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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely Publisher Comments "A marvelous book… thought provoking and highly entertaining." —Jerome Groopman, New York Times bestselling author of How Doctors Think "Ariely not only gives us a great read; he also makes us much wiser." —George Akerlof, 2001... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: "On Robustness and Fragility" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publisher Comments A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith Synopsis The bible of economics, Smith's book laid the foundation for contemporary economic thought. Like Marx's "Capital" or Machiavelli's "Prince", the book also offered a radically new vision of society as a whole (one in which decisions are based on economic... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $8.50 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: $5.75 Used - Hardcover
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The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publisher Comments By the author of the modern classic The Black Swan, this collection of aphorisms and meditations expresses his major ideas in ways you least expect. The Bed of Procrustes takes its title from Greek mythology: the story of a man who made his visitors fit... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles J. Wheelan Publisher Comments Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt Publisher Comments Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner offer the long-awaited paperback edition of Freakonomics, the runaway bestseller, including six Freakonomics columns from the New York Times Magazine and a Q & A with the authors.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The World in Depression, 1929-1939 by Charles P Kindleberger Publisher Comments "The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith "[Kindleberger] has written perhaps the finest analytical account of the run-up to the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A conflict of visions by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or for centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. The analysis of this pattern is the purpose of A Conflict of Visions. its theme is that the enduring... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Economics of Contracts: A Primer: Second Edition by Bernard Salanie Publisher Comments andlt;Pandgt;The theory of contracts grew out of the failure of the general equilibrium model to account for the strategic interactions among agents that arise from informational asymmetries. This popular text, revised and updated throughout for the... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $19.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wealth of Nations (Great Minds Series) by Adam Smith Publisher Comments Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But Wealth of Nations (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 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: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy by Daniel Altman Publisher Comments In the span of one day, how does the world do business? In Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy, journalist and economist Daniel Altman answers this question by visiting more than a dozen cities around the world and tracing the threads of our ever... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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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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When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany by Adam Fergusson Publisher Comments When Money Dies is the classic history of what happens when a nation’s currency depreciates beyond recovery. In 1923, with its currency effectively worthless (the exchange rate in December of that year was one dollar to 4,200,000,000,000... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mystery of Capital : Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else (00 Edition) by Hernando De Soto Publisher Comments "The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifths of humanity, its hour of crisis." In The Mystery of Capital, the world-famous Peruvian economist takes up the question that, more than any other, is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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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 Publisher Comments An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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