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...
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How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present
by Thomas J Dilorenzo
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Whether it’s Michael Moore or the New York Times, Hollywood or academia, a growing segment in America is waging a war on capitalism. We hear that greedy plutocrats exploit the American public; that capitalism harms consumers, the working class, and...
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Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything
by Hal Sirkin
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Globalization is about Americans outsourcing product development and services to other countries. Globality is the next step, where rapidly developing economies from around the world are now competing with us head to head. The authors present a strong...
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Building a Real "Ownership Society"
by J Larry Brown
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The ideal of an ownership society is deeply rooted in the American psyche. Americans have long associated ownership of homes, farms, and businesses with independence, security, and dignity. President Bush recently proposed several initiatives that expand...
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Surviving Capitalism
by Erik Ringmar
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Human life cannot be reduced to market transactions and human beings cannot only be treated as economic actors. When the power of the market increases, human beings will always try to protect themselves. Given the differences that exist in social and...
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Rebuilding Brand America: What We Must Do to Restore Our Reputation and Safeguard the Future of American Business Abroad
by Dick Martin
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Anti-American feeling is at an all-time high. Other nations and cultures have singled out our businesses, government, and way of life for harsh scorn, widespread resentment, even violence. Rebuilding Brand America is an exploration of anti-Americanism...
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Dismantling the American Dream: Globalization, Free Trade, Immigration, Unemployment, Poverty, Debt, Foreign Dependency, More
by Kenneth Buchdahl
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The book begins by reminiscing about the growth of American prosperity, but then quickly moves into exploring why the American Dream is now in decline. The book explains that our present recession may not be a typical recession from which we normally...
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Worker Satisfaction and Economic Performance: Microfoundations of Success and Failure
by Morris Altman
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This book challenges some of the fundamental tenets of "free market" economics that have had a profound impact on public policy and the plight of the American worker. These include the beliefs that high wages inevitably mean low profits; that a "free...
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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...
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Generation Debt
by Anya Kamenetz
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An emerging spokesperson for a new generation passionately and persuasively addresses the grim state of young people today-and tells us how we can, and must, save our future. The nature of youth is to question. So when twenty-four-year-old Anya Kamenetz...
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Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B Schor
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This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&...
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Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest
by Colin Leys
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Market Driven Politics is an empirical examination of the extent to which politics and policy are conditioned, or even determined, by global economic forces. With the globalization of the capitalist economy the economic role of national governments is...
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The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters
by Diane Coyle
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9780691125138KurztextCoyle shows how better data, increased computing power, and techniques such as game theory have transformed economic theory and practice in recent years, enabling economists to make huge strides in understanding real human behavior...
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