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Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse by Nathan Schneider Publisher Comments "Objective journalism, this is not."The New York Observer "The balanced book on Occupy I've been waiting for: sharp journalistic observation and insider knowledge, big picture knowledge of movement dynamics and attention to the telling details... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments A groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Winner Take All (12 Edition) by Dambisa Moyo Publisher Comments Hardly a day passes when newspaper headlines or media commentators dont scream warnings of impending doomshortages of arable land, clashes over water, and political Armageddon as global demand for fossil fuels far outstrips supplybut only one... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality by Angus Deaton Publisher Comments "There is nobody better than Angus Deaton to explain why our lives are longer, healthier, and more prosperous than those of our great-grandparents. The story he tells is much more than an inexorable march of progress--it has also been unequal, uneven... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Surviving the Debt Storm: Getting Capitalism Back on Track by Leigh Skene Publisher Comments Surviving the Debt Storm is a searing indictment of the agenda now adopted by governments and central banks, which is likely to result in yet more bank failures, dysfunctional capital markets, higher taxes, and reduced government services and benefits... (read more) Your price: $22.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lonely Ideas: Can Russia Compete? by Loren R. Graham Publisher Comments When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled "Made in Russia"? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Age of Oversupply: Overcoming the Greatest Challenge to the Global Economy by Daniel Alpert Publisher Comments Why Western capitalism is broken and how the U.S. can recover its global economic leadership status The governments and central banks of the developed world have tried every policy tool imaginable, yet our economies remain sluggish, or worse. How... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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Green in Gridlock: Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise (Conservation Leadership Series, Sponsored by the River Syste) by Paul Hansen Publisher Comments Facing one of the most dangerous conservation crises in history—acid rain—lawmakers, industry leaders, and activists embraced an attitude of civil engagement that sought common ground and acceptance of compromise solutions on all sides. As a... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland Publisher Comments A groundbreaking examination of wealth disparity, income inequality, and the new global elite There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics, Volume 2: Critiques and Methodology (Oxford Handbooks) by Geoffrey Colin Harcourt Publisher Comments This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These include theories of accumulation, distribution, pricing, money and finance, international trade and capital flows,... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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Aftershock(inequality for All--Movie Tie-In Edition) (Vintage) by Robert B. Reich Publisher Comments Updated and With a New Introduction When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street bankers. But Robert B. Reich, one of our most experienced and trusted voices on public policy, suggests another... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Oxford Handbook of Post-Keynesian Economics, Volume 1: Theory and Origins (Oxford Handbooks) by G. C. (edt) Harcourt Publisher Comments This two volume Handbook contains chapters on the main areas to which Post-Keynesians have made sustained and important contributions. These include theories of accumulation, distribution, pricing, money and finance, international trade and capital flows,... (read more) Your price: $169.75 New - Hardcover
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Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse by Nathan Schneider Publisher Comments "Objective journalism, this is not."The New York Observer "The balanced book on Occupy I've been waiting for: sharp journalistic observation and insider knowledge, big picture knowledge of movement dynamics and attention to the telling details... (read more) Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Tanzania: A Political Economy by Andrew Coulson Publisher Comments Tanzania in the 1970s was at the forefront of policy innovation. Near-universal primary education, access to health services and supplies of clean water subsequently became mainstream ambitions in Africa and elsewhere. But its policies towards... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Trade Paper
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Q-Squared: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches in Poverty Analysis by Paul Shaffer Publisher Comments This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualise and investigate poverty. The empirical entry point for such inquiry is a series of research initiatives that have used mixed method, combined qualitative and... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession by Barbara Garson Synopsis One of our most incisive and committed journalists—author of the classic All the Livelong Day—shows us the real human cost of our economic follies. The Great Recession has thrown huge economic chal­lenges at almost all Americans save... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Compact Disc
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A History of Econometrics: The Reformation from the 1970s by Duo Qin Publisher Comments Reformation of Econometrics is a sequel to The Formation of Econometrics: A Historical Perspective (1993, OUP) which traces the formation of econometric theory during the period 1930-1960. This book provides an account of the advances in the field of... (read more) Your price: $113.95 New - Hardcover
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph (New in Paperback) (Princeton Classics) by Albert O. Hirschman Publisher Comments In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy by Sudhir Venkatesh Publisher Comments New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York's underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu Publisher Comments US... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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