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  • The Oligarchs' Arithmetic of Plunder: Volume 1: The Worker

    The Oligarchs' Arithmetic of Plunder, #1

    by Leslie St. James ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oligarchs' Arithmetic of Plunder
    For three decades after World War II, the United States operated under a set of enforceable constraints that forced capital to absorb its own costs. Wages rose with productivity. Pensions were funded. Jobs were stable. A single working-class income could sustain a family, buy a house, and send children to college. Then those constraints were dismantled.The dismantling was not an accident of ... Read more

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  • Saving Capitalism

    For the Many, Not the Few

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The System

    Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, comes an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change.There is a mounting sense that our political-economic system is no longer working, but what is the core problem and how do we remedy it? With the characteristic ... Read more

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  • Who Stole the American Dream?

    by Hedrick Smith ...
    Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to ... Read more

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  • Supercapitalism

    by Robert B. Reich ...
    From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Tailspin

    The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It

    by Steven Brill ...
    In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democracy itself—have somehow managed to power its decline into dysfunction. They have isolated our best and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Betrayal of American Prosperity

    Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era

    by Clyde Prestowitz ...
    CONSIDER THIS SHOCKING FACT: while China’s number one export to the United States is $46 billion of computer equipment, the number one export from the U.S. to China is waste—$7.6 billion of waste paper and scrap metal.Bestselling author Clyde Prestowitz reveals the astonishing extent of the erosion of the fundamental pillars of American economic might—beginning well before the 2008 financial ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Capitalist's Bible

    The Essential Guide to Free Markets--and Why They Matter to You

    by Gretchen Morgenson ...
    The Capitalist’s Bible, edited by Gretchen Morgenson, an award-winning journalist with the New York Times, is the essential guide to capitalism and its many languages, customs, and practices. Including thinkers like Adam Smith, concepts like supply and demand, and developments like globalization, The Capitalist’s Bible is an essential primer that clarifies, informs, and answers all the questions ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Global Negotiator

    Making, Managing, and Mending Deals Around the World in the Twenty-First Century

    by Jeswald Salacuse ...
    An essential guide to brokering international business transactions.In today's global business environment, an executive must have the skills and knowledge to navigate all stages of an international deal, from negotiations to managing the deal after it is signed. The aim of The Global Negotiator is to equip business executives with that exact knowledge.Whereas most books on negotiation end when ... Read more

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  • Made in Africa

    Learning to Compete in Industry

    by Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand ...
    The role of industry in low income countries is important. Industry is good for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. All of these factors depend on the size and the rate of growth of industry. Africa doesn’t have enough industry to reach the Sustainable Development Goals for growth, job creation, and poverty reduction. Africa’s share of global manufacturing has fallen from about three ... Read more

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  • Common Sense Government

    Works Better and Costs Less

    by Al Gore ...
    The federal government is ailing and needs a cure. The cure lies in embracing a principle long known to the American people but little recognized by Washington—until now: common sense.In this pathbreaking report, Vice President Al Gore, presiding over the National Performance Review, at the request of President Clinton, charts a fundamental shift in how government conducts itself. This report ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Free Market Capitalist's Survival Guide

    How to Invest and Thrive in an Era of Rampant Socialism

    by Jerry Bowyer ...
    America is hurtling toward socialism. What should a free-market capitalist do with his money? Economist Jerry Bower, a frequent contributor to the National Review, Townhall, and Forbes online editions, presents a crucial investment guide for laissez faire thinkers as the nation enters its most disturbingly anti-wealth and anti-business era in history.This is not a theoretical exercise—it’s a ... Read more

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