Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges, and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism

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Borderless Economics: Chinese Sea Turtles, Indian Fridges, and the New Fruits of Global Capitalism
by Robert Guest (Author), James Adams (Narrator)
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The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins

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The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins
by Jeff Connaughton
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Lobbyist, White House Lawyer, and Senate Aide on the Power of America’s Plutocracy to Avoid Prosecution and Subvert Financial Reform

Beginning in January 2009, THE PAYOFF lays bare Washington’s culture of power and plutocracy. It’s the story of the twenty-month struggle by Senator Ted Kaufman and Jeff Connaughton, his chief of staff, to hold Wall Street executives accountable for securities fraud, to stop stock manipulation by high-frequency traders, and to break up too-big-to-fail megabanks.

This book takes us inside their dogged crusade against institutional inertia and industry influence as they encounter an outright reluctance by the Obama administration, the Justice Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to treat Wall Street crimes with the gravity they deserve. On financial reforms, Connaughton criticizes Democrats for relying on the very Wall Street technocrats who had failed to prevent the crisis and Republicans for staunchly opposing real reforms primarily to enjoy a golden opportunity to siphon fundraising dollars from the Wall Street executives who had raised millions to elect Barack Obama president.

Connaughton, a former lawyer in the Clinton White House, illuminates the pivotal moments and key decisions in the fight for financial reform that have gone largely unreported. His arch, nonpartisan account chronicles the reasons why Wall Street’s worst offenses were left unpunished, and why it’s likely that the 2008 debacle will happen again.

• Rank: #29826 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.58" h x .98" w x 5.79" l, 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources

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Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources
by Rob Dietz, Dan O'Neill, Herman Daly
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Economics

It’s time for a new kind of economy

We’re overusing the earth’s finite resources, and yet excessive consumption is failing to improve our lives. In Enough Is Enough, Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill lay out a visionary but realistic alternative to the perpetual pursuit of economic growth—an economy where the goal is not more but enough.

They explore specific strategies to conserve natural resources, stabilize population, reduce inequality, fix the financial system, create jobs, and more—all with the aim of maximizing long-term well-being instead of short-term profits. Filled with fresh ideas and surprising optimism, Enough Is Enough is the primer for achieving genuine prosperity and a hopeful future for all.
 

• Rank: #40623 in Books
• Published on: 2013-01-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Economics

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.

Millions 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 be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors.

Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity -- a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. You will never see anything -- from a motel bathroom to a restaurant meal -- in quite the same way again.

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• Published on: 2011-08-02
• Released on: 2011-08-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .90" h x 5.40" w x 8.20" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong

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Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong
by Edward Conard
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Economics

In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many com­monly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down pay­ments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into assuming mortgages they couldn’t afford. It blames average Americans for borrowing recklessly and spend­ing too much. And it blames the tax policies and deregulatory environment of the Reagan and Bush administrations for encouraging reckless risk taking by wealthy individuals and financial institutions.

• Rank: #14659 in Books
• Published on: 2012-06-07
• Released on: 2012-06-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.10" w x 5.98" l, 1.13 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

The Long Tail, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

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The Long Tail, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson (Author)
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The New York Times bestseller that introduced the business world to a future that's already here--now in paperback with a new chapter about Long Tail Marketing and a new epilogue.
Winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for Best Business Book of the Year
In the most important business book since The Tipping Point, Chris Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn't in hits, the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as misses--the endlessly long tail of that same curve.
"It belongs on the shelf between The Tipping Point and Freakonomics."
--Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix
"Anderson's insights . . . continue to influence Google's strategic thinking in a profound way."
--Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google
"Anyone who cares about media . . . must read this book."
--Rob Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks

• Rank: #1138 in eBooks
• Published on: 2006-07-11
• Released on: 2006-07-11
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2)

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The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2)
by F. A. Hayek, Bruce Caldwell
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Economics

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 was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production. For F. A. Hayek, the collectivist idea of empowering government with increasing economic control would lead not to a utopia but to the horrors of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

First published by the University of Chicago Press on September 18, 1944, The Road to Serfdom garnered immediate, widespread attention. The first printing of 2,000 copies was exhausted instantly, and within six months more than 30,000 books were sold. In April 1945, Reader’s Digest published a condensed version of the book, and soon thereafter the Book-of-the-Month Club distributed this edition to more than 600,000 readers. A perennial best seller, the book has sold 400,000 copies in the United States alone and has been translated into more than twenty languages, along the way becoming one of the most important and influential books of the century.

