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  • Citizen Wealth

    Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families

    by Wade Rathke ...
    America'Äôs safety net is torn and tattered. Income inequality continues to grow'Äîthe gap between rich and poor has expanded fivefold in the last 25 years. For millions of working families achieving basic middle class comforts has begun to seem as distant a dream as winning the lottery. What is needed, and what veteran organizer and ACORN founder Wade Rathke provides in this hard-hitting new book ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Saving Capitalism

    For the Many, Not the Few

    From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Makers and Takers

    How Wall Street Destroyed Main Street

    by Rana Foroohar ...
    **Is Wall Street bad for Main Street America?"A well-told exploration of why our current economy is leaving too many behind." —The New York Times**In looking at the forces that shaped the 2016 presidential election, one thing is clear: much of the population believes that our economic system is rigged to enrich the privileged elites at the expense of hard-working Americans. This is a belief held ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Who Stole the American Dream?

    by Hedrick Smith ...
    Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Capitalism for the People

    Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity

    Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment -- paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism -- on a country's economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • How Capitalism Will Save Us

    Has capitalism failed?Is it fundamentally greedy and immoral, enabling the rich to get richer? Are free markets Darwinian places where the most ruthless crush smaller competitors, where vital products and services are priced beyond the ability of many people to afford them?Capitalism is the world's greatest economic success story. It is the most effective way to provide for the needs of people and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fixer-Upper

    How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

    by Jenny Schuetz ...
    Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.Fixing systemic problems that arose ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Economists and the Powerful

    Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards

    “Economists and the Powerful: Convenient Theories, Distorted Facts, Ample Rewards” explores the workings of the modern global economy – an economy in which competition has been corrupted and power has a ubiquitous influence upon economic behavior. Based on an array of empirical and theoretical studies by a series of distinguished economists, this book reveals a stark and unpleasant truth: that the ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Captured Economy

    How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

    For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. They document the proliferation of regressive regulations that ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • 99 to 1

    How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do about It

    by Chuck Collins ...
    "America's foremost opponent of inequality brilliantly shows how the 1 percent rigged the rules, looted the country, and got the ninety-nine percent to pay for it."—Juliet Schor, author of Born to BuyOver recent decades, we've seen a radical redistribution of wealth upward to a tiny fraction of the population. In this book, activist Chuck Collins explains how it happened and marshals wide-ranging ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • globalization

    n. the irrational fear that someone in China will take your job

    In Globalization, authors Bruce Greenwald and Judd Kahn cut through the myths surrounding globalization and look more closely at its real impact, presenting a more accurate picture of the present status of globalization and its future consequences. Page by page, they uncover the real facts about globalization and answer the most important questions it raises, including: Will globalization increase ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • The 4% Solution

    Unleashing the Economic Growth America Needs

    **Foreword by President George W. BushWith contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America’s economic health**The United States is reaching a pivotal point in its economic history. Millions of Americans owe more on their homes than they are worth, long-term unemployment is alarmingly high, and the Congressional Budget Office ... Read more

    $14.99 USD