Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial...
Michael LewisA masterful account of today's money culture, showing how the underpricing of risk leads to catastrophe. When it comes to markets, the first deadly sin is greed. Michael Lewis is our jungle guide through five of the most violent ...
The Return of Depression Economics an...
Paul KrugmanNobel Prize® winning economist Paul Krugman shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, Paul surveyed the economic crisis that had ...
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel'...
Dan SenorSTART-UP NATION addresses the trillion dollar question: How is it that Israel-- a country of 7.1 million, only 60 years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources-- produces mo...
Creating a World without Poverty: How...
Muhammad YunusWhile free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profi...
Hoodwinked: An Economic Hit Man Revea...
John PerkinsJohn Perkins has seen the signs of today's economic meltdown before. The subprime mortgage fiascos, the banking industry collapse, the rising tide of unemployment, the shuttering of small businesses across the landscape are all too fa...
Creating a World without Poverty: How...
Muhammad YunusWhile free markets have swept the globe and brought positive change, nevertheless traditional capitalism cannot solve problems of inequality and poverty because of its view of people as one-dimensional beings concerned only with profi...
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Ou...
Heather BousheyA Financial Times Book of the Year “The strongest documentation I have seen for the many ways in which inequality is harmful to economic growth.” Jason Furman “A timely and very useful guide…Boush...
Born on Third Base: A One Percenter M...
Chuck CollinsAs inequality grabs headlines, steals the show in presidential debates, and drives deep divides between the haves and have nots in America, class war brews. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, wittingly or not, to keep...
The Great Debt Crisis Ahead: How to P...
Harry S. DentIncludes two bonus PDF workbooks! Don't just survive the economic downturn; prepare to prosper! Unprecedented debt levels, slowing demographic trends in spending, and deflation in prices (not inflation) will create a crisis much like ...
The New World Economy: A Beginner's G...
Randy Charles EppingWhat is blockchain? What is Bitcoin? How can central banks be instrumental in guiding a nation's economy? What are the underlying causes of trade deficits? Do trade wars actually help the domestic economy? How has the behavior of mill...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade o...
Anand GiridharadasThe New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read ...
The Economic Consequences of the Peac...
John Maynard KeynesA new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiati...
After the Pandemic: Visions of Life P...
Lawrence KnorrTwenty-five Sunbury Press authors contributed twenty-seven chapters about the possible impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on society. Based on their experiences in a variety of fields, they provide their projections about the changes fa...
The Great Recession that began in 2007 is now more than four years old—and counting. Some 24 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed, and at recent rates of job creation we won't be back to normal levels of employment unti...
Boomerang: Travels in the New Third W...
Michael Lewis"Lewis shows again why he is the leading journalist of his generation."—Kyle Smith, ForbesThe tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was ...
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Ma...
Michael LewisThe #1 New York Times bestseller―Now a Major Motion Picture from Paramount PicturesFrom the author of The Blind Side and Moneyball, The Big Short tells the story of four outsiders in the world of high-finance who predict the credit ...
The Captured Economy: How the Powerfu...
Brink LindseyFor years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance tha...
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibil...
Jeffrey D. SachsCelebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individ...
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and ...
Joseph E. StiglitzThe current global financial crisis carries a "made in America" label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to th...
The Price of Inequality: How Today's ...
Joseph E. StiglitzA forceful argument against America's vicious circle of growing inequality by the Nobel Prize–winning economist.America currently has the most inequality, and the least equality of opportunity, among the advanced countries. While ma...
The Betrayal of the American Dream
Donald L. BarlettA New York Times bestsellerAmerica's unique prosperity is based on its creation of a middle class. In the twentieth century, that middle class provided the workforce, the educated skills, and the demand that gave life to the world's g...
The Return of Depression Economics an...
Paul KrugmanIn this 'New York Times' bestseller, a Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the Great Depression, and explains how to avoid catastrophe. This edition features a new Foreword.
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Busi...
Chris AndersonIn one of the most important business books since 'The Tipping Point,' Anderson shows how the future of commerce and culture isn't in hits, or the high-volume head of a traditional demand curve, but in what used to be regarded as miss...
What Matters?: Economics for a Renewe...
Wendell BerryOver the years, Wendell Berry has sought to understand and confront the financial structure of modern society and the impact of developing late capitalism on American culture. There is perhaps no more demanding or important critique a...
Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the ...
Philip CogganLonglisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year AwardFor the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid. But the oncoming defau...
Unintended Consequences: Why Everythi...
Edward ConardWas our country's economic success before the Crash of '08 built on false pretenses? Did we simply borrow and spend too much, or was something else really going on? The conventional wisdom now accuses Wall Street and the mortgage ind...
Average Is Over: Powering America Bey...
Tyler CowenThe groundbreaking follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Great Stagnation The United States continues to mint more millionaires and billionaires than any country ever. Yet, since the great recession, three quarters of the j...
The Complacent Class: The Self-Defeat...
Tyler CowenNATIONAL BESTSELLERA wide-ranging, against-the-grain argument about the state of American culture―the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal bestseller--now in paperback with new material"Tyler Cowen's blog, Marginal Revolutio...
The Great Crash Ahead: Strategies for...
Harry S. DentWith incisive critical ana lysis and historical examples, The Great Crash Ahead lays bare the traditional assumptions of economics, outlining why the next financial crash and crisis is inevitable, and just around the corner— coming ...
Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals,...
Charles H. FergusonCharles Ferguson, who electrified the world with his Academy Award-winning documentary, Inside Job, now reveals how rogues with influence have taken over the country and are driving it to financial and social ruin.In Predator Nation, ...