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Principles of Economics: Business, Banking, Finance, and Your Everyday Life
by Peter Navarro
Price: Audio Download ($34.95)
This course introduces both macro economics and micro economics.
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Nickel and Dimed
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($23.99)
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 Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
Price: Audio Download ($23.93) | Audio CD
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications....
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Lords of Finance
by Liaquat Ahamed
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control.
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The Go-Giver
by Bob Burg
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($15.98)
The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success.
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
by Thomas L. Friedman
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($47.96)
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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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Ecomomy
by Thomas Sowell
Price: Audio Download ($27.95) | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD ($29.95)
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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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0
by Thomas L. Friedman
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.96)
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 Download ($19.96) | Audio CD ($39.98)
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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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 Lexus and the Olive Tree
by Thomas L. Friedman
Price: Audio Download ($9.09) | Audio CD ($20.00) | Audio Cassette
Globalization is not just a phenomenon and not just a passing trend. It is the international system that replaced...
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Free to Choose
by Milton Friedman
Price: Audio Download ($22.95) | Audio CD ($26.96) | Audio Cassette ($29.95) | MP3 CD ($26.96)
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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Super Crunchers
by Ian Ayres
Price: Audio Download ($26.67) | Audio CD
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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House of Cards
by William D. Cohan
Price: Audio Download ($17.49) | Audio CD ($44.99) | MP3 CD ($31.49)
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash.
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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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Ian Mitroff on Crisis Management
by Russ Volckmann
Price: Audio Download ($3.00)
Russ Volckmann interviews Ian Mitroff, father of crisis management on critical factors in crisis management and the implications of the global financial crisis for how business leaders implement it.
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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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Something for Nothing
by Brian Tracy
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.39)
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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The Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($34.95)
"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 Trillion Dollar Meltdown
by Charles R. Morris
Price: Audio Download ($19.56) | Audio CD ($25.16)
According to Charles R. Morris, the astronomical leverage at investment banks, with their hedge-fund and private-equity clients, virtually guarantees massive disruption in global markets. A quarter century of free-market zealotry that extolled asset striping, abusive lending, and hedge-fund secrecy will come crashing down with it.
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Applied Economics
by Thomas Sowell
Price: Audio Download ($16.95) | Audio CD ($29.66) | Audio Cassette | MP3 CD
This book is geared to the average citizen with little or no economics background who would like the tools to think critically about economic issues.
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The Big Con
by Jonathan Chait
Price: Audio Download ($17.50) | Audio CD ($31.49) | MP3 CD ($22.49)
The Big Con is a brilliantly revealing look at how the radical ideas of a small group of economic hucksters have taken over the American political system and perverted our nation’s policies.
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The Shock Doctrine
by Naomi Klein
Price: Audio Download | Audio CD ($23.96)
The bestselling author of "No Logo" shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq.
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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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The Classical Economists
by E.G. West
Price: Audio Download ($11.95) | Audio CD ($17.95)
The classical economists pioneered a new way of thinking about the uniquely human tendency to produce, trade, consume, and accumulate.
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