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The Deals That Made the World: Reckless Ambition, Backroom Negotiations, and the Hidden Truths of Business

Jacques Peretti · William Morrow
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Filled with startling observations and thought-provoking findings, an award-winning BBC investigative reporter's compelling and informative look at twelve business deals that have transformed the modern world.While the laws that guide our lives are written by the politicians we elect, much...

The Human Advantage: The Future of American Work in an Age of Smart Machines

JAY W RICHARDS · Crown Forum
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

Bestselling author and economist Jay W. Richards makes the definitive case for how the free market and individual responsibility can save the American Dream in an age of automation and mass disruption.For two and a half centuries, America has been held together by the belief that if you work...

Advice and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide

Alan S Blinder · Basic Books
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

A bestselling economist tells us what both politicians and economists must learn to fix America's failing economic policiesAmerican economic policy ranks as something between bad and disgraceful. As leading economist Alan S. Blinder argues, a crucial cultural divide separates economic and political...

The Infinite Desire for Growth

DANIEL COHEN · Princeton University Press
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover

Why society's expectation of economic growth is no longer realisticEconomic growth--and the hope of better things to come -- is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population...

The Last Lobster: Boom or Bust for Maine's Greatest Fishery?

Christopher P White · St. Martin's Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the author of Skipjack & The Melting World comes a mystery: the curious boom in America's beloved lobster industry and its probable crashMaine lobstermen have happened upon a bonanza along their rugged, picturesque coast. For the past five years, the lobster population along the coast...

Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream

Jonathan Gruber · PublicAffairs
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover

The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded...

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