Political Economy
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The War on Small Business: How the Government Used the Pandemic to Crush the Backbone of America
$28.99 Read moreFor years, government bureaucrats have been looking for ways to destroy small businesses. With coronavirus, they finally had their chance.
In 2020, the American economy suffered the biggest financial
- Author: Roth, Carol
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 0063081415
- Language: English
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Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination
$22.00 Add to cartCapitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. There is good reason to believe that, in a generation or so, ca… [more below]
- Author: Graeber, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1570272433
- Language: English
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The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)
$15.95 Read morePopulists on both sides of the political aisle routinely announce that the American Dream is dead. According to them, the game has been rigged by elites, workers can’t get ahead, wages have been stag
- Series: New Threats to Freedom
- Author: Strain, Michael R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 159947557X
- Language: English
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Why Politics Fails
$30.00 Read moreA leading political expert explains why systems fail to deliver things we all want–democracy, equality, solidarity, security and prosperity–and what can be done to create a just, equitable, and envi… [more below]
- Author: Ansell, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1541702077
- Language: English
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Economics in One Virus: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning Through Covid-19
$19.95 Read more“A truly excellent book that explains where our pandemic response went wrong, and how we can understand those failings using the tools of economics.” –Tyler Cowen, coauthor of the blog Marginal Revol… [more below]
- Author: Bourne, Ryan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1952223067
- Language: English
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Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
$29.95 Read moreAll hail the new masters of Capitalism: How asset managers acquired the world
Banks have taken a backseat since the global financial crisis over a decade ago. Today, our new financial masters are ass- Author: Christophers, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768983
- Language: English
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Public Purpose
$19.95 Read moreKnown around the world for challenging mainstream economics, economist Mariana Mazzucato believes, as the Financial Times writes, that “the public sector can and should be a cocreator of wealth that a
- Series: Boston Review / Forum
- Author: Mazzucato Et Al, Marianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 194651165X
- Language: English
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Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
$29.95 Read moreLonglisted for the Financial Times Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: GQ, Los Angeles Times, Wired The essential guide to this new landscape of NFTs, Web3, Crypto an- Author: O’Dwyer, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1839768347
- Language: English
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
$21.99 Add to cartIn this bold reinterpretation of economics and history, the consequence of sole reliance on AI is revealed-as well as what must be done to redirect innovation so it benefits all.
The transformation o- Author: Acemoglu, Daron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1541702549
- Language: English
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Rational Thoughts: Common Sense Improvements to Life In America
$13.95 Add to cartRational Thoughts: Commonsense Improvements to Life in America positions itself as a comprehensive guide delving into the intricacies of contemporary existence in the United States. Within its pages,
- Author: Galanis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891578050
- Language: English
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Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1
$39.95 Add to cartMarx for the twenty-first century
The first new English translation in fifty years–and the only one based on the last German edition revised by Marx himself
Featuring extensive original commentary, inc- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691190070
- Language: English
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Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
$29.95 Read moreA scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster by the bestselling author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline
It might soon be far too hot on this planet. What do we do then?- Author: Malm, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1804293989
- Language: English
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
$33.00 Add to cartBrilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and… [more below]
- Author: Acemoglu, Daron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0307719219
- Language: English
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The Condition of the Working Class in England
$13.95 Read moreThis, the first book written by Engels during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844, is the best known and in many ways the most astute study of the working class in Victorian England. The fluency … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Engels, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555885
- Language: English
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People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
$17.95 Read moreAn authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and J
- Author: Stiglitz, Joseph E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 039335833X
- Language: English
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Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America’s Postwar Political Order
$17.99 Add to cartThe United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s “revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institution… [more below]
- Author: Piereson, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1594038953
- Language: English
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The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
$29.95 Add to cart“Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be all the wiser.”
Why the market will never solve the
–Andreas Malm, author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline- Author: Christophers, Brett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804292303
- Language: English
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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
$49.92 Read moreHow the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people
Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, per- Author: Dickson, Bruce J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0691186642
- Language: English
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The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor
$18.99 Add to cartIn this “bracingly iconoclastic” book (New York Times Book Review), a renowned economics scholar breaks down the fight to end global poverty and the rights that poor individuals have had taken away fo… [more below]
- Author: Easterly, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1541675673
- Language: English
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Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think
$13.95 Add to cart“Nader’s assessment of how concentrated wealth and power undermine democracy is clear and compelling, but it’s his substantive vision of how we ought to respond that makes Breaking Through Power essen
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Nader, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 872867056
- Language: English
