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"The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world;
the ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people."
— Arthur Levitt, former chairman Securities & Exchange Commission
Economics catalog at Amazon
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The U.S. Treasury's Calculation of the Current National Debt
Recent Calculations of the U.S. National Debt 'To The Penny'
Federal Reserve G-19 Reports: Outstanding Consumer Debt
The Dorling-Kindersley 'Essential Finance' Series (12 volumes)
'Working Minds' philosophy website
Working Minds 'Class War & Economics' Pages
Francisco's 'Money' speech from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
WMail ezine Issue #54: "F*** The Fed"
WMail ezine Issue #50: "The Three Economies"
WMail ezine Issue #46: "A Living Wage"
WMail ezine Issue #42: "The Oligarchy"
WMail ezine Issue #40: "Paleo-Capitalism"
WMail ezine Issue #35: "Debt & the Working Mind"
WMail ezine Issue #23: "The Class System In America"
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Major Economists
Thorstein B. Veblen [1857-1929] Page
C. Wright Mills [1916-1962] Page
Dr. W. Edwards Deming [1900-93] Page
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"Three Great Economists: Smith, Malthus, Keynes" [1997] by D. D. Raphael, Donald Winch & Robert Skidelsky "Indispensable for the beginner ... also a delight to read." Oxford Univ Press 7¾x5 pb [5/97] out of print/used |
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"Inside The Economist's Mind: Conversations With Eminent Economists" [2006] Edited by Paul A. Samuelson & William A. Barnett Wiley & Sons hardcover [10/2006] for $19.77 interviewees include Robert Aumann, David Cass, Jacques Dreze, Martin Feldstein, Stanley Fischer, Milton Friedman, Janos Kornai, Wassily Leontief, Robert E. Lucas Jr., Franco Modigliani, Paul A. Samuelson (by Barnett}, Thomas J. Sargent, Robert J. Shiller, Christopher A. Sims, James Tobin & Paul A. Volcker Barnett's blog |
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"The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do & Why It Matters" [2007] by Diane Coyle Princeton Univ Press pb [1/2008] for $13.57 Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2007] for $18.45 |
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Dr. George B.N. Ayittey
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Free Africa Foundation
faculty webpage
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Frιdιric Bastiat [1801-50]: books Bastiat Committee website
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Dr. Reveendra N. {'Ravi'} Batra
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S.M.U. homepage
official website
Wikipedia
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"The New Golden Age: The Coming Revolution Against Political Corruption & Economic Chaos" [2007] by Ravi Batra Projecting from the work of his mentor, P.R. Sarkar of India, the author describes the likely outcome of the excesses of the Age of Acquisitors: Today's economic and political corruption will continue to escalate and worsen until the Working Class eventually rises up like warriors against the Oligarchy. {Optimistic? We shall see.} Palgrave Macmillan 9¼x6 hardcover [1/2007] for $18.45 Blackstone UNABR audio CD [1/2007] for $22.76 |
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William J. Baumol
books
NYU homepage
Wikipedia
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Peter L. Bernstein
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official website
Wikipedia
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"Capital Ideas Evolving" [2007] an update of 1992's 'Capital Ideas' Wiley & Sons 9x6 hardcover [5/2007] for $19.77 |
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Peter L. Bernstein Classics Boxed Set: "Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street" [1992], "Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk" [1996] & "The Power of Gold: The History of An Obsession" [2000]
Wiley Classics 9x6 pb box set [10/2005] for $26.37 |
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mutual fund pioneer John C. Bogle
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official website
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"The Battle For The Soul of Capitalism: How The Financial System Undermined Social Ideals, Damaged Trust In The Markets, Robbed Investors of Trillions — And What To Do About It" [2005] by John C. Bogle Yale Univ Press hardcover [11/2005] for $16.50 |
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capitalist Warren E. Buffett: browse books Wikipedia
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"The Tao of Warren Buffett: Warren Buffett's Words of Wisdom - Quotations & Interpretations To Help Guide You To Billionaire Wealth & Enlightened Business Management" [2006] by Mary Buffett & David Clark Scribner 7¾x6 hardcover [11/2006] for $15.64 |
