Category - Business & Economics
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The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility
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 surprising look at how ancestry still determines social outcomesHow much of our fate is tied to the status of our parents and grandparents? How...
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Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /In Limbo, award-winning journalist Alfred Lubrano identifies and describes an overlooked cultural phenomenon: the internal conflict within indiv...
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White Working Class, With a New Foreword by Mark Cuban and a New Preface by the Author: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"It is really worth a read…" -- Former Vice President Joe Biden, interviewed on Pod Save America Now in paperback with a new Foreword by Mark Cub...
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Por qué los ricos se vuelven más ricos: ¿Qué es realmente la educación financiera? / Why the Rich Are Getting Richer: What Is Financial Education...Really?
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Hace mucho tiempo los ahorradores eran ganadores.Hace mucho tiempo el ahorrador podía ahorrar y enriquecerse.Hoy los ahorradores son perdedores.P...
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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist. The top 1 percent of Americans c...
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionIn Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, activist Yanis Varoufakis, Greece's former finance min...
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“A page-turning book that spans a century of worker strikes.... Engrossing, character-driven, panoramic.” —The New York Times Book ReviewWe live ...
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Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big MediaCorporate concentration has breach...
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Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising co...
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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The co-host of the popular NPR podcast Planet Money provides a well-researched, entertaining, somewhat irreverent look at how money is a made-up th...
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Welfare for Markets: A Global History of Basic Income
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /A sweeping intellectual history of the welfare state's policy-in-waiting. The idea of a government paying its citizens to keep them out of poverty...
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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /It's Robert Kiyosaki's position that "It is our educational system that causes the gap between the rich and everyone else." He laid the foundation ...
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Good Economics for Hard Times
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figur...
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Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
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 2022 New Yorker Best Book of the Year A 2022 Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A 2022 BuzzFeed Book You'll Love A 2022 LitHub Favorite Boo...
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Adrift: America in 100 Charts
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got h...
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A Brief History of Equality
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Public Books Best Book of the Year "An opportunity for readers to see Piketty bring his larger argume...
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The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /How China's economic development combines a veneer of unprecedented progress with the increasingly despotic rule of surveillance over all aspects o...
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Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers—a sociological exploration that reads like a novel. This is the story of what th...
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Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00$118.99$118.99 - $118.99Current price $118.99| /The first major study of how the pandemic affected gig workers—a sociological exploration that reads like a novel. This is the story of what th...
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What Was Neoliberalism?: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neolib...
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Enough: Why It's Time to Abolish the Super-Rich
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The story is all too familiar. The obscene wealth of the super-rich is locked away while millions are reduced to poverty. The British economy bec...
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Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A “haunting” (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even) and deeply personal investigation of an underground for-profit medical industry and the ...
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The White Wall: How Big Finance Bankrupts Black America
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A deeply reported, “important, and infuriating” (The Guardian) look at the systemic racism inside the American financial services industry, from ...
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You're Paid What You're Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern 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| /“This is the book to throw at your human resources director—not literally, of course—when any attempt is being made to bamboozle you about how de...
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