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 | "Understanding American Economic Decline" [1994] Edited by Michael A. Bernstein & David E. Adler, Foreword by Robert Heilbroner Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x6½ pb [7/94] for $42.00 Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 hardcover [7/94] for $100.00 |
 | "Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and The Decline of America, 1970 To The Present" [2011] by Jeff Madrick Knopf hardcover [5/2011] for $16.14 |
 | "Money For Nothing: How CEOs and Boards Are Bankrupting America" [2011] by John Gillespie & David Zweig Free Press 8½x5½ pb [1/2011] for $11.70 |
 | "Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain The Modern World" [2010] by Deirdre N. McCloskey Univ Chicago Press pb [9/2011] for $15.30 
Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2010] for $23.10 author's official website |
 | "The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics For An Age of Commerce" [2006] by Deirdre N. McCloskey Univ Chicago Press 9x6½ pb [10/2007] for $15.44 Univ Chicago Press 9x6¾ hardcover [7/2006] for $23.90 author's official website |
 | "Monetary Revolution USA" [2010] by David Redick No vote here on the validity of the proposal, but the examination of the existing monetary system should prove educational. Kindle Edition from G.R. Resaerch [12/2010] 3rd edition for $7.00 Kindle Edition from G.R. Books [12/2010] 3rd edition for $7.00 |
 | "The ABCs of Gold Investing: How To Protect and Build Your Wealth With Gold" [2002] by Michael J. Kosares
Addicus Books 8½x5¾ pb [4/2005] for $13.57 Addicus Books 8½x5½ pb [3/2002] for $14.95 author's gold dealer website |
 | "A Conspiracy of Paper: A Novel" [2000] by David Liss Period mystery thriller novel set in early 18th century London against the backdrop of the beginnings of stock speculation and the retreat from a mineral-based currency Ballantine Books 8¼x5½ pb [1/2001] for $10.29 Random House 9¼x6 hardcover [2/2000] out of print/many, many used Announced in December 2010 as a Ridley & Tony Scott feature film, adaptation by Danny Strong for Warner Bros. release in 2014 latest info at IMDb |
 | "Funny Money" [1985 New York Times besteller] by Mark Singer The whole amazing story of Oklahoma City's Penn Square Bank, whose collapse in July 1982 staggered America's banking industry. Mariner Books 8¼x5½ pb [6/2004] for $10.40 Knopf hardcover [5/85] out of print/many, many used |
 | "Belly Up: The Collapse of The Penn Square Bank" [1985 national bestseller] by Phillip L. Zweig More-factual, less-dramatic account of the Penn Square Bank collapse of July 1982. Ballantine Books 8¾x6 pb [8/86] for $24.30 Random House Value Publng 9x6 hardcover [12/85] out of print/many used |
 | "The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked By Crackpot Economics" [2007] by Jonathan Chait The author, a senior editor at New Republic Magazine, reports that American politics was hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, going back 30 years, when supply-side economics took over the Republican Party and made cutting taxes the G.O.P. answer to all political and economic questions. Mariner Books 8x5 pb [9/2008] for $11.66 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8½x5½ hardcover [9/2007] for $21.37 |
 | "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of The XXIst Century" [2010] Edited by Michel Chossudovsky & Andrew Gavin Marshall contributors include Ellen Brown, Tom Burghardt, editor Chossudovsky, Richard C. Cook, Shamus Cooke, John Bellamy Foster, Michael Hudson, Tanya Carina Hsu, Fred Magdoff, editor Marshall, James Petras, Peter Phillips, Peter Dale Scott, Bill Van Auken, Claudia von Werlhof & Mike Whitney Global Research Publrs 8¼x5½ pb [5/2010] for $17.13 |
 | "The 21st Century Economy: A Beginner's Guide" [2009] by Randy Charles Epping Vintage 8x5 pb [4/2009] for $10.17 "A Beginner's Guide To The World Economy: Eighty-one Basic Economic Concepts That Will Change The Way You See The World" [2001] by Randy Charles Epping Vintage 7¾x5 pb [5/2001] for $10.20 |
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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 |
 | "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 |
 | "The End of Wall Street" [2010] by Roger Lowenstein Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2010] for $9.99 |
 | "Success Made Simple: An Inside Look At Why Amish Businesses Thrive" [2010] by Erik Wesner Jossey-Bass 9x6 hardcover [3/2010] for $16.47 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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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"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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates" [2009] by Peter T. Leeson Princeton Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [4/2009] for $16.47 |
 | "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 |
 | "Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World" [2009] by Liaquat Ahamed listed Best of 2009 by Time Magazine & won the Pulitzer Prize for History Penguin 8½x5½ pb [12/2009] for $9.79 Penguin Press 9½x6½ hardcover [1/2009] for $21.75 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 [2007] credits at IMDb |
 | "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 |
 | "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. |
 | "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! |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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} |
 | "Economics: A Very Short Introduction" [2007] by Partha Dasgupta Oxford Univ Press mass pb [3/2007] for $9.56 |
 | "Plutonomics: A Unified Theory of Wealth" [2006] by S.E. Harrison ePoet LLC 8¼x5½ pb [11/2006] for $16.95 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "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 |
 | "Planet of Slums" [2006] by Mike Davis Verso 8½x6 hardcover [3/2006] for $15.60 |
 | "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 |
 | "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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