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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel Publisher Comments How can starving people also be obese? Why does everything have soy in it? How do petrochemicals and biofuels control the price of food? It's a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before (800 million) while... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life (Revised Edition) by Paul Seabright Publisher Comments "No one, economist or civilian, could turn the pages of this book without spotting, time and again, some unexpected and arresting idea that really wants to be thought about. Paul Seabright takes the evolutionary point of view seriously and asks how human... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Economics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Partha Dasgupta Publisher Comments Here Partha Dasgupta, an internationally recognized authority in economics, presents readers with a solid introduction to its basic concepts, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, dynamic equilibrium, property rights, markets, and public goods... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $8.50 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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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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Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Manfred Steger Publisher Comments "Globalization" has become the buzz-word of our time. A growing number of scholars and political activists have invoked the term to describe a variety of changing economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are alleged to... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 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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An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (P.S.) by John Steele Gordon Publisher Comments Throughout time, from ancient Rome to modern Britain, the great empires built and maintained their domination through force of arms and political power. But not the United States. America has dominated the world in a new, peaceful, and pervasive way... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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