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"The Essential Buffett: Timeless Principles For The New Economy" [2001] by Robert G. Hagstrom Wiley 8¾x5¾ pb [8/2002] for $13.57 Wiley hardcover [4/2001] out of print/used |
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"The Warren Buffett Way: Investment Strategies of the World's Greatest Investor" [1994] by Robert G. Hagstrom Wiley & Sons 2nd edtn 9x6 pb [10/2005] for $10.17 Wiley & Sons 2nd edtn 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2004] for $16.47 RH Audio 2nd edition ABR audio CD [10/2004] for $16.47 RH Audio 2nd edition ABR audio [10/2004] for $16.47 |
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Peter F. Drucker [1909-2005]
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"The Essential Drucker" [6/2001]
official website
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"Post-Capitalist Society" [1993 bestseller] Collins 8x5¼ pb [4/94] for $11.70 HarperCollins 9½x5½ hardcover [4/93] out of print/used |
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Ralph N. Elliott [1871-1948]
bio
'Masterworks'
RBG's essay [12/2002]
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Milton Friedman [1912-2006]
books
Stanford/Hoover homepage
1976 Nobel Prize
Wikipedia
John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006]
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Harvard bio page
Wikipedia
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"John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics" [2005] by Richard Parker "A fascinating study on the collapse of the New Deal liberal order." Univ Chicago Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $17.55 FS&G 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2005] for $23.10 |
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"The New Industrial State" [1967 classic] by John Kenneth Galbraith "'The New Industrial State' remains the doorway thru which economics must pass, before progress starts up again." — (JKG's son economist) James K. Galbraith Houghton Mifflin 8¼x5¾ 4th edition pb [9/85] out of print/used Signet mass pb [7/79] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Affluent Society: 40th Anniv. Edition" [1958 classic] by John Kenneth Galbraith Houghton Mifflin 8¼x5½ pb [10/98] for $10.40 book entry at Wikipedia |
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"The Great Crash: 1929" [1954 classic] by John Kenneth Galbraith Mariner Books 8¼x5½ pb [4/97] for $11.20 Houghton Mifflin mass pb [1/61] out of print/many used book entry at Wikipedia |
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'Dean of Wall Street' Benjamin Graham [1894-1976]
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$treet Authority page
Wikipedia
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"The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value Investing" [orig 1949] updated with new commentary by Jason Zweig; Preface & Appendix by Warren E. Buffett HarperBusiness Essentials pb [2/2006] for $13.57 |
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Alan Greenspan
former Chairman of the Federal Reserve [1987-2006]
books
Wikipedia
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"Greenspan's Bubbles: The Age of Ignorance At The  Federal Reserve" [2008] by William A. Fleckenstein, with Fred Sheehan McGraw-Hill 8x5 hardcover [1/2008] for $14.93 author's official website columns at MSN Money |
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"Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan & The Missing 7 Trillion Dollars" [2005] by {Australian journalist} Peter Hartcher Reviews on Amazon are mixed, but the book appears to be full of insight and facts about the economic mess created by and during Greenspan's long tenure as Chairman of The Fed. W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ hardcover [5/2006] for $16.47 |
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"The Age of Turbulence: Adventures In A New World" [2007] by Alan Greenspan The first half is autobiography, up thru his 18-year term as head of The Fed; the second half is an explanation of the current state & future of global economics. Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [9/2007] for $23.10 Penguin audio CD [9/2007] for $29.67 |
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"Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy" [2005] by Ravi Batra Palgrave Macmillan 9½x6½ hardcover [5/2005] for $16.47 |
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"Who Shot Goldilocks?: How Alan Greenspan Did In Our Jobs, Savings & Retirement Plans" [2004] by William D. Rutherford Crown Point Press 9x5½ hardcover [5/2004] for $13.27 |
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"Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, The World's Most Powerful Banker" [2002] by Jerome Tuccille Wiley & Sons hardcover [8/2002] out of print/used Wiley & Sons Adobe Reader ebook [11/2002] for $18.45 |
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"New Challenges For Monetary Policy: A Symposium" [2002] includes speech by Alan Greenspan Books For Business pb [1/2002] for $37.50 online text of speech by Greenspan [Aug 99] |
