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The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity by Jeffrey D. Sachs Publisher Comments For more than three decades, Jeffrey D. Sachs has been at the forefront of international economic problem solving. But Sachs turns his attention back home in The Price of Civilization, a book that is essential reading for every American. In a... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Compact Disc
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Return to Prosperity: How America Can Regain Its Economic Superpower Status by Arthur B. Laffer Publisher Comments When Arthur B. Laffer spearheaded the theory of supply-side economics and became a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board, he took his place as an economic icon. More recently, he joined with Stephen Moore and Peter J. Tanous to... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down by Harry S Dent Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Roaring 2000s and The Great Depression Ahead comes a work that looks forward, showing listeners how to weather the storm in this new economy that is going to get much worse in the years ahead. In his most recent New... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Compact Disc
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Basic Economics, Fourth Edition: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (Library) by Thomas Sowell Synopsis The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. Basic Economics, which has now been translated into six foreign languages, has grown so much that a large amount of material previously found in the back of the book has now been put... (read more) Your price: $123.00 New - Compact Disc
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu Publisher Comments Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather,... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Compact Disc
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments Featuring an Exclusive Audio Interview with Michael Lewis When the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich A. Von Hayek Synopsis This classic by one of the 20th century's leading libertarian thinkers has established itself beside the works of Orwell and others as a timeless meditation on the relationship between human freedom and government authority.... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Compact Disc
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Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments In Discover Your Inner Economist, one of America's most respected economists presents a quirky, incisive romp through everyday life that reveals how you can turn economic reasoning to your advantage—often when you least expect it to be relevant.... (read more) Your price: $59.99 New - Compact Disc
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Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics by Henry Hazlitt Synopsis Called by H. L. Mencken one of the few economists in history who could really write, Hazlitt achieved lasting fame for this brilliantly concise work. In it, he explains basic truths about economics and the fallacies responsible for unemployment... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Compact Disc
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The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg Publisher Comments Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving...Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were. The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe is a... (read more) Your price: $19.98 New - Compact Disc
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Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon by Gretchen Morgenson Publisher Comments In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually complicit in the actions that finally blew up the American economy. Drawing on previously untapped sources... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Compact Disc
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt Publisher Comments Which is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle Publisher Comments John C. Bogle's The Little Book of Index Investing is a power-packed explanation of why outperforming the market is an investor illusion. Instead, the founder of The Vanguard Group--the man who's been called "the conscience of the investment industry... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Compact Disc
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High-Beta Rich: How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust by Robert Frank Publisher Comments The rich are not only getting richer, they are becoming more dangerous. Starting in the early 1980s the top one percent broke away from the rest of us to become the most unstable force in the economy. An elite that had once been the flat line on the... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt Publisher Comments Freakonomics lived on the New York Times bestseller list for an astonishing two years. Now authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with more iconoclastic insights and observations in SuperFreakonomics—the long awaited follow-up to... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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Postcatastrophe Economy: Rebuilding America and Avoiding the Next Bubble by Eric Janszen Publisher Comments How bad will the current recession get? According to Eric Janszen, we could be facing an unemployment rate of over 10 percent; half of all retail stores boarded up; skeletons of unfinished buildings in our cities; and tax revenues down by 30 percent... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Compact Disc
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Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get better. Certainly... (read more) Your price: $19.99 New - Compact Disc
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Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy by Robert Neuwirth Publisher Comments Thousands of Africans head to China each year to buy cell phones, auto parts, and other products that they will import to their home countries through a clandestine global back channel.Hundreds of Paraguayan merchants smuggle computers, electronics, and... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Unfair Trade: How Our Broken Global Financial System Destroys the Middle Class by Michael J. Casey Publisher Comments A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system whose flaws are the source of our economic malaise. Our livelihoods are now... (read more) Your price: $34.99 New - Compact Disc
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments Nobel Prize® winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul surveyed the economic crisis that had swept across... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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