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"Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt" [1997] by John Steele Gordon Walker & Co. 8x5½ pb [rev 3/2010] for $10.88 
Penguin 7¾x5 pb [1/98] out of print/used Diane Publng 8½x5¼ hardcover [2/97] for $21.00 author's official website |
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"Pseudo-Capitalism: Socialism For The Rich"[2008] by Stephen Bindman Xlibris 8¾x6 pb [10/2008] for $19.98 Xlibris hardcover [10/2008] for $29.99 |
 | "No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller" [2010]  by Harry Markopolos Independent financial fraud investigator Markopolos and his 'Fox Hounds' team investigated, documented, and reported Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme to newspapers and to the S.E.C.; the warnings were ignored repeatedly, until the scheme fell apart as the world's largest financial fraud ever. Wiley 9x6½ hardcover [3/2010] for $15.37 |
 | "Money Makers: Inside The New World of Finance and Business" [2010] by David Snider & Dr. Chris Howard Illuminates the histories, mechanics, operations & challenges of investment banking, venture capital, private equity, hedge funds, management consulting, and the management of Fortune 500 companies. Palgrave Macmillan hardcover [2/2010] for $18.48 |
 | "Economics For The Rest of Us: Debunking The Science That Makes Life Dismal" [2009] by Moshe Adler New Press 7¼x5½ hardcover [12/2009] for $16.47 |
 | "On The Brink: Inside The Race To Stop The Collapse of The Global Financial System" [2010] by Henry M. Paulson Business Plus 9x6 pb [2/2010] imported/new-used Business Plus 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2010] for $15.94 |
 | "Success Made Simple: An Inside Look At Why Amish Businesses Thrive" [2010] by Erik Wesner Jossey-Bass 9x6 hardcover [3/2010] for $16.47 |
 | "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World" [2009] by Liaquat Ahamed listed Best of 2009 by Time Magazine Penguin 8½x5½ pb [12/2009] for $9.79
Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2009] for $21.75 |
 | "The Looting of America: How The Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions & Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It" [2009] by Les Leopold Chelsea Green Publng 8¼x5¼ pb [6/2009] for $10.17 |
 | "The End of Wall Street" [2010] by Roger Lowenstein Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2010] for $9.99 |
 | "The Crash of 2008 and What It Means: The New Paradigm For Financial Markets" [2009] by George Soros PublicAffairs 7½x5 pb [3/2009] for $10.17 |
 | "Plunder and Blunder: The Rise & Fall of The Bubble Economy" [2009] by Dean Baker The author is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC; the book "documents the fundamental policy changes since 1980 that destabilized the economy and eroded the broad prosperity of the post-war period" Polipoint Press 8½x5½ pb [1/2009] for $10.85 |
 | "Making America Corporate, 1870-1920" [1990] by Olivier Zunz Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6 pb [8/92] for $23.50 Univ Chicago Press hardcover [12/90] out of print/used |
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"The Stock Market Course" [2001] by George A. Fontanills & Tom Gentile Wiley & Sons 9x6¼ hardcover [2/2001] for $31.50 "The Stock Market Course Workbook" [2001] Wiley & Sons 8¾x6 pb [2/2001] for $28.55 |
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"How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities" [2009] by John Cassidy Picador pb [DUE 11/2010] for $16.00 FS&G 9x6 hardcover [11/2009] for $18.48 |
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"This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly" [2009] by Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff "This is quite simply the best empirical investigation of financial crises ever published. Covering hundreds of years and bringing together a dizzying array of data, Reinhart and Rogoff have made a truly heroic contribution to financial history. This single marvelous volume is worth a thousand mathematical models." — Niall Ferguson Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/2009] for $19.25 |
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"One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money" [ages 4-8; 2008] by Bonnie Worth, Illustrated by Aristides Ruiz & Joe Mathieu Random House Books for Young Readers 9x6½ hardcover [9/2008] for $8.99 based on characters created by Dr. Seuss |
 | "Macroeconomic Issues: Their Relationship to Fiscal Policy Formulation, Forecasting, Prediction, and Computer Simulation Modeling" [2009] by Nicholas Jewczyn iUniverse 8x5 pb [7/2009] for $19.95 author's website |
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"Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and The Great Depression, 1919-1939" [1992] by Barry Eichengreen Oxford Univ Press 8¾x6 pb [2/96] for $22.00 Oxford Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [5/92] out of print/used |
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"The Gold Standard In Theory and History" [1985] Edited by Barry Eichengreen & Marc Flandreau Routledge 2nd edition 9x6 pb [9/97] for $71.13 Routledge 2nd edition 9¼x6 library hardcover [9/97] for $220.00 |
 | "Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents For The Holidays" [2009] by Joel Waldfogel Princeton Univ Press 6¼x4 hardcover [10/2009] for $9.95 |
