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Notable Books on Money and the Economy

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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 22, 2010
AFTERSHOCK: THE NEXT ECONOMY AND AMERICA'S FUTURE
by Robert B. Reich
"Lucid and cogent."
Former Secretary of Labor Reich (Public Policy/Univ. of California, Berkeley; Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life, 2007, etc.) argues that America will not have a sustained economic recovery until the middle class has more buying power. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: June 14, 2010
MORE MONEY THAN GOD: HEDGE FUNDS AND THE MAKING OF A NEW ELITE
by Mallaby. Sebastian
"A lively, provocative examination of a little-understood financial realm."
A history of hedge funds that also looks at their role in the recent market crash. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 17, 2009
Kirkus Star HOW MARKETS FAIL: THE LOGIC OF ECONOMIC CALAMITIES
by John Cassidy
"The dismal science coupled with dismal news--it doesn't make a promising premise, but Cassidy writes with terrific clarity and a finely tuned sense of moral outrage, yielding a superb book."
New Yorker and Condé Nast Portfolio contributor Cassidy (Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold, 2002) presents an elegant, readable treatise on economics, swathed in current headlines. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 26, 2009
Kirkus Star LORDS OF FINANCE: THE BANKERS WHO BROKE THE WORLD
by Liaquat Ahamed
"Spellbinding, insightful and, perhaps most important, timely."
Erudite, entertaining macroeconomic history of the lead-up to the Great Depression as seen through the careers of the West's principal bankers. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 17, 2008
THE ASCENT OF MONEY: A FINANCIAL HISTORY OF THE WORLD
by Niall Ferguson
"A useful introduction to the world of drachmas, dinars and dollars."
From prolific historian Ferguson (History/Harvard Univ.; The War of the World, 2006, etc.), a sweeping survey of money and its many instruments. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: March 20, 2007
DEEP ECONOMY: THE WEALTH OF COMMUNITIES AND THE DURABLE FUTURE
by Bill McKibben
"McKibben tries to stay optimistic in his most quixotic work, but darkness presses at the edges of every page."
To move forward, increasing equality and happiness, we need to turn the clock back: thinking locally rather than globally, buying from and selling to our neighbors to create true communities. Read full book review >