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Worldly Philosophers 7TH Edition
by Robert L Heilbroner Publisher Comments The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence...
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The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth
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The Commanding Heights
by Daniel Yergin Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -...
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One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
by William Greider Publisher Comments In this national bestseller--hailed by critics as one of the most important in recent years--the author of "Who Will Tell the People" and "Secrets of the Temple" exposes the myths and explains the realities of the global economy.C....
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Is the American Dream Killing You?: How "The Market" Rules Our Lives
by Paul Stiles Publisher Comments The "market" is the collective name for every act of buying and selling we participate in. It governs our economy and our lives, determining our values, our goals, and our accomplishments. We make it--and are made by it. In "Is the American Dream...
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Guide for the Perplexed
by E F Schumacher Publisher Comments The author of the world wide best-seller, "Small Is Beautiful," now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living.Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and...
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The Case Against the Global Economy
by Jerry Mander Publisher Comments A great political debate has emerged over the many unexpected and profound consequences of the rush toward the global economy. The world’s political and corporate leaders are restructuring the planet’s economy and political arrangements in...
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The Future of Success
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Macroeconomics Super Review (00 Edition)
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Economics in One Lesson (79 Edition)
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Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
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End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era
by Jeremy Rifkin Publisher Comments The most significant domestic issue of the 2004 elections is unemployment. The United States has lost nearly three million jobs in the last ten years, and real employment hovers around 9.1 percent. Only one political analyst foresaw the dark side of the...
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Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out for Student Loans, Bad Jobs, Nobenefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers--And How to Fight B
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Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
by Robert Heilbroner Publisher Comments "This is an exceedingly long short book, stretching at least fifty thousand years into the past and who knows how many into the future..." So begins Visions of the Future, the prophetic new book by eminent economist Robert Heilbroner. Heilbroner's basic...
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The Wealth of Nations: Books I-III (Penguin Classics)
by Adam Smith Publisher Comments It is in Books IV and V of The Wealth of Nations that Adam Smith offers his considered response to the French Physiocrats, perhaps the first great school of economic theorists, and assesses the nature of the mercantile system, particularly the colonial...
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Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States
by Albert Hirschman Publisher Comments An innovator in contemporary thought on economic and political development looks here at decline rather than growth. Albert O. Hirschman makes a basic distinction between alternative ways of reacting to deterioration in business firms and, in general, to...
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The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
by John K Galbraith Publisher Comments This compact, tightly argued, and eloquent book--the manifesto of the "abiding liberal"--defines the characteristics of a good society and creates the blueprint for a workable agenda. Galbraith allows for human weakness without compromising a human...
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
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Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries
by Sarah Anderson Publisher Comments Ever since the "Baffle in Seattle", the World Trade Organization has been featured prominently in the news. For all their talk of being dedicated to the welfare of the Third World, the WTO has damaged the economies of several countries and encouraged the...
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