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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 $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery by Menzie D Chinn Publisher Comments Welcome to Argentina: by 2008 the United States had become the biggest international borrower in world history, with almost half of its 6.4 trillion dollar federal debt in foreign hands. The proportion of foreign loans to the size of the economy put the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D Levitt Publisher Comments Today, this engine has stalled. The decade of the 2000s lost one million American jobs, whereas the previous three decades averaged approximately 20 million new jobs per decade. If the next decade, the 2010s, generates only marginal jobs growth, the US... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World by Jacqueline Novogratz Publisher Comments The Blue Sweater is the inspiring story of a woman who left a career in international banking to spend her life on a quest to understand global poverty and find powerful new ways of tackling it. It all started back home in Virginia, with the blue sweater,... (read more) List Price $15.99 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 When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Whether... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies by Naomi Klein Publisher Comments With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition. No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken Publisher Comments A visionary new program that businesses can follow to help restore the planet.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution--And How It Can Renew America by Thomas Friedman Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning ... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Swan (10 Edition) 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: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy by Josh Kosman Publisher Comments An authoritative exposand#233; of the mysterious and potentially dangerous world of private equity. Marquee private equity firms such as Blackstone Group, Carlyle Group, and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts have grown bigger and more powerful than ever. They have... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Plenitude New Economics of True Wealth (10 Edition) by Juliet Schor Publisher Comments At a moment of ecological and financial crisis, bestselling author and economist Juliet B. Schor presents a revolutionary strategy for transitioning toward a richer, more balanced life. In Plenitude economist and bestselling author Juliet B. Schor offers... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Money Well Spent?: The Truth Behind the Trillion-Dollar Stimulus, the Biggest Economic Recovery Plan in History by Michael Grabell Publisher Comments The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administrations handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obamas “audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World by Deirdre Mccloskey Publisher Comments The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stickyou with the Bill) by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments Free Lunch answers the great mystery of our time: How did our strong and growing economy give way to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and fear for millions of Americans? Acclaimed reporter David Cay Johnston reveals how government policies and spending... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mind and Market (02 Edition) by Jerry Z. Muller Publisher Comments Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse. The Mind... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great American Stickup: How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street by Robert Scheer Publisher Comments In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Instead of going where... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Small Is Beautiful (73 Edition) by E.f. Schumacher Publisher Comments Chapter OneThe Problem of Production One of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that "the problem of production" has been solved. Not only is this belief firmly held by people remote from production and therefore professionally unacquainted... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Globalization and Its Discontents by Saskia Sassen Publisher Comments Groundbreaking essays on the new global economy from "an expert observer" (Forecast).... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Choice a Fable of Free Trade Updated by Russell Roberts Publisher Comments Written as a novel, the book makes the complex concepts, issues and terminology of international trade understandable for students. Professors complain that their students cannot grasp the nature of how some economic tools are used or how they work... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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