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Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Muhammad Yunus
PublicAffairs, 2008
"the missing piece of capitalism"
"No one who cares about humanity," writes Muhammad Yunus, "is satisfied with a world in which a few hundred million people enjoy access to all the resources of the planet, while billions more struggle to survive." But that's our world. Yunus cites one study that ...
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Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Plume, 1999
Best Book Ever Written
There is no other book that encompasses a whole philosophy and moral code as well as Ayn Rand does in 'Atlas Shrugged'. Anyone looking to find moral ground for the pursuit of happiness and the right to live your life as you see fit, this is the book.
Rand outlines ...
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The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Signet, 1996
timely and essential
If you are a conservative, a libertarian, or at least a thinking person this is a must read. Objectivism would be such a valuable paradigm for people to embrace, especially in the 'modern' world where 'second-handism' seems to tbe the coin of the realm.
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein
Metropolitan Books, 2007
Corporations gone wild
This book presents a gripping portrait of what corporations seek to do when they have no restraints upon them. Klein's analysis of corporations and the Iraq war is the best I have seen. The book is worth buying for this alone.
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Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
Milton Friedman
University Of Chicago Press, 2002
Freedom's Torch and a Libertarian master
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have." Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
(There are many topics to comment on in this book. First, I will comment on one general idea and one relevant issue: The stimulus ...
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Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
Kevin Phillips
Viking Adult, 2008
Unmasking of the Greenspan
This is a scholarly, intellectually courageous and very timely expose of the rise and fall of America's twenty-five year experiment with unfettered laizze faire capitalism, and it's destruction of the U.S. economy, the U.S. dollar, and the U.S. standard of living.
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Basic Economics 3rd Ed: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
Basic Books, 2007
Knowing what leads to what in economics
Sowell describes fundamental principles in language that anyone who has earned a high school degree can understand. He illustrates the principles with clear and compelling examples. The book contains a wealth of information that explains why good intentions so often ...
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Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Charles Wheelan
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
So easy, even a caveman could do it
I thought this was a very good introduction to economics for the layman. Wheelan purports to explain the subject without all the mind-numbing charts and economics jargon and he succeeds in doing just that. My initial reaction to the book was that Wheelan was merely an ...
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The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future
Randal O'Toole
Cato Institute, 2007
Why government planning fails.
In his 48 chapters O'Toole covers a wide range of government planning efforts. Rather than a complaint only about the disastrous consequences of a specific government planning effort, he shows why such efforts are doomed by the very incentives that motivate ...
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador, 2007
flatenning but biased
The World is Flat - Thomas Friedman
"What else but sensationalism could you expect from an American Journalist" My friend commented when I told him I was on a most sensational book by New York Times' Thomas Friedman. I thank my friend and my kids favorite 4th Grade ...
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Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar
Collins, 2003
A Big Deal
Barbarians at the Gate is a classic of the business book genre, and with the private equity boom we have seen in the last couple of years, it is still as relevant as it was when it came twenty years ago. It is the story or some extremely unlikable rich people brought ...
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Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series)
William Bonner, Lila Rajiva
Wiley, 2007
A must read
This should be read by everyone interested in the demise of your net worth and why the government is the cause and can't be trusted to ever tell the truth. But what else is new...every government in history lies to the stupid electorate and the jerks put up with it.
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books)
Robert B. Reich
Knopf, 2007
Required Reading!
Robert Reich does an amazing job of explaining what is wrong with the American democracy--the powerful influence of capitalism. He states that companies that so many people hate like Walmart are simply successful players at the capitalist game. The problem is our laws ...
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Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
Ayn Rand
Dutton Adult, 2005
One of the best books I have ever read.
Long book, but well worth the time to read. Very prophetic of where our country is heading now.
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, ...
Back Bay Books, 2000
Adam Smith, move over
Whew! Adam Smith, move over. NATURAL CAPITALISM is the bible which ought to unite environmentalists, socialists and free-market capitalists in a meaningful shift to sustainable systems. It offers a breathtaking overview of the technological and methodological fixes now ...
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