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The Great Crash of 1929
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Manufacturer: Mariner Books |
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Summary: ...it was the worst of times
Content: I keep this book around to read occasionally. My edition has a printing history going back to 1954. The stock market crash is a point in history that I've tried to understand. mmm...the bankers kept pumping money into the system...until they couldn't do ...
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Manias Panics and Crashes
by Kindleberge
Manufacturer: Basic Books |
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Summary: Second to none on the cause of financial crises
Content: Kindleberger who passed away before the current financial crisis wrote the best book I have read on financial crises. His analysis of boom and bust cycle is prescient. It is much superior to Morris' still excellent The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, ...
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Manufacturer: North River Press |
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Summary: BAD CD - chapters mislabeled & out of order
Content: Sound quality was great and the effects kept it interesting. Unfortunately, the computer files were mislabeled so when I put this on my ipod the chapters were rearranged. When I was listening, the chapters were presented out of order. It didn't seem to ...
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Barbarians at the Gate
by Bryan Burrough
Manufacturer: Harpercollins Publisher |
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Summary: They Don't Teach You This Stuff in Business School...
Content: Jump right into the middle of one of the biggest and most tumultuous leveraged buyouts in history. After reading this book, you will feel as though you know the players involved...everybody from F. Ross Johnson at RJR Nabisco to Peter Atkins, the lawyer from ...
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The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power
by Daniel Yergin
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster |
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Summary: An Overwrought Encyclopedia
Content: The first 200 pages of "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power" are compelling and fascinating because they are about the compelling and fascinating characters who created the modern oil industry. There is, of course, John D. Rockefeller whose ...
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No Logo : Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
by Naomi Klein
Manufacturer: Knopf Canada |
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Summary: Well thought out and provacative.
Content: I found this to be somewhat of a depressing book. I never really understood the full concept and ramifications of "branding." What you may think is a tiring sequence of commercials and have a more nefarious background. Naomi Klein paints a rather bad image ...
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America's Great Depression
by Murray Newton Rothbard
Manufacturer: Nash Pub |
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Summary: Clairvoyant Economics
Content: In his 1982 introduction to the third edition, Rothbard wrote: "A Democratic administration may be expected to inflate with even more enthusiasm (than the Reagan administration was then engaged in doing). We can look forward, therefore, not precisely to a ...
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Development as Freedom
by Amartya K. Sen
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press |
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Summary: Great Book On Development Theory
Content: Development as Freedom dives into the concept that both the result and mechanism of development is the growth of actual freedoms that people enjoy. It is no good to be rich slave.
The book dives headfirst into various development theories that ...
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