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The upside of the downturn The upside of the downturn Geoffrey Colvin Some businesses – and some people – will emerge from this downturn stronger and more dominant than when it started. Others will weaken and fade. It all depends on critical choices they make right now… OL11976550W
Accelerating out of the Great Recession Accelerating out of the Great Recession David Rhodes,Daniel Stelter From the world's leading business strategy consultancy comes this essential guide to prospering in the aftermath of what is being called the Great Recession.Accelerating Out of the Great Recession, b… OL15175236W
Fool's gold Fool's gold Gillian Tett Award-winning journalist and social anthropologist Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to… OL15712259W
The great hangover The great hangover Graydon Carter Presents a collection of essays commissioned by Vanity Fair magazine on the current global economic crisis by such authors as Bryan Burrough, Mark Bowden, and Mark Seal. OL15950795W
From financial crisis to stagnation From financial crisis to stagnation Thomas I. Palley "The U.S. economy today is confronted with the prospect of extended stagnation. This book explores why. Thomas I. Palley argues that the Great Recession and destruction of shared prosperity is due to… OL16002740W
Fighting financial fires Fighting financial fires J. A. H. de Beaufort Wijnholds "A topical insider view of causes and consequences of financial crises since the Mexican collapse of 1995. The book includes a detailed exploration of recent and ongoing firestorms, including the nea… OL16184426W
The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008 The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008 Paul R. Krugman Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. OL1648191W
The Return of Depression Economics The Return of Depression Economics Paul R. Krugman Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In his 1999 book, Nobel… OL1648192W
End This Depression Now! End This Depression Now! Paul R. Krugman,Paul Krugman A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize?winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old, and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful… OL16564521W
A Hologram For The King A Hologram For The King Dave Eggers "In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and fin… OL17419198W
Working scared (or not at all) Working scared (or not at all) Carl E. Van Horn "Work Scared draws on nearly twenty-five thousand interviews with employed and unemployed Americans conducted from 1998 to 2012. These voices of American workers tell a compelling story about wrenchi… OL17884273W
Hard times Hard times Tom Clark "2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was saddled with the worst slump since the 1930s Depression, and millions we… OL17886706W
The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008 The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008 Paul R. Krugman Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In his 1999 book, Nobel P… OL19899833W
Managing uncertainty Managing uncertainty Michel Syrett Technological discontinuities, regulatory upheavals, geopolitical shocks, abrupt shifts in consumer tastes or behavior, and many other factors have emerged or intensified in recent years and together… OL19963679W