With this new edition, The Road to Serfdom takes its place in the series The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek.  The volume includes a foreword by series editor and leading Hayek scholar Bruce Caldwell explaining the book's origins and publishing history and assessing common misinterpretations of Hayek's thought.  Caldwell has also standardized and corrected Hayek's references and added helpful new explanatory notes.  Supplemented with an appendix of related materials ranging from prepublication reports on the initial manuscript to forewords to earlier editions by John Chamberlain, Milton Friedman, and Hayek himself, this new edition of The Road to Serfdom will be the definitive version of Hayek's enduring masterwork.

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• Published on: 2007-03-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x .75" w x 6.06" l, .96 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 283 pages

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

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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Joseph E. Stiglitz (Author)
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Economics

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.”

Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable: moneyed interests compound their wealth by stifling true, dynamic capitalism. They have made America the most unequal advanced industrial country while crippling growth, trampling on the rule of law, and undermining democracy. The result: a divided society that cannot tackle its most pressing problems. With characteristic insight, Stiglitz examines our current state, then teases out its implications for democracy, for monetary and budgetary policy, and for globalization. He closes with a plan for a more just and prosperous future.

• Rank: #2717 in eBooks
• Published on: 2012-06-04
• Released on: 2012-06-04
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

Liar's Poker

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Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis (Author)
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The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street’s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar’s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years—a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis’s knowing and hilarious insider’s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune.

• Rank: #2680 in eBooks
• Published on: 2010-03-15
• Released on: 2010-03-15
• Format: Kindle eBook
• Number of items: 1

The Price of Politics

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The Price of Politics
by Bob Woodward
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Economics

Based on 18 months of reporting, Woodward's 17th book The Price of Politics is an intimate, documented examination of how President Obama and the highest profile Republican and Democratic leaders in the United States Congress attempted to restore the American economy and improve the federal government’s fiscal condition over three and one half years. Drawn from memos, contemporaneous meeting notes, emails and in-depth interviews with the central players, The Price of Politics addresses the key issue of the presidential and congressional campaigns: the condition of the American economy and how and why we got there. Providing verbatim, day-by-day, even hour-by-hour accounts, the book shows what really happened, what drove the debates, negotiations and struggles that define, and will continue to define, the American future.

• Rank: #1606 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-11
• Released on: 2012-09-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.56" h x 6.46" w x 9.54" l, 1.46 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 448 pages

Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition

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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition
by Abigail R. Gehring
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Economics

Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.

Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.

More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—even if you live in a city apartment you will find your imagination sparked, and there's no reason why you can't, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available. 2,000 color photos and 200 black-and-white illustrations.

• Rank: #456 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .98" h x 10.74" w x 8.78" l, 3.06 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 464 pages

Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself

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Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
by Sheila Bair
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Economics

“When Sheila Bair took over as head of the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2006, the agency was probably better known for the ‘FDIC’ logo on the doors of the nation’s banks than for anything it did. Now Bair is at the center of the financial crisis, speeding the takeover of failing banks and pressing the mortgage industry to ease loan terms . . . winning praise from Democrats and Republicans.” —BLOOMBERG NEWS, October 3, 2008 Sheila Bair is widely acknowledged in government circles and the media as one of the first people to identify and accurately assess the subprime crisis. Appointed by George W. Bush as the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 2006, she witnessed the origins of the financial crisis and in 2008 became—along with Hank Paulson, Ben Bernanke, and Timothy Geithner—one of the key players trying to repair the damage to our economy. Bull by the Horns is her remarkable and refreshingly honest account of that contentious time and the struggle for reform that followed and continues to this day. A level-headed, pragmatic figure with a clear focus on serving the public good, Bair was often one of the few women in the room during heated discussions about the economy. Despite her years of experience and her determination to rein in the private banks and Wall Street, she frequently found herself at odds with Geithner. She is withering in her assessment of some of Wall Street’s finest, and her narrative of Citibank’s attempted takeover of Wachovia is a stinging indictment of how regulators and the banks worked against the public interest at times to serve their own needs. Bair is steadfast in her belief that the American public needs to fully understand the crisis in order to bring it to an end. Critical of the bank bailouts and the Can. $29.99 (as of 12/26/2012 09:31 PST) lax regulation that led to the economic crash, she provides a sober analysis as well as a practical plan for how we should move forward. She helps clear away the myths and half-truths about how we ran our economic engine into the ditch and tells us how we can help get our financial and regulatory systems back on track. As The New Yorker said, “Bair has consistently stood out for her skepticism of Wall Street and for her eagerness to confront the big banks. A Kansas Republican, she has become an unlikely hero to economic liberals, who see her as the counterweight to the more Wall Street–centric view often ascribed to Timothy Geithner, the Treasury Secretary” (July 6, 2009).

