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Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development by Herman Daly Publisher Comments Named one of a hundred "visionaries who could change your life" by the Utne Reader, Herman Daly has probably been the most prominent advocate of the need for a change in economic thinking in response to environmental crisis. An iconoclast economis t who... (read more) List Price $29.75 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Theory of the Leisure Class (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Thorstein Veblen Publisher Comments Classic sociology and economics, originally published in 1899, from "the best critic of America that America has produced."—C. Wright Mills.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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End of the Free Market (10 Edition) by Ian Bremmer Publisher Comments andquot;An essential guide to the future of the world economy.andquot; -David Smick, author of The World is Curved A number of authoritarian governments, drawn to the economic power of capitalism but wary of uncontrolled free markets, have invented... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Audacity of Greed: Free Markets, Corporate Thieves, and the Looting of America by Jonathan Tasini Publisher Comments Jonathan Tasini is one of the country's premier labor writers. Not just a reporter, he brings a wealth of firsthand, frontline, experience to every issue he tackles.--Barbara Ehrenreich This is must reading for anyone who wants to know how we got us into... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy by Juliet B Schor Publisher Comments A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live. In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy by Raj Patel Staff Pick Raj Patel's remarkable and ambitious new book asks some basic economic and political questions and comes up with surprising solutions. Patel explores ways we might more accurately value the world, arguing that our current market system is deeply flawed... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery by David Warsh Publisher Comments Chronicling the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory, this text helps to explain dominant first-mover firms like IBM or Microsoft, underscores the value of intellectual property, and provides essential advice to those concerned with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich -- and Cheat Everybody Else 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 $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins Publisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposé of international corruption? and an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation by Barry C Lynn Publisher Comments In September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan, toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2,500 people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas began to close. Cut off from their supplies of semiconductor... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 by Paul Krugman Staff Pick We could have prevented this economic free-fall, Paul Krugman believes. He wrote the first edition of The Return of Depression Economics in response to the Asian crisis of the 1990s, which he saw as a warning to economies around the world. Now Krugman... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Buying America Back by Alan Uke Publisher Comments The trade gap between the United States and China is a perennial news staple. Our commonplace goods are manufactured in such far-flung places as Honduras, Mexico, and Korea. Why has the distinction Made in America become such a rarity? The cynics always... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 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: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hoover Institution Press Publication #418: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments Quotes from the book: "Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area—crime, education, housing, race relations&mdash... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics Can Save the World by Gernot Wagner Publisher Comments You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Put bluntly, whatever you do personally—eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius—the planet doesnt care. Nor, for that matter, does the economy. In view of the entwined challenges of... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street by Tomas Sedlacek Publisher Comments Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan Publisher Comments Finally! A book about economics that won"t put you to sleep. In fact, you won"t be able to put this bestseller down. In our challenging economic climate, this perennial favorite of students and general readers is more than a good read, it"s a necessary... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World by Alan Beattie Publisher Comments An important book for turbulent times-an accessible and engaging economic history of the world, by a leading economic writer. Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries, economies, and societies-why some fail and some... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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