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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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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel Publisher Comments How can starving people also be obese? Why does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food? It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy 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 $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power by Joel Bakan Publisher Comments Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world's dominant economic institution. Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Publisher Comments By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Arms and Influence (Henry L. Stimson Lectures) by Thomas C Schelling Publisher Comments The author concentrates in this book n the way in which military capabilities real or imagined are used, skillfully of clumsily, as bargaining power. He sees the steps taken by the U.S. during the Berlin and Cuban crises as not merely preparations for... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction by Barry Lynn Publisher Comments "A manifesto for our times." —Thomas Frank, Wall Street Journal Barry C. Lynn, one of the most original and surprising students of the American economy, paints a genuinely alarming picture: most of our public debates about globalization... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence... (read more) List Price $16.00 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: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy by Josh Kosman Publisher Comments An authoritative exposand#233; of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equity. Marquee private equity firms such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts have grown bigger and more powerful than ever. They have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Dictionary of Economics (Oxford Paperback Reference) by John Black Publisher Comments Comprehensively revised and updated, this outstanding reference work defines more than 2,500 key economic terms with clear, concise entries that cover all aspects of the field--from microeconomics and macroeconomics to e-commerce and international trade,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Emu in Perspective: Understanding Monetary Union by Deborah Owen Publisher Comments A huge change is about to occur in the world of business and money and it has nothing to do with the year 2000 problem. It's the European Monetary Union. Many businesses and most managers don't really understand EMU and the single currency. They face a... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.25 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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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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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones Publisher Comments Now revised and updated, Van Jones's provocative and cutting edge New York Times bestseller The Green Collar Economy delivers a viable plan for solving the two biggest issues facing the country today—the economy and the environment.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Fences and Windows: An Activist Journal, from Seattle to September 11th by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments Naomi Kleins No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries. Named one of Ms Magazines... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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