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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David A. Stockman Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington's craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year revisionist history of how the American... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Road To Serfdom -volume II ((Rev)07 Edition) by F.a. Hayek Publisher Comments An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer Publisher Comments From the acclaimed author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, a fascinating look at the new science of decision-making and how it can help us make better choices. Since Plato, philosophers have described the decisionmaking process as either rational or... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $12.50 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: $8.95 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 "As Michael Klare makes clear in this powerful book, the heads of our corporate empires have decided to rip apart the planet in one last burst of profiteering. If you want to understand the next decade, I fear you better read this book."---Bill McKibben,... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs Publisher Comments Jeffrey D. Sachs has been cited by The New York Times Magazine as andldquo;probably the most important economist in the worldandrdquo; and by Time as andldquo;the worldandrsquo;s best-known economist.andrdquo; He has advised an extraordinary range of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken Synopsis Three leading innovators explain and define a superior and sustainable form of capitalism based on a system that radically raises the productivity of nature's dwindling resources.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar Publisher Comments In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It's the epic story of the making of modern... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Economics (Cliffs Quick Review) - Study Notes by John Duffy Publisher Comments CliffsQuickReview course guides cover the essentials of your toughest subjects. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you need a course supplement, help preparing for an exam... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all walks of contemporary life Brazilian peasants in the Amazon rain forest, new entrepreneurs in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $1.75 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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The Natural Origins of Economics by Margaret Schabas Publisher Comments References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade,... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $17.95 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... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Crash Course (11 Edition) by Chris Martenson Publisher Comments The next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. The world is in economic crisis, and there are no easy fixes to our predicament. Unsustainable trends in the economy, energy, and the environment have finally caught up with us and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (Containing Selections From All Five Books of the Wealth of Nations) (93 Edition) by Adam Smith Publisher Comments While it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, the Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, and tempered his celebration of a self-regulating... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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America the Possible (12 Edition) by James Gustave Speth Publisher Comments In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis Staff Pick Lewis describes the causes of the financial crisis with clarity, while putting it all in a very human context by focusing on a few of the individuals involved. It would have been easy for Lewis to second guess — in retrospect, it seems crazy to have... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Economics by Hugh Stretton Publisher Comments Economics: A New Introduction provides a fresh introduction to real economics. Highlighting the complex and changing nature of economic activity, this wide-ranging text employs a pragmatic mix of old and new methods to examine the role of values and... (read more) List Price $50.95 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government by Yaron Brook Publisher Comments Already a National Bestseller, in Free Market Revolution, the keepers of Ayn Rands legacy argue that the answer to our current economic woes lies not in "trickle-down government" but in Rand's inspiring philosophy of capitalism and self-interest&... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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