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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Many of our favourite brands now openly espouse 'ethical' credentials, so how is it that they can import billions of pounds' worth of goods from the developing world every year while leaving the people who produce them barely scraping a living.

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Hardback. Condition: Good. A Pulitzer Prize-winning economic journalist argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A Pulitzer Prize-winning economics journalist argues that our thirty year experiment in unfettered markets has undermined core values required to make capitalism and democracy work.

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Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

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Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing?a poor side of town?helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process. It is more of a historical narrative than a straight policy book, however?telling stories of Jacob Riis, zoning reformer Lawrence Veiller, anti-reformer Jane Jacobs, housing developer William Levitt, and African American small homes advocate Rev. Johnny Ray Youngblood, as well as first-person accounts of onetime residents of neighborhoods such as Detroit?s Black Bottom who lost their homes and businesses to housing reform and urban renewal. This is a book with important policy implications?built on powerful, personal stories.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Author of the extremely popular Dear Economist column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book. Can a book about economics be fun to read? It can when Harford takes the reins, using his trademark wit to explain why it costs an arm and a leg to buy a cappuccino and why it's nearly impossible to purchase a decent used car. Supermarkets, coffee houses, airlines, insurance companies and more are sucking money from our wallets. To protect ourselves and our bank accounts, we must better understand why companies do what they do. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as unequaled in its accessibility, The Undercover Economist is a sheer delight-and the one book on economics that every American should read. a book on economics that will enthrall its readers. Beautifully written and argued, it brings the power of economics to life. This book should be required reading .-Steven D. Levitt, author of Freakonomics. …

Hardback. Condition: Good. Author of the extremely popular Dear Economist column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book. Can a book about economics be fun to read? It can when Harford takes the reins, using his trademark wit to explain why it costs an arm and a leg to buy a cappuccino and why it's nearly impossible to purchase a decent used car. Supermarkets, coffee houses, airlines, insurance companies and more are sucking money from our wallets. To protect ourselves and our bank accounts, we must better understand why companies do what they do. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as unequaled in its accessibility, The Undercover Economist is a sheer delight-and the one book on economics that every American should read. a book on economics that will enthrall its readers. Beautifully written and argued, it brings the power of economics to life. This book should be required reading .-Steven D. Levitt, author of Freakonomics.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. Author of the extremely popular Dear Economist column in Financial Times, Tim Harford reveals the economics behind everyday phenomena in this highly entertaining and informative book. Can a book about economics be fun to read? It can when Harford takes the reins, using his trademark wit to explain why it costs an arm and a leg to buy a cappuccino and why it's nearly impossible to purchase a decent used car. Supermarkets, coffee houses, airlines, insurance companies and more are sucking money from our wallets. To protect ourselves and our bank accounts, we must better understand why companies do what they do. Hailed by Publishers Weekly as unequaled in its accessibility, The Undercover Economist is a sheer delight-and the one book on economics that every American should read. a book on economics that will enthrall its readers. Beautifully written and argued, it brings the power of economics to life. This book should be required reading .-Steven D. Levitt, author of Freakonomics.…

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Hardback. Condition: Good. A leading economist and a top economic journalist show that contrary to conventional wisdom, America is at the peak of its economic well-being, with more opportunity for more people than at any other time in our history. Popular wisdom holds that the years since 1973the end of the postwar miraclehave been a time of economic decline and stagnation: lackluster productivity, falling real wages, and lost competitiveness. The rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer, and most of us have barely held on while watching all the best jobs disappear overseas.As Myths of Rich and Poor demonstrates, this picture is not just wrong, its spectacularly wrong. The hard numbers, simple facts, and iconoclastic arguments of this book will change the way you think about the American economy.…

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