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Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber Publisher Comments Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this... (read more) Your price: $32.00 New - Hardcover 
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Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery by Menzie D Chinn Publisher Comments Welcome to Argentina: by 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with almost half of its 6.4 trillion dollar federal debt in foreign hands. The proportion of foreign loans to the size of the economy put the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, & Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein Publisher Comments Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Publisher Comments First published in 1776, Smith's "primer" provided the first description of the workings of a market economy. This unabridged edition offers the modern reader a fresh look at a timeless work that revolutionized the way the creation and dispersion of... (read more) Your price: $7.99 New - Mass Market
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The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age and the 1920s... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.39 New - Hardcover
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick Lewis describes the causes of the financial crisis with clarity, while putting it all in a very human context by focusing on a few of the individuals involved. It would have been easy for Lewis to second guess — in retrospect, it seems crazy to have... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - 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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Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott Publisher Comments As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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