-9781922633071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}