Business & Economics:

Debt
The First 5,000 Years
Written by David Graeber

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 27, 2012
Price: $22.00

Now in paperback: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt
 
Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the... Read more >

How Much is Enough?
Money and the Good Life
Written by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $24.95

A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.

What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some... Read more >

How Much is Enough?
Money and the Good Life
Written by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: June 19, 2012
Price: $19.99

A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes.

What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some... Read more >

Butterfly Economics
A New General Theory of Social and Economic Behavior
Written by Paul Ormerod

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 23, 2012
Price: $15.99

Why did VHS, an inferior video recording technology, succeed in the marketplace, driving the superior Betamax out of business? Why do big-budget, acclaimed movies sometimes flop at the box office, while low-budget, idiosyncratic films become huge hits? The answers to these questions, says Paul Omerod, remind us that economics is a... Read more >

What Comes After Money?
Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community
Edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan

Format: Trade Paperback, 280 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $18.95

Most people believe that money is organic and inevitable; we forget that money is just a tool created to perform certain functions. But just as computer programmers drop out-of date tools and pick up better ones as soon as they become available, we might switch from bank-financed currency to a more equitable... Read more >

What Comes After Money?
Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community
Edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan

Format: eBook, 280 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $18.95

Most people believe that money is organic and inevitable; we forget that money is just a tool created to perform certain functions. But just as computer programmers drop out-of date tools and pick up better ones as soon as they become available, we might switch from bank-financed currency to a more equitable... Read more >

Debt
The First 5,000 Years
Written by David Graeber

Format: eBook
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $32.00

Before there was money, there was debt

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it.
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Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Written by Charles Eisenstein

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $22.95

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to... Read more >

Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
Written by Charles Eisenstein

Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $22.95

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to... Read more >

Remembering Tomorrow
From SDS to Life After Capitalism: A Memoir
Written by Michael Albert

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 4, 2011
Price: $22.95

In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles against the Vietnam War, those waged on... Read more >

The Origin of Financial Crises

Written by George Cooper

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 9, 2008
Price: $11.99

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... Read more >

The Origin of Financial Crises
Central Banks, Credit Bubbles, and the Efficient Market Fallacy
Written by George Cooper

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 29, 2008
Price: $13.95

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... Read more >

Dark Age Ahead

Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99

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... Read more >

Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Written by Paul Ormerod

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $17.99

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... Read more >

Remembering Tomorrow
From SDS to Life After Capitalism: A Memoir
Written by Michael Albert

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2007
Price: $22.95

In this lucid political memoir, veteran anti-capitalist activist Michael Albert offers an ardent defense of the project to transform global inequality. Albert, a uniquely visionary figure, recounts a life of uncompromising commitment to creating change one step at a time. Whether chronicling the battles against the Vietnam War, those waged on... Read more >

Dark Age Ahead

Written by Jane Jacobs

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2005
Price: $15.00

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... Read more >