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Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (25TH Anniversary Edition) ((Rev)97 Edition)
by Eduardo Galeano  Publisher Comments "A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive expos which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read."<BR>"--Choice" "Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study....
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Mystery of Capital : Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (00 Edition)
by Hernando De Soto Publisher Comments "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is...
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Unequal Democracy Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age the Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
by Larry M Bartels Review is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and above all, it addresses urgent concerns of our fellow citizens. As Bartels shows, much of what we think we know about the...
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century ( Updated and Expanded)
by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments The World Is Flat is Thomas L. Friedman’s account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before—creating an explosion of...
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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world — and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins 
Publisher Comments In his controversial book, John Perkins tells the gripping tale of the years he spent working for an international consulting firm where his job was to convince underdeveloped countries to accept enormous loans, much bigger than they really needed, for...
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The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Bk Currents)
by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Bestselling author Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade, which has sold more than 500,000 copies sold) shows that at the root of all of society's big problems is the fact that we don?t value what matters. She then presents a radical reformulation of...
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The Birth of Plenty
by William J. Bernstein Publisher Comments "...a tour de force...prepare to be amazed." --John C. Bogle, Founder and Former CEO, The Vanguard Group A bold new look at the continuing era of prosperity--how we got here, and where we could be headed Why didn't the Florentines invent the steam...
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High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them
by Jeanfranco Rischard Publisher Comments In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever-smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural...
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Wealth and Poverty of Nations Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (98 Edition)
by David S. Landes
Publisher Comments David S. Landes tells the long, fascinating story of wealth and power throughout the world: the creation of wealth, the paths of winners and losers, the rise and fall of nations. He studies history as a process, attempting to understand how the world's...
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The (MIS)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
by Benoit B Mandelbrot Publisher Comments Mathematical superstar and inventor of fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot, has spent the past forty years studying the underlying mathematics of space and natural patterns. What many of his followers don't realize is that he has also been watching...
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Development as Freedom
by Amartya Sen Publisher Comments By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. <BR>Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most...
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The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman Publisher Comments This wholly original new work by the best-selling author of The Great Unraveling challenges America to reclaim the values that made it great. With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, "the heir apparent to Galbraith" (Alan Blinder) and, today's most...
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The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
by Dan Roam Publisher Comments A bold new way to tackle tough business problemseven if you draw like a second grader When Herb Kelleher was brainstorming about how to beat the traditional hub-and- spoke airlines, he grabbed a bar napkin and a pen. Three dots to represent Dallas...
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The Keynesian Tradition
by Robert (edt) Leeson Publisher Comments This volume examines the unique insights provided by archival evidence in the evolution of the Keynesian tradition....
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Capitalism and Freedom, 40TH Anniversary Edition ((Rev)02 Edition)
by Milton Friedman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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The Long Tail: Why the Future Is Selling Less of More
by Chris Anderson
Powells.com Staff Pick A fascinating and groundbreaking study of business culture in the same vein as Malcom Gladwell's famous Tipping Point. With clarity and wit Anderson proposes that for too long have we suffered under the tyranny of the lowest common denominator, and...
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A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World
by Peter Tertzakian Publisher Comments A Powerful Analysis of Our Oil Addiction and a New Direction for Global Energy In 2006, world oil consumption exceeded one thousand barrels per second-a level with enormous impact on the environment, world economies, investments, and business...
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The Strategy of Conflict
by Thomas C. Schelling Publisher Comments 'In eminently lucid and often charming language, Professor Schelling's work opens to rational analysis a crucial field of politics, the international politics of threat, or as the current term goes, of deterrence. In this field, the author's analysis...
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While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial
by Roger Lowenstein Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Buffett, When Genius Failed, and Origins of the Crash, a wake-up call to the pension and retirement crisis facing America and the road map for a way out In While America Aged, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein explains...
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