Economic Conditions
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Megathreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
$19.99 Read more“Read and pay attention” (Martin Wolf, the Financial Times): the bestselling author of Crisis Economics argues we are heading toward the worst economic catastrophe of our lifetimes, unless we can defe
- Author: Roubini, Nouriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0316284343
- Language: English
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The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa’s Wealth
$19.99 Add to cartOne of Financial Times’ Books of the Year, 2015
The trade in oil, gas, gems, metals and rare earth minerals wreaks havoc in Africa. During the years when Brazil, India, China and the other “emerging- Author: Burgis, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1610397118
- Language: English
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When the Boomers Bail: A Community Economic Survival Guide
$15.95 Add to cartAs the industrialized world recovers from the great recession, we face an even graver economic threat. A structural shortage of qualified workers is creating a zero-sum labor market that is forcing co… [more below]
- Author: Lautman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: February 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0981786936
- Language: English
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Silicon Heartland: Transforming the Midwest from Rust Belt to Tech Belt
$28.00 Read moreChronicling her return to America’s heartland, CNBC contributor Rebecca A. Fannin provides an optimistic and engaging look at the current entrepreneurial comeback happening in the Midwest, documenting… [more below]
- Author: Fannin, Rebecca A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1623545560
- Language: English
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The Affluent Society
$18.99 Add to cartJohn Kenneth Galbraith’s classic investigation of private wealth and public poverty in postwar America.
With customary clarity, eloquence, and humor, Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith gets at t… [more below]
- Author: Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0395925002
- Language: English
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The Price of Inequality
$18.95 Add to cartThe top 1 percent of Americans control some 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. But as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in this best-selling critique of the economic status quo, this level of inequality is
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0393345068
- Language: English
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
$22.00 Add to cartOne of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now: What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? … [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Lawrence G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0307588343
- Language: English
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Sun Also Sets: Limits to Japan’s Economic Power
$20.95 Add to cartA noted expert in the field of economics analyzes Japan’s rise to economic power and its perceived threat to American interests, arguing that Japan’s current economic status will not continue into the… [more below]
- Author: Emmott, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0671735861
- Language: English
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Rebooting Capitalism: How We Can Forge a Society That Works for Everyone
$20.00 Add to cartSince the mid-twentieth century, free-market ideology has undermined the economic well-being and social fabric of American life. An unprecedented, extremely effective and largely invisible effort by a
- Author: Biglan, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 057869090X
- Language: English
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The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism
$21.00 Add to cartIs global capitalism on its last legs? Is the era of American leadership over? Has the West begun a decline into a new Dark Age? Does American civilization deserve to survive? These are the unnerving … [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 607
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 1616144785
- Language: English
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Rich Thanks to Racism: How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice
$29.95 Add to cartMore than fifty years after the civil rights movement, there are still glaring racial inequities all across the United States. In Rich Thanks to Racism, Jim Freeman, one of the country’s leading civil
- Author: Freeman, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1501755137
- Language: English
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China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
$16.95 Add to cartChina’s economic growth has been revolutionary, and is the foundation of its increasingly prominent role in world affairs. It is the world’s second biggest economy, the largest manufacturing and tradi… [more below]
- Series: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Author: Kroeber, Arthur R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190946466
- Language: English
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
$18.00 Add to cartThe Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnes… [more below]
- Author: Mian, Atif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 20 2015
- ISBN10: 022627165X
- Language: English
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Floored!: How a Misguided Fed Experiment Deepened and Prolonged the Great Recession
$16.95 Add to cartIn October 2008, as the U.S. economy plunged, the Federal Reserve began paying interest on banks’ reserve balances. The resulting switch to a “floor system” of monetary control, in which changes in th
- Author: Selgin, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 22 2018
- ISBN10: 1948647087
- Language: English
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The Lost Bank: The Story of Washington Mutual – The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
$19.99 Add to cartAn award-winning reporter chronicles the calamitous story of Washington Mutual, the single-largest bank failure in American history, in this fast-paced, compelling, and gripping saga of greed and exce… [more below]
- Author: Grind, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 16 2013
- ISBN10: 1451617933
- Language: English
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The Long Tail
$19.99 Add to cartWhat happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone? “The Long Tail” is a powerful new force in our economy: the … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2008
- ISBN10: 1401309666
- Language: English
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American Dream Come True: Why Affordable Housing Is Good Policy, Good Business, and Good for America
$27.99 Add to cartWhat if there were one single way we could significantly improve the American economy, public health, and offer attractive investment opportunities, while also providing more homes for American famili
- Author: Bertoldi, Tony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887500911
- Language: English
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Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
$21.00 Add to cartThe intimate, fly-on-the wall tale of the decline and fall of an America icon
With one notable exception, the firms that make up what we know as Wall Street have always been part of an inbred, insular- Author: Farrell, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 13, 2011
- ISBN10: 0307717879
- Language: English
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Don’t Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense about the Economy
$36.00 Add to cartAfter everything that’s happened, how is it possible that conservatives still win debates about the economy? Time and again the right wins over voters by claiming that their solutions are only common
- Author: Shenker-Osorio, Anat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1610391772
- Language: English
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The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization
$30.00 Add to cartA brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions.
The world is at a turning point simi… [more below]- Author: O’Sullivan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1541724062
- Language: English
