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by Jeremy Rifkin Publisher Comments A journey into the new world of hypercapitalism, where accessing experiences becomes more important than owning things.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by James Buchan Publisher Comments Celebrated author James Buchan breathes new life into Adam Smith's legacy and the beginnings of modern economics. The Scottish philosopher Adam Smith (17231790) has been adopted by neoconservatives as the ideological father of unregulated... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Adam Smith Publisher Comments First published in 1776, the year in which the American Revolution officially began, Smith's Wealth of Nations sparked a revolution of its own. In it Smith analyzes the major elements of political economy, from market pricing and the division of labor to... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Set Softcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Peter Tertzakian Publisher Comments A Powerful Analysis of Our Oil Addiction and a New Direction for Global Energy In 2006, world oil consumption exceeded one thousand barrels per second-a level with enormous impact on the environment, world economies, investments, and business... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-205) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Riane Eisler Publisher Comments Bestselling author Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade, which has sold more than 500,000 copies sold) shows that at the root of all of society's big problems is the fact that we don?t value what matters. She then presents a radical reformulation of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Scott E Page Publisher Comments In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups--and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jonathan Chait Publisher Comments Through vivid portraits of self-interested politicians and pseudo-economists, and in wry analysis of their bogus theories, Chait gives readers the tools to understand what is really behind economic debates in Washington, in this riveting drama of greed... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Charles R Morris Publisher Comments We are living in the most reckless financial environment in recent history. Arcane credit derivative bets are now well into the tens of trillions. According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks and their hedge fund and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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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 Carl J Schramm Publisher Comments In 2004, Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, the world's leading foundation for entrepreneurship, published a groundbreaking essay with a radical premise: that Americans literally have no conception of the secret that truly underlies our... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jacob Needleman Publisher Comments If we understood the true role of money in our lives, writes philosopher Jacob Needleman, we would not think simply in terms of spending it or saving it. Money exerts a deep emotional influence on who we are and what we tell ourselves we can never have... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Sara Bongiorni Publisher Comments All about China's relentless path to world manufacturing dominance as told through the frustrations of one American family In December 2005, author and journalist Sara Bongiorni wrote a short, humorous article chronicling how Chinese manufacturing... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by John Perkins Publisher Comments In his controversial book, John Perkins tells the gripping tale of the years he spent working for an international consulting firm where his job was to convince underdeveloped countries to accept enormous loans, much bigger than they really needed, for... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Lester R Brown Publisher Comments "The guru of the global environmental movement" ("The Telegraph of Calcutta") argues that, like the Sumerian and Mayan civilizations, our economy is fast destroying its environmental support systems, threatening future generations.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Hernando De Soto Publisher Comments In this, his classic book on the informal economy of Peru and the reasons why poverty can be a breeding ground for terrorists, Hernando De Soto describes the forces that keep people dependent on underground economies: the bureaucratic barriers to legal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Adam Smith Publisher Comments It is in Books IV and V of The Wealth of Nations that Adam Smith offers his considered response to the French Physiocrats, perhaps the first great school of economic theorists, and assesses the nature of the mercantile system, particularly the colonial... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gunjan Bagla Publisher Comments By now, you probably know that India has the second-fastest growing economy in the world. That the spending power of its middle class is rapidly increasing and its population is eager to acquire Western conveniences. And that new opportunities abound in... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Tom Gorman Publisher Comments Local or global, economic issues are on the public's mind, but making sense of supply and demand isn't so simple. This book explains in everyday terms how markets work. It also introduces the key players and uses their behavior to illustrate basic... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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