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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Summary: Ms Ehrenreich is the voice of our conscience, or should be.
Content: This collection of brief observations is pithy and to the point, and each one takes just a few minutes to read. But you should read slowly because otherwise the sudden rise in blood pressure they elicit may be harmful to your health. As I'm writing this, ...
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A World of Wealth: How Capitalism Turns Profits into Progress
by Thomas G. Donlan
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Summary: What Capitalism does, and means
Content: This book is very challenging, in its content. You think you know what capitalism is, right? What it's strengths and weaknesses are? Probably not, in truth. In the USA, the most consistently capitalistic country around, markets and finances and trade are ...
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Dubai: The Vulnerability of Success
by Christopher M. Davidson
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Summary: Impeccable academic treatise on Dubai
Content: This book is for the serious reader; it reads like an academic treatise--dense, magnificently researched with fascinating subject matter.
The first couple chapters succinctly cover the emirate's history. The following chapters detail the first ...
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Constitution of Liberty (Routledge Classics S.)
by Hayek. F. A.
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Summary: Foundation for Margaret Thatcher's policies
Content: There is a great story of Margaret Thatcher throwing this book down on the table at an economic policy meeting and saying "This is what we believe". Great chapters on how democracy can't exist with coercion; how the "idle rich", though oft bally-hooed are ...
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The New Elite: Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy
by Jim Taylor
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Summary: An intreging look into the little understood lives of the wealthy
Content: It has been said that the wealthy are different. Well, not so much. In fact, according the in-depth study done by the authors of this book, the wealthy came not from wealth but from middle class backgrounds. They therefore have all of the middle class ethics ...
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The Affluent Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith
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Summary: Writing style has stood the test of time as well as the arguments
Content: A true classic that is as relevant to explaining today's society as that in which Galbraith wrote it - and never more so than Galbraith's argument that we need a better social balance between private and public expenditure. As the gap grows between the urban ...
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