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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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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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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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The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna
Powells.com Staff Pick "The Second World will be the definitive guide to world politics for years to come," says the flap copy. Clearly Random House is very high on this book. Could it be publishing's next The World Is Flat? You'd have to read more geopolitical economic theory...
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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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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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Freakonomics (Rev 06 Edition)
by Steven D. Levitt
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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Wisdom of Crowds (04 Edition)
by James Surowiecki
Powells.com Staff Pick Using anecdotes and statistics from such diverse sources as pre-election polls, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, traffic patterns, and jelly bean jars, The Wisdom of Crowds persuasively demonstrates that groups of people are usually smarter than their...
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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 Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, Why the Poor Are Poor And Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!
by Tim Harford
Powells.com Staff Pick Bookstores have been flooded with popular economics books since the publication of the wildly popular Freakonomics. Although The Undercover Economist was not the first to market, it should have been. Told in a genuinely engaging style, it puts the...
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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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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders
by James Scurlock
Powells.com Staff Pick How much money do you owe on your credit card bills? Paying off a mortgage, home equity loan, or college loan, too? Our culture has come to take debt for granted, but this hasn't always been the norm. Over the last generation in America, James Scurlock...
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The European Dream
by Jeremy Rifkin
Powells.com Staff Pick "[Rikfin's] major achievement in The European Dream is to draw together and cohere the complex historical, philosophical, and theological forces that have created such very different worldviews for shaping the future for us and our neighbors across the...
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul Krugman
Powells.com Staff Pick Though Paul Krugman has been sounding the alarm twice a week in his New York Times column, he is no alarmst. That such a distinguished economist has become so distressed about current policies should concern citizens of all political persuasions. That he...
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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
by Paul Krugman
Powells.com Staff Pick "Krugman's accusations against the Bush administration go much deeper than dishonesty....Krugman claims that we are currently witnessing a[n]...attempt by the Bush administration and his far-right supporters to undermine and eventually destroy two of the...
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