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Rebuild the Dream by Van Jones Publisher Comments In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider. For the first time, he shares intimate details of his time in government – and reveals why he chose to resign his post... (read more) Your price: $25.99 New - Hardcover 
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Spirit Level (Reprint) (11 Edition) by Kate Pickett Publisher Comments It is a well-established fact that in rich societies the poor have shorter lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. The Spirit Level, based on thirty years of research, takes this truth a step further. One common factor links the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Self-Made Myth: And the Truth about How Government Helps Individuals and Businesses Succeed by Brian Miller Publisher Comments America can’t more forward if we don’t have a clear understanding of how wealth is actually produced. How we view the creation of wealth and individual success shapes our choices on taxes, public investments in schools and vital... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The End of Money: Counterfeiters, Preachers, Techies, Dreamers--And the Coming Cashless Society by David Wolman Publisher Comments For ages, money has meant little metal disks and rectangular slips of paper. Yet the usefulness of physical money—to say nothing of its value—is coming under fire as never before. Intrigued by the distinct possibility that cash will soon... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments The Great Recession is more than four years old--and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge--all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all--remain... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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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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The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America by Joshua Holland Publisher Comments "Who knew that the daily gusher of corporate myths and right-wing lies could be boiled down to just fifteen big ones? Holland and Team AlterNet toss up all fifteen for us and knock 'em out of the park, while also teaching us how to detect any new twists... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You by Simon Johnson Publisher Comments America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - 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: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It by Chuck Collins Publisher Comments The focus of the worldwide Occupy protests is creating a world that works for 99% of people and businesses, not just the richest and most powerful 1%. But who are the 99%? Who are the 1%? How extensive and systemic is inequality in different areas of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Publisher Comments In his controversial book, John Perkins tells the gripping tale of the years he spent working for an international consulting firm where his job was to convince underdeveloped countries to accept enormous loans, much bigger than they really needed, for... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick The roots of the bubble and the story of Wall Street's collapse can be told no clearer — nor with as much humor — as by Michael Lewis. If you read only one book that explains the current economic crisis, make it The Big Short.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy---How to save Yourself and Your Country by Peter Schiff Publisher Comments You might be thinking everything's okay: the stock market is on the rise, jobs are growing, the worst of it is over. You'd be wrong. In The Real Crash, New York Times bestselling author Peter D. Schiff argues that America is enjoying a government... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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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 Travels of A T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli Publisher Comments The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy has been lauded by the New York Times, Financial Times, and reviewers worldwide. Translated in fourteen languages, Travels has received numerous awards for its frank and nuanced discussion of global economic... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Aftershock: Next Economy and America's Future (10 Edition) by Robert B. Reich Publisher Comments Updated for paperback publication, Aftershock is a brilliant reading of the causes of our current economic crisis, with a plan for dealing with its challenging aftermath. When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in A G-Zero World by Ian Bremmer Publisher Comments G-Zero — \JEE-ZEER-oh\ —nA world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. If the worst threatened—a rogue nuclear state with a horrible surprise, a global health... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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