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4) Knowledge and power: the information theory of capitalism and how it is revolutionizing our world
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One of the twentieth century's defining economic minds proposes a new theory on how capitalism produces wealth and how the American economy can regain its vitality and growth.
5) How capitalism will save us: why free people and free markets are the best answer in today's economy
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viii, 357 pages ; 25 cm
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In an engaging Q-and-A with the reader, Forbes and Ames answer tough questions about today's issues while explaining the fundamentals of a free-market economy. They show how democratic capitalism is more effective than any other system in improving the lives of people.
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xxviii, 403 pages ; 24 cm
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"A grand, brilliantly written work of American history. We think we know the story of American religion: the Puritans were cold, austere, and pious, and Christianity continued pure and uncorrupted until the industrial revolution got in the way. In The Money Cult, Chris Lehmann argues that we have it backwards: capitalism has always been entangled with religion, and so today's megapastors aren't an aberration -- they're as American as Benjamin Franklin....
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"A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure to address the destructive nature of a system that is...
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ix, 565 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman into household names;...
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xvii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of finance and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals the cycles of power and influence that have perpetuated a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the "free market" is, and how it has masked the power of the moneyed interests to tilt the...
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357 pages ; 25 cm
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The very rich have gotten a lot richer these past few decades--even during the current economic crisis--while most Americans haven't. How have they managed to restructure the economy to reap the lion's share, tearing new holes in the safety net and saddling all of us with increased debt and risk? In an innovative historical departure, Hacker and Pierson trace the rise of the winner-take-all economy back to a major transformation of American politics...
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1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The year is 2016, and America is on the verge of economic disaster. The greatest citizens are being targeted, and dark forces are working to bring about America's final days. A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her.
13) Capitalist punishment: how Wall Street is using your money to create a country you didn't vote for
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xix, 215 pages ; 24 cm
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A Wall Street cartel has quietly seized control of the American economy, and they are forcing governments and businesses to bow down to their political agenda -- using your money to do it. Three Wall Street firms have quietly amassed more money than Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Andrew Carnegie, and John Rockefeller combined. But the money isn't even theirs. These asset managers have accumulated all their power through "passive funds," as most investors...
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xvi, 560 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things--the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking to flight, suburbia, and sneakers,...
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xxviii, 908 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present--and argues that we've reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead. Today, in the midst of a new economic crisis and severe political discord, the nature of capitalism in the United States is at a crossroads, but it has seen such moments of transformation before. In an ambitious single-volume history of the United States,...
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xviii, 743 pages ; 25 cm
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In this revisionist history of the American state, former Reagan budget director and bestselling author David Stockman shows where capitalism went wrong, how it was corrupted, and how it might be restored. He argues that Washington -- and especially the Federal Reserve -- have fallen prey to the politics of crony capitalism and the ideologies of fiscal stimulus, monetary central planning, and financial bailouts. These policies have converged to bloat...
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x, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"A Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling financial journalist and a policy analyst expose the greed and pillaging of a small group of celebrated Wall Street financiers who use excessive debt and dubious practices to undermine our nation's economy while enriching themselves: private equity"--
"Much has been written about the widening gulf between rich and poor in the United States, the pernicious effects our deepening income inequality...
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