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The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
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Include books by the same authorBanker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus, Alan Jolis · 289 pages
The founder of the Grameen Bank relates how he developed the system of micro-credit to help eradicate poverty in countries such as Bangladesh by providing financial education and small loans to rural families.
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins · 301 pages
Sinhalese translation of a controversial book on the economic policies of U.S. government with respect to developing countries.
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
Barbara Ehrenreich · 248 pages
"Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed." "Bait and Switch highlights the people who've done everything right - gotten college degrees, developed marketable skills, and built up impressive resumes - yet have become repeatedly vulnerable t
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis · 298 pages
Liar's Poker is a non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author's experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s. First published in 1989, it is considered one of the books that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. This bestselling and hilarious book blew the doors off Wall Street's boardrooms and introduced the world to the writing of Mich
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls · 296 pages
A story about the early life of Jeannette Walls. The memoir is an exposing work about her early life and growing up on the run and often homeless. It presents a different perspective of life from all over the United States and the struggle a girl had to find normalcy as she grew into an adult.
The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity
Tim Wu · 224 pages
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Muhammad Yunus, Karl Weber · 271 pages
The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his vision for a new business model that combines the power of free markets with the quest for a more humane world--and he tells the inspiring stories of companies that are doing this work today. In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
Melinda Gates · 288 pages
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling · 342 pages
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
C.K. Prahalad · 304 pages
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Noam Chomsky · 231 pages
In Profit Over People Noam Chomsky takes on neoliberalism, the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide. By examining the contradictions between the democratic and market principles proclaimed by those in power and those actually practiced, Chomsky critiques the tyranny of the few that restricts the public arena and enacts policies tha
No Logo
Naomi Klein · 512 pages
"What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands." Billy Bragg from the bookjacket.
Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
Ellen Ruppel Shell · 296 pages
An Atlantic correspondent uncovers the true cost—in economic, political, and psychic terms—of our penchant for making and buying things as cheaply as possibleFrom the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt—and almost everywhere in between—America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This pervasive yet little examined obsession is
The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire
Tim Schwab · 496 pages
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone · 320 pages
I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
Caitlin Alifirenka, Martin Ganda · 392 pages
In this dual memoir, Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda recount how they became best friends and better people through letters. The coauthors are Martin Ganda and Liz Welch.
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--And How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 592 pages
1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It's about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late.
The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works - and How It's Transforming the American Economy
Charles Fishman
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman · 300 pages
An "homage to the power of inquisitiveness and the ways in which it deepens and improves us. Whether you're looking to improve your management style at work or you want to become a better romantic partner, this book--and its lessons on the power of curiosity--can change your life"--
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski · 238 pages
He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
Under the Overpass: A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America
Mike Yankoski · 224 pages
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children
John Wood · 278 pages
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life's work—not at business school or leading Microsoft's charge into Asia in the 1990s—but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had t
Twopence to Cross the Mersey
Helen Forrester · 223 pages
Helen Forrester had a childhood most of us would like to forget. Bought up for the first twelve years of her life in the wealthy middle class of southern England, she was suddenly ejected from her pampered hot-house existence into the bleak realities of Liverpool during the Depression years. In the first two volumes of her autobiography – 'Twopence to Cross the Mersey' and 'Liverpool Miss', Helen