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Accounting for Tastesby Gary BeckerISBN 0674543564 (0-674-54356-4)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Accounting for Tastesby Gary Stanley BeckerISBN 0674543572 (0-674-54357-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Societyby Jerry Z. MullerISBN 0691001618 (0-691-00161-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Tradeby Douglas A. IrwinISBN 0691058962 (0-691-05896-2)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade'Book summary:The topic of "free trade" is more dense and complex than is usually presented in political debate or in the slogans or bumper stickers that these days often suffice for political discourse. Douglas A. Irwin, a professor of business at the University of Chicago, helps add depth to the discussion with this sweeping study of the business of trade between nations. He begins with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations and carries through to some of history's greatest thinkers on the topic of free trade. He shows "how free trade came to occupy ... a commanding position in economics and how free trade has maintained its intellectual strength ... over the past two centuries." It is a timely and needed book. [via]
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991by Eric HobsbawmISBN 0679730052 (0-679-73005-2)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991by E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0718133072 (0-7181-3307-2)
Hardcover, Michael Joseph
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American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclassby Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. DentonISBN 0674018214 (0-674-01821-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Lifeby Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles MurrayISBN 0684824299 (0-684-82429-9)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life'Book summary:The seminal book about IQ and class that ignited one of the most explosive controversies in decades, now updated with a new Afterword by Charles Murray
Breaking new ground and old taboos, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray tell the story of a society in transformation. At the top, a cognitive elite is forming in which the passkey to the best schools and the best jobs is no longer social background but high intelligence. At the bottom, the common denominator of the underclass is increasingly low intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage.
The Bell Curve describes the state of scientific knowledge about questions that have been on people's minds for years but have been considered too sensitive to talk about openly -- among them, IQ's relationship to crime, unemployment, welfare, child neglect, poverty, and illegitimacy; ethnic differences in intelligence; trends in fertility among women of different levels of intelligence; and what policy can do -- and cannot do -- to compensate for differences in intelligence. Brilliantly argued and meticulously documented, The Bell Curve is the essential first step in coming to grips with the nation's social problems. [via]
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China, Inc.: How The Rise Of The Next Superpower Challenges America And The Worldby Ted C. FishmanISBN 0743257359 (0-7432-5735-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Calling China's huge population "arguably the greatest natural resource on the planet," Fishman details how hundreds of millions of peasants have migrated from rural to urban areas to find manufacturing jobs, providing an unlimited, low-wage workforce to power China's economy. In the process, this shift has changed both Chinese culture and the global business climate in significant ways. Simply put, American companies can't compete with wages as low as 25 cents an hour and lack of regulation and oversight, so are forced to move their operations to China or completely change the focus of their business. And it's not just a problem for the U.S.--even Mexico is outsourcing to China. Though it remains to be seen whether this will truly be the "Chinese Century" as Fishman asserts, China, Inc. is a brisk and informative look at why so many American corporations, and American jobs, are heading to China. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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Choice, Welfare and Measurementby Amartya K. SenISBN 0674127781 (0-674-12778-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Church And The Market: A Catholic Defense Of The Free Economyby Thomas E. WoodsISBN 0739110365 (0-7391-1036-5)
Softcover, Lexington Books
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The Demand for Money: Theories and Evidenceby David E.W. LaidlerISBN 0700222227 (0-7002-2222-7)
Hardcover, International Textbook Co
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The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contractingby Oliver E. WilliamsonISBN 068486374X (0-684-86374-X)
Softcover, Free Pr
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The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Marketsby Frederic S. MishkinISBN 0673524671 (0-673-52467-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins College Div
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The Efficient Society: Why Canada Is as Close to Utopia as It Getsby Joseph HeathISBN 0670891495 (0-670-89149-5)
Hardcover, Viking
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Efficient Society: Why Canada Is as Close to Utopia as It Gets'Book summary:Every year the United Nations ranks countries according to their standards of living in the world. Almost invariably, Canada comes up in the top spot, leaving cynical Canadians to wonder, What the heck? In The Efficient Society, self-described "professional philosopher" Joseph Heath goes a long way toward providing the answer. While certainly Canada is deficient in many areas, he notes, the country's overall operational efficiency is what boosts it to the top of the standard-of-living index. Drawing on social contract theory, on the conundrum known as "the prisoner's dilemma" (wherein two or more people acting purely in self-interest results in worst-case scenarios for everyone), and examples from pop culture sources such as Star Trek, American Beauty, and books by cyberpunk novelists Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson, Heath sheds light on why societies function the way they do, and how this affects their citizens. For instance, it's the author's contention that the U.S.'s determined quest for liberty curbs that country's ability to serve its citizens effectively. "The most serious inefficiencies in American society come from people's unwillingness to pay taxes (on the grounds that taxes interfere with individual liberty)," surmises Heath. "This is what produces the well-known 'private opulence, public squalour' that characterizes American cities."
Heath's main contention is that Canadians' willingness to let the government step in and maintain programs for "the public good" is what basically sets the country apart. On the issue of gun control, for instance, he says that the argument for bearing arms "may sound persuasive, but it misses the point.... The benefits come from knowing that other people don't have guns. Thus the outcome that everyone wants--a safer society--cannot be achieved through the exercise of individual rights. It can be achieved only if everyone is denied certain rights." But Heath is no ideologue--he criticizes both the right and the left, and it's unlikely anti-globalization crusaders will be putting this book up on the shelf next to Naomi Klein's No Logo after reading his defence of Wal-Mart and Nike. That said, Heath isn't entirely in favour of the status quo either. He notes how "the proliferation of desire" (as fanned by advertising) is the "reason you can't get no satisfaction." Nevertheless, The Efficient Society is a fairly convincing argument that Canada is, in the words of the book's subtitle, "as close to utopia as it gets." --Shawn Conner [via]
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Empireby Antonio Negri, Michael HardtISBN 0674006712 (0-674-00671-2)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Empire'Book summary:Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's Empire has already caused quite a storm. After "anti-capitalist" demonstrations and books such as Naomi Klein's No Logo and George Monbiot's Captive State, a vacuum seemed to exist for an extensive, coherent philosophical take on where our world is going. Empire seeks to fill that gap by asking where globalisation comes from, what it means and whether or not it is a good or bad thing.
Negri, a Marxist imprisoned for his beliefs and his involvement with the Italian hard-left, and Michael Hardt, an English literature professor who had previously acted as Negri's translator (and the translator of an important, though philosophically more arcane, precursor to Empire, Giorgio Agamben's The Coming Community) have produced a key post-Marxist text (which builds on many of the arguments in Nick Dyer-Witheford's excellent Cyber-Marx) that views its world through lenses bequeathed to it by the best of the French post-structuralists. Negri and Hardt's accomplishment has been to apply the sometimes difficult work of theorists such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (especially A Thousand Plateaus) and Jacques Derrida to describe a world that has undergone a paradigm switch to a new Empire (in a way not dissimilarly than Thomas Keenan does particularly in his chapter on Marx's rhetoric in the much undervalued Fables of Responsibility). According to Negri and Hardt, this new Empire is the result of the transformation of modern capitalism into a set of power relationships we endlessly replicate that transcend the nation state (so anti-imperialism is out as a progressive politics). Vitally, the authors argue that the multitude, through their many struggles, pushed the world to this point and it is the multitude who can push through to a much better world on the other side of globalisation.
