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by David C Korten  Publisher Comments The author examines ways in which economic values and institutions are shaped by certain beliefs about the nature and meaning of life. Modern societies have been shaped more than is realized, by beliefs embedded in the story told by Newtonian physics of... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Peter Barnes Publisher Comments The commons, all the creations of nature and society we inherit together and hold in trust for future generations, are under siege. Our current version of capitalism — the corporate, globalized version 2.0 — is rapidly squandering this shared... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William Greider Publisher Comments This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates -- and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anya Kamenetz Publisher Comments In this thoroughly researched and rousing manifesto, Anya Kamenetz chronicles and questions the plight of the new "youth class": 18 — to 29-year-olds who are drowning in debt and therefore seemingly unable to "grow up." Many older adults perceive... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael D Yates Publisher Comments The economic boom of the 1990s created huge wealth for the bosses, but benefited workers hardly at all. At the same time, the bosses were able to take the political initiative and even the moral high ground, while workers were often divided against each... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lou Dobbs Publisher Comments Prominent CNN host and commentator Lou Dobbs unleashes his manifesto on the vanishing American dream. Through his nightly CNN show, Lou Dobbs Tonight, his syndicated radio program, and his monthly magazine column, Lou Dobbs has become one of America... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lanny Ebenstein Publisher Comments Born the son of immigrant parents, Milton Friedman went on to become a major figure during the resurgence of American conservatism. As an adviser to the Reagan administration and a widely read columnist, he played a vital role in shaping... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Loretta Napoleoni Publisher Comments Economist and syndicated journalist Loretta Napoleoni argues that the world is undergoing rapid and unexpected great transformations fueled by what she calls rogue economics. Eagerly awaited around the world (translation rights have already been sold... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur M Okun Publisher Comments In this revised and expanded version of the Godkin Lectures presented at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University in the early seventies, Arthur M. Okun explores the conflicts that arise when society's desire to reduce inequality impairs economic... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tamara Draut Publisher Comments Drowning in student loans? Can’t afford to get married, buy a home, have children? Up to your ears in credit card debt? At last, a book for the under-35 generation that explains why it’s not their fault, and what can be done about it... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard K Lester Publisher Comments Lester and Piore examine innovation strategies in some of the economy's most dynamic sectors. Through eye-opening case studies of new product development, the authors discover two fundamental processes emerge: analysis and interpretation, which is... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Meizhu Lui Publisher Comments An eye-opening field guide to the wealth gap. <BR>For every dollar owned by the average white family in the United States, the average family of color has less than a dime. Why do people of color have so little wealth? "The Color of Wealth" lays... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Smith Synopsis No book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas A Irwin Publisher Comments Growing world trade has helped lift living standards around the world, and yet free trade is always under attack by opponents. Critics complain that trade forces painful economic adjustments, such as plant closings and layoffs of workers, and charge that... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Gavin Kitching Publisher Comments Unusual coming from a leftist perspective, this book argues that those who care for social justice should seek more globalization and not try to prevent its development or roll it back.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Bonner Publisher Comments Why Going Against the Grain Pays. Bestselling author Bill Bonner has long been a maverick observer of the financial and political world, sharpening his sardonic wit, in particular, on the vagaries of the investing public. Market booms and busts, tulip... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alan Krueger Publisher Comments Many popular ideas about terrorists and why they seek to harm us are fueled by falsehoods and misinformation. Leading politicians and scholars have argued that poverty and lack of education breed terrorism, despite the wealth of evidence showing that... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Kelly Publisher Comments This work argues that focusing on the interest of stockholders to the exclusion of everyone else's interests is a form of discrimination based on property or wealth. This book shows how this bias is held by our institutional structures. "The Divine Right... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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