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  • Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

    by Michael Lewis ...
    #1 New York Times Bestseller — With a new Afterword"Guaranteed to make blood boil." —Janet Maslin, New York TimesIn Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller, a small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together—some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries—to investigate, expose, and reform the insidious ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Long Descent

    A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age

    The author of Dark Age America shares a harrowing vision of the future and what you can do to take action and make change.Americans are expressing deep concern about US dependence on petroleum, rising energy prices and the threat of climate change. Unlike the energy crisis of the 1970s, however, there is a lurking fear that, now, the times are different, and the crisis may not easily be resolved ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Political Economy

    Theory and Practice

    Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of IPE in broad theoretical context and has been updated to cover the rise of populism, Brexit, the USMCA, US–China trade wars, tariffs, refugees and global migration, the Keynesian–monetarist debate, Fordism, automation, the "gig" economy, global value chains, climate change, cryptocurrencies, and the residual ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The Affluent Society

    The classic by the renowned economist: “One of those rare works that forces a nation to re-examine its values” (The New York Times).One of the New York Public Library’s “Books of the Century”Hailed as a “masterpiece” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), this examination of the “economics of abundance” cuts to the heart of what economic security means (and doesn’t mean) and lays bare the hazards of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Genius of Israel

    The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * How has a small nation of 9 million people, forced to fight for its existence and security since its founding and riven by ethnic, religious, and economic divides, proven resistant to so many of the societal ills plaguing other wealthy democracies?Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Power and Progress

    Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

    The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a bold reinterpretation of economics and history that will fundamentally change how you see the worldA thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear: progress depends on the choices we make about technology. New ways of organizing production and communication can either ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Our Lot

    How Real Estate Came to Own Us

    by Alyssa Katz ...
    Our Lot tells how an entire nation got swept up in real estate mania, and it casts the business story--the collapse of the subprime empire and the global impact it had on the economy--as part of a project of social engineering beginning in the 1930s by the U.S. government to make homeownership available to those who had never been able to attain it before. Based on original reporting, Our Lot does ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Leveraged

    The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility

    Edited by Moritz Schularick ...
    An authoritative guide to the new economics of our crisis-filled century. Published in collaboration with the Institute for New Economic Thinking.The 2008 financial crisis was a seismic event that laid bare how financial institutions’ instabilities can have devastating effects on societies and economies. COVID-19 brought similar financial devastation at the beginning of 2020 and once more massive ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • How to Reform Capitalism

    It is quite normal to feel frustrated and sorrowful about aspects of modern capitalism, but realistic hope of change can seem either utopian or demented. In fact, the way that capitalism works is inherently open to alteration and improvement. This is because the problems of capitalism are, in their essence, not about money, law or politics, but about human psychology – the field of expertise of ... Read more

    $6.56 USD

  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Price of Civilization: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLY“Succinct, humane, and politically astute . . . Sachs lays out a detailed path to reform, regulation, and recovery.”—The American ProspectIn this forceful and impassioned book, Jeffrey D. Sachs offers a searing and incisive diagnosis of our country’s economic ills, and an urgent call for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict

    A distinguished Chinese economist offers a timely, essential exploration of China’s perspective on economy, government, society, and its position in the world.Dr. David Daokui Li has served as an advisor to senior Chinese Communist Party leaders as well as major multinational corporations and international economic institutions. Writing in response to the growing anti-Chinese sentiment and alarmed ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Portfolios of the Poor

    How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day

    Nearly forty percent of humanity lives on an average of two dollars a day or less. If you've never had to survive on an income so small, it is hard to imagine. How would you put food on the table, afford a home, and educate your children? How would you handle emergencies and old age? Every day, more than a billion people around the world must answer these questions. Portfolios of the Poor is the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • America the Possible

    Manifesto for a New Economy

    In this third volume of his award-winning American Crisis series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course through the discouragement and despair commonly felt today, and envisions what he calls America the Possible, an attractive and plausible future that we ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Brazil Is the New America

    How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World

    Look to Brazil for safe, stable investmentsAs the future of the American economy seems to get bleaker by the day, it is tempting to look abroad for business opportunities. Europe and Asia don't provide much hope, but what about somewhere that's both closer to home and sunny year-round? In Brazil is the New America: How Brazil Offers Upward Mobility in a Collapsing World, James D. Davidson shows ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • What Matters?

    Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth

    by Wendell Berry ...
    "The reasoned and insistent exhortations of a man with a cause who, rather than mellowing with age and wisdom, continues to grow in forcefulness and vision." —BooklistOver the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Power of Restraint

    by Pierre Rabhi ...
    Translated by Lisa Davidson ...
    The current crisis clearly demonstrates that our model of society has reached its limits. The time has come to recognize that our affluent societies have more than enough to meet their essential material needs—provided it is done fairly. The time has also come to question whether we are going to live with less, rather than more, money. We have the necessary means to do so, provided we accept this ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Thriving in an All-Boys Club

    Female Police and Their Fight for Equality

    In 1845 women entered the career of policing, and ever since it’s been an evolving history for them. There are countless stories of women shaping this career, adding particular gifts and abilities to the profession. There are, also, countless stories of their struggles to fit in and survive in this “all-boys club.”Thriving in an All Boys Club: Female Police and Their Fight for Equality examines ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Future

    Economic Peril or Prosperity?

    What will the economy look like in fifty years? How will our lives as consumers and workers be transformed by the coming innovations in technology, the marketplace, and the workplace? How will changes in demographics and dependency affect our political system? Will economic freedom rise or fall? What, if anything, would greater prosperity do for one's total well-being? Future: Economic Peril or ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

    by Michael Lewis ...
    The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top of his game. And it's essential reading."-Graydon Carter, Vanity FairThe real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn't shine and the SEC doesn't dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

    by Michael Lewis ...
    As Pogo once said "We have met the enemy and he is us." The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nickel and Dimed

    On (Not) Getting By in America

    The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of EvictedMillions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Reckless Endangerment

    How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon

    A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book for 2011One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the YearThe New York Times's Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist reveals how the financial meltdown emerged from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lendersIn Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of The New York Times, expos... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Griftopia

    A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History

    by Matt Taibbi ...
    A brilliantly illuminating and darkly comic tale of the ongoing financial and political crisis in America.The financial crisis that exploded in 2008 isn’t past but prologue. The grifter class—made up of the largest players in the financial industry and the politicians who do their bidding—has been growing in power, and the crisis was only one terrifying manifestation of how they’ve hijacked ... Read more

    $14.99 USD