• Rank: #3646 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-25
• Released on: 2012-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50" h x 6.30" w x 9.25" l, 1.30 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 432 pages

Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand

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Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author)
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Economics

Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown

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Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown
by David Wiedemer, Robert A. Wiedemer, Cindy S. Spitzer
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Economics

Recovery? What Recovery?

Did you lose money in the stock market in the last financial crisis of late 2008?

Has your home lost value? Are you "underwater" in your mortgage or concerned about selling?

Do your dollars buy less than they used to at the grocery store and the gas pump?

Have you lost your job or know someone who did?

Are you worried about the safety of your money and investments?

Don't Get Fooled Again!

While the "experts" want us to believe that all is well (or will be soon), nothing could be further from the truth. The worldwide financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 was just a sneak preview of what is to come. For those who act quickly and correctly, there is still time to protect yourself, your family, and your business in the next global money meltdown. Updated and fully revised, this Second Edition of the Wall Street Journal business bestseller Aftershock can help you:

• Protect and grow your assets before, during, and after the next global financial crisis

• Spot and cash in on the best new investment opportunities

• Know which jobs, careers, and business sectors will fare the best

• Profit rather than lose when asset bubbles collapse around the world

From the reviews of the critically acclaimed First Edition:

"Their scenario is dark, and their strategies bold and unconventional. But after being on target the last time they went against the grain, the Wiedemers merit being heard out."
AThe Associated Press

"Surrounded as we are by growing talk of recovery and news about 'green shoots,' it's still refreshing to consider the different perspective that Wiedemer, Wiedemer, and Spitzer offer here."
ARobert J. Hughes, SmartMoney

"Aftershock makes a compelling argument for a chilling conclusion. Their track record demands our attention."
ASam Stovall, Chief Investment Strategist, Standard & Poor's

"The fragility of today's economy demands that we, as investors, allocate our assets with more prudence and focus than ever before. The authors' prescience in their first book lends credence to their new warnings. This book deserves our attention."
ARobert Friedman, former CFO, Goldman Sachs

"Their first book, America's Bubble Economy, was one of those rare finds that not only predicted the subprime credit meltdown well in advance, it offered Main Street investors a winning strategy. Now they've done it again."
APaul B. Farrell, JD, PhD, Senior Columnist, Dow Jones/MarketWatch

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Bonus Chapter: Available Exclusively on Amazon.com
Read a bonus chapter--available exclusively on Amazon.com--which details the authors' predictions and recommendations for a post-dollar-bubble world.

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Q&A with the Book’s Authors

Co-Author David Wiedemer

Isn’t the economy recovering now? Why worry about an Aftershock?
It may look like a recovery but this is really a fake recovery, driven by printing money and massive government borrowing that are temporarily slowing the fall of our multi-bubble economy. We are just kicking our problems down the road and making the future Aftershock that much worse.

How is the second edition of Aftershock different from the first edition?
The new Aftershock is more than 35% updated and contains our latest analysis of the current economy, plus our forecasts for 2012 and beyond. There are two entirely new chapters that you won't want to miss, especially the one on how the Federal Reserve's medicine will become a poison when thier program of quantitative easing eventually causes dangerous inflation and rising interest rates ahead. Future inflation is the single biggest threat to the economy and to your stocks, bonds, real estate, and cash. Throughout the new Aftershock, we show you how future inflation will damage the already falling bubble economy and what to do to protect yourself and your assets when it hits. There will even be a few ways to make money on inflation -- but only if you see it coming.

How is this book any different from all the rest?
Aftershock is the only book to correctly predict the economic mess we are in today and foresee what is next, based on a proven macroeconomic view of the evolving global economy.

What will be some of the first signs of the coming Aftershock?
Actually, it's already happening now, but it isn't easy to see unless you know what to look for. The second edition of Aftershock explains in detail what is ahead, how to see it coming, and what to do about it right now, while there's still time to protect yourself.

Have we seen the “aftershock” of the 2008 market meltdown yet? If not, when do you predict we will see its effects?
No we haven’t seen the “aftershock” of the 2008 market meltdown. We will see it when inflation nears 10%, which is likely about 2 – 3 years away.

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• Published on: 2011-08-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.41" h x 1.06" w x 6.46" l, 1.16 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 320 pages

Who Stole the American Dream

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Who Stole the American Dream?
by Hedrick Smith
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Economics

Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.
 
In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to show how seismic changes, sparked by a sequence of landmark political and economic decisions, have transformed America. As only a veteran reporter can, Smith fits the puzzle together, starting with Lewis Powell’s provocative memo that triggered a political rebellion that dramatically altered the landscape of power from then until today.
 
