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Contents: Introduction: new confessions and revelations from the world of economic hit men / John Perkins -- Global empire: the web of control / Steven Hiatt -- Selling money-- and dependency: setting the debt trap / S.C. Gwynne -- Dirty money: inside the secret world of offshore banking / John Christensen -- BCCI's double game: banking on America, banking on jihad / Lucy Komisar -- The human cost of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1323 GAM

Wessel, David

Summary: "David Wessel's incredible tale of how Washington works-and why the rich keep getting richer-starts when a Silicon Valley entrepreneur concocts an idea that will save money on his taxes and spins it as a way to ostensibly help poor people. He organizes and pays for an effective lobbying effort that pushes his idea into law with little scrutiny or fine-tuning by congressional or Treasury tax...

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338.8 WES

Rampton, Sheldon

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 659.2 RAM

Summary: It took two years of negotiation for the BBC's Fiona Bruce to get some face time with Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. In this rare interview, Bruce gains insights into both the man and the icon-genius, business magnate, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people on the planet. In addition, Bruce probes what may be the key question facing Microsoft in the post-Gates era: with its hands...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Jong, David de

Summary: In this landmark work of investigative journalism, the author, using a wealth of untapped sources, reveals how Germany's wealthiest business dynasties amassed untold money and power by abetting the atrocities of the Third Reich, and exposes how America'spolitical expediency enabled these billionaires to get away with their crimes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.16 JON

Blakeley, Grace

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Summary: "In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journalist illustrates how corporate and political elites have used planned capitalism to advance their own interests at the expense of the rest of us-and how we can take back our economy for all. It's easy to look at the state of the world around us and feel hopeless. We live in an era marked by war,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2024

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Mason, Christopher

Summary: Journeys inside the scandal that rocked the art auction world, describing how Alfred Taubman, Diana Brooks, and Christopher Davidge conspired to cheat clients, while describing the operations of Sotheby's and Christie's.

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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.168 MAS

Bensinger, Ken

Summary: "This is the definitive, shocking account of the highest-profile corruption case of recent years, spearheaded by U.S. investigators, involving dozens of countries, and implicating nearly every aspect of the world's most popular sport, soccer, including its biggest event, the World Cup. The case began small, boosted by an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. But that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.334 BEN

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 796.334 BEN

Dalrymple, William

Summary: In August 1756 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish in his richest provinces a new administration run by English merchants who collected taxes through means of a ruthless private army--what we would now call an act of involuntary privatization. The East India Company's founding charter authorized it to "wage war" and it had always used violence to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.3 DAL

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.03 DAL

Gill, John Freeman

Summary: In 1974, with both his family and his city fracturing, Griffin Watts is recruited into his estranged father's illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business. Small and nimble, Griffin is charged with stealing exuberantly expressive architectural sculptures, gargoyles, right off the faces of unsung tenements and iconic skyscrapers. As his father explains it, these gargoyles, carved and...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017

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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GIL

Hornsby, Daniel

Summary: "Bad Blood meets Succession in this sharp-toothed satire of Silicon Valley and the 1 percent, in which the black-sheep son of an industrial tycoon starts working for a tech pioneer who's running a biomedical startup that promises nothing less than immortality, only to uncover the horrifying truth at the heart of her sublime promises. Chuck Gross would like nothing more than to prune himself...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOR

Clark, Carol Higgins.

Summary: PI Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigate an L.A.-based business scam that extends up and down the coast of California.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2012

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

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Newman, Jay Hartley

Summary: "A group of American patriots, all former military, are looking for a way to get their number one choice, Senator Ben Corn, elected president. Corn is a telegenic, perfect candidate--yet harbors secrets that threaten him. The group's goal is to implement their own foreign policy and fundamentally restructure American society. Essential to this scheme is Greta Webb, a sophisticated and beautiful...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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Summary: This program presents the history of Internet phenom eBay; discusses the Web site's feedback system, the key to its unprecedented success; and examines the devastating impact eBay has had on antique and collectible shops. The program also exposes two vulnerabilities that have come with that success: stock prices that fluctuate with the slightest stumble in company performance, and government's...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: One of the most surprising aspects of 21st-century capitalism is the emergence of shareholders who are concerned about corporate behavior and accountability. This program investigates that trend, assembling a collection of researchers and business leaders who share valuable insights into shareholder activism. Alisa Gravitz, executive director of Co-op America, and Linda Crompton, CEO of the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Sisson, Natalie

Summary: "After eight years of working in the soul-crushing bureaucracy of the corporate world, Natalie Sisson quit her high-paying job and moved to Canada, started a blog, and cofounded a technology company. In just eighteen months she learned how to build an online platform from scratch, and then left to start her own business--which involved visiting Argentina to eat empanadas, play Ultimate Frisbee,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: North Star Way 2017

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Summary: A growing number of investment firms and individual investors are guided by the triple bottom line of human dignity, environmental stewardship, and financial profit. This program looks at the growth of socially responsible investing, or SRI, as a successful approach for portfolio managers, venture capitalists, and individual investors. Outlining the "three pillars" of SRI-company screening,...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Few online startups make it-and of those, even fewer make it big. But the odds don't scare the founders of Boso, an online marketplace for Oxford University students to buy and sell secondhand stuff. In this program, mentor John Boyle counsels Harjeet and Kulveer Taggar-cousins who have staked everything on success-to market aggressively to increase users in order to attract investment that...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: Matt McNeil's online startup, Sign-Up.to, offers small and midsize businesses Web-based software to create, launch, and track permission-based e-mail and text message campaigns-and the results so far have been fabulous. But the 23-year-old entrepreneur and his hard-charging team must build on their initial success very, very quickly if they are to outpace their competition. This program tracks...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Summary: An industry once dominated by four giant companies-Sony BMG, Warner Music, Universal, and EMI-has undergone a radical transformation. This program examines the explosion of legal music downloading and viral marketing, which have enabled enterprising bands and singers to distribute their own work rather than signing with major labels. Focusing on the success of Nizlopi, Arctic Monkeys, Internet...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Beaty, Jonathan.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1993

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.168 BEA

Summary: Andrew Selby and Ali Farzad couldn't find a place to buy cool iPod gear, so they started their own online business selling it-and profits are rising. Now they see an opportunity to expand into the Internet telephony market with phones and accessories, but exploiting it would mean embracing risk, enlarging their operation, and working harder than ever before. In this program, mentor John Boyle...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007

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Grisham, John.

Summary: When a judge returns a shocking verdict against a chemical company accused of dumping toxic waste in a small Mississippi town, the company's billionaire owner seeks to influence the appeal process by using his money to "buy" a seat on the state Supreme Court.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 468 FIC GRI

Summary: With an international credit crunch hamstringing many Western entrepreneurs, a new wave of investment is flooding the U.K., largely from the Middle East and Asia. This program focuses on sovereign wealth funds and their role in what many see as a financial takeover of Britain's economy-including some of its most cherished icons and institutions. Beginning with a surprising case study-the...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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