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Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy
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"Informative and accessible, pentrating and provocative . . . A first-rate guide to global trends."—NPR.org
The Corner Office: Indispensable and Unexpected Lessons from CEOs on How to Lead and Succeed
The Corner Office



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"The Corner Office is delightful, engaging, illuminating, wise, down-to-earth, and above all, fresh. Adam Bryant’s fascinating new ideas and memorable lessons will shake up the thinking of even the most jaded managers and inspire all leaders to find creative new approaches."—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author of Confidence and SuperCorp

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
How Markets Fail



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“Cassidy clearly knows a great deal of economics, and he tells the story extremely well . . . Many of his chapters—on the development of general equilibrium theory (how everything in the economy systematically depends on everything else), for example, or marginalism (why prices are determined by what we’re prepared to pay for the very last item of something we buy, rather than the whole amount is worth to us)—would make useful supplementary reading in an undergraduate economics course."—Benjamin Friedman, The New York Times Book Review
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism:
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism


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"Chang, befitting his position as an economics professor at Cambridge University, is engagingly thoughtful and opinionated at a much lower decibel level. 'The "truths" peddled by free-market ideologues are based on lazy assumptions and blinkered visions,' he charges."—Time

"Myth-busting and nicely-written collection of essays."—Independent (UK)

"For anyone who wants to understand capitalism not as economists or politicians have pictured it but as it actually operates, this book will be invaluable."—John Gray, Observer (UK)

That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
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"As we were writing this hook, we found that when we shared the title with people, they would often nod ruefully and ask: 'But does it have a happy ending?' Our answer is that we can write a happy ending, but it is up to the country—to all of us—to determine whether it is fiction or nonfiction. We need to study harder, save more, spend less, invest wisely, and set back to the formula that made us successful as a country in every previous historical turn. What we need is not novel or foreign but values, priorities, and practices embedded in in our history and culture, applied time and again to propel us forward as a country. That is all part of our past. That used to be us, and can be again—if we will it."—Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum

The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
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"Friedman gets the economics right. His book is a wellspring of economic common sense that will inoculate its readers against the ‘globaloney’ so prevalent in popular discussions of the subject."—Foreign Affairs
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
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“Few medical writers working today can transmit the gore-drenched terror of an operation that suddenly goes wrong—a terror that has a special resonance when it is Dr. Gawande himself who makes the initial horrifying mistake. And few can make it as clear as he can what exactly is at stake in the effort to minimize calamities.”—The New York Times
As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
As China Goes, So Goes the World



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"The global economy of the last several decades has been underpinned by two simple principles: the frugal Chinese make everything, and the spendthrift Americans will buy anything. But what happens when Chinese consumers begin to lead the world and to define global tastes?  We’re not there yet, but Karl Gerth’s new book guides us through China’s consumer revolution to a future modeled in part on America—a future of cars and conspicuous consumption; of the selling of land, labor, and sex; of growing inequality and interlocking elites of business and politics; of wanton environmental degradation. This engaging and provocative book captures with skill and wit the changes that define Chinese markets today and that may, in time, transform the world. Read it before your next trip to China."—William Kirby, Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
How Stella Saved the Farm: A Tale About Making Innovation Happen
How Stella Saved the Farm



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“We have found How Stella Saved the Farm to be a very useful tool for raising the key challenges in organizing and executing innovation initiatives.”—James Euchner, VP, Global Innovation at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

"Deere has already held innovation workshops based on Stella, with very positive results. This is a powerful, practical tool for learning and executive development."—Mary Jones, Vice President Global Human Resources, Deere & Company 
Common Sense Economics: What Everyone Should Know About Wealth and Prosperity
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“Common Sense Economics makes economic principles as obvious and simple as they can be. By weaving careful reasoning with memorable examples and clear writing, the authors explain how economies grow (or don’t grow); how prices coordinate economic activity; and how governments promote or deter economic progress. This is an extraordinary contribution to economic education.”—Kenneth G. Elzinga, Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
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“Adapt is a highly readable, even entertaining, argument against top-down design. It debunks the Soviet-Harvard command-and-control style of planning and approach to economic policies and regulations and vindicates trial and error (particularly the error part) as a means to economic and general progress. Very impressive!”—Nassim N. Taleb, Distinguised Professor of Risk Engineering, NYU-Poly Institute and author of The Black Swan

Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
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"Andrew Keen has found the off switch for Silicon Valley's reality distortion field. With a cold eye and a cutting wit, he reveals the grandiose claims of our new digital plutocrats to be little more than self-serving cant. Digital Vertigo provides a timely and welcome reminder that having substance is more important than being transparent."—Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Shock Doctrine