This is a book full of surprises and revelations—the accidental beginnings of the 401(k) plan, with disastrous economic consequences for many; the major policy changes that began under Jimmy Carter; how the New Economy disrupted America’s engine of shared prosperity, the “virtuous circle” of growth, and how America lost the title of “Land of Opportunity.” Smith documents the transfer of $6 trillion in middle-class wealth from homeowners to banks even before the housing boom went bust, and how the U.S. policy tilt favoring the rich is stunting America’s economic growth.
 
This book is essential reading for all of us who want to understand America today, or why average Americans are struggling to keep afloat. Smith reveals how pivotal laws and policies were altered while the public wasn’t looking, how Congress often ignores public opinion, why moderate politicians got shoved to the sidelines, and how Wall Street often wins politically by hiring over 1,400 former government officials as lobbyists.
 
Smith talks to a wide range of people, telling the stories of Americans high and low. From political leaders such as Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and Martin Luther King, Jr., to CEOs such as Al Dunlap, Bob Galvin, and Andy Grove, to heartland Middle Americans such as airline mechanic Pat O’Neill, software systems manager Kristine Serrano, small businessman John Terboss, and subcontractor Eliseo Guardado, Smith puts a human face on how middle-class America and the American Dream have been undermined.
 
This magnificent work of history and reportage is filled with the penetrating insights, provocative discoveries, and the great empathy of a master journalist. Finally, Smith offers ideas for restoring America’s great promise and reclaiming the American Dream.
 
“Hedrick Smith has done it again! Who Stole the American Dream? provides a readable and comprehensive account of how Americans have been robbed of our dream of a broad middle class over the past forty years. It is essential reading.”—Jay W. Lorsch, the Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School

• Rank: #1331 in Books
• Published on: 2012-09-11
• Released on: 2012-09-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.57" h x 1.46" w x 6.43" l, 2.06 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 592 pages

Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy

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Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell
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Economics

The fourth edition of Basic Economics is both expanded and updated. A new chapter on the history of economics itself has been added, and the implications of that history examined. A new section on the special role of corporations in the economy has been added to the chapter on government and big business, among other additions throughout the book.

Basic Economics, which has now been translated into six languages, has grown so much that a large amount of material in the back of the book in previous editions has now been put online instead, so the book itself and its price will not have to expand. The central idea of Basic Economics, however, remains the same: that the fundamental facts and principles of economics do not require jargon, graphs, or equations, and can be learned in a relaxed and even enjoyable way.

• Rank: #2654 in Books
• Published on: 2010-12-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 2.20" w x 6.10" l, 2.16 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 786 pages

Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

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by Sean Howe
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An unvarnished, unauthorized, behind-the-scenes account of one of the most dominant pop cultural forces in contemporary America.

Operating out of a tiny office on Madison Avenue in the early 1960s, a struggling company called Marvel Comics presented a cast of brightly costumed characters distinguished by smart banter and compellingly human flaws. Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, the Avengers, Iron Man, Thor, the X-Men, Daredevil—these superheroes quickly won children's hearts and sparked the imaginations of pop artists, public intellectuals, and campus radicals. Over the course of a half century, Marvel's epic universe would become the most elaborate fictional narrative in history and serve as a modern American mythology for millions of readers.

Throughout this decades-long journey to becoming a multibillion-dollar enterprise, Marvel's identity has continually shifted, careening between scrappy underdog and corporate behemoth. As the company has weathered Wall Street machinations, Hollywood failures, and the collapse of the comic book market, its characters have been passed along among generations of editors, artists, and writers—also known as the celebrated Marvel "Bullpen." Entrusted to carry on tradition, Marvel's contributors—impoverished child prodigies, hallucinating peaceniks, and mercenary careerists among them—struggled with commercial mandates, a fickle audience, and, over matters of credit and control, one another.

For the first time, Marvel Comics reveals the outsized personalities behind the scenes, including Martin Goodman, the self-made publisher who forayed into comics after a get-rich-quick tip in 1939; Stan Lee, the energetic editor who would shepherd the company through thick and thin for decades; and Jack Kirby, the World War II veteran who'd co-created Captain America in 1940 and, twenty years later, developed with Lee the bulk of the company's marquee characters in a three-year frenzy of creativity that would be the grounds for future legal battles and endless debates.

Drawing on more than one hundred original interviews with Marvel insiders then and now, Marvel Comics is a story of fertile imaginations, lifelong friendships, action-packed fistfights, reformed criminals, unlikely alliances, and third-act betrayals—a narrative of one of the most extraordinary, beloved, and beleaguered pop cultural entities in America's history.

• Rank: #882 in Books
• Brand: Harper
• Model: FBA-|324310
• Published on: 2012-10-09
• Released on: 2012-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.46" w x 5.98" l, 1.54 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 496 pages