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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Broke, USA Broke, USA Gary Rivlin For most people, the Great Crash of 2008 has meant troubling times. Not so for those in the flourishing poverty industry, for whom the economic woes spell an opportunity to expand and grow. These mer… OL15190085W
Re-made in the USA Re-made in the USA Todd Lipscomb "A business-based rallying cry to reclaim the US economy. There is a nagging feeling that the U.S. is slipping as a nation and our people are powerless to do anything to fix it. Issues such as jobs, … OL15988618W
Kids These Days Kids These Days Malcolm Harris,Malcolm Harris "A Millennial's groundbreaking investigation into why his generation is economically worse off than their parents, creating a radical and devastating portrait of what it means to be young in America.… OL18361634W
ECONned ECONned Yves Smith 362 p. : 25 cm OL18568193W
Contemporary capitalism and its crises Contemporary capitalism and its crises Terrence McDonough "This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain th… OL18643401W
The impulse society The impulse society Paul Roberts Drawing on the fields of economics, psychology, history and political philosophy, Roberts shows how we have become so obsessed with "maximizing returns" that we embrace virtually any means--any techn… OL19670810W
American insecurity American insecurity Adam Seth Levine "Americans today face no shortage of threats to their financial well-being, such as job and retirement insecurity, health care costs, and spiraling college tuition. While one might expect that these … OL19998809W
Government gone wild Government gone wild Kristin Tate "Passionate and politically involved 24 year-old Kristin Tate worries that her fellow millennials, and even 40-something elders, have become politically ambivalent and brainwashed into accepting big … OL20045432W
Making it Making it Louis Uchitelle "From the longtime New York Times economics correspondent, a closely reported argument for the continuing importance of industry for American prosperity In the 1950s manufacturing generated nearly 30… OL20056258W
America America Tony Evans "Dr. Tony Evans not only examines the root of our nation's social, economic, and political unrest but presents a plan for reclaiming freedom, morality, and strength. We hold within the collective bod… OL23211990W