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The Price of Inequality Signed Edition by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that "their fate is bound up with... (read more) Available June 14, 2012 Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover 
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The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for a World Turned Upside Down by Harry S. Dent Publisher Comments Now available in paperback, from the bestselling author of The Great Depression Ahead, a book that continues to show readers how to weather the storm in these tough economic times by cautioning against the misguided beliefs that lead to bad investment... (read more) Available September 11, 2012 Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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What's the Economy For, Anyway?: Why It's Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness by David K. Batker Publisher Comments In this funny, readable, and thought-provoking book, activists John de Graaf (coauthor of the bestselling Affluenza) and David Batker tackle thirteen economic issues, challenging the reader to consider the goal of our economy. Emphasizing powerful... (read more) Available October 2, 2012 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Health Economics (with Economic Applications and Infotrac 2-Semester Printed Access Card) by Rexford E. Santerre Publisher Comments Develop with a solid understanding of the costs and benefits associated with today's health care choices using the current, comprehensive coverage found only in HEALTH ECONOMICS: THEORY, INSIGHTS, AND INDUSTRY STUDIES, 6E. Readers develop a practical... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $297.75 New - Hardcover
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Standards and Public Policy by Shane Greenstein Publisher Comments This book was first published in 2007. Technological standards are a cornerstone of the modern information economy, affecting firm strategy, market performance and, by extension, economic growth. While there is general agreement that swift movement to... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $60.25 New - Trade Paper
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Game Theory and the Humanities: Bridging Two Worlds by Steven J. Brams Publisher Comments Game theory models are ubiquitous in economics, common in political science, and increasingly used in psychology and sociology; in evolutionary biology, they offer compelling explanations for competition in nature. But game theory has been only... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $20.50 New - Trade Paper
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Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life by Emanuel Derman Publisher Comments Quants, physicists working on Wall Street as quantitative analysts, have been widely blamed for triggering financial crises with their complex mathematical models. Their formulas were meant to allow Wall Street to prosper without risk. But in this... (read more) Available July 24, 2012 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism & Capitalism by George Bernard Shaw Synopsis A lucid and entertaining explanation of socialism and capitalism. Shaw at his best, and still relevant.... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Strategy of Chinese Rural-Urban Coordinated Development to 2020 Part 1 (Enrich Series on China's Economic Issues) by Sun Jiu Wen Publisher Comments Based on both theoretical and empirical studies, this book focuses on the coordinated development and integration of urban and rural areas in China. It suggests a hypothetical framework and conducts quantitative analyses to examine the problems... (read more) Available August 2012 Your price: $132.25 New - Hardcover
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Growth, Inequality and Social Development in India: Is Inclusive Growth Possible? (Poverty and Development) by Rayaprolu Nagaraj Publisher Comments With six essays critically examining economic development, social justice and the political economy of development in post-independence India, this book offers a detailed and empirically rich study of India's record of macroeconomic growth during the... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $109.50 New - Hardcover
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The Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class by David Faber Publisher Comments Praise for The Global Class War "You will never think about 'free trade' the same way after reading Jeff Faux's superb book. As Faux makes clear, the globalization debate is really about whose interests are served by global elites, and... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Iranian Foreign Policy: Past, Present and Future Scenarios by Maleki Abbas Publisher Comments This book evaluates the vision, mission, goals, strategies, policies, trends and approaches of Iranian foreign policy since the revolution through to the present day. It also provides a range of possible scenarios for the future.... (read more) Available February 2013 Your price: $51.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Soviet Middle East (Routledge Revivals): A Model for Development? (Routledge Revivals) by Alec Nove Publisher Comments First published in 1967, The Soviet Middle East provides an analysis of the economic and political status of the national republics of Central Asia and Transcaucasia, which were, at the time of the book 's initial publication, a part of the Soviet Union.... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $133.50 New - Hardcover
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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy (Oxford Handbooks) by Javier Santiso Publisher Comments Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary analytical tool kit. This handbook accordingly adopts a political-economy perspective to understand Latin American economies. This perspective is not new to the region; indeed... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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The Political Economy of Poland's Transition: New Firms and Reform Governments (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by John E. Jackson Publisher Comments This book was first published in 2005. In the time span of a two-term US presidency, Poland went from an authoritarian one-party state with a faltering centrally planned economy to become a relatively stable multiparty democracy and a market economy with... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $39.25 New - Trade Paper
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Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Your Children by Joel Bakan Publisher Comments Corporations have found a new resource to be mined for profit: our children. In this shocking and indelible behind-the-scenes journey, Joel Bakan, acclaimed author and award-winning maker of the renowned film and international bestselling book The... (read more) Available June 19, 2012 Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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Dark Age Economics: A New Audit (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology) by Richard Hodges Synopsis This timely, concise volume enlarges on the debate that still continues twenty-five years after Richard Hodges ground-breaking Dark Age Economics was first published. Special attention is given to the archaeological, anthropological and historical models... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $31.75 New - Trade Paper
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Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by Michael L. Ross Publisher Comments In this book, Michael L. Ross explores the breakdown of the institutions that govern natural resource exports in developing states. Using case studies of timber booms in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, he shows that these institutions often... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $37.25 New - Trade Paper
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Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards (Anthem Other Canon) by Norbert H. Ring Publisher Comments Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards explores the workings of the modern global economy - an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance #9: Modern Linear and Nonlinear Econometrics by Joseph Plasmans Publisher Comments The basic characteristic of Modern Linear and Nonlinear Econometrics is that it presents a unified approach of modern linear and nonlinear econometrics in a concise and intuitive way. It covers four major parts of modern econometrics: linear and... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $190.25 New - Trade Paper
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