Category - Business & Economics
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
HardcoverOriginal price $39.00Original price $39.00 - Original price $39.00Original price $39.00Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again. The American econom...
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The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation, Liberia, is the world's shipping superpo...
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclos...
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Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From New York Times bestselling author and economics columnist Robert Frank, a compelling book that explains why the rich underestimate the impor...
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200 Years of American Financial Panics: Crashes, Recessions, Depressions, and the Technology that Will Change It All
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /From 1819 to COVID-19, 200 Years of American Financial Panics offers a comprehensive historical account of financial panics in America. Through a...
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Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occur...
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economy The globa...
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Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to achieve fairness and prosperity for allMany blame today's economic inequality, stagnation, and polit...
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The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the face of unprecedented global change, New York Times bestselling author Alec Ross proposes a new social contract to restore the balance of ...
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Don't Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an ...
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Trading and Price Discovery for Crude Oils: Growth and Development of International Oil Markets
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /This is a book about the international oil market. It takes a historical perspective on how the market emerged, developed, and became what it is ...
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The Next Economic Disaster: Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This ...
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Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right-and How We Can, Too
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Helps to lift the lid on what makes Northern Europe tick."—Forbes Magazine Liberals worldwide invoke Scandinavia as a promised land of equality,...
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ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism
PaperbackOriginal price $23.99Original price $23.99 - Original price $23.99Original price $23.99Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /ECONned examines the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how they helped create an unmitigated economic disaster.Why are we in ...
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Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Today most of our money is created, not by governments, but by banks when they make loans. This book takes the reader step by step through the sa...
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Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The U.S. health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of Americans and the financial well-being of individuals ...
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Monetary Nationalism and International Stability
PaperbackOriginal price $10.01 - Original price $10.01Original price $10.01$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /2012 Reprint of 1937 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book contains five ...
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Development: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /What do we mean by development? How can citizens, governments, and the international community foster development? The process by which nations e...
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Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain futureIf you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car a...
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Remaking the Chinese Leviathan: Market Transition and the Politics of Governance in China / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In this provocative, important study, Dali L. Yang examines a wide range of governance reforms in the People’s Republic of China, including admin...
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On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System -- With Original New Material on the Five Year Anniversary of the Financial Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson — who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets — provides a startling, first- pe...
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The Veteran's Survival Guide: How to File and Collect on VA Claims, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"Claim denied!" All too often millions of veterans have received this response to their legitimate claims for federal benefits. In most cases, wr...
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The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyzes the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real ...
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The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to ensure a capitalism that works for us all.Shortl...
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