Category - Business & Economics
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The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /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 e...
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela DavisIn his short life, the Guyanese intellectu...
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The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. B...
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Enterprising Southerners: Black Economic Success in North Carolina 1865-1915
HardcoverOriginal price $43.50 - Original price $43.50Original price $43.50$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Surprisingly, there existed a small population of southern blacks who experienced economic gains in the fifty years following the Civil War. This b...
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A New Working Class: The Legacies of Public-Sector Employment in the Civil Rights Movement
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...
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Extreme Economies: What Life at the World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Own Future
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A New Statesman best book of the year | New York Times Editors' Choice pickA Financial Times best economics book of 2019An accessible, story-driv...
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The Day the Markets Roared: How a 1982 Forecast Sparked a Global Bull Market
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Legendary economist Dr. Henry Kaufman shares a classic Wall Street story that has never been fully told: a firsthand account of the day in August...
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Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Next Big Idea Club, Best Leadership Books of 2022In an era of political and cultural extremism, America’s corporate leaders have emerged as t...
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What Should I Do with My Money?: Economic Insights to Build Wealth Amid Chaos
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An eye-opening panoramic guide providing the economic literacy you need to be in control of your money decisions and get on the path to long-term...
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The 10 Rules of Successful Nations
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The 10 Rules of Successful Nations offers a pithy guide to real-world economics, adapted from the New York Times bestseller The Rise and Fall of ...
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /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...
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Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for...
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Disrupting Sacred Cows: Navigating and Profiting in the New Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /During the 2008 financial crisis, wealth strategist Garrett Gunderson made his timely debut into the literary world with his ground breaking book...
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The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can't) Do About It
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are ...
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The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Financial journalist Nicholas Shaxson first made his reputation studying the “resource curse,” seeing first-hand the disastrous economic and soci...
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Makers and Takers: How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?"A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times I...
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Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Financial collapses-whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market-are often explained as the inevi...
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Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“Excellent (and very timely).” —Financial Times * “Smartly assembled case studies and insights.” —Publishers Weekly * A Financial Times Best Book...
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Giants: The Global Power Elite
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.Who holds the purse strings to th...
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Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /As heard on NPR's Fresh Air "This empowering light into a brighter future is a narrative you won’t want to miss." – Ralph Nader "Collins not onl...
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The Servile State
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /In his treatise on European economic history (The Servile State, 1912) Hilaire Belloc explores the many failings of the Capitalist system. He exp...
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Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and ...
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The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A provocative new analysis of immigration's long-term effects on a nation's economy and culture. Over the last two decades, as economists began usi...
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The 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...
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