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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
People of Plenty	David M. Potter	America has long been famous as a land of plenty, but we seldom realize how much the American people are a people of plenty -- a people whose distinctive character has been shaped by economic abundan…	OL10637673W
Trucking Country	Shane Hamilton	"Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the cotentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait…	OL11877337W
Only yesterday	Frederick Lewis Allen	A social history of the United States during the "roaring twenties." Examines American individualism and the decade that they knew Mah Jong and Mencken, Couéism and Coolidge, Listerine and Lindbergh…	OL1212453W
Do voters look to the future?	Brad Lockerbie	"Do voters look to the past, the future, or both when deciding how to vote? In Do Voters Look to the Future?, Brad Lockerbie shows voters to be more sophisticated than much of the work in political s…	OL12710041W
American commodities in an age of empire	Mona Domosh	American Commodities in an Age of Empire is a novel interpretation of the relationship between consumerism, commercialism, and imperialism during the first empire building ear of America in the late …	OL13255710W
The foreclosure of America	Adam Michaelson	"When business school classes study this collapse in hindsight many years from now..., they will certainly pore through reams of rich data, charts, and graphs, and seek out various flaws in the prese…	OL13722517W
Conservation of natural resources	Guy Harold Smith	Covers land utilization, forest resources, water supply, mineral resources, wildlife, recreation etc.	OL143580W
How we got here	Andy Kessler	Best-selling author Andy Kessler ties up the loose ends from his provocative book, Running Money, with this history of breakthrough technology and the markets that funded them. Expanding on themes fi…	OL15142684W
The Rise and Fall of the US Mortgage and Credit Markets	James Barth	The mortgage meltdown: what went wrong and how do we fix it? Owning a home can bestow a sense of security and independence. But today, in a cruel twist, many Americans now regard their homes as a so…	OL15170366W
Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth	Stanley L Engerman	Volume 51 of NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth gathers classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada…	OL15176078W
Inflated	R. Christopher Whalen	"Americans as a whole view themselves as reasonably prudent and sober people when it comes to matters of money, reflecting the puritan roots of the earliest European settlers. Yet as a community, we …	OL15413980W
Presimetrics	Michael Philip Kimel	The authors, Mike Kimel and Michael E. Kanell have gathered and analyzed data on more than a dozen critical national issues including GDP, personal income, health care, jobs, national security, educa…	OL15909372W
The American bourgeoisie	Julia B. Rosenbaum,Sven Beckert	"What precisely constitutes an American bourgeoisie? Scholars have grappled with the question for a long time. Economic positions-the ownership of capital, for instance-most obviously defines this gr…	OL16113290W
The role of Sarbanes-Oxley and ISO 9001 in corporate management	William A. Stimson	"This book's exploration of the relationship between corporate governance and operations uses the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley law as a guide and the internal controls of the ISO 9001 Quality M…	OL16184379W
Shiny objects	Roberts, James A.	Americans toss out 140 million cell phones every year. We discard 2 million plastic bottles every five minutes. And our total credit-card debt as of July 2011 is $793 billion. Plus, credit cards can …	OL16295835W
Debacle	Grover Glenn Norquist	"During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama promised time after time "a net spending cut" to make government smaller in order to cut the deficit. But the huge increase in government spending and de…	OL16462115W
The rhythm of success	Emilio Estefan	From one of the most dynamic business men in the country, a motivational doctrine for those who want to make their most ambitious dreams come true. Emilio Estefan, husband to singer Gloria Estefan a…	OL16661492W
The Industrial Revolution in United States History	Anita Louise McCormick	This book traces the evolution of modern conveniences, luxurious consumer goods, developing cities, and the problems of urban living. It describes how, in less than two hundred years, the United Stat…	OL17080021W
Handbook of U.S. labor statistics	Mary Meghan Ryan	The Handbook of Labor Statistics is recognized as an authoritative resource on the U.S. labor force. It continues and enhances the Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, Labor S…	OL17875375W
The leading indicators	Zachary Karabell	A history and critical assessment of leading indicators reveals their indelible impact on the economy, public policy, and other critical decisions, discussing their shortcomings while making suggesti…	OL19708264W