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"Principles of Economics" [2001] by Robert H. Frank & Ben S. Bernanke McGraw-Hill/Irwin 4th edition 11x8¾ hardcover [8/2008] for $143.80 McGraw-Hill/Irwin 3rd edition 11x8½ hardcover [12/2005] for $143.80 "Principles of Economics: Brief Edition" [2008] McGraw-Hill/Irwin 11x8¾ hardcover w/2009 update [7/2009] for $157.81 McGraw-Hill/Irwin 11x8¾ hardcover [9/2008] for $111.90 |
 | "The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World" [2008 bestseller] by Niall Ferguson Penguin 8½x5½ pb [10/2009] for $10.88
Penguin Press 9x6 hardcover [11/2008] for $19.77 Penguin Press hardcover [11/2008] out of print/used |
 | "Principles of Economics" [1997] by N. Gregory Mankiw
Cengage / South-Western 4th edition 10x8½ hardcover [2/2006] for $150.44 Cengage / South-Western Intl Student Edition pb [12/2008] out of print/used author'e blog [est. 3/2006] author'e Harvard faculty page |
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"The Road to Financial Reformation: Warnings, Consequences, Reforms" [2009] by Henry Kaufman, Foreword by Niall Ferguson Wiley & Sons 9x6 hardcover [8/2009] for $19.77 |
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"Frozen Desire: An Inquiry Into The Meaning of Money" [1997] by James Buchan Welcome Rain Publrs 8x5¼ pb [11/2001] for $10.20 FS&G 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/97] out of print/many used |
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"How To Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett" [2001] by Lawrence A. Cunningham McGraw-Hill 9x6 pb [9/2002] for $16.46 McGraw-Hill 9¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2001] out of print/used Warren Buffett Page at Spirit of America Bookstore |
 | "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates" [2009] by Peter T. Leeson Princeton Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [4/2009] for $16.47 |
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"Economics: A Very Short Introduction" [2007] by Partha Dasgupta Oxford Univ Press mass pb [3/2007] for $9.56 |
 | "The Art of The Trade: What I Learned (and Lost) Trading The Chicago Futures Markets" [2008] by Jason Alan Jankovsky Wiley & Sons 9x6 hardcover [10/2008] for $21.86 |
 | "Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity & The Sub Crime Scandal" [2008] by Danny Schechter Cosimo Books 8½x5½ pb [9/2008] for $13.45 Cosimo Books 8¾x5¾ hardcover [9/2008] for $29.95 official bookpage |
 | "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics & The Global Crisis of American Capitalism" [2008] by Kevin Phillips Penguin 8½x5½ pb [3/2009] for $10.88 Viking 9x6½ hardcover [4/2008] for $15.57 |
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"Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of The New Gilded Age" [2008] by Larry M. Bartels Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [4/2008] for $19.77 |
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"The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers & The Great Credit Crash" [2008] by Charles R. Morris PublicAffairs 8x5½ pb [2/2009] for $11.16 PublicAffairs 8¼x5½ hardcover [3/2008] for $15.22 |
 | "Free Lunch: How The Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves At Government Expense (and Stick You With The Bill)" [2007] by {New York Times journalist} David Cay Johnston Portfolio Trade 8½x5½ pb [12/2008] for $10.88 Portfolio 9x6 hardcover [12/2007] for $15.72 Penguin ABR audio CD read by the author [12/2007] out of prodn/used |
 | "The Squandering of America: How The Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity" [2007] by Robert Kuttner {co-founder of The American Prospect & of The Economic Policy Institute} Vintage 8x5 pb [11/2008] for $10.85 Knopf 9x6½ hardcover [11/2007] for $20.48 |
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"The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry" [2007] by Lawrence E. Mitchell Berrett-Koehler Currents 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2007] for $23.10 |
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"The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" [2007] by Naomi Klein Picador 8x5½ pb [6/2008] for $9.60 Metropolitan Books hardcover [9/2007] for $18.48 author's book site short film by Alfonso Cuarσn see the 6-minute short full credits at IMDb |
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"Are The Rich Necessary?: Great Economic Arguments & How They Reflect Our Personal Values" [2007] by Hunter Lewis Axios Press hardcover [9/2007] for $13.60 official booksite |
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"The True Story of the Bilderberg Group" [2007] by Daniel Estulin Trine Day Publng 2nd edition 9x6 pb [2/2009] for $16.47 Trine Day Publng 9x6 pb [9/2007] out of print/used |
 | "The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned From The Market's Perfect Storm" [2007] by Robert F. Bruner & Sean D. Carr Wiley 9x6 hardcover [8/2007] for $19.77 book excerpt (text) at N.P.R. |
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"The Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System – The Sleight of Hand That Has Trapped Us In Debt & How We Can Break Free" [2007] by Ellen Hodgson Brown, LD Third Millennium Press 8¾x6 revised & updated pb [1/2008] for $14.62 Third Millennium Press 8¾x6 pb [7/2007] for $22.95 |
