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by John Perkins Publisher Comments From the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, comes an exposof international corruptionand an inspired plan to turn the tide for future generations With a presidential election around the corner... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments A new edition of the phenomenal #1 bestseller. "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz wrote in The New York Times reviewing The... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kevin Phillips Publisher Comments The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put America's global future at risk In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Raj Patel Publisher Comments "One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice." Naomi Klein, author of No Logoand The Shock Doctrine Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese-both... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Ormerod Publisher Comments A fascinating and provocative study of failure within business, economics, and government <P>Why Most Things Fail argues that failure is the distinguishing feature of corporate life and uses it to link economic models with models of biological... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments One of the country's top investigative reporters reveals how the richest people within the top 1 percent of the country has rigged the tax code and other laws in its favor. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston has been... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tim Harford Powells.com Staff Pick Bookstores have been flooded with popular economics books since the publication of the wildly popular Freakonomics. Although The Undercover Economist was not the first to market, it should have been. Told in a genuinely engaging style, it puts the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by David Cay Johnston Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new expos How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles Fishman Publisher Comments Wal-Mart isn't just the world's biggest company, it is probably the world's most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Steven D Levitt Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments The world of business is changing fast. The prevailing model for creating wealth which has its roots in the industrial revolution and which dominated the last century no longer applies. Natural Capitalism introduces an alternative, a... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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 $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by William Easterly Publisher Comments A professor of economics pens an informed and excoriating attack on the tragic waste, futility, and hubris of the West's efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world, and provides constructive suggestions on how to move forward.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert 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 $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments Freakonomics revealed much about our society. Now, one of America's most respected economists reveals how individuals can turn economic reasoning to their advantage in their daily lifeat home, at work, even on vacation. Tyler Cowen explains how... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Muhammad Yunus Publisher Comments The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world and tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas L. Friedman Publisher Comments When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Antonia Juhasz Publisher Comments In The Bush Agenda, Antonia Juhasz exposes a radical corporate globalization agenda that has been refined by leading members and allies of the Bush administration over decades and reached its fullest, most aggressive implementation under George W. Bush... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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