Government & Business
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Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy
$19.99 Add to cart“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American … [more below]
- Author: Stoller, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1501182897
- Language: English
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How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics
$20.00 Add to cartIn How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis–now with a new preface addressin
- Author: Cassidy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250781280
- Language: English
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Pick Up Your Own Brass: Leadership the FBI Way
$24.95 Add to cartIn FBI terms, leaders who pick up their own brass casings at the firing range are more effective than those who expect someone else to do it for them. To those at the bureau, this small action speaks … [more below]
- Author: McChesney, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1597976830
- Language: English
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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
$29.99 Add to cartWe are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by c
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 132407437X
- Language: English
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Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It
$24.99 Read moreThe rising unhappiness that leaders didn’t see
Unhappiness has been increasing globally for a decade, according to Gallup — and its rise has been missed by almost every world leader. That’s because w- Author: Clifton, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1595622454
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
$27.00 Add to cartWilliam Greider’s groundbreaking bestseller reveals how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates–and manipulates and the world’s economy.
This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the fi- Author: Greider, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 798
- Publish Date: January 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0671675567
- Language: English
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Owning the Sun: A People’s History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to Covid-19 Vaccines
$17.95 Read moreFor readers of Bad Blood and Empire of Pain, an authoritative look at monopoly medicine from the dawn of patents through the race for COVID-19 vaccines and how the privatization of public science has … [more below]
- Author: Zaitchik, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 164009590X
- Language: English
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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths
$18.00 Add to cartAward-winning economist Mariana Mazzucato’s famously incisive international bestseller debunking the pervasive myth of the inept state versus an innovative private sector–with a new preface by the au… [more below]
- Author: Mazzucato, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593656938
- Language: English
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Common Sense: The Investor’s Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth
$19.95 Add to cartThe United States is supposed to offer economic opportunity to everyone. It shouldn’t take a worldwide pandemic and nationwide protests to bring economic and racial inequality to the forefront of prob
- Author: Greenblatt, Joel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0231198906
- Language: English
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The Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
$23.00 Add to cartAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.
We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small business- Author: Cowen, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 125025132X
- Language: English
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Saving Main Street: Small Business in the Time of Covid-19
$29.99 Read moreA veteran journalist follows an inspiring ensemble cast of small business owners fighting to keep their businesses alive through Covid-19, while exploring the sweeping trends and government policies t
- Author: Rivlin, Gary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0063065967
- Language: English
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The Five Lenses(R)️
$16.95 Add to cartOrganizations are inherently complex for leaders, consultants, and team members alike, but with the right rubric, it can be simple to identify issues and determine which solutions you can impart to cr
- Author: Howard, Rashad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218954659
- Language: English
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The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis
$12.95 Add to cartBen Bernanke’s history of the Federal Reserve and its response to the 2008 financial crisis
In 2012, Ben Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, gave a series of lectures about the Federal Res- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165572
- Language: English
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Gross Deceptive Product: An Ecological Perspective on the Economy
$15.95 Add to cartContinuous economic growth is not sustainable because such growth depends on depletion of finite natural resources, ever-increasing debt, continuous population growth, and land use conversion–none of
- Author: England, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1640037896
- Language: English
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Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit
$29.95 Add to cartWhy stable banking systems are so rare
Why are banking systems unstable in so many countries–but not in others? The United States has had twelve systemic banking crises since 1840, while Canada has h- Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World #50
- Author: Calomiris, Charles W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168350
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations is generally regarded as the foundation of contemporary economic thought. Adam Smith, a Scottish professor of moral philosophy, expounded the then-revolu
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: January 25 1994
- ISBN10: 0679424733
- Language: English
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Social Security for Dummies
$27.99 Read more“Social Security for Dummies is a must read for people of any age who want a comfortable retirement. … The difference between a smart claiming strategy and a dumb one can cost you hundreds of thousa
- Author: Peterson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 27, 2020
- ISBN10: 1119689929
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$29.99 Read moreThe Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a seminal work in economics that revolutionized our understanding of the market system and laid the foundation for modern capitalism. Smith explores the princi… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: December 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9358561629
- Language: English
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Escaping the Housing Trap: The Strong Towns Response to the Housing Crisis
$28.00 Add to cartHousing is an investment. Investment prices must go up. Housing is shelter. When the price of shelter goes up, people experience distress.
This is the housing trap. It’s time to escape. In Escaping the
- Author: Marohn, Charles L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1119984521
- Language: English
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Venture Meets Mission: Aligning People, Purpose, and Profit to Innovate and Transform Society
$30.00 Read moreThe world is facing dramatic geopolitical, environmental, and technological shifts. Venture Meets Mission argues that if Business, Government, and Society come together, rebuild trust, and collaborate
- Author: Gupta, Arun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1503636283
- Language: English
