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John Perkins, November 2004, 256pp.
• "Economic hit men are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars," Perkins writes. An extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations. Think John Le Carré, except it's a true story. (zFacts is intrigued, and thinks it's worth a look.) Amazon |
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| |  China, Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World
Ted. C Fishman, April 11, 2006, 368pp.
• From economic disaster to emerging economic superpower in 30 years, the Chinese economy is growing at nearly 10% a year, three times as fast as the US. The manufacturing jobs are going to China and they have all people they need, eager to make 25 cents an hour. Amazon |
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| |  Empire of Debt : The Rise Of An Epic Financial Crisis
William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Nov. 11, 2005, 384pp.
• Is the U.S. economy about to burst like the dot-com bubble because of the national debt? Is the end of the empire at hand? Read this and decide. Amazon |
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| |  Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, May 2005, 256pp.
• Economics can be interesting and even make sense as this new run-away best seller proves. Faith-based market fundamentalism doesn't work, and neither does ignoring economic incentives. This books gets the balance of economics and other social forces right and explains it with lots of interesting anecdotes. Amazon |
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| |  The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century
Paul Krugman, Sept. 2003, 320pp.
• A brilliant, bitingly funny economist on the policies of the radical right from corporate malfeasance to tax cuts for the rich. Amazon |
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| |  Running on Empty: How The Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What Americans Can Do About It
Peter G. Peterson, July 2004, 272pp.
• Secretary of Commerce under Nixon, Peterson explains the national debt by the Republicans' pursuit of reckless supply-side economics and the Democrats' unwillingness to consider limits on entitlements. Amazon |
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| |  Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph Stiglitz, April 2003, 304pp.
• Stiglitz: Nobel winner analyzes the ideology and promoters of globalization. Amazon |
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| |  The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
Joseph E. Stiglitz, October 2003, 256pp.
• Stiglitz: Nobel winning economist points out the excesses of deregulation and their consequences. Amazon |
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| |  The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Hernando DeSoto, Sept. 2000, 276pp.
• de Soto: why capitalism doesn't flourish in the developing and post-Communist nations Amazon |
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| |  George Soros on Globalization
George Soros, March 2002, 160pp.
• Soros presents the case against market fundamentlists who turn a blind eye to social and political inequalities Amazon |
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| |  In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
Robert Rubin,
• Clinton Treasury Secretary on the global economy and deficit reduction. Amazon |
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