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"Maestro: Greenspan's Fed & The American Boom" [2000] by Bob Woodward S&S/Touchstone pb [11/2001] for $11.20 S&S hardcover 9½x6¼ [11/2000] out of print/used Audioworks audio [11/2000] out of stock/used |
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New School educator Robert L. Heilbroner [1919-2005]
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official homepage
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"Economics Explained: Everything You Need To Know About How The Economy Works & Where It's Going" [1994] by Robert L. Heilbroner & Lester Thurow Touchstone 8½x5½ 4th edition pb [5/98] for $10.20 |
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John Atkinson Hobson [1858-1940]
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online text of Hobson's "Work and Wealth: A Human Valuation" [1914]
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Geoffrey M. Hodgson: books
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Jane Jacobs [1916-2006]
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Ideas That Matter
Wikipedia
Zompist fansite
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"The Economy of Cities" [1969 classic] by Jane Jacobs Vintage mass pb [2/70] for $10.78 Random House hardcover [2/69] out of print/used |
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"Cities and The Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life" [1984 classic] by Jane Jacobs Vintage mass pb [3/85] for $9.63 Random House hardcover [5/84] out of print/many used |
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British economist John Maynard Keynes [1883-1946]
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Wikipedia
Keynes pages at The New School
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"The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money" [1936 classic] by John Maynard Keynes Prometheus 8½x5½ pb [5/97] for $11.20 Royal Economic Society hardcover [4/78] out of print/used |
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"John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman" abridged biography [2004] by Robert Skidelsky Penguin 8½x5½ pb [8/2005] for $23.10 Pan 9x5¾ pb [8/2004] for $40.94 |
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3-volume biography by Robert Skidelsky
"John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883-1920" [1986] Penguin 8½x5½ pb [1/94] for $23.00 Viking hardcover [5/86] out of print/used "John Maynard Keynes: The Economist As Saviour, 1920-1937" [1994] Penguin 8½x5¾ pb [1/95] out of print/used Viking hardcover [1/94] out of print/used "John Maynard Keynes: Fighting For Britain/Freedom, 1937-1946" [2001] Penguin 8¼x5½ pb [11/2002] out of print/used Viking 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2001] out of print/used |
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Paul Krugman
N.Y. Times column
books
Princeton webpage
unofficial archive
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tv economics guru Suze Orman: browse books official website
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Louis Rukeyser [1933-2003]
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Paul A. Samuelson: browse books Wikipedia
1970 Nobel Prize for Economics
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"Economics: An Introductory Analysis" [1948 classic] by Paul A. Samuelson
800-page 18th edition, co-authored by William D. Nordhaus McGraw-Hill/Irwin 10¼x8 hardcover [7/2004] for $123.75 !! 1948 original McGraw-Hill/Irwin hardcover [12/97] out of print/used |
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Joseph A. Schumpeter [1883-1950]
"Probably the second most influential economist of the 20th century, after Keynes."
Joseph A. Schumpeter entry at Wikipedia
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"Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter & Creative Destruction" [2007] by Thomas K. McCraw Belknap Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [4/2007] for $23.10 |
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Adam Smith [1723-1790]
Wikipedia
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"On The Wealth of Nations" [2006] by P.J. O'Rourke Grove Press pb [12/2007] for $10.40 
Atlantic Monthly Press 8x5¼ hardcover [12/2006] for $14.93 "The Wealth of Nations" [1776 classic] by Adam Smith
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"Adam Smith" biography [1985] by D.D. Raphael Oxford Univ Press 7frac34x5 pb [5/85] out of print/used |
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Prof. Lester C. Thurow of M.I.T./Sloan
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official website
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Ludwig von Mises [1881-1973]
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Mises Institute [est. 1982]
V.M.I. Europe
Links About Economics
Summation of Keynes's theories at Biz Ed Institute, U.K.
