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  • Rethinking the Great Depression

    by Gene Smiley ...
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    The worldwide Great Depression of the 1930s was the most traumatic event of the twentieth century. It ushered in substantial expansions in the role of governments around the world, focused attention on social insurance, and for a time bolstered socialist economic ideas as a form of cure. Skepticism about the effectiveness of government withered as the free market failed, and it seems safe to say ... Read more

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  • The New Depression

    The Breakdown of the Paper Money Economy

    by Richard Duncan ...
    Why the global recession is in danger of becoming another Great Depression, and how we can stop itWhen the United States stopped backing dollars with gold in 1968, the nature of money changed. All previous constraints on money and credit creation were removed and a new economic paradigm took shape. Economic growth ceased to be driven by capital accumulation and investment as it had been since ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Dollar Crisis

    Causes, Consequences, Cures

    by Richard Duncan ...
    In this updated, second edition of the highly acclaimed international best seller, The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, Richard Duncan describes the flaws in the international monetary system that have destabilized the global economy and that may soon culminate in a deflation-induced worldwide economic slump.The Dollar Crisis is divided into five parts:Part One describes how the US ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Exorbitant Privilege:The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

    The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

    by Barry Eichengreen ...
    For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all $100 bills circulate outside the United States. The dollar holdings of the Chinese government alone come to more than $1,000 per Chinese resident. This dependence on dollars, by ... Read more

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  • The End of Prosperity

    How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy--If We Let It Happen

    by Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, Peter Tanous ...
    Arthur Laffer -- the father of supply-side economics and a member of President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board -- joins economist Stephen Moore of The Wall Street Journal editorial board and investment advisor Peter J. Tanous to send Americans an urgent message: We risk losing the exceptional standard of living that has made us the envy of the rest of the world if the pro-growth policies ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Volcker

    The Triumph of Persistence

    by William L. Silber ...
    Over the course of nearly half a century, five American presidents-three Democrats and two Republicans-have relied on the financial acumen, and the integrity, of Paul A. Volcker. During his tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when he battled the Great Inflation of the 1970s, Volcker did nothing less than restore the reputation of an American financial system on the verge of collapse. ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • White House Burning

    The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You

    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
    America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain the same.In White House Burning, Simon Johnson and ... Read more

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal

    by Robert P. Murphy ...
    In this timely new P.I. Guide, Murphy reveals the stark truth: free market failure didn't cause the Great Depression and the New Deal didn't cure it. Shattering myths and politically correct lies, he tells why World War II didn t help the economy or get us out of the Great Depression; why it took FDR to make the Depression Great; and why Herbert Hoover was more like Obama and less like Bush than ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Lost Decades

    The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery

    by Menzie D. Chinn, Jeffry A. Frieden ...
    A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead.The U.S. economy lost the first decade of the twenty-first century to an ill-conceived boom and subsequent bust. It is in danger of losing another decade to the stagnation of an incomplete recovery. How did this happen? Read this lucid explanation of the origins and long-term effects of ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Speech

    On Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class

    by Bernie Sanders ...
    On Friday, December 10, 2010, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders walked on to the floor of the United States Senate and began speaking. It turned out to be a very long speech, lasting over eight and a half hours. And it hit a nerve. Millions followed the speech online until the traffic crashed the Senate server. A huge, positive grassroots response tied up the phones in the senator's offices in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Europes Unfinished Currency

    The Political Economics of the Euro

    by Thomas Mayer ...
    For more information please see the book website:http://europesunfinishedcurrency.anthempressblog.comThe euro was originally seen as another stepping stone to a politically unified Europe. Yet with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the unification of Germany, the need for European political union as a means to ensure peace in Europe disa... ... Read more

    $15.59 USD

  • The Fall of the Euro: Reinventing the Eurozone and the Future of Global Investing

    by Jens Nordvig ...
    From Jens Nordvig--named the #1 currency strategist in the 2013 Institutional Investor surveyThe euro started out with great promise, but it has seen major problems in the last few years. What will happen if Germany decides to drop the euro? Greece? Italy? Spain? How will your investments be affected?The financial crisis of 2007–2008 may have had its epicenter in the United States, but it exposed ... Read more

    $22.69 USD