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The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

de David Stockman

A New York Times bestseller

The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year...

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

de Charles Eisenstein

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...

Health and Wealth Disparities in the United States

de Anupam B. Jena

Traditional measures of economic disparities among Americans of different race, gender, geographic location, and education level consider only material well-being, so that making two groups economically "equal"...

The Empathic Civilization

de Jeremy Rifkin

"One of the leading big-picture thinkers of our day" (Utne Reader) delivers his boldest work in this erudite, tough-minded, and far-reaching manifesto.

Never has the world seemed so completely united-in the...

It Could Happen Here

de Bruce Judson

The severe economic downturn has been blamed on many things: deregulation, derivatives, greedy borrowers, negligent lenders. But could there be a deeper problem that is so severe, so long-lasting, and so dangerous...

Principles of Economic Planning

de W. Arthur Lewis

Discussing the problems arising from a mixed economy, Principles of Economic Planning argues for a system of controls that combine and encourage the best features of laissez faire and state planning.

Chapters...

Sand in the Gears: How Public Policy Has Crippled American Manufacturing

de Andrew O. Smith

American manufacturing has been on the decline for at least two generations. That fact is plain to any observer who travels through the Rust Belt of the Midwest, where the closing of steel plants and automobile...

How to Make a Million Dollars an Hour: Why Hedge Funds Get Away with Siphoning Off America's Wealth

de Les Leopold

How hedge funds make money by taking it from the rest of us?and how you can join them!

Top hedge fund managers make more than Oprah, Rupert Murdoch, and A-Rod combined?but they aren't running news and entertainment...

The Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class

de Jeff Faux

Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slide

America's political and economic elite spent so long making such...

The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation

de Sharon Lerner

"A stinging account of how public policy and private businesses have failed to adapt to working mothers."

--Jennifer Ludden, NPR

Why life is harder on American families than it's been in decades-the book that...

The Small Nation Solution: How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems

de John H. Bodley

In The Small Nation Solution, John Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping...

Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories

de Ronen Palan

Global Political Economy (GPE) is a broad and varied field of study and draws insight from a great number of fields and approaches. One of the serious problems confronting academics and students is the sheer...

The Coal Question: Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

de Ben Fine

The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal,...

Latin American Peasants

de Tom Brass

The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues...

Political and Economic Dictionary of Africa

de David Seddon

This invaluable Dictionary provides an essential guide to the politics and economics of the African continent. Each individual entry provides clear and concise information, and entries are fully cross-referenced...

Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City

de Engin F. Isin

Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City focuses on the controversial, neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens; their rights, obligations and responsibilities as members of...

Politics of Economic Planning: Papers on Planning and Economics

de E.F.M. Durbin

The issue of planning prompted some of the fiercest debate in mid-twentieth century economics. Politics of Economic Planning collects together a number of papers from journals and contributed books that examine...

National Income and Social Accounting

de Ronald Cooper, Profesor Harold C Edey & Harold C. Edey

'A very useful introduction to the techniques of social accounting' Bankers' Magazine.

'Remarkable feat of compression and expositionit will surely remain for a long time the best summary of macro-accounting...

Globalisation and Equality

de Keith Horton & Haig Patapan

Is globalisation creating a more unequal world? Is it creating new forms of inequality? Does it make certain pre-existing forms of inequality more morally or politically significant than they would otherwise...

Stateness and Sovereign Debt: Greece in the European Conundrum

de Kostas A. Lavdas, Spyridon N. Litsas & Dimitrios V. Skiadas

The main scope of the book is to explore the current difficulties in the Southern flank of the EU, and the theoretical predicaments regarding the concept of ‘state sovereignty’, through an analysis of the...