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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washingtons craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover
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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time by Bob Harris Publisher Comments Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Nature's Fortune Signed Edition by Mark Tercek and Jonathan Adams Publisher Comments What is nature worth? The answer to this question which traditionally has been framed in environmental terms is revolutionizing the way we do business. In Nature's Fortune, Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and former investment... (read more) Available May 31, 2013 Your price: $26.99 New - Hardcover
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The Price of Inequality by Joseph E. Stiglitz Publisher Comments America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While market forces play a role in this stark picture, politics has shaped those market forces. In this best-selling book, Nobel Prize–... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Publisher Comments Major New York Times bestsellerWinner of the National Academy of Sciences Best Book Award in 2012Selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleOne of The Economists 2011... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work (BK Currents) by Jonathan Rowe Publisher Comments Why We Need the Commons A huge part of our economy is invisible, invaluable, and under siege. This is “the commons,” a term that denotes everything we share. Some parts of the commons are gifts of nature: the air and oceans, the web of... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman Publisher Comments "This is an exceptional book. Hirschman's intellectual and political journey is described with sharpness and perspicacity. Family life, cultural encounters, and the imprints of a lifetime highlight the importance and significance of one of the most... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Hardcover
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Political Arithmetic (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Fac) by Robert William Fogel Publisher Comments We take for granted today that the assessments, measurements, and forecasts of economists are crucial to the decision-making of governments and businesses alike. But less than a century ago that wasn’t the case—economists simply didn’t... (read more) Your price: $32.00 New - Hardcover
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The Global Economic Crisis: A Chronology by Larry Allen Publisher Comments From Greece scrambling to meet Eurozone austerity measures to America’s sluggish job growth, there is every indication that the world has not recovered from the economic implosion of 2008. And for many of us, the details of what led to the... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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Every Nation for Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World by Ian Bremmer Publisher Comments G-Zero \JEE-ZEER-oh\ n A world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. What happens when the G20 doesnt work and the G7 is history. If the worst threateneda... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Finance and the Good Society (New in Paperback) by Robert J. Shiller Publisher Comments "Finance and the Good Society is a provocative call for understanding, then reinventing finance as a force that could create inclusive prosperity. Shiller acknowledges the excesses, inequalities, and unfortunate incentives to sleaziness in the current... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard Publisher Comments Was our countryandrsquo;s economic success before the Crash of andlsquo;08 built on false pretenses? Did we simply borrow and spend too much, or was something else really going on?and#160;The conventional wisdom now accuses Wall Street and the mortgage... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful by Daniel S. Hamermesh Publisher Comments "If there was ever any doubt that Dan Hamermesh is the dean of beauty--of explaining beauty, at least--this book should put that to rest. He writes so lucidly and charmingly about such a compelling subject that you will never again look at a beautiful... (read more) Your price: $19.25 New - Trade Paper
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Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility by Robert Kuttner Publisher Comments One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution to a persisting economic... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--And What We Can Do about It by Riva Froymovich Publisher Comments Generation Y faces the bleakest economic landscape in modern history. The recent spikes in unemployment and debt, alongside a drop in marriage, home-buying, and childbearing rates, will have long-term consequences for a group that had no hand in creating... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project by Robert M. Townsend Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;Running since 1997 and continuing today, the Townsend Thai Project has tracked millions of observations about the economic activities of households and institutions in rural and urban Thailand. The project represents one of the most... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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A World Without Wall Street? (French List) by Francois Morin Publisher Comments As the aftershocks of the latest economic meltdown reverberate throughout the world, and people organize to physically occupy the major financial centers of the West, few experts and even fewer governments have dared to consider a world without the... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma Publisher Comments To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. After years of rapid... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism by Geoff Mann Publisher Comments An essential handbook for understanding actually existing capitalism, and thus the world as it really israther than as it is theorized and justified by the dissembling high priests of mainstream academia, policy, and politics.”... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Financial Crisis and the Global South: A Development Perspective by Aky Publisher Comments This book is a major contribution exploring the policy options available for Developing and Emerging Economies in response to the global economic crises.Written by a highly respected development economist, the book gives a clear-eyed account of the... (read more) Your price: $33.25 New - Trade Paper
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