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How Unenlightened Self Interest Damaged Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

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Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the disease. ECONned is the first book to examine the unquestioned role of economists as policy-makers, and how ... Read more

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Dangerous Ideas

A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News

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End Times

Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

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Warren Buffett Book of Investing Wisdom

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What the Luck?

The Surprising Role of Chance in Our Everyday Lives

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"[A] delightful addition to the stuff-you-think-you-know-that's-wrong genre, á la Freakonomics, Outliers, and The Black Swan." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)In Israel, pilot trainees who were praised for doing well subsequently performed worse, while trainees who were yelled at for doing poorly performed better. Evidence shows that highly intelligent women tend to marry men who are less ... Read more

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American Government 101

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Understand American government, elections, and the Constitution with this engaging, accessible introduction to how US politics really works.Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy details of government into tedious discourse that would put even the president to sleep. American Government 101 cuts out the boring explanations, and instead provides a hands-on lesson that keeps you engaged as you ... Read more

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