This is an optimistic, wide-ranging, defiant challenge of a book and Negri and Hardt should be commended on their erudition as much as their vision. While questions undoubtedly remain after reading the text, these should not stop the interested reader in coming to, and learning from, this profound piece of work. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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The Enigma of Japanese Powerby Karel Van WolferenISBN 0679728023 (0-679-72802-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Enigma of Japanese Power'Book summary:Few Americans have examined carefully the nation whose economy and industry is bound up with their own, whose future will inescapably shape theirs--Japan, that is. Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen does the job, and very well indeed, depicting a Japan alternately awed and disgusted by the world beyond its shores, governed by a puppet emperor in the service of the zaikaijin, a gerontocracy of businessmen who control the national economy, just as they have done for generations. Their hierarchy is reinforced by the fear that, as in 1945, hostile powers will not only overpower the Japanese economy but denature the Japanese people, introducing foreign concepts of democracy and even the specter of an "impure race." Although Van Wolferen balances his account by highlighting what he regards as positive Japanese traits, including thrift, respect for elders, industriousness, and self-control, The Enigma of Japanese Power remains a controversial text in the nation it assays to describe with discomforting accuracy. [via]
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Environmental and Natural Resource Economicsby Thomas H. TietenbergISBN 0673994724 (0-673-99472-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins College Div
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Hardcover, Scott, Foresman - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: ISBN 0673463281 (0-673-46328-1)
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Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusionby Peter T. BauerISBN 0674259866 (0-674-25986-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Essays on the Great Depressionby Ben S. BernankeISBN 0691118205 (0-691-11820-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essays on the Great Depression'Book summary:Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Bernanke has gathered together his essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating. This broad view shows us that while the Great Depression was an unparalleled disaster, some economies pulled up faster than others, and some made an opportunity out of it. By comparing and contrasting the economic strategies and statistics of the world's nations as they struggled to survive economically, the fundamental lessons of macroeconomics stand out in bold relief against a background of immense human suffering. The essays in this volume present a uniquely coherent view of the economic causes and worldwide propagation of the depression. [via]
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Fair Play: What Your Child Can Teach You About Economics, Values, and the Meaning of Lifeby Steven E. LandsburgISBN 0684827557 (0-684-82755-7)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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Foundations of Economic Analysisby Paul A. SamuelsonISBN 0674313003 (0-674-31300-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Foundations of Economic Analysisby Paul Anthony SamuelsonISBN 0674313038 (0-674-31303-8)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Free to Lose: An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophyby John E. RoemerISBN 0674318765 (0-674-31876-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Free Trade Todayby Jagdish N. BhagwatiISBN 0691117306 (0-691-11730-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalismby William J. BaumolISBN 069111630X (0-691-11630-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Game Theory Evolving: A Problem-Centered Introduction to Modeling Strategic Interactionby Herbert GintisISBN 0691009430 (0-691-00943-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slavesby Ira BerlinISBN 0674016246 (0-674-01624-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyoby Saskia SassenISBN 0691070636 (0-691-07063-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Orderby Robert Gilpin, Jean M. GilpinISBN 069108677X (0-691-08677-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Going Local: Creating Self Reliant Communities in the Global Ageby Michael ShumanISBN 0684830124 (0-684-83012-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Guide to Understanding Money and Investingby Kenneth M. Morris, Virginia B. MorrisISBN 0684869020 (0-684-86902-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guide to Understanding Money and Investing'Book summary:This handy fact-filled book initiates you into the mysteries of the financial pages -- buying stocks, bonds, mutual funds, futures and options, spotting trends and evaluating companies. For those who are curious but intimidated by everyday financial jargon, this guide offers a literate, forthright and lively alternative. Recommended. [via]
