Biography of the Dollar
How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It's Under Siege
Written by Craig Karmin
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $13.95
“A remarkable historical, political, and economic
examination of the dollar.”
–BooklistCraig Karmin’s in-depth “biography” of the dollar examines the power of the Federal Reserve, the inner sanctums of foreign central banks that stockpile currency, and the little-known circles of foreign exchange traders who determine a currency’s worth. It’s “a surprisingly entertaining...
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The Origin of Financial Crises
Written by George Cooper
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $12.95
In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of today's economic philosophy and adds a compelling...
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Dangerous Business
The Risks of Globalization for America
Written by Pat Choate
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $25.95
From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks...
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Dangerous Business
Written by Pat Choate
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $25.95
From one of the most respected and vigorous economic thinkers in Washington, a wake-up call about the perils of unfettered globalization. In this impassioned, prescient book, Pat Choate shows us that while increased worldwide economic integration has some benefits for our fiscal efficiency, it also creates dependencies, vulnerabilities, national security risks...
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China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $17.00
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of...
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Dark Age Ahead
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.95
A dark age is a culture’s dead end. In North America, for example, we live in a virtual graveyard of lost and destroyed aboriginal cultures. In this powerful and provocative book, renowned author Jane Jacobs argues convincingly that we face the coming of our own dark age.
Throughout history, there have been...
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The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Written by Jerry Z. Muller
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $16.95
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse.
The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has...
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Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Written by Paul Ormerod
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $24.95
With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised
Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the “Iron Law of Failure” as it applies to business and government–and explains what can be done about it.
“Failure is all around us,” asserts Ormerod. For every General Electric–still going strong after more than...
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China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $26.95
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of...
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China Road
A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power
Written by Rob Gifford
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 29, 2007
Price: $17.00
Route 312 is the Chinese Route 66. It flows three thousand miles from east to west, passing through the factory towns of the coastal areas, through the rural heart of China, then up into the Gobi Desert, where it merges with the Old Silk Road. The highway witnesses every part of...
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Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Written by Paul Ormerod
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: February 28, 2006
Price: $24.95
With the same originality and astuteness that marked his widely praised
Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod now examines the “Iron Law of Failure” as it applies to business and government–and explains what can be done about it.
“Failure is all around us,” asserts Ormerod. For every General Electric–still going strong after more than...
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Dark Age Ahead
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2005
Price: $13.95
In this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs--renowned author of
The Death and Life of Great American Cities and
The Economy of Cities--convincingly argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we stand on the brink of a new dark age, a period of cultural collapse. Jacobs pinpoints five...
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While Canada Slept
How We Lost Our Place in the World
Written by Andrew Cohen
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2004
Price: $15.95
For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride?
With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect...
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The Mind and the Market
Capitalism in Western Thought
Written by Jerry Z. Muller
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95
Capitalism has never been a subject for economists alone. Philosophers, politicians, poets and social scientists have debated the cultural, moral, and political effects of capitalism for centuries, and their claims have been many and diverse.
The Mind and the Market is a remarkable history of how the idea of capitalism has...
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Das Geld der Zukunft
Written by Bernard A. Lietaer
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2002
Price: $23.00
Today’s financial system is seen by the most as having a fixed size. Bernard A. Litaer challenges this perspective by showing that there were different economic systems in history and that our present system has arisen from a tacit and problematic collective acceptance. He sees the future in the development of...
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The Nature of Economies
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: eBook
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $13.95
Nearly forty years after
The Death and Life of Great American Cities forever changed the field of urban studies, Jane Jacobs--one of the few contemporary thinkers whose works will remain in print for generations--brings us a modern classic on economies and ecology. Original and eloquent, this new book looks at the...
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The Nature of Economies
Written by Jane Jacobs
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: March 13, 2001
Price: $13.95
From the revered author of the classic
The Death and Life of Great American Cities comes a new book that will revolutionize the way we think about the economy.
Starting from the premise that human beings "exist wholly within nature as part of natural order in every respect," Jane Jacobs has focused...
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