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Wealth
and Democracy: How Great Fortunes and Government Created America's Aristocracy
by Kevin Phillips
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Most American conservatives take it as an article of faith that the
less governmental involvement in affairs of the market and pocketbook the
better. The rich do not, whatever they might say--for much of their wealth
comes from the "power and preferment of government." So writes Kevin Phillips,
the accomplished historian and one-time Washington insider, in this extraordinary
survey of plutocracy, excess, and reform. "Laissez-faire is a pretense,"
he argues; as the wealth of the rich has grown, so has its control over
government, making politics a hostage of money. Examining cycles of economic
growth and decline from the founding days of the republic to the recent
collapse of technology stocks, Phillips dispels notions of trickle-down
wealth creation, pricks holes in speculative bubbles, and decries the ever-increasing
"financialization" of the economy--all of which, he argues, have served
to reduce the well-being of ordinary Americans and government alike. Highly
readable for all its charts and graphs, Phillips's book offers a refreshing--and,
of course, controversial--blend of economic history and social criticism.
His conclusions won't please all readers, but just about everyone who comes
to his pages will feel hackles rising. --Gregory McNamee - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 432 pages
Broadway Books; ISBN: 0767905334; (May 14, 2002)
Globalization and Its Discontents
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
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by Bjorn Lomborg
(Paperback -- September 2001)
The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
by Thomas L. Friedman
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True
Professionalism : The Courage to Care About Your People, Your Clients,
and Your Career
by David H. Maister
(Paperback -- May 2000)
Fast
Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser (Paperback -- January 8, 2002)
The
Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary National Bestseller That Changed
The Way We Do Business
by Clayton M. Christensen (Paperback -- May 2, 2000)
Nickel
and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich
(Hardcover -- May 2001)
When
Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
by Roger Lowenstein (Paperback -- October 9, 2001)
Buck
Up, Suck Up... and Come Back When You Foul Up
by James Carville, Paul Begala
(Hardcover -- September 4, 2001)
Creative
Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market--And
How to Successfully Transform Them
by Richard Foster, Sarah Kaplan
(Hardcover -- April 3, 2001)
The
Cartoon Guide to Statistics
by Larry Gonick, et al (Paperback -- February 25, 1994)
Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism
by Brink Lindsey
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The
Road to Serfdom
by F. A. Hayek (Paperback -- September 1994)
The Commanding Heights: the Battle for the World Economy
by Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw
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The
Art of Innovation : Lessons in Creativity from Ideo, America's Leading
Design Firm
by Tom Kelley, et al
(Hardcover -- January 16, 2001)
Public
Finance and Public Choice : Two Contrasting Visions of the State
by James M. Buchanan, Richard A. Musgrave
(Hardcover)
The
Limits of Liberty : Between Anarchy and Leviathan
by James M. Buchanan
Paperback (February 1977)
University of Chicago Press; ISBN: 0226078205
Public
Spending in the 20th Century
by Vito Tanzi, Ludger Schuknecht
Paperback: 291 pages
Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); ISBN: 0521664101; (June
2000)
Economics
of the Public Sector
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Hardcover: 823 pages
W W Norton & Co.; ISBN: 0393966518; 3 edition (February
2000)
The
Making of Economic Policy
by Avinash K. Dixit
Paperback: 216 pages
MIT Press; ISBN: 0262540983; Reprint edition (July 31,
1998)
Meritocracy
and Economic Inequality
by Kenneth Joseph Arrow (Editor), et al
The editors, one of whom is a Nobel laureate, are all professors of
economics.
Paperback: 272 pages
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691004684; (January 4, 2000)
A
History of Economic Thought
by Lionel Robbins, et al
Paperback: 393 pages
Princeton Univ Pr; ISBN: 0691070148; (November 15, 2000)
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