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The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century
by Robert J. Shiller
In his best-selling Irrational Exuberance , Robert Shiller cautioned that society's obsession with the stock market was fueling the volatility that has since made a roller coaster of the financial system. Less noted was Shiller's admonition that our infatuation with the stock market distracts us from more durable economic prospects. These lie in the hidden potential of real assets, such as income from our... (more)
Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
by Robert B. Reich
From the greatly admired author of The Work of Nations and The Future of Success , one of America's greatest economic and political thinkers as well as a distinguished public servant in three national administrations, a breakthrough book on the clash between capitalism and democracy. Mid-twentieth-century capitalism has turned into global capitalism, and global capitalism—turbocharged, Web-based, and able to... (more)