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81. |  The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets By: Charles Morris Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 01-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets
Throughout the violent financial disruptions of the past several years, three men have stood out as beacons of judgment and wisdom: Warren Buffett, George Soros, and Paul Volcker. Though their experiences and styles vary—Buffett is the canny stock market investor; Soros is the reader of shifting global tides in trade and currencies; and Volcker is the regulator and governor, sheriff and clean-up crew—they have very much in common. All three men have more than fifty years of deep involvement in markets. All are skeptical of Wall Street frenzies. They believe that markets tend to be...
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82. |  The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World By: Erwann Michel-Kerjan; Paul Slovic Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 15-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World
Of the twenty most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational? A select group of scholars, innovators, and Nobel Laureates was asked to address challenges to rational decision making both in our day-to-day life and in the face of catastrophic threats such as climate changes, natural disasters, technological hazards, and human malevolence. At the crossroads of decision sciences, behavioral...
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83. |  The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash By: Charles Morris Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 20-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
Now fully updated with the latest financial developments, this is the bestselling book that briefly and brilliantly explains how we got into the economic mess that is the Credit Crunch. With the housing markets unravelling daily and distress signals flying throughout the rest of the economy, there is little doubt that we are facing a fierce recession. In crisp, gripping prose, Charles R. Morris shows how got into this mess. He explains the arcane financial instruments, the chicanery, the policy misjudgments, the dogmas, and the delusions that created the greatest credit bubble in world...
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84. |  Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution By: Auden Schendler Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 03-FEB-2009 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution
“Going green is easy and profitable.” That’s the common refrain from sustainability gurus. In reality, though, many green-leaning businesses, families, and governments are fiddling with the small stuff while the planet burns. Why? Because implementing sustainability is brutally difficult. If we’re going to cut CO2 emissions 80 percent by midcentury, it will take more than a recycling program and some hemp shopping bags. We’ll only solve our problems if we’re realistic about the challenge of climate change. In this witty book, a sustainable business foot soldier with over a decade’s...
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85. |  By: Thomas Sowell Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 15-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Intellectuals and Society
This title offers a withering and clear-eyed critique about (but not for) intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion, policy, and society at large. It has not been by shaping the opinions or directing the actions of the holders of power that modern intellectuals have most influenced the course of events, but by shaping public opinion in ways that affect the actions of power holders in democratic societies, whether or not those power holders accept the general vision or the particular policies favored by intellectuals. In "Intellectuals and Society", Thomas Sowell not only...
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86. |  The China Strategy: Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy By: Edward Tse Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 02-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 28-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The China Strategy: Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy
No major enterprise or financial institution can avoid doing business with China—if not directly, then through myriad hidden connections. Global businesses either use Chinese resources or sell to and in China or compete with companies that do. Because there’s no avoiding China, business leaders need a framework that orders the different (and seemingly contradictory) streams of data that hint at its future. That framework is The China Strategy. In this invaluable book, Edward Tse explains the ever-changing nature of China's business environment, its increasingly complex relationship...
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87. |  Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection) By: Dr. Brett E. Trusko, Carolyn Pexton, Praveen Gupta, Dr. H. James Harrington, Douglas A. Perednia M.D., Jim Champy, Harry Greenspun M.D. Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 24-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Practical Solutions for Healthcare Management and Policy (Collection) A brand new collection of
state-of-the-art insights into transforming healthcare, from
world-renowned experts and practitioners… now in a convenient
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Making American healthcare work: 3 new
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Even after Obamacare, America’s
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These three eBooks offer real solutions, not sterile ideology. In
Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and
Save Trillions, leading healthcare expert and entrepreneur
Douglas A. Perednia identifies the...
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88. |  Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States By: George Soros Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 17-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Financial Turmoil in Europe and the United States
The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this collection of his recent writings on the global financial situation, George Soros presents his views and analysis of key economic policy choices leading up to, during, and following the financial crisis of 2008-2009. Soros explores domestic and international policy choices like how to manage the (then) potential implosion of Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, deploying measures to stem global contagion from the sub-prime crisis,...
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89. |  Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order By: Philip Coggan Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 17-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Paper Promises: Debt, Money, and the New World Order
For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn place in our economic history. As with the crises in the 1930s and 1970s, governments will fall, currencies will lose their value, and new systems will emerge. Just as Britain set the terms of the international system in the nineteenth century, and America in the twentieth century, a new system will be set by today's creditors in China and the Middle East. In the process, rich will be...
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90. |  Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy By: Maggie Anderson Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 24-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Our Black Year: One Family's Quest to Buy Black in America's Racially Divided Economy
Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers--unlike consumers of other ethnicities-- choose not to support black-owned businesses. At the same time, most of the businesses in their communities are owned by outsiders. On...
