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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
by Thomas L. Friedman
Price: Audio CD ($47.96) | Digital Download
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
Price: Audio CD ($23.96) | Digital Download
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 Battle for the Soul of Capitalism
by John C. Bogle
Price: Audio CD ($31.98) | Digital Download ($19.96)
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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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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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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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Ecomomy
by Thomas Sowell
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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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Freakonomics: Revised and Expanded Edition
by Steven D. Levitt
Price: Audio CD ($27.96)
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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Something for Nothing
by Brian Tracy
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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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Free to Choose
by Milton Friedman
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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
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"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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The Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan
Price: Audio CD ($35.96)
"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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China, Inc.
by Ted C. Fishman
Price: Audio CD | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($20.69)
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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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
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This is the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire.
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The Undercover Economist
by Tim Harford
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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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Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt
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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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Fundamental Analysis, Value Investing and Growth Investing
by Roger Lowenstein
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Benjamin Graham developed "value investing," a style adopted by Warren Buffett, one of history's most successful investors…
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Banker to the Poor
by Muhammad Yunus
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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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Dave Barry's Money Secrets
by Dave Barry
Price: Audio CD ($24.26) | Audio Cassette ($24.95) | MP3 CD ($24.95)
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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On the Wealth of Nations
by P.J. O'Rourke
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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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Supercapitalism
by Robert Reich
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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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Free Market Fantasies
by Noam Chomsky
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A refutation of the fantasies marketed as the "American Dream." The gulf between reality and a "free market" where entrepeneurs can compete on a level playing field is growing daily.
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Coal
by Barbara Freese
Price: Audio CD ($35.10) | Digital Download | MP3 CD
The fascinating, often surprising story of how a simple black rock altered the course of history...
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The Soul of Capitalism
by William Greider
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The Soul of Capitalism examines how the greatest wealth-creation engine in the history of the world is failing most of us....
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A Game as Old as Empire
by Steven Hiatt
Price: Audio CD ($23.96)
The shocking stories in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man were just the tip of the iceberg. The hidden web of multinational corruption is more pervasive — and far more sinister — than Confessions revealed.
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A Thousand Barrels a Second
by Peter Tertzakian
Price: Audio CD ($22.40)
Tertzakian reveals how the world's dizzying consumption of oil is poised to forever change the world's economies and businesses.
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China Road
by Rob Gifford
Price: Audio CD | Audio Cassette ($29.66) | Digital Download | MP3 CD ($29.95)
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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