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It's Still the Economy, Stupid: George W. Bush, the Gop's Ceoby Paul BegalaISBN 0743246470 (0-7432-4647-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Law, Legislation, and Liberty: A New Statement of the Liberal Principles of Justice and Political Economyby Friedrich A. Von HayekISBN 0710092113 (0-7100-9211-3)
Softcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedmanby David BoazISBN 0684847671 (0-684-84767-1)
Softcover, Free Pr
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The Libertarianism Readerby David BoazISBN 0684832003 (0-684-83200-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Looking at the Sun: The Rise of the New East Asian Economic and Political Systemby James M. FallowsISBN 0679761624 (0-679-76162-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Macroeconomicsby Richard G. Lipsey, Paul N. Courant, Douglas D. PurvisISBN 0673469832 (0-673-46983-2)
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Marxism and Imperialism: Studiesby V. G. KiernanISBN 0713157658 (0-7131-5765-8)
Hardcover, Edward Arnold
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The Millionaire Mindby Thomas J. StanleyISBN 0740718584 (0-7407-1858-4)
Softcover, Andrews McMeel Pub
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Besides offering insights into millionaires' pinchpenny ways, pleasing quips ("big brain, no bucks"), and 46 statistical charts with catchy titles, Stanley's book booms with human-potential pep talk and bristles with anecdotes--for example, about a bus driver who made $3 million, a doctor (reporting that his training gave him zero people skills) who lost $1.5 million, and a loser scholar in the bottom 10 percent on six GRE tests who grew up to be Martin Luther King Jr. Read it and you'll feel like a million bucks. --Tim Appelo [via]
The Mirage of Social Justiceby Friedrich A. Von HayekISBN 071008403X (0-7100-8403-X)
Hardcover, Routledge and Kegan Paul
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Modern Industrial Organizationby Jeffrey M. Perloff, Dennis W. CarltonISBN 067318062X (0-673-18062-X)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman/Little, Brown Higher Education
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Mollie's Job: A Story of Life and Work on the Global Assembly Lineby William M. AdlerISBN 0743200306 (0-7432-0030-6)
Softcover, Scribner
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Murder at the Marginby Marshall JevonsISBN 0691000980 (0-691-00098-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Murder at the Margin'Book summary:Cinnamon Bay Plantation on lush, tropical St. John was the ideal Caribbean island getaway: Or so it seemed. But for distinguished Harvard economist Henry Spearman, long overdue for R & R, it offered diversion of a decidedly different sort and one he'd hardly anticipated: murder.
It couldn't have happened to a nicer guy. Prickly and priggish, Gen. Hudson T. Decker (Ret.) might have been a Cinnamon Bay regular, but he'd managed to alienate fellow guests and a lot of townspeople over the years. Suddenly, before the local inspector has assembled a suspect list, there is a mysterious drowning and a second murder, this time a former U.S. Supreme Court justice. Prime suspects abound: a liberal professor of divinity, a vengeful wife, an alleged girlfriend, and a handful of angry local activists.
While the island police force is mired in an investigation that leads everywhere and nowhere, the diminutive, balding Spearman, who likes nothing better than to train his curiosity on human behavior, conducts an investigation of his own, one governed by rather different laws--those of economics. Theorizing, hypothesizing, Spearman sets himself on the trail of the killer as it twists from the postcard-perfect beaches and manicured lawns of a premier resort to the bustling old port of Charlotte Amalie to the densely forested hiking trails with their perilous drops to a barren, deserted cay offshore.
Now available in a new critical edition, Marshall Jevons's Murder at the Margin was first published in 1978, when it marked the debut of Henry Spearman. Spearman relies on economic thinking to solve crimes--a distinction that places him in the pantheon of such fictional investigators as Father Brown, Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot, and Rabbi Small.
