Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
'The most important book about our economy and society to be published in my lifetime' Irvine Welsh From Paul Mason, the award-winning Channel 4 presenter, Postcapitalism is a guide to our era of seismic economic change, and how we can build a more equal society. Over the past two centuries or so, capit ...Show more
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
Why is America living in an age of profound economic inequality? Why, despite the desperate need to address climate change, have even modest environmental efforts been defeated again and again? Why have protections for employees been decimated? Why do hedge-fund billionaires pay a far lower tax rate tha ...Show more
The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World by Aaron Hurst
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
A series of shifts are happening in our economy: Millennials are trading in conventional career paths to launch tech start-ups, start small businesses that are rooted in local communities, or freelance their expertise. We are sharing everything, from bikes and cars, to extra rooms in our homes. We now c ...Show more
End of Plenty: the Race to Feed a Crowded World by Bourne Joel
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Introducing a new generation of farmers and scientists on the frontlines of the next green revolution. When Malthus famously outlined the brutal relationship between food and population, he never imagined the success of modern agriculture. New seeds, chemicals and irrigation, coupled with free trade, dr ...Show more
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises by Timothy Geithner
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
From the former Treasury Secretary, the definitive account of the unprecedented effort to save the US economy from collapse in the wake of the worst global financial crisis since the Great Depression. On 26 January, 2009, during the depths of the financial crisis and having just completed five years as ...Show more
When To Rob a Bank by Steven Levitt, Stephen Dubner
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Why don't flight attendants get tipped? If you were a terrorist, how would you attack? And why does KFC always run out of fried chicken? Over the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakonomics.com. Now the very best of this writing has been ...Show more
Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich by Peter Schweizer, MD
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
In 2000, Bill and Hillary Clinton owed millions of dollars in legal debt. Since then, they've earned over $130 million. Where did the money come from? Most people assume that the Clintons amassed their wealth through lucrative book deals and high-six figure fees for speaking gigs. Now, Peter Schweizer s ...Show more
Dealing with China by Hank Paulson
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
DEALING WITH CHINA takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism. Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike any other foreigner. As head of Goldman Sachs, Paulson had a pivotal role in opening up China to private enterprise. T ...Show more
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Michael Lewis's game-changing bestseller is now available in Encore at a great low price.A small group of Wall Street iconoclasts realize that the US stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders. They band together―some of them walking away from seven-figure salaries―to investigate, expose, ...Show more
Six Capitals - The revolution capitalism has to have - or can accountants save the planet? by Jane Gleeson-White
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a 21st century revolution being led by the most unlikely of rebels: accountants.It is only the second revolution in accounting since double-entry bookkeeping emerged in medieval Italy - and it is of seismic proportions, driven by the 2008 financial crash and the environmental crisis ...Show more
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate by Rose George
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Category: Economic History/ Global Business
Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight shipping, revealed as the foundation of our civilizationOn ship-tracking websites, the waters are black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial economies, we no longer produc ...Show more