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How Markets Fail : The Logic Of Economic Calamities
In Fed We Trust : Ben Bernanke’s War On The Great Panic
Threshold : The Crisis Of Western Culture

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Thom HartmannPublication Details
BookViking2009Description
An urgent look at our world?s looming crises and what we must do to avert them In Threshold, writer and Air America host Thom Hartmann looks at the deteriorating state of our planet, where the dynamics of environmental, economic, and population change are boiling over the limits within which society can function. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) CB245 .H324 2009 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
A Failure Of Capitalism : The Crisis Of ‘08 And The Descent Into Depression

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Richard A. PosnerPublication Details
BookHarvard University Press2009Description
Posner analyzes the two basic remedial approaches to the crisis, which correspond to the two theories of the cause of the Great Depression: the monetarist?that the Federal Reserve Board allowed the money supply to shrink, thus failing to prevent a disastrous deflation?and the Keynesian?that the depression was the product of a credit binge in the 1920?s, a stock-market crash, and the ensuing downward spiral in economic activity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) HB3722 .P67 2009 DUE 11-23-09
House Of Cards : A Tale Of Hubris And Wretched Excess On Wall Street

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William D. CohanPublication Details
Book1st edDoubleday2009Description
On March 5, 2008, at 10:15 A.M., a hedge fund manager in Florida wrote a post on his investing advice Web site that included a startling statement about Bear Stearns & Co., the nation?s fifth-largest investment bank: ?In my book, they are insolvent.? Cohan?s minute-by-minute account of those ten days in March makes for breathless reading, as the bankers at Bear Stearns struggled to contain the cascading series of events that would doom the firm, and as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, New York Federal Reserve Bank President Tim Geithner, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began to realize the dire consequences for the world economy should the company go bankrupt. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) HG4930.5 .C64 2009 AVAILABLE
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown : Easy Money, High Rollers, And The Great Credit Crash

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Charles R. MorrisPublication Details
Book1st edPublicAffairs2008Description
Whether you are an active investor, a homeowner, or a contributor to your 401(k) plan, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown will be indispensable to understanding the gross excess that has put the world economy on the brink?and what the new landscape will look like. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) HG4910 .M667 2008 AVAILABLE
The World Is Curved : Hidden Dangers To The Global Economy

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David M. SmickPublication Details
BookPortfolio2008Description
The World Is Curved picks up where Thomas Friedman?s The World Is Flat left off, taking readers on an insider?s tour through the private offices of central bankers, finance ministers, even prime ministers. financial doctrine to guide today?s dangerous ocean of money The World Is Curved is the rare book that speaks simultaneously to the Wall Street, Washington, and London elite, yet its apt storytelling shows Main Street readers how to survive in these turbulent times. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HG3881 .S5397 2008 DUE 01-03-10
The Shock Doctrine : The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism

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Naomi KleinPublication Details
Book1st edMetropolitan Books/Henry Holt2007Links
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The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global free market has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting over the past few years, Naomi Klein introduced the term disaster capitalism. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB95 .K54 2007 AVAILABLE
Undue Influence : How The Wall Street Elite Put The Financial System At Risk

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Charles R. GeisstPublication Details
BookJohn Wiley & Sons2005Links
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Undue Influence also brings readers up to speed on other important issues, including how the financial elite has been able to perpetuate itself, how the markets lend themselves to these special interest groups, and how it is possible that after 80 years of financial regulation and regulatory bodies the same problems of financial malfeasance and fraud still plague the markets. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HG4910 .G449 2005 AVAILABLE
From Dickens To Dracula : Gothic, Economics, And Victorian Fiction

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by Gail Turley HoustonPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2005Links
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Ranging from the panoramic novels of Dickens to the horror of Dracula, Gail Turley Houston examines the ways in which the language and imagery of economics, commerce and banking are transformed in Victorian Gothic fiction, and traces literary and uncanny elements in economic writings of the period. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PR878.E37 H68 2005 AVAILABLE
Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving The Soft Depression Of The 21st Century

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Bill Bonner with Addison WigginPublication Details
BookJohn Wiley & Sons2003Links
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?Jim Rogers, author of the bestseller Adventure Capitalist from the Foreword to Financial Reckoning Day Advanced praise from bestselling authors “An investment book that will not only enlarge your investment horizon, but also make you laugh and thoroughly entertain you for a few hours.” ?Dr. Marc Faber, author of the bestseller Tomorrow’s Gold “Financial Reckoning Day is . ?James Dale Davidson, author of the bestseller The Great Reckoning and The Sovereign Individual “A powerful and insightful vision . (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HB3722 .B66 2003 AVAILABLE
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