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The Creature from Jekyll Island
by G. Edward Griffin  
Powells.com Staff Pick The Government has no need of taxes for revenue. Banks prefer lending to governments because the rarely repay loans. The Fed is not Federal, has no reserves and is by far not a bank. The IMF and the World Bank are disastrous for the poor and the...
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Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Powells.com Staff Pick Rather than a grim manifesto on the world's problems, Jeffrey Sachs offers readers what he calls the four key goals of a global society — prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental...
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Bad Money Signed
by Kevin Phillips Synopsis The bestselling author of American Theocracy reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked the economy and put America's global future at risk....
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely Publisher Comments Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent aspirin? Why does recalling the Ten Commandments reduce our tendency to lie, even when we couldn't possibly be caught? Why do we splurge on a lavish meal...
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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You with the Bill)
by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposA(c) How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this...
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
by Bill McKibben
Powells.com Staff Pick "Timely and useful. This valuable benchmark is a substantial contribution to the rethinking of unlimited economic expansion." Recommended by Ted, Powells.com...
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by Tim Harford
Powells.com Staff Pick Tim Harford's follow-up to his breakout bestseller, The Undercover Economist, is a panoramic view of the role of economics in our lives, from our jobs and marriages to our cities and even the history of human civilization. The Logic of Life sheds...
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The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz
Powells.com Staff Pick "To me, The Paradox of Choice is the best kind of self-help book: one that isn't a self-help book. It provides a wealth of information on how our minds work, and then suggests ways to work within that framework to improve our outlook....If you've ever...
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put Americaas global future at risk In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing...
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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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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Powells.com Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable...
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The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
by Charles R. Morris Publisher Comments We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks and their hedge fund and...
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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 Strategy of Conflict
by Thomas C. Schelling Review Against the backdrop of the nuclear arms race in the late 1950s, Thomas Schelling's book The Strategy of Conflictset forth his vision of game theory as a unifying framework for the social sciences. Schelling showed that a party can strengthen its...
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by Jeffrey Sachs
Publisher Comments A landmark exploration of the way out of extreme poverty for the worldas poorest citizens Among the most eagerly anticipated books of any year, this landmark exploration of prosperity and poverty distills the life work of an economist Time calls one of...
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments The world of business is changing — fast. The prevailing model for creating wealth — which has its roots in the industrial revolution and which dominated the last century — no longer applies. Natural Capitalism introduces an alternative, a...
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The Ecology of Commerce
by Paul Hawken Publisher Comments A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet....
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler Publisher Comments Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are...
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
by William J. Bernstein Publisher Comments Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic "propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another." But how did trade evolve to the point where we don't think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the world? In this...
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The World is Flat
by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military conflicts or political events, but for a whole new age of globalization – a ‘flattening’ of the world. The explosion of advanced technologies now means...
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