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Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century
In all major regions of the world, the economic recession is deep-seated, resulting in mass unemployment, the collapse of state social programs and the impoverishment of millions of people. The...
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, AND KIRKUS REVIEWS A scathing portrait of an urgent new American...
Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice
Revised, Updated Edition Runaway inequality is now America's most critical economic fact of life. In 1970, the ratio of pay between the top 100 CEOs and the average worker was...
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities...
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Using a vast swath of data spanning the past six decades, Unequal Democracy debunks many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the...
Inequality: What Can Be Done?
Winner of the Richard A. Lester Award for the Outstanding Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University An Economist Best Economics and Business Book of the Year A...
It Takes a Pillage: An Epic Tale of Power, Deceit, and Untold
A former Wall Street manager turned muckraking journalist gets inside how the banks looted the Treasury, stole the bailout, and continued with business as usual We all watched as packs...
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of
We all have the sense that the American economy - and its government - tilts toward big business, but as Joseph E. Stiglitz explains in his powerful new book, People,...
The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming
With the KeystonePipelinedominating the news, and America's addiction to oil showing no signs of waning, it is more urgent than ever that we reconsider our energy needs in light of...
The World in Depression, 1929-39
The book titled The World in Depression, 1929-39 by the author Charles Poor Kindleberger. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy
"Mr. Minsky long argued markets were crisis prone. His 'moment' has arrived." - The Wall Street Journal In his seminal work, Minsky presents his groundbreaking financial theory of investment, one...
The Royal Mint Puzzle Book: 125 rewarding puzzles for all the family
A brilliantly engaging and richly rewarding puzzle book from one of Britain's oldest and most respected institutions Sharpen your wit and delve into the fascinating world of British currency with...
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic
Coming in 2022 from the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster Before Bill Gates became an expert on climate science, he was known as one...
Media Monitors Australia 1904-2004
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFor a century, the pulse of Australia's public discourse has been captured, catalogued, and preserved by a single...
45 Years With Philips
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew corporate memoirs capture the soul of an industrial empire as vividly as this remarkable insider...
The Seven Sisters: The Great Oil Companies And The World They Made
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingIn the shadowy halls of global power, seven oil companies quietly shaped the fate of nations, economies,...
Australia's Two-Airline Policy
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of government regulation and commercial aviation, Stanley Brogden's Australia's Two-Airline Policy presents a meticulous account...
Sydney Boom Sydney Bust
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew cities embody the volatile rhythms of capitalism quite like Sydney, and Sydney Boom Sydney Bust by M.T. Daly presents a rigorous...
A Constant Challenge: A History Of The John Holland Group 1949-1986
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA Constant Challenge is a landmark corporate history that charts the remarkable rise of one of Australia's most ambitious engineering and construction...
Ansell: Portrait Of An International Company
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the factory floors of Melbourne to the boardrooms of a global enterprise, Ansell: Portrait of an International Company chronicles the remarkable rise of...
Punishing Putin: Inside the Global Economic War to Bring Down Russia
'A brilliant book' Alastair Campbell, The Rest is Politics 'The essential, must-read insider account of the West's cat and mouse economic warfare against Russia and how it is changing the...
The End of Wall Street
The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall...
Supercapitalism: the Transformation of Business, Democracy, and
Mid-twentieth-century capitalism has turned into global capitalism, and global capitalism - turbocharged, Web-based, and able to find and make almost anything just about anywhere - has turned into supercapitalism. But...
When Corporations Rule The World
When Corporations Rule the World explains how economic globalization has concentrated the power to govern in global corporations and financial markets and detached them from accountability to the human interest....
The Trouble with Billionaires: How the Super-Rich Hijacked the World
In this searing and entertaining indictment of the super-rich, Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks challenge the idea that today's cavernous income inequality is the result of merit, and reveal how...
Progressive Capitalism
The neoliberalism that has dominated economic thinking since Mrs Thatcher and Ronald Reagan first came to power is now seen to have serious flaws, and 'Progressive Capitalism' seeks to replace...
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome...
Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win
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Ralph Nader's Getting Steamed will make you repeat that phrase from the movie Network : I'm as mad as Hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore! His compendium...
Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalization
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The international financial crisis that has held our global economy in its grip for too long still seems to be in full stride. Former British Prime Minister and Chancellor of...
Winner-take-all Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-and
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This acclaimed paradigm-shifting work identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crises of our time--the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the...
The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power
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Today, a host of forces are converging to challenge America's cherished notion of exceptionalism, and risky economic and foreign policies have steadily eroded the power structure that has been in...
Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
Today's economic crisis is capitalism's worst since the Great Depression. Millions have lost their jobs, homes and healthcare while those who work watch their pensions, benefits, and job security decline....
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption
In "Reckless Endangerment", Gretchen Morgenson, the star business columnist of "The New York Times", exposes how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect the country from financial harm were actually...
The Poverty of Capitalism: Economic Meltdown and the Struggle for What
Capitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globalisation has been defined by unprecedented levels of...
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure
The Cancer Stage of Capitalism is a modern classic of critical philosophy and political economy, renowned for its depth and comprehensive research. It provides a step-by-step diagnosis of the continuing...
Decent Capitalism: A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
The recent crisis, created by finance capitalism, has brought us to the economic abyss. The excessive freedom of international markets has rapidly transformed into international panic, with states struggling to...
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of
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In his acclaimed book "American Theocracy," Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving...
The New Empire of Debt: The Rise and Fall of an Epic Financial Bubble
An updated look at the United States' precarious position given the recent financial turmoil In The New Empire of Debt , financial writers Bill Bonner and Addison Wiggin return to...
Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
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From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations , his most important book to date--a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong...
Cancel The Apocalypse: The New Path To Prosperity
Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out,...
Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the
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The book titled Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the by the author Charles H. Ferguson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics After the Fall
THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION reveals why we must - and how we can - change our entire economic culture in this time of crisis. One of the world's most brilliant...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book...
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
Having made the U.S. financial crisis comprehensible for us all in The Big Short, Michael Lewis realised that he hadn't begun to get grips with the full story. How exactly...
The End of Money: The story of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the
On this journey you'll discover how this staggering new technology has the potential to enable an ultra-libertarian society beyond government control. Murder for hire. Drug trafficking. Embezzlement. Money laundering. Market...
The Short Goodbye: Skewed History of the Last Boom and the Next Bust
"The Short Goodbye is the untold story of a nation forever changed by the global financial crisis." "Elisabeth Wynhausen was at her desk writing a story about people being sacked...
Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world. To write this...
The Power of Experiments: Decision Making in a Data-Driven World
How organizations--including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook--learn from experiments in a data-driven world. How tech companies like Google, Airbnb, StubHub, and Facebook learn from experiments in our data-driven world-an excellent...