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America’s Moral Urgency

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"A profoundly moving, well-researched examination of a uniquely American crisis." --Library Journal, starred reviewThe student debt crisis is a civil rights issue, and it's time we start treating it like one.Based on extensive interviews with students, college administrators, policymakers, and other leaders, The Student Debt Crisis illuminates one of the nation's most urgent and pressing civil ... Read more

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Saving Capitalism

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From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new ... Read more

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From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it.Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new
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Divided

The Perils of Our Growing Inequality

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Essays on the dangers of the wealth and income gap, collected by the New York Times–bestselling author of It's Even Worse Than You Think.This collection includes writings by a wide range of voices—including Adam Smith, Elizabeth Warren, Barbara Ehrenreich, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Studs Terkel, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, and David Cay Johnston—illuminating the reality of economic inequality in America ... Read more

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The Whiteness of Wealth

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Moral Capitalism

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning economics journalist explains how America's capitalist system is broken and how it can be repaired.With a new introduction by the authorThirty years ago, "greed is good" and "maximizing shareholder value" became the new mantras woven into the fabric of our economy, politics, and business culture. Free market capitalism has lifted more than a billion people from poverty ... Read more

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Pulitzer Prize winner Hedrick Smith’s new book is an extraordinary achievement, an eye-opening account of how, over the past four decades, the American Dream has been dismantled and we became two Americas.In his bestselling The Russians, Smith took millions of readers inside the Soviet Union. In The Power Game, he took us inside Washington’s corridors of power. Now Smith takes us across America to ... Read more

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The Privatization of Everything

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Seven principles for a just and sustainable system, accompanied by true stories of " the people creating the institutions of the next economy" (Kat Taylor, cofounder, Beneficial State Bank).The extractive economy we live with now—designed by the 1 percent for the 1 percent—enables the financial elite to squeeze out maximum gain for themselves, heedless of damage to people or planet. But in this ... Read more

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