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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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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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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 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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Immigrants (07 Edition)
by Legrain Synopsis Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard...
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Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (and Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)
by Jared Bernstein Synopsis Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? What's a...
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Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Debate Over Taxes
by Joel Slemrod Publisher Comments As Albert Einstein may or may not have said, andquot;The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.andquot; Indeed, to follow the debate over tax reform, the interested citizen is forced to choose between misleading sound bites and...
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New Golden Age (07 Edition)
by Batra Publisher Comments In The New Golden Age, bestselling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to economic prosperity--and what we need to do to overcome them. Bringing the same insight and expertise that made books like The Downfall of Capitalism and...
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Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America
by Jona Teller Elsberg Synopsis The twenty-first-century handbook to the myths and realities of the U.S. economy. Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of the "Field Guide to the U.S. Economy" brings key economic issues to life...
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Rise of the Creative Class (02 Edition)
by Richard Florida Publisher Comments The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated...
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The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity
by Robert Kuttner Publisher Comments The incomes of most Americans today are static or declining. Tens of millions of workers are newly vulnerable to layoffs and outsourcing. Health care and retirement burdens are increasingly being shifted from employers to individuals. Two-income families...
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Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else
by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest people within the top 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston has been...
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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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When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them the Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them
by Teresa Ghilarducci Publisher Comments A crisis is looming for baby boomers and anyone else who hopes to retire in the coming years. In When I'm Sixty-Four, Teresa Ghilarducci, the nation's leading authority on the economics of retirement, explains how to confront this crisis head-on...
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Putting Our House in Order: A Guide to Social Security and Health Care Reform
by George P. Shultz Publisher Comments A former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and an eminent economist tackle the biggest social issue of our time. Of all the issues swirling around the 2008 election, the staggering projected costs for the upkeep of America's largest entitlement programs...
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Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor Synopsis Drawing colorfully on the words of such speculators as Sir Isaac Newton, Daniel Defoe, Ivan Boesky, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chancellor examines the nature of speculation--from medieval Europe to the Tulip mania of the 1630s to today's Internet stock...
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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
by Anya Kamenetz Publisher Comments In this thoroughly researched and rousing manifesto, Anya Kamenetz chronicles and questions the plight of the new "youth class": 18 — to 29-year-olds who are drowning in debt and therefore seemingly unable to "grow up." Many older adults perceive...
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10 Excellent Reasons Not to Hate Taxes
by Stephanie Greenwood Publisher Comments A short, snappy handbook countering the anti-tax, anti-government rhetoric that permeates our culture and reminding us why taxes lie at the heart of a functioning democracy. "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society."—Supreme Court Justice...
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Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
by John Bowe Publisher Comments Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren't paid for their labor-people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies, award-winning...
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Tabor and Direct Democracy: An Essay on the End of the Republic (Speaker's Corner Books)
by Bradley J. Young Synopsis In 1992, Colorado voters passed an amendment to the state constitution that was placed on the ballot by a citizen-led petition. The measure, known as the Taxpayers? Bill of Rights, or TABOR, had many components to limit the growth of state and local...
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