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Released: Feb. 26, 2013
"A thought-provoking presentation about already discernible global trends."
Business consultant Charan (
The Talent Masters: Why Smart Leaders Put People Before Numbers, 2011, etc.) offers his view of where the world economy is headed in the next 20 years, along with his prescriptions for success.
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Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"An important book for readers interested in what has been done, and what remains to be done, when it comes to safeguarding financial institutions."
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Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"A vivid, highly informed portrayal of the personalities, politics and policies dominating "the most important international gathering since the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.""
The director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations revisits the 1944 conference that created "the new global monetary architecture" for the postwar world.
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Released: Feb. 24, 2013
"A mostly intriguing analysis of how "to understand philanthropy is to understand something about the American psyche and its fidelity to promoting enterprise and opportunity.""
Acs (Entrepreneurship and Public Policy/George Mason Univ.;
Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth, 2006, etc.) argues that philanthropy's contribution to American capitalism is unique.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 19, 2013
"A few helpful kernels amid a monotonous, repetitive text."
NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 18, 2013
"To ask and answer the question "What would Socrates do?" may not cure the pathologies of poverty, but Shorris insists it's a necessary exercise for the poor to begin to free themselves."
A prolific author and founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, a free program designed to teach reflective thinking to the disadvantaged, tells stories about the students and teachers touched by the experience.
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Released: Feb. 7, 2013
"A book full of both literary grace and hard-won world-weariness."
Iggy Pop meets Jim Carroll and Charles Bukowski in this gritty downer of a Rust Belt portrait.
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Released: Feb. 6, 2013
"A useful contribution to the ongoing shaping of the story of the recent financial crisis."
Greenberg collaborates with Cunningham (Law/George Washington Univ.;
Contracts in the Real World, 2012) to tell his side of the story of the incredible rise, and even more precipitous fall, of AIG, once the world's largest insurance company and the epicenter of one of the biggest bailouts ever.
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Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"A keeper in a field of undercooked, underwritten books by CEOs."
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Released: Feb. 5, 2013
"A satisfying combination of serious gusto and sharp thinking."
International investor and worldwide roamer Rogers (
A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing, 2009, etc.) recounts his vibrant life and provides significant insight into the financial system.
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Released: Feb. 1, 2013
"Dense and detailed. One doesn't have to hold a doctorate in economics to read this sobering treatise, but it helps."
A rigorous analysis of the collapse of the world economy in 2008--and why things don't seem to be getting better.
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Released: Jan. 28, 2013
"A clearheaded analysis with a final section suggesting that lessons learned from the crisis are already being ignored."
An experienced economist explains the global financial crisis that began in 2008 and continues.
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