BBQ ECONOMICS
by Liam Dann
(Penguin, $40)
“While other developed economies invest in R&D and export highvalue goods, we buy houses off each other and ship milk powder to China.”
Some jobs attract intense interest at social events: lawyers, doctors and accountants are pestered for free advice, chefs are drafted to taste-test everything, journalists are quickly surrounded by bores telling them what’s wrong with the media. Liam Dann is a journalist, but he’s business editor at large at the so he finds himself fielding questions about mortgage rates and house prices .
