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  • The Myth of Free Trade

    The Pooring of America

    by Dr. Ravi Batra ...
    As an antidote to our economic ills—the federal deficit, our reliance on foreign imports, widespread downsizing, environmental destruction—Dr. Batra sets out a five-year plan for economic revival that includes raising tariffs on imports, banning mergers among giant firms, and encouraging domestic competition by splitting huge corporations into smaller units.In a front-page story in the Wall Street ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Aftershock

    The Next Economy and America's Future

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition

    What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public ... Read more

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  • The Bottom Billion

    Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It

    by Paul Collier ...
    In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping further and further behind ... Read more

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  • Winner Take All

    China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World

    by Dambisa Moyo ...
    Newspaper headlines and media commentators scream warnings of the impending doom nearly every day—shortages of arable land, clashes over water, and the political Armageddon as global demand for energy in the form of fossil fuels far outstrips any possible supply. The picture painted is bleak, and the possible impact of commodities markets on how we live is far-reaching, but our grasp of the ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Its Discontents

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    This powerful, unsettling book gives us a rare glimpse behind the closed doors of global financial institutions by the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics.When it was first published, this national bestseller quickly became a touchstone in the globalization debate. Renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz had a ringside seat for most of the major economic events of the ... Read more

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  • The Euro

    How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    The Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author explains why saving Europe may mean abandoning the euro.When Nobel Prize–winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz posed this question in the original edition of The Euro, he lent much-needed clarity to a global debate that continues to this day. The euro was supposed to unify Europe and promote prosperity; in fact, it has done just the opposite ... Read more

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  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    "A damning denunciation of things as they are, and a platform for how we can do better."--Andrew Leonard, SalonFour years after he outlined the challenges our increasingly interdependent world was facing in Globalization and Its Discontents, Joseph E. Stiglitz offered his agenda for reform. Now in paperback, Making Globalization Work offers inventive solutions to a host of problems, including the ... Read more

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  • The Predator State

    How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

    by James K. Galbraith ...
    The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Building the New American Economy

    Smart, Fair, & Sustainable

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    The influential economist offers a persuasive strategy for a more just and sustainable economy—with a forward by Bernie Sanders.The New York Times has said that Jeffrey D. Sachs is "probably the most important economist in the world." Now, in a book that combines impassioned manifesto with a plan of action, Sachs charts a path to move America toward sustainable development. Sustainable development ... Read more

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  • The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

    The Past and Future of American Affluence

    by Robert J. Samuelson ...
    The Great Inflation in the 1960s and 1970s, notes award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson, played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life. The direct consequences included stagnation in living standards, a growing belief—both in America and abroad—that the great-power status of the United States was ending, and Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in ... Read more

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  • Why Capitalism?

    by Allan H. Meltzer ...
    A review of the headlines of the past decade seems to show that disasters are often part of capitalist systems: the high-tech bubble, the Enron fraud, the Madoff Ponzi scheme, the great housing bubble, massive lay-offs, and a widening income gap. Disenchantment with the market economy has reached the point that many even question capitalism itself. Allan H. Meltzer disagrees, passionately and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD