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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 A bestselling author's shocking analysis of the many ways everyday people are systemically victimized by powerful corporations. David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover 
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick The roots of the bubble and the story of Wall Street's collapse can be told no clearer — nor with as much humor — as by Michael Lewis. If you read only one book that explains the current economic crisis, make it The Big Short.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $8.95 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 $26.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely Staff Pick Why are we more motivated about our work when we feel it has meaning? Can we increase our enjoyment of an activity by interrupting it? Why do we believe that information from a dating web site, which reads more like a baseball card than a personality... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis Publisher Comments As Pogo once said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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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: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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Conspicuous Consumption (Penguin Great Ideas) by Thorstein Veblen Publisher Comments The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguins Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historys most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World by Hernando De Soto Publisher Comments In this, his classic book on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, Hernando De Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies: the bureaucratic barriers to legal... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $5.95 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: $6.95 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 $26.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Interviews with John Kenneth Galbraith (Conversations with Public Intellectuals) by John Kenneth Galbraith Publisher Comments Biography -- History -- Political Science -- Economics For over half a century, Canadian-born John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) has been among the most visible of public intellectuals. His articulate and controversial best-selling books-including The... (read more) List Price $62.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David C Korten Publisher Comments * Sweeping survey of world history offering a new understanding of the key challenge of our time* Offers a positive message of hope for a sustainable and just future and a practical strategy for getting thereIn The Great Turning, David Korten argues that... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality by Richard Heinberg Publisher Comments Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fundamental turning... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success by Matthew Syed Publisher Comments Why have all the sprinters who have run the 100 meters in under ten seconds been black? What's one thing Mozart, Venus Williams, and Michelangelo have in common? Is it good to praise a child's intelligence? Why are baseball players so superstitious? Few... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fool's Gold: The Inside Story of J.P. Morgan and How Wall Street Greed Corrupted Its Bold Dream and Created a Financial Catastrophe by Gillian Tett Publisher Comments From award-winning Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, who enraged Wall Street leaders with her newsbreaking warnings of a crisis more than a year ahead of the curve, Fool's Gold tells the astonishing unknown story at the heart of the 2008... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nichol Taleb Publisher Comments Finally in paperback, the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about the markets and the world. This book is about luck: more precisely how we perceive luck in our personal and professional experiences. Set against the backdrop... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources by Michael T Klare Publisher Comments From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion—a crisis that goes beyond “peak oil... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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