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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America
by David A. Stockman
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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)

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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time
by Bob Harris
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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)

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Nature's Fortune Signed Edition
Nature's Fortune Signed Edition
by Mark Tercek and Jonathan Adams
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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)

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The Price of Inequality
The Price of Inequality
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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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)

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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
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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)

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Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work (BK Currents)
Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work (BK Currents)
by Jonathan Rowe
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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)

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Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman
by Jeremy Adelman
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"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)

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Political Arithmetic (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Fac)
Political Arithmetic (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Fac)
by Robert William Fogel
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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)

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The Global Economic Crisis: A Chronology
The Global Economic Crisis: A Chronology
by Larry Allen
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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)

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Every Nation for Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World
Every Nation for Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World
by Ian Bremmer
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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 threatened—a... (read more)

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Finance and the Good Society (New in Paperback)
Finance and the Good Society (New in Paperback)
by Robert J. Shiller
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"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)

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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong
Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told about the Economy Is Wrong
by Edward Conard
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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)

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Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful
Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful
by Daniel S. Hamermesh
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"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)

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Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility
by Robert Kuttner
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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)

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End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--And What We Can Do about It
End of the Good Life: How the Financial Crisis Threatens a Lost Generation--And What We Can Do about It
by Riva Froymovich
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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)

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Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project
Chronicles from the Field: The Townsend Thai Project
by Robert M. Townsend
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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)

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A World Without Wall Street? (French List)
A World Without Wall Street? (French List)
by Francois Morin
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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)

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Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
by Ruchir Sharma
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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)

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Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
Disassembly Required: A Field Guide to Actually Existing Capitalism
by Geoff Mann
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“An essential handbook for understanding ‘actually existing capitalism, and thus the world as it really is—rather than as it is theorized and justified by the dissembling high priests of mainstream academia, policy, and politics.”... (read more)

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The Financial Crisis and the Global South: A Development Perspective
The Financial Crisis and the Global South: A Development Perspective
by Aky
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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)

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