Greenspan, Alan
Summary: "In Capitalism in America, Greenspan distills a lifetime of grappling with these questions into a thrilling and profound master reckoning with the decisive drivers of the US economy over the course of its history. In partnership with the celebrated Economist journalist and historian Adrian Wooldridge, he unfolds a tale involving vast landscapes, titanic figures, triumphant breakthroughs,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2018
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Summary: "Layoffs upend people's lives, cause enormous stress, and lead to debilitating personal debt. The societal harm caused by mass layoffs has been known for decades. Yet, we do little to stop them. Why? Why do we allow whole communities to be destroyed by corporate decision-makers? Why do we consider mass layoffs a natural, baked-in feature of modern financialized capitalism? In Wall Street's War...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 331.0973 LEOMorgenson, Gretchen
Summary: "Much has been written about the widening gulf between rich and poor in the United States, the pernicious effects our deepening income inequality has on the nation's well-being, and how our style of capitalism has failed to provide a living wage for so many Americans. But nothing has fully detailed the crucial role a small cohort of elite financiers has played in this dispiriting outcome over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Filmmaker Moore examines the history of free-market capitalism in post-Reagan America and questions its efficacy as the basis for the nation's economy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CAPHaag, Pamela
Summary: "An acclaimed historian explodes the myth about the 'special relationship' between Americans and their guns, revealing that savvy 19th century businessmen--not gun lovers--created American gun culture"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.4 HAAKarabell, Zachary
Summary: "From an acclaimed historian and financial analyst, the first definitive history of the legendary private investment firm Brown Brothers Harriman - and through it, the rise to world power of the so-called American Establishment. Conspiracy theories have always swirled around Brown Brothers Harriman, and not without reason. Throughout the 19th century, when America was convulsed by a devastating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 KARReich, Robert B.
Summary: Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 330.9 REITyler, George R.
Summary: A sobering assessment of the American economy argues that voter choices are behind most current problems while citing the more effective examples of other countries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 TYLOreskes, Naomi
Summary: In the early 20th century, business elites, trade associations, wealthy powerbrokers, and media allies set out to build a new American orthodoxy: down with "big government" and up with unfettered markets. With startling archival evidence, Oreskes and Conway document campaigns to rewrite textbooks, combat unions, and defend child labor. They detail the ploys that turned hardline economists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Aburdene, Patricia.
Summary: "The rise of conscious capitalism. Coauthor of best-selling Megatrends 2000 investigates corporate social responsibility; finds that significant numbers of companies are placing social, spiritual, and environmental values ahead of the bottom line; and reports data showing that socially responsible practices actually help boost profits. Identifies eight new trends that will redefine how we work,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hampton Roads Pub. Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 658.408 ABUMaggor, Noam
Summary: Brahmin Capitalism explores the surprisingly dynamic role of established wealth in the rise of modern capitalism in the United States. Far from declining in prosperity and influence, elite Bostonians of illustrious lineage - the quintessential old money families on the American scene - successfully reinvented themselves. Better known as social reformers, philanthropists, and men of letters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 MAGHoffman, Liz
Summary: "A kaleidoscopic account of the financial carnage of the pandemic, revealing the fear, grit, and gambles that drove the economy's winners and losers-from a leading Wall Street Journal reporter. The world's most powerful CEOs never saw it coming. In 2018, after a decade-long bull market, the CEO of American Airlines declared, "I don't think we're ever going to lose money again." The U.S. entered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 330.973 HOFBogle, John C.
Contents: What went wrong in corporate America? : a pathological mutation -- Why did corporate America go wrong? : "somebody's gotta keep an eye on these geniuses" -- How to return corporate America to its owners : "owners of the world, unite!" -- What went wrong in investment America? : King Kong, or Mighty Joe Young? -- Why did investment America go wrong? : the momentary precision of stock prices...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.122 BOGRedleaf, Andrew.
Summary: [The authors] reveal the Crash of 2008 as the "predictable outcome of an ideology that has dominated the American financial establishment for upwards of forty years." This "ideology of modern finance" replaced the capitalist's appreciation for free markets as a context for human creativity with the worship of efficient markets as substitutes for that creativity. The capitalist understands free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Richard Vigilante Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.64273 REDReich, Robert B.
Summary: Outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.973 REIMontero, David
Summary: "In his timely historical work The Stolen Wealth of Slavery, Emmy Award-nominated journalist David Montero follows the trail of the massive wealth amassed from the transatlantic slave trade by Northern corporations in America. It has long been maintained by many that the North wasn't complicit in the horrors of slavery, that the forced bondage and exploitation of Black people was primarily a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Legacy Lit, Hachette Book Group 2024
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Summary: "The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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Summary: "A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billionaires at the expense of the working class, and a blueprint for what transformational change would actually look like. It's OK to be angry about capitalism. Reflecting on our turbulent times, Senator Bernie Sanders takes on the billionaire class and speaks blunt truths about our country's failure...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Summary: "A grand, brilliantly written work of American history We think we know the story of American religion: the Puritans were cold, austere, and pious, and Christianity continued pure and uncorrupted until the industrial revolution got in the way. InThe Money Cult, Chris Lehmann argues that we have it backwards: capitalism has always been entangled with religion, and so today's megapastors aren't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 270 LEHGelles, David
Summary: "In 1981, Jack Welch took over General Electric and quickly rose to fame as the first celebrity CEO. He golfed with presidents, mingled with movie stars, and was idolized for growing GE into the most valuable company in the world. But Welch's achievements didn't stem from some greater intelligence or business prowess. Rather, they were the result of a sustained effort to push GE's stock price...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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Summary: From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things -- the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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Summary: From the Publisher: The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. How could it have happened, especially after all that we've learned from the Great Depression? Why wasn't it anticipated so that remedial steps could be taken to avoid or mitigate it? What can be done to reverse a slide into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2009
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Summary: "In this vivid and surprising history, we meet activists, investors, executives, and workers who fought over a simple question: Is the role of the corporation to deliver profits to shareholders, or something more? On one side were "business statesmen" who believed corporate largess could solve social problems. On the other were libertarian intellectuals such as Milton Friedman and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present--and argues that the country has reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead.head."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021