The Brandt Equation: Blueprint for the New Global Economy
The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics {online}
Economists For Peace & Security [est. 1989]
Economy.com &
Dismal Scientist
Francisco's 'Money' Speech from "Atlas Shrugged"
glossary of economic terms (at W.W. Norton)
History of Economic Thought (at New School University)
[U.S.] Job Watch website
F.I.N.C.A. Village Banking [est. 1985]
Library of Economics & Liberty
Moving Ideas {The Electronic Policy Network} economics links
National Center for Employee Ownership
National Endowment for Financial Education &
Get Smart About Your Money
Natural Capitalism
Nobel Prizes in Economics [est. 1969]
ONE.org - The Campaign to Make Poverty History
Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy [est. 1994]
Progressive Utilization Theory website
Responsible Wealth Project
Thinkers 50: global ranking of business thinkers
United for a Fair Economy
World Economic Forum in Switzerland
Economic Principles independent weekly journal [est. 3/2002]
Bastiat Prize for Journalism [est. 2002]
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U.S. Federal Reserve Board
WMail ezine Issue #54: F*** The Fed
Dr. Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve [from Feb 2006]
Alan Greenspan, former Chairman of the Federal Reserve [1987-2006]: books
Wikipedia
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"The Complete Idiot's Guide To The Federal Reserve" [2003] by Preston Martin & Lita Epstein Alpha Books 9x7½ pb [3/2003] for $12.89 |
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"Maestro: Greenspan's Fed & The American Boom" [2000] by Bob Woodward S&S/Touchstone pb [11/2001] for $11.20 S&S hardcover 9½x6¼ [11/2000] out of print/used Audioworks audio [11/2000] out of stock/used |
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"The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look At The Federal Reserve" [1994; 4th edition 2002] by G. Edward Griffin American Media 8¾x6 pb [6/2002] for $24.50 American Media 9x6¼ hardcover [6/2002] out of print/used |
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"The Case Against The Fed" [1994] by Murray N. Rothbard [1926-95] Von Mises Institute 8¼x5 pb [6/94] for $9.95 |
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"Secrets of The Temple: How The Federal Reserve Runs The Country" [1987] by William Greider S&S 9¼x6 pb [1/89] for $12.92 S&S hardcover [11/87] out of print/used author website & blog |
Capitalism
WMail ezine Issue #40: "Paleo-Capitalism" [Feb 2004]
"Capitalism is the creation of jobs and products and services."
— G.E. Nordell
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"Capitalism II" video game [2001] Amazon.com ranking 8/2002 = 174!; 2005 ranking 825 Enlight Interactive game for Windows jewel case [11/2003] $9.99 U.B.I. Soft game for Windows [12/2001] out of stock/used |
Wall Street
"We've created a [market] system based on witchcraft."
— mutual fund pioneer John Bogle
WMail ezine Issue #18: "The Stock Market Casino" [Dec 2001]
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"Confessions of A Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information & Corruption In The Stock Market" [2006] by Daniel Reingold, with Jennifer Reingold Collins pb [1/2007] for $10.61 Collins 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $16.35 |
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"Every Man A Speculator: A History of Wall Street In American Life" [2005] by Steve Fraser "A comprehensive cultural history of Wall Street." — Los Angeles Times Book Review (Feb 2005) Harper Perennial pb [2/2006] for $12.89 HarperCollins 9x6½ hardcover [2/2005] for $19.77 bargain price hardcover [2/2005] for $9.99 |
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"Take On The Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don't Want You To Know & What You Can Do To Fight Back" [2002] by Arthur Levitt (former chairman Securities & Exchange Commission) with Paula Dwyer Vintage 8x5¼ pb [11/2003] for $10.50 Pantheon 9½x6½ hardcover [10/2002] for $16.97 Random House ABR audio CD [10/2002] 5 disks for $20.37 BooksOnTape UNABR audio [2/2003] for $73.99 |
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"The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street As A World Power, 1653-2000" [1999] by John Steele Gordon Scribner 8¼x6¼ pb [11/2000] out of print/used Scribner 9½x6½ hardcover [11/99] out of print/used |
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"The Coffeehouse Investor: How To Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street & Get On With Your Life" [1998] by Bill Schultheis recommended by John C. Bogle in August 2005 Time Magazine interview Palouse Press 8½x5½ pb 2nd edition [5/2005] for $15.00 Longstreet Press 7¾x5¼ hardcover [11/98] for $13.60 official booksite |
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"Wall Street: How It Works & For Whom" [1997] by Doug Henwood Verso 9¼x6 pb [5/98] out of print/used Verso 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/97] for $16.50 author's website |
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"Elliott Wave Principle: Key To Market Behavior" [1985] by Robert R. Prechter Jr & A. J. Frost John Wiley & Sons 9x6 pb [1/2001] for $34.95 New Classics Library 9¾x6½ hardcover [6/98] out of print/used |
Classic Works on Economics
... including works by von Mises, Ayn Rand, Keynes, Menger, Veblen, Hayek,
Samuelson, Heilbroner, Galbraith, Fanon, Friedman, Malkiel & others
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Recent Works on Economics
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