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Common Notions eBook Series

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  • Debt Resisters’ Operations Manual

    Edited by Strike Debt Strike Debt ...
    Series series Common Notions
    Over the last thirty years, as wages have stagnated across the country, average household debt has more than doubled. Increasingly, we are forced to take on debt to meet our needs—from housing, to education, to medical care. The results—wrecked lives, devastated communities, and an increasing reliance on credit to maintain our basic living standards—reveal an economic system that enriches the few ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street

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  • Fault Lines

    How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (New in Paper)

    by Raghuram G. Rajan ...
    Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more ... Read more

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  • The Clash of Generations

    Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy

    by Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns ...
    How America went bankrupt and how we can save ourselves—as a country and as individuals—from economic disaster.The United States is bankrupt, flat broke. Thanks to accounting that would make Enron blush, America's insolvency goes far beyond what our leaders are disclosing. The United States is a fiscal basket case, in worse shape than the notoriously bailed-out countries of Greece, Ireland, and ... Read more

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  • The Wall Street Journal Guide to the New Rules of Personal Finance

    Essential Strategies for Saving, Investing, and Building a Portfolio in a World Turned Upside Down

    by Dave Kansas ...
    Everything you thought you knew about saving, managing risk, and securing your financial future has changed.The world is very different in the wake of the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. Retirement accounts have been eviscerated, risk appetites diminished, and questions raised about age-old personal finance strategies such as "buy and hold" and the efficacy of relying heavily ... Read more

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  • The Anatomy of Corporate Law

    A Comparative and Functional Approach

    by Reinier Kraakman, John Armour, Paul Davies, Luca Enriques, Henry Hansmann, Gerard Hertig, Klaus Hopt, Hideki Kanda, Mariana Pargendler, Wolf-Georg Ringe, Edward Rock ...
    This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance practices that have taken place since the previous edition. These include numerous regulatory changes following the financial crisis of 2007-09 and the changing landscape of ... Read more

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  • In the Wake of the Crisis

    Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy

    Edited by Olivier Blanchard, David Romer, Michael Spence, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Prominent economists reconsider the fundamentals of economic policy for a post-crisis world.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policymakers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment.The crisis and the weak recovery that has ... Read more

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  • Common Sense Economics

    What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity

    by James D. Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, Dwight R. Lee, Tawni H. Ferrarini ...
    With the global economy recovering from a steep recession, and with that recovery challenging our long-held ideas about what careers and the market can be, learning the basics of economics has never been more essential. Principles such as gains from trade, the role of profit and loss, and the secondary effects of government spending, taxes, and borrowing risk continue to be critically important to ... Read more

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  • Why Minsky Matters

    An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist

    by Larry Randall Wray ...
    Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even today he remains largely outside mainstream economics; few people have a good grasp of his writings, ... Read more

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  • Taking Economics Seriously

    by Dean Baker ...
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    A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them ... Read more

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  • The Subprime Solution

    How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do about It

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    An essential account of the historic subprime mortgage crisis, from the Nobel Prize–winning economist and bestselling author of Irrational ExuberanceThe subprime mortgage crisis has already wreaked havoc on the lives of millions of people and now it threatens to derail the U.S. economy and economies around the world. In this trenchant book, best-selling economist Robert Shiller reveals the origins ... Read more

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  • The Great Risk Shift

    The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream

    by Jacob S. Hacker ...
    America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from government and business onto the fragile shoulders of the American family. In The Great Risk Shift, Jacob S. Hacker lays bare this unsettling new economic ... Read more

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