Government & Business
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The Great Train Heist: The California Smart Taxpayer Rip-Off
$32.99 Add to cartCalifornia’s Billion-Dollar SMART Train: America’s Most Expensive Transit Failure
The Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit (SMART) train stands as one of the most catastrophic government transportation inve- Author: Coffino, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1510786295
- Language: English
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The Service Organization: How to Deliver and Lead Successful Services, Sustainably
$22.50 Read moreAll organizations are becoming service organizations. But most weren’t built to deliver services successfully end-to-end, and the human, operational and financial impacts are abundantly clear. In the … [more below]
- Author: Tarling, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1913019764
- Language: English
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Hardball Advocacy: Secrets of the Lobby
$21.99 Add to cartUnlock the essential skills of lobbying
Hardball Advocacy is a must-read for political science students, lobbying practitioners, or anyone intrigued by the intersection of power, policy, and persuasion
- Author: Kyle, Henry C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1964251389
- Language: English
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The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West
$30.00 Add to cartINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”–The Wall Street Journal
From the Palantir co-- Author: Karp, Alexander C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593798694
- Language: English
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Wealth of Nations
$12.95 Add to cartWhile it has been pointed to time and again by governments and pundits promoting laissez-faire economics, The Wealth of Nations actually shows that Adam Smith viewed capitalism with a deep suspicion, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535922
- Language: English
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Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy
$30.00 Add to cartA revelatory and unexpected history of the rise of American capitalism–and an argument that entrepreneurial leaders in government, not the mythical “free market,” created the most dynamic economy the… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 166805017X
- Language: English
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Firefighting: The Financial Crisis and Its Lessons
$17.00 Read more“Should be required reading for all policy makers.” –Warren Buffett
From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the worst economic catastrophe since the Great Depression, a m- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0143134485
- Language: English
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The Fed Unbound: Central Banking in a Time of Crisis
$16.00 Read moreDo the Fed’s efforts to stabilize the economy worsen inequality?
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. central bank, was built for a monetary system composed primarily of investor-owned, government-chartered- Author: Menand, Lev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1735913707
- Language: English
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If Confirmed: An Insider’s View of the National Security Confirmation Process
$17.95 Add to cartCountless national security leaders agree: No one knows this process like Arnold Punaro.
Drawing on nearly 50 years of experience with the Senate confirmation process, Punaro has written this one-of-a-
- Author: Punaro, Arnold L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1962729052
- Language: English
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How Markets Fail: The Rise and Fall of Free Market Economics
$20.00 Add to cartIn How Markets Fail, veteran New Yorker staff writer John Cassidy offers a provocative take on the misguided economic thinking that produced the 2008 financial crisis–now with a new preface addressin
- Author: Cassidy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250781280
- Language: English
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The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs Private Sector Myths
$18.00 Add to cartAward-winning economist Mariana Mazzucato’s famously incisive international bestseller debunking the pervasive myth of the inept state versus an innovative private sector–with a new preface by the au… [more below]
- Author: Mazzucato, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0593656938
- Language: English
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The Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
$23.00 Add to cartAn against-the-grain polemic on American capitalism from New York Times bestselling author Tyler Cowen.
We love to hate the 800-pound gorilla. Walmart and Amazon destroy communities and small business- Author: Cowen, Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 125025132X
- Language: English
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Gross Deceptive Product: An Ecological Perspective on the Economy
$15.95 Add to cartContinuous economic growth is not sustainable because such growth depends on depletion of finite natural resources, ever-increasing debt, continuous population growth, and land use conversion–none of
- Author: England, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1640037896
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$35.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1776, The Wealth of Nations is generally regarded as the foundation of contemporary economic thought. Adam Smith, a Scottish professor of moral philosophy, expounded the then-revolu
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1200
- Publish Date: January 25 1994
- ISBN10: 0679424733
- Language: English
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The Wealth of Nations
$29.99 Add to cartThe Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a seminal work in economics that revolutionized our understanding of the market system and laid the foundation for modern capitalism. Smith explores the princi… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: December 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9358561629
- Language: English
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Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
$30.00 Add to cartAN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – This fascinating deep dive into one of the most powerful and least understood American institutions–the Federal Reserve–is “a riveting narrative…[and] an invaluable … [more below]
- Author: Smialek, Jeanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593320239
- Language: English
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Compelling Force Leadership: How Leaders Can Use Their Influence to Effectively Lead People with Purpose and Passion
$19.99 Add to cartToday’s leaders are challenged more now than ever to create and maintain vibrant organizational cultures. In this book, Compelling Force Leadership, the author, John Robison, shares what he has gained
- Author: Robison, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1665305681
- Language: English
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Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman’s Ruthless Quest for Global Power
$19.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world’s most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia’s ch… [more below]
- Author: Hope, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0306846632
- Language: English
