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The Future of Success
by Robert B. Reich
Credits: Digital Download
The dizzying exuberance of the Internet-driven marketplace offers unprecedented opportunities and an ever-expanding choice of deals, products, investments, and jobs...
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Super Crunchers
by Ian Ayres
Credits: Digital Download
Economist Ian Ayres has spent the better part of his career examining the power in numbers. Decisions used to be made by traditional experts based on experience, intuition, and trial and error.
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The Coming Economic Collapse
by Stephen Leeb
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
The Coming Economic Collapse is an urgent call-to-arms to avert an all-but-certain catastropheand a survival kit for an era that offers us only two financial choices: poverty or wealth.
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD
When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD
When scholars write the history of the world 20 years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004", what will they say was the most crucial development?
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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Credits: Audio CD
This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list since its publication....
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The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
by John C. Bogle
Credits: Audio CD | Digital Download
There is no one better qualified to tell us about the failures of the American financial system and the grotesque abuses that have taken place in recent years than John C. Bogle, founder and former chief executive of the Vanguard mutual fund group.
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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Ecomomy
by Thomas Sowell
Credits: Audio Cassette
Basic Economics has been written with the thought that learning economics should be not only a relaxed experience but also an enjoyable one.
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Something for Nothing
by Brian Tracy
Credits: Audio CD
Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit society, people are increasingly vying for political advantage to live at the expense of others...
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Freakonomics: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Steven D. Levitt
Credits: Audio CD
This newly revised edition of the "New York Times" bestseller offers a view of how the world really works, from two of today's most original thinkers.
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The Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan
Credits: Audio CD
"This book is in part a detective story. After 9/11 I knew, if I needed further reinforcement, that we are living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-correcting, and fast-changing than it was even a quarter century earlier..."
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Free to Choose
by Milton Friedman
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society.
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The Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan
Credits: Audio CD
"This book is in part a detective story. After 9/11 I knew, if I needed further reinforcement, that we are living in a new world - the world of a global capitalist economy that is vastly more flexible, resilient, open, self-correcting, and fast-changing than it was even a quarter century earlier..."
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman
Credits: Audio CD
Globalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced...
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China, Inc.
by Ted C. Fishman
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States?
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Dave Barry's Money Secrets
by Dave Barry
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
For decades, Dave Barry's many fans have relied on him for good laughs, humorous insight, and great stories. Now, in his first original nonfiction book in five years, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer reveals everything listeners need to know--and more--about the stock market, big business, and the art of making and losing money.
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The Worldly Philosophers
by Robert L. Heilbroner
Credits: Audio Cassette
This text on the history of economic thought brings to life the great economic thinkers…
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The Undercover Economist
by Tim Harford
Credits: Audio CD
Author of the extremely popular "Dear Economist" column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book.
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The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Credits: Digital Download
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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Banker to the Poor
by Muhammad Yunus
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette
In 1983 Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. He aimed to help the poor by supporting the spark of personal initiative and enterprise by which they could lift themselves out of poverty forever.
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China Road
by Rob Gifford
Credits: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
NPR's Beijing correspondent Rob Gifford recounts his travels along Route 312, the Chinese Mother road, the longest route in the world's most populous nation.
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On the Wealth of Nations
by P.J. O'Rourke
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
As one of the first titles in Atlantic Monthly Press' "Books That Changed the World" series, America's most provocative satirist, P. J. O'Rourke, reads Adam Smith's revolutionary "The Wealth of Nations" so you don't have to.
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Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt
Credits: Audio CD
Called by H.L. Mencken, "one of the few economists in history who could really write," Henry Hazlitt achieved lasting fame...
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Supercapitalism
by Robert Reich
Credits: Audio CD | MP3 CD
From one of the nations most valued voices on politics, business, and the economy, the bestselling author of "Locked in the Cabinet" and "The Work of Nations" discusses the clash between capitalism and democracy, in this timely, impassioned, and highly important book.
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