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The New Economic Sociology: A Readerby Frank DobbinISBN 0691049068 (0-691-04906-8)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The New Financial Order: Risk In The 21st Centuryby Robert ShillerISBN 0691120110 (0-691-12011-0)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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New Studies in Philosophy, Politics, Economics and the History of Ideasby Friedrich HayekISBN 0710087241 (0-7100-8724-1)
Hardcover, Routledge and K. Paul
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On Libertyby John Stuart MillISBN 0742542467 (0-7425-4246-7)
Hardcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Liberty'Book summary:First published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty is an exhaustive exploration of social and civic liberty, its limits, and its consequences. Mill's work is a classic of political liberalism that contains a rational justification of the freedom of the individual in opposition to the claims of the state. Drawing upon the empiricism of John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume and the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, On Liberty defends the representative democracy as the culmination of society's progression from lower to higher stages, even as it recognizes one of the unique dangers of this type of government-namely, the "tyranny of the majority."Central to Mill's ideology is the harm principle-the idea that individual liberties should only be curtailed when they harm or interfere with the ability of others to exercise their own liberties. Unlike other liberal theorists, Mill did not rely upon theories of abstract rights to support his ideology, but rather grounded his philosophy in ideas of utility. As relevant to modern audiences as it was to Mill's Victorian readership, On Liberty is an enduring classic of political thought.[via]More editions of On Liberty:
Paper Moneyby Adam SmithISBN 0671448250 (0-671-44825-0)
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The Philosophy of Moneyby Georg SimmelISBN 0710088744 (0-7100-8874-4)
Hardcover, Routledge & Kegan Paul
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Political Economy of Participatory Economicsby Michael Albert, Robin HahnelISBN 069100384X (0-691-00384-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Pope's Children: Ireland's New Eliteby David McWilliamsISBN 0717139719 (0-7171-3971-9)
Hardcover, Gill & Macmillan
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Poverty of Philosophyby Karl MarxISBN 0717807010 (0-7178-0701-0)
Softcover, Intl Pub
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The Predators' Ballby Connie BruckISBN 067161780X (0-671-61780-X)
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Preferential Policies: An International Perspectiveby Thomas SowellISBN 0688109691 (0-688-10969-1)
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Preparing for the Twenty-First Centuryby Paul KennedyISBN 0679747052 (0-679-74705-2)
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Presidential Economics: The Making of Economic Policy from Roosevelt to Reagan and Beyondby Herbert SteinISBN 0671554360 (0-671-55436-0)
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Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalismby Alfred D. ChandlerISBN 0674789954 (0-674-78995-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalismby Chandler, Alfred D., Jr.ISBN 0674789946 (0-674-78994-6)
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The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare Stateby William Rees-Mogg, James Dale DavidsonISBN 0684810077 (0-684-81007-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State'Book summary:Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.
Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years.
In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries -- the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values. [via]
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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Ageby James Dale Davidson, William Rees-MoggISBN 0684832720 (0-684-83272-0)
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State and Revolutionby V.I. LeninISBN 0717801969 (0-7178-0196-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State and Revolution'Book summary:In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, The October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed master work on The State and Revolution ... This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of insights into Leninist politics. It was here that Lenin justified his personal interpretation of Marxism, savaged his opponents and set out his trenchant views on class conflict, the lessons of earlier revolutions, the dismantling of the bourgeois state and the replacement of capitalism by the, dictatorship of the proletariat. The result, as Robert Service suggests in his stimulating Introduction, is 'a choral ode to action, intolerance, combat and collectivism, the anthem of Bolshevism in its revolutionary era'. Immediately established as a standard text, it was selectively cited by leaders from Stalin to Gorbachev in support of programmes which differed in important ways. As both historical document and political statement, its importance can hardly be exaggerated.[via]More editions of State and Revolution:
The State and Revolution: The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolutionby Vladimir Ilich LeninISBN 0714704687 (0-7147-0468-7)
Hardcover, Central Books
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Unconventional Success : A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investmentby David F. SwensenISBN 0743228383 (0-7432-2838-3)
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The Vast Majority: A Journey to the World's Poorby Michael HarringtonISBN 0671244078 (0-671-24407-8)
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Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Richby Duane ElginISBN 0688121195 (0-688-12119-5)
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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Investingby Kenneth M. Morris, Alan M. SiegelISBN 067189451X (0-671-89451-X)
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The Wall Street Journal Guide to Understanding Money & Marketsby Alan Siegel, Kenneth M. Morris, Rich WurmanISBN 0671766910 (0-671-76691-0)
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The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizationsby Eugene LindenISBN 0684863529 (0-684-86352-9)
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