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91. |  By: Michael Grabell Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 10-JAN-2012 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
The 2012 presidential campaign will, above all else, be a referendum on the Obama administration’s handling of the financial crisis, recalling the period when Obama’s “audacity of hope” met the austerity of reality. Central to this is the ’’American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009’’—the largest economic recovery plan in American history. Senator Mitch McConnell gave a taste of the enormity of the money committed: if you had spent $1 million a day since Jesus was born, it still would not add up to the price tag of the stimulus package. A nearly entirely partisan piece of...
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92. |  The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers By: James O'Shea Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 07-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers
In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it comprised the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions. The Deal From Hell is a riveting narrative that chronicles how news industry executives and editors--convinced they were...
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93. |  And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina By: Paul Blustein Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 09-FEB-2005 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: And the Money Kept Rolling In (and Out) Wall Street, the IMF, and the Bankrupting of Argentina
This dramatic, definitive account of the most spectacular economic
meltdown of modern times exposes the dangerous flaws of the global
financial system In the 1990s, few countries were more lionized than
Argentina for its efforts to join the club of wealthy nations.
Argentina's policies drew enthusiastic applause from the IMF, the World
Bank and Wall Street. But the club has a disturbing propensity to turn
its back on arrivistes and cast them out. That was what happened in 2001
when Argentina suffered one of the most spectacular crashes in modern
history. With it came appalling...
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94. |  Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty By: Muhammad Yunus Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 25-SEP-2003 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus is that rare thing: a bona fide visionary. His dream is
the total eradication of poverty from the world. In 1983, against the
advice of banking and government officials, Yunus established Grameen, a
bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with minuscule
loans. Grameen Bank, based on the belief that credit is a basic human
right, not the privilege of a fortunate few, now provides over 2.5
billion dollars of micro-loans to more than two million families in
rural Bangladesh. Ninety-four percent of Yunus's clients are women, and
repayment rates are near 100...
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95. |  Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet By: Joseph Menn Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 05-JAN-2010 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet
In 2004, a California computer whiz named Barrett Lyon uncovered the identity of a hacker running major assaults on business websites. Without fully grasping the repercussions, he set on an investigation that led him into the heart of the Russian mob. Cybercrime was evolving. No longer the domain of small-time thieves, it had been discovered by sophisticated gangs. They began by attacking corporate websites but increasingly stole financial data from consumers and defense secrets from governments. While Barrett investigated the cutting edge of technology crime, the U.S. government...
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96. |  By: David Weinberger Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 13-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 |
We used to know how to know. We got our answers from books or experts. We’d nail down the facts and move on. But in the Internet age, knowledge has moved onto networks. There’s more knowledge than ever, of course, but it’s different. Topics have no boundaries, and nobody agrees on anything. Yet this is the greatest time in history to be a knowledge seeker . . . if you know how. In Too Big to Know, Internet philosopher David Weinberger shows how business, science, education, and the government are learning to use networked knowledge to understand more than ever and to make smarter...
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97. |  Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition By: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 24-JAN-2011 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Authorized Edition
Official Government Edition The definitive report on what caused America's economic meltdown— and who was responsible The financial and economic crisis has touched the lives of millions of Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, but many have little understanding of how it happened. Now, in this very accessible report, readers can get the facts. Formed in May 2009, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC) is a panel of 10 commissioners with experience in business, regulations, economics, and housing, chosen by Congress to explain what happened and why it...
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98. |  By: Nicholas Lardy; Derek Mitchell; Bates Gill; Fred Bergsten Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 28-MAR-2006 Insert Date: 21-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: China: The Balance Sheet
China's emergence as a major international power is perhaps the most important development in world affairs of the 21st century. Now, this book provides an indispensable survey of that country, the world's largest-- a vast land with 1.4 billion people and the world's most dynamic economy. Over the past year, Dr. Bates Gill, C. Fred Bergsten, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek Mitchell have led four task forces through a rigorous exercise of investigation and intelligence, compiling and analyzing the authoritative data on China's economy, foreign and domestic policy, and national security. Now...
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99. |  A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity By: Luigi Zingales Publisher: Basic Books Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 11-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed
firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment—paired
with rampant nepotism and cronyism—on a country’s economy. This
experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he
arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the
belief that economists should not merely interpret the world, but should
change it for the better. In A Capitalism for the People,
Zingales makes a forceful, philosophical, and at times personal argument
that the roots of American...
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100. |  Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis By: Anatole Kaletsky Publisher: PublicAffairs Publication Date: 07-JUN-2011 Insert Date: 10-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis
In this controversial book, Anatole Kaletsky puts the upheavals of
2007-2009 in historical and ideological perspective. He shows how the
forces that precipitated the financial meltdown are now creating a new
and stronger version of the global capitalist system-- one that will
continue to be led and shaped by the U.S. if its businesses and
politicians play their cards well. This is Capitalism 4.0, and it will change politics, finance, international relations, and economic thinking in the coming decades.
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