Customer Review: Excellent book. If you want to understand the current economic downturn, this is the book to read. Lrugman is a teacher when he writes and abstruse economics is a stranger to his pages.
Customer Review: I have read and enjoyed other books by Michael Lewis. Unfortunately, I found the collection of articles in Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity to be old news that provided little insight into recent events. It seems more effort by the author on adding fresh perspectives and examples would... more info
Customer Review: A transparent attempt to justify the new colonialism. In the 16th century it was the great nations of Europe, in the 21st it is the multinational corporation. It is still exploitation of the haves by the have-nots, just a lot of new lipstick on the same old pig!
Customer Review: The main reason to read The Great Depression Ahead is to see the most persuasive case that can be made for an extended economic decline in the United States and other developed countries. After understanding that case, you'll be in a better position to make decisions that will leave you better off... more info
Customer Review: This book is so widely cited and interpreted contrary to the author's original thought, that every economist should read it completely to avoid being misled by such incorrect interpretations. First, let us take the "invisible hand" metaphor. When I have studied economy in the University, I was... more info
Customer Review: I found this book an amazing read. It combined reality with subterfuge on a massive scale, and showed how modern Imperialism impoverishes third world countries while making their political families wealthy and indebting these nations. This is all deemed necessary to turn them into the pawns in the... more info
Customer Review: Mr Smick's book is so full of obvious contradictions and disconnected propositions leading to illogical conclusions, that it is funny. The only things he omitted are cartoons to illustrate the ridiculous text.
If your I.Q. is above 50, you might want to skip this one unless you would like to... more info
Customer Review: The Green Collar Economy covers a very important issue, at a very important moment in history, so I wish Van Jones had done a better job. My largest complaint is that so much of this book (the first 65 pages) covers nothing but Hurricane Katrina and race relations. You would never tell from the... more info
"On (Not) Getting By in America"; this sentence itself, incorporates the whole sense of the author's precious experience, and prospects to the potential reader a prompt sense of discomfort. Or at least, cues the awareness that somebody in this country is not indeed "living large".
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Customer Review: Collier loves his research. He also loves the research of people who have studied under him. Finally, he loves the research of people he works with. While I have no doubt that his research has produced some fruitful insights into poverty, I don't think his book is the amazing must-read... more info
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