While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial
by Roger Lowenstein


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From the bestselling author of Buffett, When Genius Failed, and Origins of the Crash, a wake-up call to the pension and retirement crisis facing America and the road map for a way out In While America Aged, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein explains... (read more)

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Emu in Perspective: Understanding Monetary Union
by Deborah Owen


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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)

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Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development
by Joseph E Stiglitz


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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of the New York Times bestselling book Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz here joins with fellow economist Andrew Charlton to offer a challenging and controversial argument about how... (read more)

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In Defense of Globalization
by Jagdish Bhagwati


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In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, everything from child labor to environmental degradation and cultural homogenization. Now Jagdish Bhagwati,... (read more)

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Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity
by Lester C Thurow


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Bestselling author and renowned economist Lester Thurow argues forcefully that globalization is not a done deal and we must seize the moment now if we are to create a new global economy in which all can prosper. In this new book, Thurow examines the... (read more)

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The Essential Myrdal (New Press Essential Series)
by Gunnar Myrdal


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Nobel Prize -- winner Gunnar Myrdal was one of the century's leading social scientists, best known in American for the classic An American Dilemma, his study of America's racial problems. That book was chosen as one of the Modern Library's top one... (read more)

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The New Public Finance: Responding to Global Challenges
by Inge Kaul


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The world's agenda of international cooperation has changed. The conventional concerns of foreign affairs, international trade, and development assistance, are increasingly sharing the political center stage with a new set of issues. These include trans... (read more)

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Econometric Foundations Pack with CDROM
by Ron C Mittelhammer


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This textbook and accompanying CD-ROM develop step by step a modern approach to econometric problems.... (read more)

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The Great Risk Shift: Why American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement Aren't Secure -- and How We Can Fight Back
by Jacob S. Hacker


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Blending powerful human stories, big-picture analysis, and compelling ideas for reform, this remarkable volume will hit a nerve, serving as a rallying point in the vital struggle for economic security in an increasingly uncertain world.... (read more)

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The Foundation: A Great American Secret: How Private Wealth Is Changing the World
by Joel Fleishman


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Foundations are a peculiarly American institution. They have been the dynamo of social change since their invention at the beginning of the last century. Yet they are cloaked in secrecy— their decision-making and operations are inscrutable to the... (read more)

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A Dictionary of Economics (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by John Black


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This second edition provides comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date coverage of economics, with fully updated entries on developments such as e-commerce and the Euro. The author, a leading academic in his field, provides over 2,500 clear and jargon-... (read more)

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Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
by Roger Lowenstein


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With his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenstein lays bare the labyrinthine events of the manic and tumultuous 1990s. In an enthralling narrative, he ties together all of the characters of the... (read more)

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The Economics of Contracts: A Primer
by Bernard Salanie


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Although it is one of the major achievements in the history of economic thought, the general equilibrium model is not completely satisfactory as a descriptive tool. In the 1970s several economists settled on a new way to study economic relationships that... (read more)

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Parecon: Life After Capitalism
by Michael Albert


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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-304) and index.... (read more)

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Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe
by H V Savitch


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Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-424) and index.... (read more)

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The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy
by Robert Brenner


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Only three years ago, the world economy seemed poised on the edge of catastrophe, as financial firestorms ripped through East Asia, Russia and Latin America. A sustained period of significant growth in the US, however, seemed to save the day against all... (read more)

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It's Still the Economy, Stupid: George W. Bush, the GOP's CEO
by Paul Begala




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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-197).... (read more)

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Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It's Going
by Robert Heilbroner


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In its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose — to explain that mysterious thing called economics. But there is a new urgency to the book. It is announced in the first sentence of the introduction: Just in case the... (read more)

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