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1	Confessions of an Economic Hit Man more books like this by John Perkins add to wishlist An extraordinary, real-life tale of international intrigue and corruption, "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" reveals the hidden mechanics of imperial control behind such major international events as the fall of the Shah, the death of Panamanian president Omar Torrijos, and the invasions of Panama and Iraq, as well as providing an inside view of ... see all copies from $3.56! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Globalization and Its Discontents more books like this by Joseph E Stiglitz add to wishlist Joseph Stiglitz served as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers for seven years, and he was also chief economist at the World Bank. In this book, Stiglitz recounts his experiences in such places as Ethiopia, Thailand and Russia. He finds repeatedly that the International Monetary Fund puts the interests of its "largest ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 more books like this by Paul Krugman add to wishlist The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the Great Depression-and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition. see all copies from $6.40! new only from $10.56! \| SVS
4	Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty more books like this by Muhammad Yunus add to wishlist A founder of a bank in rural Bangladesh shows how he combated poverty through microlending, the practice of making small loans to the poor in order to provide for basics and to encourage small scale private enterprise. The result was the breaking of the cycle of poverty and improved living standards. Yunus has been doing this since 1976 with ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.80! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Undercover Economist more books like this by Tim Harford add to wishlist Harford ranges from Africa, Asia, Europe, and of course the United States to reveal how supermarkets, airlines, health care providers, and coffee chains--to name just a few--are vacuuming money from our wallets. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| SVS
6	The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life more books like this by Richard Florida add to wishlist The national bestseller that defines a new economic class and shows how it is key to the future of our cities. The Washington Monthly 2002 Annual Political Book Award WinnerThe Rise of the Creative Class gives us a provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new ... see all copies from $2.43! new only from $6.65! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism more books like this by Max Weber add to wishlist For the first time in 70 years, a new translation of Max Weber's classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - one of the seminal works in sociology - will be published in September 2001. Translator Stephen Kalberg is an internationally acclaimed Weberian scholar, and in this new translation he offers a precise and nuanced rendering ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.42! \| first editions \| SVS
8	False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World more books like this by Alan Beattie add to wishlist An important book for turbulent times-an accessible and engaging economic history of the world, by a leading economic writer. Alan Beattie has long been intrigued by the fates of different countries, economies, and societies-why some fail and some succeed. Here, he weaves together elements of economics, history, politics, and human stories, ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	New ideas from dead economists : an introduction to modern economic thought. more books like this by Todd G. Buchholz add to wishlist 'Outstanding ...Fun to read' - "Wall Street Journal". Would Karl Marx have to revise his theories since the collapse of the Soviet Union? What would Adam Smith make of the Japanese economic miracle turning into an economic morass? The great economists of the past 200 years may no longer be with us, but their ideas are very much alive - and they ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Ecology of Commerce more books like this by Paul Hawken add to wishlist Provides a visionary blueprint for a marketplace where businesses and environmentalists work together, showing companies how to redesign and manufacture products in innovative ways, reeducate customers, and work closely with government toward a profitable, productive, and ecologically sound future. see all copies from $2.74! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century more books like this by Paul Krugman add to wishlist In this collection of Krugman's most influential columns and additional commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unravelled and how exuberance gave way to pessimism. He tells the uncomfortable turth about how the US lost its way, and offers a road map for getting it back on track. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Wealth of Nations more books like this by Adam Smith add to wishlist Political economy had been studied long before Adam Smith. But "Wealth of Nations" (1776) established it for the first time as a separate science. Smith based his arguments on vast historical knowledge, and developed his principles with remarkable clarity. What set this work apart was its statement of the doctrine of natural liberty. Smith ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.65! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity more books like this by Michael Lewis (Editor) add to wishlist The author of "Liar's Poker" and "Moneyball" guides readers through five of the most violent and costly upheavals in recent financial history. Lewis describes the market factors leading up to each event, shows what people thought was happening, and analyzes what actually happened. see all copies from $4.30! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy 1400 to the Present more books like this by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik add to wishlist Why are railroad tracks separated by the same four feet, eight inches as ancient Roman roads? How did 19th-century Europeans turn mountains of bird excrement from Peru into mountains of gold? Where has most of the world's oil come from in the 20th century? This new edition of "The World That Trade Created" reveals the answers to dozens of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.00! \| SVS
15 view cover	World Regional Geography: A Development Approach more books like this by Christopher A Airriess (Editor), Robert L Argenbright (Editor), Samuel A Aryeetey-Attoh (Editor) add to wishlist For introductory courses in World Regional Geography. This unique volume covers the world's regions by 11 experts in their respective fields who are intimately familiar with their material through research, fieldwork, and teaching. Each author employs the central theme of human development to present a vital, issues-oriented overview of the topic. ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $24.19!
16 view cover	Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent more books like this by Eduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage (Translator) add to wishlist Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $11.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	New History of India more books like this by Stanley A Wolpert add to wishlist After more than twenty-five years in print, A New History of India continues to be the most readable and popular one-volume history of India available. Now in its eighth edition, this acclaimed text features updated scholarship and bibliographic material throughout and integrates new research on such incisive topics as the Indian diaspora, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power more books like this by John Steele Gordon add to wishlist In a stirring narrative that mirrors the remarkable trajectory of America's history up to the Internet era and beyond, Gordon captures as never before the true source of the nation's global triumph. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.25! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Poverty in America: A Handbook more books like this by John Iceland add to wishlist In a remarkably concise, readable, and accessible format, John Iceland provides a comprehensive picture of poverty in America. He shows how poverty is measured and understood, and how it has changed over time, as well as how public policies have grappled with poverty as a political issue and an economic reality. This edition has been updated and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century more books like this by Jeffry A Frieden add to wishlist International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before...Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalisation to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet, the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. ... see all copies from $9.92! new only from $12.06! \| SVS
21 view cover	The great transformation more books like this by Karl Polanyi add to wishlist One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century." -R. M. MacIver see all copies from $5.40! new only from $22.88! \| SVS
22 view cover	Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System more books like this by Barry Eichengreen add to wishlist The importance of the International Monetary System is evident in the daily news stories about fluctuating currencies and in dramatic events, such as the recent reversals in the Mexican economy. It has become increasingly apparent that one cannot understand the international economy without knowing how its monetary system operates. This volume ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $8.69! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence more books like this by Tim Parks add to wishlist Expatriate writer Tim Parks brings to bear his considerable expertise in all things Italian on this in-depth look at Florence in the Renaissance that focuses on the dichotomy between the spirit of enterprise that resulted in the flowering of the arts, and the Christian belief that wealth and prosperity lead on a direct path to perdition. Parks ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	History of the American Economy more books like this by Gary M Walton add to wishlist One of the first U.S. economic history texts on the market, this classic ties America's past to the economic policies and debates of today and beyond. Presenting economic events chronologically for easy understanding, the authors equip readers with a firm foundation in the evolution of American economic history. see all copies from $3.43! new only from $95.42! \| SVS
25 view cover	Monetary Regimes and Inflation: History, Economic and Political Relationships more books like this by Peter Bernholz add to wishlist This text explores the characteristics of inflations, comparing historical cases from Roman times up to the modern day. High and moderate inflations caused by the inflationary bias of political systems and economic relationships - and the way different monetary regimes contain them - are analysed. see all copies from $46.35! new only from $46.35!

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