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Screw Business As Usual
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The High-Beta Rich
How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust
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General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Economist John Maynard Keynes argues that the government should step in to help boost the markets when individuals and private enterprise fail to.
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Steve Jobs
A Biography
Draws on more than 40 interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors and colleagues, to offer a look at the co-founder and leading creative force behind the Apple computer company.NPR Bestseller
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Boomerang
Travels in the New Third World
The author of The Big Short describes the effect that the bubble of cheap credit — readily available to almost anyone from 2002 to 2008 — had on countries besides the U.S., including Iceland, Greece and Germany.NPR Bestseller
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Thinking, Fast And Slow
A psychologist draws on years of research to introduce his "machinery of the mind" model on human decision-making, revealing the faults and capabilities of intuitive versus logical thinking.NPR Bestseller
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Super Rich
A Guide to Having It All
A popular entrepreneur explains that true happiness comes not from wealth but from inner contentment and shares personal stories of his own rise to success and how he never failed to remain grounded during the process. By the author of the New York Times best-seller Do You!
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Stealth of Nations
The Global Rise of the Informal Economy
Reveals how people throughout the world smuggle legal goods into other countries or use technology to sell unlicensed products or services, discussing how the informal economy provides essential services and employment.
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Deadly Monopolies
The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself—and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future
The author of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Medical Apartheid examines the questionable legal, ethical and social aspects of how the pharmaceutical industry and other powerful interests have received patents for body tissues excised during surgery to further what the author believes to be commercial purposes.
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Brandwashed
Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy
Martin Lindstrom reveals pervasive marketing practices used by some of the world's largest companies to manipulate consumers, and argues that guerilla market techniques intentionally tap the public's deepest fears, vulnerabilities and dreams.
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The Price of Civilization
Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity
Jeffrey Sachs offers a diagnosis of the country's economic ills and argues that Americans can restore the virtues of fairness, honesty and foresight as the foundations of national prosperity.NPR Bestseller
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Keynes Hayek
The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
Provides a history of the diverging economic viewpoints that emerged after the 1929 stock market crash, one from Cambridge economist John Maynard Keynes, the other from Austrian economics professor Freidrich Hayek.
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Confidence Men
Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
Draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and in-depth research to relate the complete story of the nation's financial meltdown, from the trading floors of Lower Manhattan to the power corridors inside the Beltway.NPR Bestseller