Economic Conditions

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A compelling portrayal by the veteran journalist of the lives of farming communities on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border and the surprising connections...

The New York Times Bestselling Freakonomics Was A Worldwide Sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner Return With Superfreakonomics, And Fans A...

It's Not Your Father's Working Class Anymore. It's More Female, More Diverse Racially, And It Doesn't Wear Carhartt's And A Hard Hat Anymore. Sleeping Giant...

An unprecedented look at that most commonplace act of everyday life-throwing things out-and how it has transformed American society. Susan Strasser's path...

David Jeremiah Examines The Meaning Behind What We See In The Daily News Concerning The Economic Collapse -- And Shows How Biblical Prophecy Will Help Us Un...

For over fifteen years, New York Times bestselling author Harry S. Dent, Jr., has been uncannily accurate in predicting the financial future. In his three ...

The United States Has Been Epitomized As A Land Of Opportunity, Where Hard Work And Skill Can Bring Personal Success And Economic Well-being. The American D...

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from The Winner Of The First Lannan Prize For Cultural Freedom, A Bitingly Funny, Kaleidoscopic Vision Of The First World Through The Eyes Of The Third ed...

Examines America's Loss Of Focus And National Purpose Since 9/11, And The Global Environmental Crisis, And Shows How The Solutions To These Two Problems Are...

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An Accessible, Compelling Introduction To Today's Major Policy Issues From Columnist, Best-selling Author, And Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman.Ca...

Optimistic About America’s Future?Don’t Be. In his giant New York Times bestseller, America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, Mark Steyn predi...

How does the average investor protect their assets? How do they keep their financial goals in sight and their arrogance in check? Investment guru, Michael...

collected Here, The Massey Lectures From Legendary Novelist Margaret Atwood Investigate The Highly Topical Subject Of Debt. She Doesn’t Talk About High Fi...

When A Government Program Brought Garment Factories To Rural Sri Lanka, Women Workers Found Themselves Caught Between The Pressures Of A Globalizing Economy...

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring e...

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As the Foreign Affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman has traveled to the four corners of the globe, interviewing people from all wa...

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Provides a sound theoretical and practical foundation for understanding the global economy in an era of shifting borders, restructuring economies, and reg...

Widely regarded as the authoritative text on development geography, this volume examines the nature and causes of global inequality and critically analyzes...

This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race...

Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity.Millions of Americans w...

In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance, Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since...

From bestselling author and NYU business school professor Scott Galloway comes an urgent examination of the future of our nation - and how we got here. We a...

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In Out Of Captivity, Gonsalves, Stansell, And Howes Recount For The First Time Their Amazing Tale Of Survival, Friendship, And, Ultimately, Rescue, Tracing ...

This edition presents marketing management concepts in a traditional format and includes many real-world examples, emphasizing topics such as international ...

"This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. Pathologies of Power is an eloquent ...

Winner Of The 2009 Warwick Prize For Writing Only A Crisis - Actual Or Perceived - Produces Real Change. When That Crisis Occurs, The Actions That Are Taken...

A Revised And Updated Edition Of The Leading Introductory Text On The Geography Of Economic Life, From The Local To The Global Economic Geography Is An Enga...

Focusing on the traditional state-centred arenas of group and social movement influence such as Parliament, elections, the bureaucracy and the courts, this...

In 1971, President Nixon imposed national price controls and took the United States off the gold standard, an extreme measure intended to end an ongoing cu...

After a period in which the global economy appeared prosperous and stable, the economic crisis exposed the fragile foundations of the international financia...

The largest company in the world by far, Wal-Mart takes in revenues in excess of $280 billion, employs 1.4 million American workers, and controls a large sh...

The crisis exposed the contradiction of globalization itself: as economies have become more interconnected, regulators and governments have failed to keep ...

Discusses how the willingness to accept one's own risks is an essential attribute for defining what it means to understand the world, succeed in life, contr...

Diane Francis. Includes Index.Categories: Business & Money EconomicsEconomic Conditions

Tim Harford. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 253-262) And Index.Categories: Business & Money Marketing & SalesConsumer Behavior

American Democratic Capitalism Is In Danger. How Can We Save It? For Its First 200 Years, The American Economy Exhibited Truly Impressive Performance. The C...

The Presidency Of Donald Trump Marks A Profound Change In The Trajectory Of American Government, Politics, And Culture. He Is The Only Person Ever Elected T...

Our Newest Nobel Prize-winning Economist Shows How Today's Crisis Parallels The Events That Caused The Great Depression And Explains What It Will Take To Av...

The New York Times Bestselling Freakonomics Was A Worldwide Sensation. Now, Steven D. Levitt And Stephen J. Dubner Return With Superfreakonomics, And Fans A...