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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles J. Wheelan Publisher Comments Naked Economics makes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Road To Serfdom -volume II ((Rev)07 Edition) by F.a. Hayek Publisher Comments An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944—... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a New Section: "On Robustness and Fragility" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Publisher Comments A black swan is an event, positive or negative, that is deemed improbable yet causes massive consequences. In this groundbreaking and prophetic book, Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It by Timothy Noah Publisher Comments For the past three decades, America has steadily become a nation of haves and have-nots. Our incomes are increasingly drastically unequal: the top 1% of Americans collect almost 20% of the nations income—more than double their share in 1973... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius by Sylvia Nasar Publisher Comments In a sweeping narrative, the author of the megabestseller A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and women who changed the lives of every single person on the planet. It’s the epic story of the making of modern... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner Staff Pick "What makes this book fascinating is the way that Levitt uses advanced economic techniques — the kind that would knock me unconscious quicker than chloroform if I had to read them in a textbook — and applies them to seemingly unexplainable phenomena... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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The World That Trade Created by Kenneth Pomeranz Publisher Comments The new edition of this fascinating book reveals the answers to tantalizing questions about society, culture, and the world economy. Brief, highly readable vignettes bring to life international trade and its actors--including migrants and merchants... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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After the New Economy: The Binge and the Hangover That Won't Go Away by Doug Henwood Publisher Comments Rarely a day went by in the dizzy 1990s without some well-paid pundit heralding the triumphant arrival of a New Economy. According to these financial mavens, an unprecedented technological and organizational revolution had extinguished the threat of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict by Joseph E Stiglitz Publisher Comments America has already spent close to a trillion dollars on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but there are hundreds of billions of bills still due--including staggering costs to take care of the thousands of injured veterans, providing them with disability... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Worldly Philosophers 7TH Edition by Robert L Heilbroner Publisher Comments The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution by Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins Publisher Comments Hawken (The Ecology of Commerce) and Amory and Hunter Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, an environmental think tank, have put together an ambitious, visionary book advocating natural capitalism. Based on the principle that businesses can be good... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Globalization and World Society by Tony Spybey Publisher Comments Globalization and World Society traces the early development of global culture through the rise of Western civilization and the impact of that civilization upon the non-industrialized world. Its main concern is to examine the various institutions which... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics by A Etzioni Publisher Comments Bibliography: p. 259-300.... (read more) List Price $21.25 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition (BK Currents) by Michael Shuman Publisher Comments Defenders of globalization, free markets, and free trade insist there' s no alternative to mega-stores like Wal-Mart -- Michael Shuman begs to differ. In "The Small-Mart Revolution," Shuman makes a compelling case for his alternative business model, one... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller Publisher Comments "This book is a sorely needed corrective. Animal Spirits is an important--maybe even a decisive--contribution at a difficult juncture in macroeconomic theory."--Robert M. Solow, Nobel Prize-winning economist "This book is dynamite. It is a powerful... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Economics Explained: Everything You Need to Know about How the Economy Works and Where It's Going by Robert L Heilbroner Publisher Comments In its fourth edition, Economics Explained continues its announced purpose — to explain that mysterious thing called economics. But there is a new urgency to the book. It is announced in the first sentence of the introduction: Just in case the... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan Publisher Comments Naked Economicsmakes up for all of those Econ 101 lectures you slept through (or avoided) in college, demystifying key concepts, laying bare the truths behind the numbers, and answering those questions you have always been too embarrassed to ask. For all... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty by Roger Thurow Publisher Comments For more than thirty years, humankind has known how to grow enough food to end chronic hunger worldwide. Yet while the “Green Revolution” succeeded in South America and Asia, it never got to Africa. More than 9 million people every year die of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover add to wish list |
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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Publisher Comments By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |
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Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics by John R Talbott Publisher Comments Bestselling author John R. Talbott, who predicted the housing and mortgage crisis, pictures in Obamanomics--written well in advance of the historic 2008 elections--a Barack Obama presidency based on justice and cooperation—principles that have not... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper add to wish list |