Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America
by Jona Teller Elsberg


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The twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy. Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of the "Field Guide to the U.S. Economy" brings key economic issues to life... (read more)

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Creating Competitive Markets: Politics and Economics of Regulatory Reform
by Marc Karnis Landy


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Promoting competition is not just about removing legal controls and then getting out of the way. It also requires that policymakers consciously design new markets, often with significant rules and regulations to promote efficiency. In Creating... (read more)

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The Writing on the Wall: Why We Must Embrace China as a Partner or Face It as an Enemy
by Will Hutton


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Presents a controversial argument for America's assistance in helping China to become an economic superpower in order to safeguard peace and the financial success of both nations, explaining how American interests can be best served if China is supported... (read more)

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Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century
by Deepak Lal


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Reviving the Invisible Hand is an uncompromising call for a global return to a classical liberal economic order, free of interference from governments and international organizations. Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international... (read more)

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John Maynard Keynes 1883 1946
by Robert Skidelsky


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Abridged single volume of Skidlesky's acclaimed biography of the economist. 24pp b/w illus.... (read more)

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You Can Hear Me Now: How Microloans and Cell Phones Are Connecting the World's Poor to the Global Economy
by Nicholas Sullivan


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How economic development can address unmet human needs on a large scale Bangladeshi villagers with cell phones helped build what is now a thriving $200 million company. What is the lesson for the rest of the world? This is a question author Nick Sullivan... (read more)

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Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States
by Bill Maurer


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Islamic Mortgages in the United States (Jan., $24.95, ISBN 0-87154-581-0) by Bill Maurer, Profiles the emergence of religiously based financial services for home financing for Muslims, and explores the influence of such practices on American economic... (read more)

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A Short History of Financial Euphoria
by John K Galbraith


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World-renowned economist Galbraith, the bestselling author of The Affluent Society, reviews great speculative booms of the last three centuries, including the junk-bond follies of the 1980s. With wisdom and wit, he shows how the lessons of history can... (read more)

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The Essence of Capitalism: The Origins of Our Future
by Humphrey Mcqueen


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"The Essence of Capitalism "is a timely account of globalization, the consumer culture, and the historical roots of our contemporary dilemmas. By tracking the 130-year history of Coca-Cola (and a number of other large American or transnational... (read more)

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Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude
by Frederick Weaver


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With wit and verve, this book explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory and engagingly describes the organization and performance of the U.S. economy. Its combination of theory and description is essential for understanding debates... (read more)

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A Corporate Solution to Global Poverty: How Multinationals Can Help the Poor and Invigorate Their Own Legitimacy
by George Lodge


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"Extreme poverty threatens the very underpinnings of our ever-shrinking world. George Lodge and Craig Wilson argue that corporations must lead the fight against global poverty. Their idea of a World Development Corporation will provoke heated discussion... (read more)

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Dictionary of International Economics and Finance Terms (International Dictionary)
by John Clark


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One of an unrivaled range of invaluable reference titles. This dictionary has been developed with an international audience in mind. Where there are variations of terms within different countries, the various terms have been included. More than 4,000... (read more)

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Short of the Goal: U.S. Policy and Poorly Performing States
by Nancy Birdsall


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Failed states are at greatest risk for collapse and pose an urgent threat to international security. Yet, ironically, new U.S. foreign assistance programs such as the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) routinely bypass these poorly performing countries... (read more)

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Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy
by Robert H Tillman


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Tillman and Indergaard discuss the recent corporate scandals that have gripped the U.S. public's interest, and argue that they represent the symptoms of a corporate governance problem that began back in the 1990s.... (read more)

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Connecting People, Ideas, and Resources Across Communities (International Series on Technology Policy and Innovation)
by David V. Gibson


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The challenge of connecting people, ideas, and resources across communities stems from the quest for competition in a global world, at the same time that the basic infrastructure to foster wealth creation is asymmetrically distributed across regions of... (read more)

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The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episod
by Shoshana Zuboff


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Why corporations are failing individuals and the next episode of Capitalism.... (read more)

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Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
by Duncan K Foley


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This book could be called "The Intelligent Person's Guide to Economics." Like Robert Heilbroner's "The Worldly Philosophers," it attempts to explain the core ideas of the great economists, beginning with Adam Smith and ending with Joseph Schumpeter. In... (read more)

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Governing Finance: East Asia's Adoption of International Standards (Cornell Studies in Money)
by Andrew Walter


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When the economies of Asian nations went sour in the late 1990s, the international financial community pointed to domestic financial governance as the cause. As a result major powers determined a set of international standards and charged the... (read more)

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