Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Powe...
Daron AcemogluBrilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it ...
White House Burning: Our National Deb...
Simon JohnsonFrom the authors of the national bestseller 13 Bankers, a chilling account of America's unprecedented debt crisis: how it came to pass, why it threatens to topple the nation as a superpower, and what needs to be done about it. With b...
How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of...
Dambisa MoyoIn How the West Was Lost, the New York Times bestselling author Dambisa Moyo offers a bold account of the decline of the West's economic supremacy. She examines how the West's flawed financial decisions have resulted in an economic an...
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape ...
Rajeev Charles PatelEconomics is about choices, but who gets to make them? Patel shows how free market fundamentalism has distorted how consumers value their world.
Giants: The Global Power Elite
Peter PhillipsA look at the top 300 most powerful players in world capitalism, who are at the controls of our economic future.Who holds the purse strings to the majority of the world's wealth? There is a new global elite at the controls of our econ...
People, Power, and Profits: Progressi...
Joseph E. StiglitzAn authoritative account of the dangers of unfettered markets and monied politics, People, Power, and Profits shows us an America in crisis. The American people, however, are far from powerless, and Joseph Stiglitz provides an alterna...