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  • 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

  • Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality

    A New York Times Editors’ ChoiceAn “essential” (Jane Mayer) account of the dangerous marriage of plutocratic economic priorities and right-wing populist appeals — and how it threatens the pillars of American democracy.In Let Them Eat Tweets, best-selling political scientists Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson argue that despite the rhetoric of Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and other right-wing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Money and Government

    The Past and Future of Economics

    A critical examination of economics' past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our timeThe dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only minor roles in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best left to the "invisible hand" of the market. Yet these claims remain staunchly unsettled. The view taken in ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Engineering the Financial Crisis

    Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

    The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Present at the Transition

    An Inside Look at the Role of History, Politics, and Personalities in Post-Communist Countries

    Nearly thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, debates over paths to market liberalization have produced numerous studies across the social sciences. This groundbreaking work from Oleh Havrylyshyn offers a new perspective. Havrylyshyn, a former official in the post-independence Ukrainian government, provides a unique, primary source account of the people and problems at the heart of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • With Liberty and Dividends for All

    How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough

    by Peter Barnes ...
    Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future. Therefore, to survive economically, our middle class needs—and deserves—a supplementary source of nonlabor income. To meet this need, Barnes proposes to give every American a share of the wealth we own together— ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fixer-Upper

    How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

    by Jenny Schuetz ...
    Practical ideas to provide affordable housing to more AmericansMuch ink has been spilled in recent years talking about political divides and inequality in the United States. But these discussions too often miss one of the most important factors in the divisions among Americans: the fundamentally unequal nature of the nation’s housing systems. Financially well-off Americans can afford comfortable, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Fattening of America

    How The Economy Makes Us Fat, If It Matters, and What To Do About It

    A guide to how America became the fattest nation, and how the food industry and the government keep it that way.In The Fattening of America, renowned health economist Eric Finkelstein, along with business writer Laurie Zuckerman, reveal how the US economy has become the driving force behind our expanding waistlines. Blending theory, research, and engaging personal anecdotes, the authors discuss ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The State of Economic and Social Human Rights

    A Global Overview

    Edited by Lanse Minkler ...
    This edited volume offers original scholarship on economic and social human rights from leading and new cutting-edge scholars in the fields of economics, law, political science, sociology and anthropology. It analyzes the core economic and social rights and the crucial topic of non-discrimination, and includes an innovative section on 'meta' rights. The main chapters answer important questions ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Road to Serfdom

    Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition

    by F. A. Hayek ...
    Series Book 2 - The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek
    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—when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and barrel to the socialist program—The Road to Serfdom ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • Big-Time Sports in American Universities

    For almost a century, big-time college sport has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated and athletic budgets have ballooned ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Sport and the Neoliberal University

    Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy

    Series series The American Campus
    College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • China Dream And The China Path, The

    by Tianyong Zhou ...
    Series Book 4 - Series On Chinese Economics Research
    Since its reform and opening up, China has experienced unprecedented social and economic development. It is important to understand the biggest and fastest growing economy's policy and strategy. As a key director in Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the author proposes a development path and reform strategies for China in the next three decades.This book ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Revolution That Never Was

    by Will Hutton ...
    Will Hutton argues that Keynesian revolution has yet to take place. Economists, he finds, have not yet come to terms with the heart of Keynes' argument: that there are limits to what prices can do in a market economy. But referring closely to Keynes' writings, Hutton demonstrates that Keynes was concerned to show how the financial sector of the economy originated and how it reinforced the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Free, Fair, and Alive

    The Insurgent Power of the Commons

    The power of the commons as a free, fair system of provisioning and governance beyond capitalism, socialism, and other -isms.From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to 'commoning' to emancipate themselves from a predatory market-state system.Free, Fair, and Alive presents a foundational re-thinking of the commons — ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Oneness vs. the 1%

    Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

    With a new epilogue about Bill Gates’s global agenda and how we can resist the billionaires’ war on life“This is what globalization looks like: Opportunism. Exploitation. Further centralization of power. Further disempowerment of ordinary people. . . . Vandana Shiva is an expert whose analysis has helped us understand this situation much more deeply.”—Russell BrandWidespread poverty, social unrest ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Capitalism: A Very Short Introduction

    by James Fulcher ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    What is capitalism? Is capitalism the same everywhere? Is there an alternative? The word 'capitalism' is one that is heard and used frequently, but what is capitalism really all about, and what does it mean? This Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as 'what is capital?' before discussing the history and development of capitalism through several detailed case studies, ranging from the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Locked Out of Development

    Insiders and Outsiders in Arab Capitalism

    Series series Elements in the Politics of Development
    This Element argues that the low dynamism of low- to mid-income Arab economies is explained with a set of inter-connected factors constituting a 'segmented market economy'. These include an over-committed and interventionist state with limited fiscal and institutional resources; deep insider-outsider divides among firms and workers that result from and reinforce wide-ranging state intervention; ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • From Financial Crisis to Stagnation

    The Destruction of Shared Prosperity and the Role of Economics

    The US economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to flawed economic policy over the past thirty years. One flaw was the growth model adopted after 1980 that relied on debt and asset price inflation to fuel growth instead of wages. A second flaw was the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

    A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. And, as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains, while those at the top enjoy the best health care, education, and benefits of wealth, they fail to realize that “their fate is bound up with how the other 99 percent live. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Translated by Arthur Goldhammer ...
    A New York Times #1 BestsellerAn Amazon #1 BestsellerA Wall Street Journal #1 BestsellerA USA Today BestsellerA Sunday Times BestsellerA Guardian Best Book of the 21st CenturyWinner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardWinner of the British Academy MedalFinalist, National Book Critics Circle Award“It seems safe to say that ... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Economics of Discontent: From Failing Elites to The Rise of Populism

    The social contract that has underpinned growth and political stability in the Western world since World War II has broken down. Houses, health care and higher education have become unaffordable to a majority of people, while the burden of unregulated monopolies, globalization and uncontrolled immigration has fallen disproportionately on the lower and middle classes.Wrapped in political ... Read more

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  • Doughnut Economics

    Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    by Kate Raworth ...
    *The Sunday Times Bestseller*A Financial Times Book of the Year*A Forbes Book of the Year*Winner of the Transmission Prize 2018*Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2017*Porchlight “Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs”The book that redefines economic... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD