The Communist Manifesto (Oxford World's Classics) by David McLellan $6.95
Critically and textually up-to-date, this new edition of the classic translation (Samuel Moore, 1888) features an introduction and notes by the eminent Marx scholar David McLellan, prefaces written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels subsequent to the original 1848 publication, and corrections of errors made in earlier versions. Regarded as one of the most influential political tracts ever...
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Jesse Boggs $39.99
Featuring an Exclusive Audio Interview with Michael LewisWhen the crash of the U.S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where...
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Dylan Baker $29.99
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Big Short, Liar’s Poker and The Blind Side!The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge. The Greeks wanted to turn their country...
Beyond the Keynesian Endpoint: Crushed by Credit and Deceived by Debt — How to Revive the Global Economy by FT Press $27.99
During the Great Depression, legendary British economist Keynes advocated using government money to fill the economic void until consumer spending and business investment recovered. But what happens when governments can't do that anymore? You've arrived at "The Keynesian Endpoint": when the money has run out before the economy has been rescued. That's where we are. Exhausted balance sheets leave...
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Hackett Pub Co $29.95
This thoughtful new abridgment is enriched by the brilliant commentary which accompanies it. In it, Laurence Dickey argues that the "Wealth of Nations" contains - and conceals - a great deal of how Smith actually thought a commercial society works. Guided by his conviction that the so-called 'Adam Smith Problem' - the relationship between ethics and economics in Smith's thinking - is a core...
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Simon & Schuster $15.00
A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time— the growing inequality of incomes between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich. We all know that the very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades while most Americans haven’t. In fact, the exorbitantly paid have continued to thrive during the current...
Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown by Wiley $27.95
Recovery? What Recovery?Did you lose money in the stock market in the last financial crisis of late 2008? Has your home lost value? Are you "underwater" in your mortgage or concerned about selling?Do your dollars buy less than they used to at the grocery store and the gas pump?Have you lost your job or know someone who did?Are you worried about the safety of your money and investments? Don't Get...
After America: Get Ready for Armageddon by Regnery Publishing $29.95
Optimistic About America’s Future?Don’t Be.In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predicted collapse for the rest of the Western World. Now, he adds, America has caught up with Europe on the great rush to self-destruction.It’s not just our looming financial collapse; it’s not just a culture that seems on a fast track to...
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back by Jason Culp $49.99
America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers,...
Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right by Metropolitan Books $25.00
From the bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, a wonderfully insightful and sardonic look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatismEconomic catastrophe usually brings social protest and demands for change—or at least it's supposed to. But when Thomas Frank set out in 2009 to look for expressions of American discontent, all he could...