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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 Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely Staff Pick Why are we more motivated about our work when we feel it has meaning? Can we increase our enjoyment of an activity by interrupting it? Why do we believe that information from a dating web site, which reads more like a baseball card than a personality... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs Staff Pick Rather than a grim manifesto on the world's problems, Jeffrey Sachs offers readers what he calls the four key goals of a global society — prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable phenomena... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel Staff Pick Raj Patel's remarkable and ambitious new book asks some basic economic and political questions and comes up with surprising solutions. Patel explores ways we might more accurately value the world, arguing that our current market system is deeply flawed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman Staff Pick We could have prevented this economic free-fall, Paul Krugman believes. He wrote the first edition of The Return of Depression Economics in response to the Asian crisis of the 1990s, which he saw as a warning to economies around the world. Now Krugman... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The European Dream by Jeremy Rifkin Staff Pick "[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car! by Tim Harford Staff Pick Bookstores have been flooded with popular economics books since the publication of the wildly popular Freakonomics. Although The Undercover Economist was not the first to market, it should have been. Told in a genuinely engaging style, it puts the... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford Staff Pick Tim Harford's follow-up to his breakout bestseller, The Undercover Economist, is a panoramic view of the role of economics in our lives, from our jobs and marriages to our cities and even the history of human civilization. The Logic of Life sheds light... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Superfreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Staff Pick Challenge your thinking and take a break from analyzing the current economic climate. Levitt and Dubner entertain us again with smart storytelling that offers interesting insights into human behavior. Are people hardwired for altruism or selfishness? Can... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Numerati by Stephen Baker Staff Pick Stephen Baker's The Numerati illuminates a topic that couldn't be timelier — the quantification of everything, from shopping to dating and marriage; from education to industry. While proving that almost everything can be determined by an algorithm... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael M. 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) List Price $27.95 Your price: $24.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman Staff Pick Friedman doesn't just have the world's greatest moustache — he's also a sharp writer and keen thinker. The world needs this book — and we can consider ourselves fortunate that someone as clever as Friedman has written it.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The European Dream: How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream by Jeremy Rifkin Staff Pick "[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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