Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit...
Barbara EhrenreichAfter 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 ...
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by...
Barbara EhrenreichOur 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...
Crisis and Hope: Theirs and Ours (PM ...
Noam ChomskyThis 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...
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washing...
Jacob S. HackerA 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.
Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the Ne...
Seyyed Vali Reza NasrVali 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...
The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise...
Robyn MeredithThe 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...
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.
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate...
Tyler CowenTyler 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.
White House Burning: Our National Deb...
Simon JohnsonFrom 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...
How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of...
Dambisa MoyoIn 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...
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape ...
Rajeev Charles PatelEconomics is about choices, but who gets to make them? Patel shows how free market fundamentalism has distorted how consumers value their world.
Giants: The Global Power Elite
Peter PhillipsA 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...
People, Power, and Profits: Progressi...
Joseph E. StiglitzAn 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...
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disas...
Naomi KleinThe 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...
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 -- ...
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Powe...
Daron AcemogluBrilliant 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 ...
Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving W...
Martin AdamsWhat 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?...
What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk ...
Gar AlperovitzNever 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...
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate...
Tyler CowenAmerica 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...
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, D...
William EasterlyOver 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...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Ne...
Thomas L. FriedmanA '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.
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell ...
Thomas L. FriedmanA 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...
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washing...
Jacob S. HackerA 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...
The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises...
David HarveyFor 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...
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our Ne...
Richard HeinbergEconomists 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...
The Book of the Poor: What They Want,...
Kenan HeiseThis 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...
Fear Your Future: How the Deck Is Sta...
Philip KleinIt'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...
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...
Breaking Through Power: It's Easier T...
Ralph NaderIn 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...
The Adam Smith Society Reader: A Prim...
James R. OttesonWhat 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...