Political Science - Economic Conditions

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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit...

Barbara Ehrenreich

After writing about her dispiriting experiences as a member of the working poor in NICKEL AND DIMED, Barbara Ehrenreich sets out to get a job in the corporate world. What she gets is a job search, rather than a job, as she finds out ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2005

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by...

Barbara Ehrenreich

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes 'undercover' as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreic...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2004

Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours (PM ...

Noam Chomsky

This audio recording of a historic address given by Noam Chomsky, one of the world's leading intellectuals, offers an analysis of current world events, including the economic crisis and its structural roots, U. S. foreign policy under...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2010

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washing...

Jacob S. Hacker

A groundbreaking work that identifies the real culprit behind one of the great economic crimes of our time---the growing inequality between the vast majority of Americans and the richest of the rich.

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2011

Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the Ne...

Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr

Vali Nasr, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Shia Revival, offers a dissection of the problem the West faces with Iran and reveals how, by building strong ties to the new, pragmatic business class that is emerging in Ira...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2009

The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise...

Robyn Meredith

The Elephant and the Dragon takes a compelling look at the major changes in store as America faces increasing competition from two emerging Asian giants, India and China. In it, Robyn Meredith tells how these two Asian nations, each w...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2007

America for Sale: Fighting the New Wo...

Jerome R. Corsi

#1 New York Times bestselling author's sequel to The Late Great USA shows how we're driven by economic crises to accept globalist solutions.

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2009

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate...

Tyler Cowen

Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation, the eSpecial heard round the world that ignited a firestorm of debate and redefined the nature of our economic malaise, is now---at last---a book.

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2011

White House Burning: Our National Deb...

Simon Johnson

From the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers, a chilling account of America's unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass, why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower, and what needs to be done about it. With b...

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Published: Feb 2013

How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of...

Dambisa Moyo

In How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the West's economic supremacy. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions have resulted in an economic an...

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Published: Jan 2012

The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape ...

Rajeev Charles Patel

Economics is about choices, but who gets to make them? Patel shows how free market fundamentalism has distorted how consumers value their world.

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Published: Jan 2010

Giants: The Global Power Elite

Peter Phillips

A look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our econ...

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Published: Aug 2018

People, Power, and Profits: Progressi...

Joseph E. Stiglitz

An authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and Joseph Stiglitz provides an alterna...

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Published: Apr 2020

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disas...

Naomi Klein

The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global 'free market' has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term 'dis...

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Published: Jun 2008

Nickel and Dimed

Barbara Ehrenreich

Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- ...

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Published: Aug 2011

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Powe...

Daron Acemoglu

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it ...

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Published: Mar 2013

Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving W...

Martin Adams

What if we lived in a world where everyone had enough? A world where everyone mattered and where people lived in harmony with nature? What if the solution to our economic, social, and ecological problems was right underneath our feet?...

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Published: Mar 2015

What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk ...

Gar Alperovitz

Never before have so many Americans been more frustrated with our economic system, more fearful that it is failing, or more open to fresh ideas about a new one. The seeds of a new movement demanding change are forming.But just what is...

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Published: Apr 2013

The Great Stagnation: How America Ate...

Tyler Cowen

America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s, and it is common to expect that things will get worse before they get...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Jul 2011

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, D...

William Easterly

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right "expert" solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addre...

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Published: Mar 2015

Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Ne...

Thomas L. Friedman

A 'New York Times Book Review' Notable Book of the Year, this brilliant, essential book speaks to America's need for national renewal, and explains how a green revolution is the only way to secure the planet's future.

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Published: Nov 2009

That Used to Be Us: How America Fell ...

Thomas L. Friedman

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2011 In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum analyze the four major challenges we face as a country---globalization, the revolution...

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Published: Aug 2012

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washing...

Jacob S. Hacker

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 v...

Paperback
Published: Mar 2011

The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises...

David Harvey

For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the s...

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Published: Sep 2011

The End of Growth: Adapting to Our Ne...

Richard Heinberg

Economists insist that recovery is at hand, yet unemployment remains high, real estate values continue to sink, and governments stagger under record deficits. The End of Growth proposes a startling diagnosis: humanity has reached a fu...

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Published: Sep 2011

The Book of the Poor: What They Want,...

Kenan Heise

This stirring work takes readers on a heartbreaking, illuminating, and inspiring journey into the homes and lives of the 16 percent who live below the poverty threshold. Author and retired Chicago Tribune reporter Kenan Heise culls 50...

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Published: Sep 2012

Fear Your Future: How the Deck Is Sta...

Philip Klein

It's become fashionable to demean millennials as the "snowflake" generation. Raised during the peace and prosperity of the '90s, they're often perceived as carrying an entitlement mentality and of being incapable of handling...

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Published: Oct 2019

Angrynomics

Eric Lonergan

Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we have never had it so good? While statistics tell us that the vast majority of people are getting steadily richer, the world most of us exper...

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Published: May 2020

Breaking Through Power: It's Easier T...

Ralph Nader

In Breaking Through Power, Nader draws from a lifetime waging--and often winning--David vs. Goliath battles against big corporations and the United States government. In this succinct, Tom Paine-style wake-up call, the iconic consumer...

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Published: Aug 2016

The Adam Smith Society Reader: A Prim...

James R. Otteson

What exactly is capitalism, and why do its advocates support it? What are the main objections to capitalism that have been raised by its critics? Are there moral reasons to support capitalism, or to oppose it? In this time of globaliz...

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Published: Oct 2014
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