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robert j samuelson

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  • Untruth

    Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong

    In Untruth, Newsweek and Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson explains why our political, economic and cultural debates so routinely traffic in misinformation--popular fads that, like meteors, momentarily burn brightly in public consciousness and then fizzle out. Advocacy groups, politicians and their unwitting allies in the media instinctively create agendas of problems that afflict ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

    The Past and Future of American Affluence

    The Great Inflation in the 1960s and 1970s, notes award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson, played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life. The direct consequences included stagnation in living standards, a growing belief—both in America and abroad—that the great-power status of the United States was ending, and Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Good Life and Its Discontents

    The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement

    A New York Times Business Book Bestseller"Shrewd and optimistic. . . . [The Good Life and Its Discontents] combines first-rate analysis with persuasive historical, political and sociological insights." —The New RepublicToday Americans are wealthier, healthier, and live longer than at any previous time in our history. As a society, we have never had it so good. Yet, paradoxically, many of us have ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Aftershock

    The Next Economy and America's Future

    A brilliant new reading of the economic crisis—and a plan for dealing with the challenge of its aftermath—by one of our most trenchant and informed experts.When the nation’s economy foundered in 2008, blame was directed almost universally at Wall Street. But Robert B. Reich suggests a different reason for the meltdown, and for a perilous road ahead. He argues that the real problem is structural: ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • End the Fed

    by Ron Paul ...
    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author and politician presents his beliefs on how to save and protect America's economy and freedom.In the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the Federal Reserve.Most people think of the Fed as an indispensable institution without which ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Predator State

    How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

    The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty-first century. While liberals continue to ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition

    What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it

    America’s economy and democracy are working for the benefit of an ever-fewer privileged and powerful people. But rather than just complain about it or give up on the system, we must join together and make it work for all of us.In this timely book, Robert B. Reich argues that nothing good happens in Washington unless citizens are energized and organized to make sure Washington acts in the public ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

    America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy

    Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order.The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America exported bad economics, bad policies, and bad behavior to the rest of the world, only to cobble together a haphazard and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Free To Choose

    A Personal Statement

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerful and persuasive discussion about economics, freedom, and the relationship between the two, from today’s brightest economist.In this classic book on the free market, Milton and Rose Friedman explain how our freedom has been eroded and our affluence undermined through the explosion of laws, regulations, agencies, and spending in Washington. This important analysis ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Economic Facts and Fallacies

    Second Edition

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **From renowned economist Thomas Sowell, an indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies"From one of America's most noted conservative economists, a short, original book that offers some unconventional ideas about how to think about common economic topics." ―Baltimore Sun**In this revised and expanded edition of Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Democracy at Work

    A Cure for Capitalism

    by Richard Wolff ...
    What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from "probably America's most prominent Marxist economist" ( The New York Times).Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable ... Read more

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  • The Age of Turbulence

    Adventures in a New World

    From the bestselling author of The Map and the Territory and Capitalism in AmericaThe Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life’s journey through ... Read more

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