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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
Picador
Picador
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would...
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The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
Anchor
Anchor
In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliant–better at solving problems, fostering innovation,...
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A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein
Atlantic Monthly Press
Atlantic Monthly Press
Adam Smith wrote that man has an intrinsic “propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another.” But how did trade evolve to the point where we don’t think twice about biting into an apple from the other side of the...
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Dover Value Editions)
Max Weber, Talcott Parsons, R.H. Tawney
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
This brilliant study opposes the Marxist concept of dialectical materialism and its view that change takes place through the conflict of opposites. Instead, Weber relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan determination to work out...
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State of the World 2008: Toward a Sustainable Global Economy (State of the World)
The Worldwatch Institute
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
"Comprehensive, up-to-date, and accessible."—Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson Growing evidence suggests that the global economy, rooted in ideas and assumptions that were progressive two hundred years ago, is now destroying its own...
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