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Fairtax: The Truth: Answering the Critics by Neal Boortz Publisher Comments In 2005, firebrand radio talk show host Neal Boortz and Georgia congressman John Linder created The FairTax Book, presenting the American public with a bold new plan designed to eliminate federal taxes and the IRS, jump-start the U.S. economy, bring... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments "Masterfully crafted, deeply thoughtful and mind-expanding."--Los Angeles Times In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the prevailing view of our economy. Deep Economy makes the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance by Nouriel Roubini Publisher Comments "A succinct, lucid and compelling account . . . Essential reading." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini electrified the financial community by predicting the current crisis before others in his field saw it coming... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Freefall by Joseph E Stiglitz Publisher Comments The Great Recession, as it has come to be called, has impacted more people worldwide than any crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed government policy and unscrupulous personal and corporate behavior in the United States created the current financial... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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How Markets Fail by John Cassidy Publisher Comments For fifty years, economists have been developing elegant theories or how markets facilitate innovation, create wealth, and allocate society's resources efficiently. But what about when they fail, when they lead us to stock market bubbles, glaring... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely Staff Pick Why are we more motivated about our work when we feel it has meaning? Can we increase our enjoyment of an activity by interrupting it? Why do we believe that information from a dating web site, which reads more like a baseball card than a personality... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened by Robert Shiller Publisher Comments "Robert Shiller is two for two in predicting and identifying bubbles that will burst. This book is a must read for anyone predicting future bubbles or charting the course of recovery from our current difficulties."--Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments In this major bestseller, Paul Krugman warns that, like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression have made a comeback. He lays bare the 2008 financial crisis--the greatest since the 1930s--... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life (Revised Edition) by Paul Seabright Publisher Comments "No one, economist or civilian, could turn the pages of this book without spotting, time and again, some unexpected and arresting idea that really wants to be thought about. Paul Seabright takes the evolutionary point of view seriously and asks how human... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick The roots of the bubble and the story of Wall Street's collapse can be told no clearer — nor with as much humor — as by Michael Lewis. If you read only one book that explains the current economic crisis, make it The Big Short.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Moral Underground: How Ordinary Americans Subvert an Unfair Economy by Lisa Dodson Publisher Comments "I pad their paychecks because you can't live on what they make." —Supervisor of a Fast-food Pizza Place Here is a book that tells the real story of the countless unsung heroes who bend or break the rules to help those millions of Americans... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal by Moshe Adler Review In this brilliant eye opener, Moshe Adler shows how more than a century ago the man-made concepts of economics were transformed from egalitarian concern with the welfare of everyone into analytical tools biased in favor of the rich. With clarity, and in... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy by Robert L Heilbroner Publisher Comments Author of The Worldly Philosophers, a 3-million-copy seller, Robert Heilbroner offers here a compendium of readings from the "worldly philosophers" themselves. The selections range from the earliest economic thought to such towering volumes as Adam Smith'... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Galbraith: The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-196galbraith: The Affluent Society & Other Writings, 1952-1967 7: American Capitalism / The Gre by John Kenneth Galbraith Publisher Comments The Library of America: Now available in one complete collection. Thirty years ago, The Library of America was founded to undertake a historic endeavor: to help preserve the nation's cultural heritage by publishing America's best and most significant... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Creative Capitalism: A Conversation with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Other Economic Leaders by Michael Kinsley Publisher Comments Bill Gates is more than the world's most successful capitalist; he's also the world's biggest philanthropist. Gates has approached philanthropy the same way he revolutionized computer software: with a fierce ambition to change the rules of the game. That'... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken Publisher Comments A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A Akerlof Publisher Comments "This book is a sorely needed corrective. Animal Spirits is an important--maybe even a decisive--contribution at a difficult juncture in macroeconomic theory."--Robert M. Solow, Nobel Prize-winning economist "This book is dynamite. It is a powerful... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles J. Wheelan Publisher Comments Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha Joon Chang Publisher Comments The acclaimed Ha-Joon Chang is a voice of sanity-and wit-in this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth by Dani Rodrik Publisher Comments "Dani Rodrik is a leader in applying rigorous economic analysis and informed common sense to the challenges of economic development. His knowledge, his sense of what we do and do not know, his important pointers to humility, pragmatism, and attention to... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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