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The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent
by Richard Florida  Publisher Comments The most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class, skilled individuals ranging from money managers to make–up artists, software programmers to steady–cam operators who are in constant demand around...
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Money: Who Has How Much and Why
by Andrew Hacker Publisher Comments Combining keen insight with a flair for bringing a human dimension to facts and figures, bestselling author Andrew Hacker shows how the changing economy affects our lives. His analysis of the data illuminates the real results of women's fight for salary...
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The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy
by Marjorie Kelly Publisher Comments This work argues that focusing on the interest of stockholders to the exclusion of everyone else's interests is a form of discrimination based on property or wealth. This book shows how this bias is held by our institutional structures. "The Divine Right...
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Empire of Debt (06 Edition)
by Bonner Publisher Comments In no-nonsense prose, Empire of Debt confronts critical concerns about the position of the United States as the world's leading economy and great military might. For many years, the United States has been the country from which others sought advice...
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The Greater Good: How Philanthropy Drives the American Economy and Can Save Capitalism
by Claire Gaudiani Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-269) and index....
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Offshoring IT: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
by Bill Blunden Publisher Comments <div id = quote> <blockquote cite=http: //books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/05/2151254&from=rss> <p><a href=http: //books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/05/2151254&from=rss> The book is not very longbut it's...
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Rational Exuberance: Silencing the Enemies of Growth and Why the Future Is Better Than You Think
by Michael J Mandel Publisher Comments Acknowledgments Prologue Glossary of Key Concepts In Defense of Exuberance The Two Types of Growth How Innovation Matters The Economic Enemies of Growth Deficit Hawks, Liberals, Moralists, and Environmentalists: More Enemies of Exuberant Growth The Next...
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After the New Economy
by Doug Henwood Publisher Comments ECONOMIST DOUG HENWOOD SCRUTINZES THE 1990s AND BRILLIANTLY DISSECTS THE SO-CALLED "NEW ECONOMY." During the 1990s boom, we heard constantly about the New Economy. A technological and organizational revolution that precipitated an unprecedented era of...
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Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street
by Jeff Gates Publisher Comments "A bible for a powerful populism that will arise after the latest Gilded Age is over. Read it and run, or read it and recover your sense of what it could mean to actually live in a democratic society."-Paul Hawken, author, Natural Capitalism and The...
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American Capitalism, 1945-2000: Continuity and Change from Mass Production to the Information Society (American Ways Series)
by Wyatt C Wells Publisher Comments This book offers an essential short course on American economic development over these years....
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Pump and Dump: The Rancid Rules of the New Economy
by Robert H Tillman Publisher Comments Tillman and Indergaard discuss the recent corporate scandals that have gripped the U.S. public's interest, and argue that they represent the symptoms of a corporate governance problem that began back in the 1990s....
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Flat Tax Revolution
by Steve Forbes Publisher Comments "Flat Tax, Fair Tax" is a fact-filled call to action, which Forbes will use to lobby the President and Congress for real reform....
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Exporting America: Why Corporate Greed Is Shipping American Jobs Overseas
by Lou Dobbs Publisher Comments Renowned business journalist and CNN anchor Dobbs takes aim at the executives and politicians who profit by exporting U.S. jobs overseas and shows readers what they can do to save not only their own careers, but the American way of life....
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The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America
by Daniel Brook Publisher Comments What is lost when the best and the brightest are corralled into corporate America, in the debut of a searing, rousing social critic In this provocative, witty, and revealing polemic, Daniel Brook argues that the exploding income gap—a product...
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Silent Theft: The Private Plunder of Our Common Wealth
by David Bollier Publisher Comments Until a 1998 federal court decision, a Minnesota publisher claimed a monopoly on access to all federal court decisions. A Texas company recently filed a patent on a kind of rice grown in India for centuries. Other businesses now claim ownership of...
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Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
by Kevin A Hassett Publisher Comments This volume provides readers with concise but varying perspectives on the possibilities of tax reform and focuses attention on key questions in the scholarly debate....
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Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future
by Daniel Altman Publisher Comments The neoconomy: a place without taxes, without a social safety net, where rich and poor live in different financial worlds — and it's coming to America. The first glimpses of the neoconomy appeared during the Reagan administration, but were soon...
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The Cheating of America: How Tax Avoidance and Evasion by the Super Rich Are Costing the Country Billions-And What You Can Do about It
by Charles Lewis Publisher Comments Each year millions of income-earning adults and corporations do not pay their fair share of federal income taxes — whether legally (tax avoidance), illegally (tax evasion), or through shady means (tax "avoision"), and their numbers are rising...
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Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World (New Southern Studies)
by James L Peacock Publisher Comments The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and...
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US Taxation of Foreign Income
by Gary Clyde Hufbauer Synopsis To meet the economic challenges of the 21st century, the United States must reform its system for taxing national and international business income. This book studies the alternatives and suggests future policy....
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