 | "A Farewell To Alms: A Brief Economic History of The World" [July 2007] by Gregory Clark wrong-headed Social Darwinism disguised as economic history: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! |
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"Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and The Economics of Growth & Prosperity" [2007] by William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan & Carl J. Schramm Yale Univ Press 9x6 pb [10/2009] for $15.84
Yale Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/2007] for $16.29 Working Minds Essay #40 "Paleo-Capitalism" [Feb 2004] by G.E. Nordell |
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"Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities & The Durable Future" [2007] by Bill McKibben Holt 8x5¼ pb [3/2008] for $11.20 Times Books 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $15.00 |
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"The Making of An Economist, Redux" [2007] by David Colander A thorough update of the 1990 classic "Making of An Economist" by Colander & Arjo Klamer Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [11/2008] for $18.95 Princeton Univ Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [3/2007] for $24.95 |
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"Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit & The Era of Predatory Lenders" [2007] by James D. Scurlock
Scribner 8¼x5½ pb [12/2007] for $11.20 Scribner 9¼x6¼ hardcover [3/2007] for $18.00 documentary film [indep March 2007] Co-produced, written & directed by James D. Scurlock Magnolia widescreen color DVD [6/2007] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb official movie site {requires Flash} |
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"Plutonomics: A Unified Theory of Wealth" [2006] by S.E. Harrison ePoet LLC 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $16.95 |
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"Trading Rules That Work: The 28 Lessons Every Trader Must Master" [2006] by Jason Alan Jankovsky Wiley & Sons 9x6 hardcover [11/2006] for $43.97 |
 | "The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth: The Fight For A Productive Middle-Class Economy" [2006] by Norton Garfinkle Yale Univ Press pb [12/2007] for $12.48 Yale Univ Press 8¼x5¾ hardcover [10/2006] for $14.96 |
 | "The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity & The Decline of The American Dream" [2006] by Jacob S. Hacker Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [1/2008] for $10.85 Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2006] for $15.60 |
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"Adam's Fallacy: A Guide To Economic Theology" [2006] by Duncan K. Foley Belknap Press 7¾x5 pb [4/2008] for $12.21 Belknap Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [9/2006] for $18.94 Prof. Foley's official homepage at New School University |
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"The Long Tail: Why The Future of Business Is Selling Less of More" [2006] by Chris Anderson Hyperion 9½x6¾ hardcover [7/2006] for $14.97 Hyperion UNABR audio CD [7/2006] for $25.19 |
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"Knowledge and The Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery" [2006] by David Warsh
An explanation of economic 'new growth theory' from Paul Romer's 1990 breakthrough to its use today in mainstream economics. W.W. Norton 8x5½ pb [5/2007] for $9.60 W.W. Norton 8¾x6 hardcover [5/2006] for $18.45 DW's independent weekly economics journal |
 | "The Other Side of The Coin: The Emerging Vision of Economics & Our Place In The World" [2008] by David Orrell Key Porter Books 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2006] for $17.79 |
 | "All Together Now: Common Sense For A Fair Economy" [2006] by Jared Bernstein Berrett-Koehler 8½x5½ pb [5/2006] for $10.20 official booksite |
 | "The Environmental Endgame: Mainstream Economics, Ecological Disaster & Human Survival" [2006] by Robert L. Nadeau "a stimulating and radically new approach to sustainability" Rutgers Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $16.47 |
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"Planet of Slums" [2006] by Mike Davis Verso 8½x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $15.60 |
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"Generation Debt: Why Now Is A Terrible Time To Be Young" [2006] by Anya Kamenetz Riverhead 9¼x6¾ hardcover [2/2006] for $15.57 author's book-blog |
 | "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America & Betrayed The Reagan Legacy" [2006] by Bruce Bartlett Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [2/2006] for $17.16 |
 | "Strapped: Why America's 20- & 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead" [2006] by Tamara Draut Anchor 8x5¼ pb [1/2007] for $11.16 Doubleday 8¼x4¾ hardcover [1/2006] for $22.95 |
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"Plan B 2.0: Rescuing A Planet Under Stress & A Civilization In Trouble" [2006] by Lester R. Brown {founder & president of the Earth Policy Institute} W.W. Norton 9x6 pb [1/2006] for $11.53 W.W. Norton 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2006] for $21.54 "Plan B: Rescuing A Planet Under Stress" [2003] W.W. Norton 8½x5¼ pb [9/2003] for $12.44 W.W. Norton 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2003] for $27.95 |
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