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  by sungod

• Current

Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Authors: Steven D Levitt Stephen J Dubner

Tags: culture economics

2010-01-12

  by speak & 3 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: now reading

Author: Stieg Larsson

Tags: mystery politics translation economics swedish mature

2008-12-17

  by gib101 & 5 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tags: history classic crime russia violence economics police @finished2007

Description: I had never read this book and enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm known to find Classics overlyI had never read this book and enjoyed it quite a bit. I'm known to find Classics overly wordy, but this was quite enjoyable, particularly as an audio book....

2007-10-02

  by katie & 1 users

• Current

Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: Tyler Cowen

Tags: globalization culture economics

Description: Interesting exploration by an economist of the different meanings of cultural diversity --Interesting exploration by an economist of the different meanings of cultural diversity -- within vs. across societies -- and how cultural heterogeneity and homogeneity go hand in hand (not in opposition) -- and how cultural exchange both disrupts and encourages cultures. His examples of African music and of Navajo textiles were very interesting -- and detailed....

2007-08-02

  by katie

• Current

Type: documentary

Status: I recommend

Author: John Perkins

Tags: economics international global_issues

Description: An account of someone working (undercover) to, in effect, sabotage the economies of other countries,An account of someone working (undercover) to, in effect, sabotage the economies of other countries, while ostensibly helping to "develop" them. Fascinating, though not well written and a bit self-important. Re all those consulting firms who are secretly in cahoots with the CIA, NSA, World Bank, IMF, etc. -- true on one level, not true on all.......

2007-07-30

  by hampus & 1 users

• Current

Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Milton Friedman

Tags: politics capitalism economics freedom liberalism

Description: How can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individualHow can we benefit from the promise of government while avoiding the threat it poses to individual freedom? In this classic book, Milton Friedman provides the definitive statement of his immensely influential economic philosophy--one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. The result is an accessible text that has sold well over half a million copies in English, has been translated into eighteen languages, and shows every sign of becoming more and more influential as time goes on....

2007-01-21

  by linguamichael & 1 users

• Current

Type: educational

Status: to read

Author: Hernando De Soto

Tags: development economics third_world

2006-12-26

  by aggieben

• Current

Type: scientific

Status: to read

Author: Adam Smith

Tags: classics economics

2006-10-18

  by gib101

• Current

Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Byron L. Dorgan

Tags: business economics poverty @finished2006 rights globalism

Description: I found this book to be a counterpoint to another book I recently read, "The World isI found this book to be a counterpoint to another book I recently read, "The World is Flat". I found this one much more realistic and explanatory as far as real world, non-rich situations are concerned. The other reflected a rich-man's fantasy (or a wanna-be rich man's fantasy) but this reflected reality....

2006-09-12

  by fmellish & 1 users

• Current

Type: documentary

Status: to read

Author: Dean Baker

Tags: economics citizenship

2006-08-11