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“The Shock Doctrine is Klein’s ambitious look at the economic history of the last 50 years and the rise of free-market fundamentalism around the world . . . Klein provides a rich description of the political machinations required to force unsavory economic policies on resisting countries, and the human toll. She paints a disturbing portrait of hubris, not only on the part of Friedman but also of those who adopted his doctrines, sometimes to pursue more corporatist objectives. It is striking to be reminded how many of the people involved in the Iraq war were involved earlier in other shameless episodes in United States foreign policy history.”—Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times Book Review
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics: Volume Two: Macroeconomics
The Cartoon Introduction to Economics



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“If you don’t want to cry about the state of the economy, why not laugh instead? This book is an ideal introduction to macroeconomics for anybody who thinks they ought to understand what’s happening around them but is put off by dense text and economics jargon.”—Diane Coyle, author of The Economics of Enough
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America:
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America


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"Mr. Levinson has written an absorbing history of one company’s amazing rise—and what such success means in a nation with conflicting ideals about big business. It is more than a rich business history; it is a mirror to our own conflicting wants and visions of who and what we should be."—Nancy F. Koehn, The New York Times
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Created the Worst Financial Crisis of Our Time
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"In a series of clearly written narratives with many names, dates and figures, [Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner] show that government officials took actions that benefited well-connected individuals, who in turn helped the government officials. This mutual support system thwarted good economic policies and encouraged reckless ones . . . While many economists—including this reviewer—have argued that government actions caused the crisis, Morgenson and Rosner use their investigative skills to dig down and explain why those actions were taken. To avoid reckless policies in the future, we need to understand their causes, and the authors’ identification of government-industry links deserves careful consideration by anyone interested in improving the economy."—John B. Taylor, professor of economics at Stanford University and senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, The Washington Post
How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly--and the Stark Choices Ahead
How the West Was Lost



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"Dambisa Moyo, a former Goldman Sachs analyst with a doctorate from Oxford, offers up a well-reasoned look at how the world's most advanced nations are squandering their economic lead—and how they might survive by fighting Chinese fire with fire."—James Pressley, Bloomberg News
The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do about It
The Great Divergence



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“This is the book the 99 percent has been waiting for. Crisply lucid and brilliantly argued, The Great Divergence manages to entertain at the same time that it explains. Best of all, Noah offers some strikingly sensible steps to undo the economic polarization that is tearing America apart.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, Bait and Switch, and Bright-Sided
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
The Value of Nothing



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“With great lucidity and confidence in a dazzling array of fields, Patel reveals how we inflate the cost of things we can (and often should) live without, while assigning absolutely no value to the resources we all need to survive. This is a deeply thought-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness—argued with so much humor and humanity that the enormous tasks ahead feel both doable and desirable. This is Raj Patel's great gift: he makes even the most radical ideas seem not only reasonable, but inevitable. A brilliant book.”—Naomi Klein, author The Shock Doctrine
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
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“Priceless is an instructive and entertaining romp through the hits of recent research on decision making, which will leave you amused, smarter, and wondering about what money and prices really mean.”—Daniel Kahneman, professor emeritus, Princeton University, and winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics
Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
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"It would be hard to find a timelier book than Power, Inc. Where we draw the line between public and private power will shape the twenty-first century as the divide between communism and capitalism shaped the twentieth. The full dimensions of that struggle are just beginning to emerge, but David Rothkopf, as usual, is ahead of the curve with a provocative, insightful book that is easy to read and hard to put down."—Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University

The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World
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“Among economists, common sense is not that common. Fortunately, Michael Spence has long bucked the trend. In this book he dispenses wisdom on economic growth—and much else—in accessible, bite-sized chunks. The world’s policy makers better listen.”—Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got



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A trusted advisor to America's top corporations and recognized as one of today's preeminent marketing experts, Jay Abraham has created a program of proven...
Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist:
Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist


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"Ray Anderson is a personal inspiration for me and for anyone trying to find their way in this new world of green business.  He may be ‘radical’ but he’s also a profit-seeking businessman. Confessions tells an amazing first-hand story of a personal and business transformation, a journey from being a cold-eyed capitalist to being . . . a cold-eyed capitalist, but just with a much larger perspective on what profitable really means.  Ray has found a new path that’s good for the planet and great for his business.  He’s showing the world how it’s done yet again."—Andrew Winston, environmental strategist, author of Green Recovery and co-author of Green to Gold

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