Summary: The New Republic is an American magazine of commentary on politics, contemporary culture, and the arts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Republic Pub. Co. 1914
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Roubini, Nouriel
Summary: "Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini was nicknamed "Dr. Doom," until his prediction of the 2008 housing crisis and Great Recession came true--when it was too late. Now he is back with a much scarier prediction, one that we ignore at our peril. There are no fewer than ten overlapping, interconnected threats that are so serious, he calls them Megathreats. From the worst debt crisis the world has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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Summary: "Over the past two centuries or so, capitalism has undergone profound changes--economic cycles that veer from boom to bust--from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Surveying this turbulent history, Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big and so profound that this time capitalism itself, the immensely complex system within which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Summary: "Across these essays, Barrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest for meaning amid the swirl of our post-truth climate. Traversing the country, he introduces us to Americans who are contending with the aftermath of political and economic collapse and who are striving to recover some semblance of meaning and purpose. "Notes from a Last Man" chronicles a period of personal lostness and considers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 SWALeonhardt, David
Summary: "Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has become the defining trend of American life. Life expectancy has declined, economic inequality has soared, and, after some progress, the Black-white wage gap is once again as large as it was in the 1950s. How did this happen in the world's most powerful country? And what happened to the "American dream"--the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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Summary: "There have been two global financial crises in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. Both featured loose credit, precarious real estate and stock market bubbles, suspicious banking practices, an inflexible monetary system, and global imbalances; both had devastating economic consequences. In both cases, people in the prosperous decade...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.9 EICSummary: "A collection of compelling, hard-hitting first-person essays, poems, and photos that expose what our punitive social systems do to so many Americans. Going for Broke, edited by Alissa Quart, Executive Director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and David Wallis, former Managing Director of EHRP, gives voice to a range of gifted writers for whom "economic precarity" is more than just...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.569 GOIWarren, Elizabeth
Summary: "Senator Elizabeth Warren has long been an outspoken champion of America's middle class, and by the time the people of Massachusetts elected her in 2012, she had become one of the country's leading progressive voices. Now, at a perilous moment for our nation, she has written a book that is at once an illuminating account of how we built the strongest middle class in history, a scathing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
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Summary: Foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness Fiona Hill reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia--and shows how we can return hope to our forgotten places. In this deeply personal account, she shares what she has learned, and explains that only by expanding opportunity can we save our democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Summary: "In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 CURSummary: "Frontline investigates the causes of the worst economic crisis in 70 years and how the government responded. [The film] chronicles the inside stories of the Bear Stearns deal, the Lehman Brothers' collapse, the propping up of insurance giant AIG and the $700 billion bailout. The film examines what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke didn't see, couldn't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Educational Foundation 2009
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Summary: "How the American Midwest is recovering its economic weight as a center for high tech and innovation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 330.977 FANPrins, Nomi.
Summary: "All The Presidents' Bankers is a compelling narrative of how a small group of private bankers and their financial institutions shaped America's economy and its global position since the start of the twentieth century. Through personal, political and professional networks, these bankers strategically exercised, and continue to exercise, disproportionate control over the destiny of billions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 332.1 PRIAngelos, James
Summary: "A transporting, good-humored, and revealing account of Greece's dire troubles, reported from the mountain villages, idyllic islands, and hardscrabble streets that define the country today In recent years, small Greece, often associated with ancient philosophers and marble ruins, whitewashed villages and cerulean seas, has been at the center of a debt crisis that has sown economic and social...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 949.5 ANGCasey, Michael
Summary: "The global financial system has enormous influence on the day-to-day lives of billions, yet is shrouded in mystery and poorly understood. Through narrative-driven reporting, vivid storytelling, and perceptive analysis Michael Casey brings to light the distorted, dysfunctional global economic system that benefits a tiny elite but leaves the rest of the world's population powerless. In ways that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2012
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Summary: A look at why the worst economy since the 1930s has brought about the revival of conservatism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt 2012
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Summary: "A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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Summary: "In the last few decades, any hope of economic progress for black Americans has been slowly and steadily undermined. This quiet crisis was only exacerbated by the recession, which cut black households' wealth by over 30 percent. Black millennials watched their parents try to play by the rules, buying homes and aspiring to the trappings of middle-class life, only to sink deeper and deeper into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult AllenKrugman, Paul R.
Summary: "An accessible, compelling introduction to today's major policy issues from columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman. There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no better foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won't die. This delightful new book finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 330.973 KRUPiketty, Thomas
Summary: As a correspondent for the French newspaper Le Monde, world-renowned economist Thomas Piketty has documented the rise and fall of Trump, the drama of Brexit, Emmanuel Macron's ascendance to the French presidency, the unfolding of a global pandemic, and much else besides, always from the perspective of his fight for a more equitable world. This collection brings together those articles and is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2021
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Summary: "She may be a California farm girl, but seventeen-year-old Maya's vision board is all about Fashion and Fierce--the New York City women's magazine she's been reading since she was ten. As the oldest daughter of Punjabi garlic farmers, though, Maya's path is set, and it's off to Cow camp for the summer. When she lands in the New York City area, Maya learns that her cousin's girlfriend works at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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Summary: "Barry C. Lynn, one of America's preeminent thinkers, provides the clearest statement yet on the nature and magnitude of the political and economic dangers posed by America's new monopolies in Liberty from All Masters. Americans are obsessed with liberty, mad about liberty. On any day, we can tune into arguments about how much liberty we need to buy a gun or get an abortion, to marry who we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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Summary: At exactly 4:06 p.m. on July 18, 2013, the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history—the Motor City had finally hit rock bottom. But what led to that fateful day, and how did the city survive the perilous months that followed? In Detroit Resurrected, Nathan Bomey delivers the inside story of the fight to save Detroit against impossible...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 BOMSummary: Intimate stories of one Rust Belt city's struggle to recover in the post-recession economy. Frontline and ProPublica report on the economic and social forces shaping Dayton, Ohio, a once-booming city where nearly 35 percent now live in poverty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018