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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... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover 
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Staff Pick You wouldn't expect the author of the searing bestseller No Logo to pull any... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 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 phenomena... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shock Doctrine : the Rise of Disaster Capitalism (07 Edition) by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Publisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposof international corruptionand an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments Hawken (The Ecology of Commerce) and Amory and Hunter Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank, have put together an ambitious, visionary book advocating natural capitalism. Based on the principle that businesses can be good... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller Publisher Comments The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, animal spirits are driving... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Freakonomics Revised Edition by Steven D Levitt Publisher Comments Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Secret History of the American Empire (07 Edition) by John Perkins Synopsis From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" comes an expos of international corruption. Perkins suggests how Americans can work to create a more peaceful and stable world for future generations.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle against World Poverty by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman Staff Pick Friedman doesn't just have the world's greatest moustache — he's also a sharp writer and keen thinker. The world needs this book — and we can consider ourselves fortunate that someone as clever as Friedman has written it.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects by Dmitry Orlov Publisher Comments In the waning days of the American empire, we find ourselves mired in political crisis, with our foreign policy coming under sharp criticism and our economy in steep decline. These trends mirror the experience of the Soviet Union in the early 1980s... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas by Robert H Frank Publisher Comments Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics students to pose and answer... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Long-Wave Rhythms in Economic Development and Political Behavior by Brian J L Berry Publisher Comments Is economic development a "random walk" or do underlying rhythms and cycles make it possible to anticipate long-term trends? Many social scientists have rejected the notion of long-term periodicity in economic trends. Now, after extensive analysis of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments A new edition of the phenomenal #1 bestseller. "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy by Robert Brenner Publisher Comments In this crisp and far-sighted book, Robert Brenner demonstrates that the "New Economy" was always a fragile phenomenon that never broke free from fundamental problems continuing to afflict the global economy. Carefully dismantling the myths and hype that... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments The bestselling author of The End of Nature issues an impassioned call to arms for an economy that creates community and ennobles our lives In this powerful and provocative manifesto, Bill McKibben offers the biggest challenge in a generation to the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wealth Conundrum: A Money Manager Wrestles with the Puzzles of Wealth by Ralph Doudera Publisher Comments Ralph Doudera, a money manager who handles hundredes of millions of dollars of his own and others' wealth, takes you along in this book as he struggles with wealth on his personal journey over the Class 5 Rapids of Mammon. A conundrum is a problem where... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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