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ECONOMIC GROWTH & STABILITY: An Analysis of Economic Change and Policies
Edition: First printing.
Los Angeles: Nash Publishing Co., (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - This is an overview of the topic of economic change, with a focus on policies during President Nixon's term. The dust jacket comments that this comes at an appropriate time "when the consumer is plagued by inflation" - almost as true now as it was 50 years ago. Includes several appendices, notes, author and subject indexes. Compliments of the Institute for Humane Studies slip laid in. xxvii, 291 pp. ISBN: 0-840213379.
Condition: Fine in black cloth with red lettering on the spine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 85047More details Price: $25.00 -
TO HARASS OUR PEOPLE: The IRS and Government Abuse of Power.
Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.
Washington, D.C.: Positive Publications, 1984. Includes a special section 'Assault on Religion.' 220 pp.
Condition: Very near fine in red illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 30676More details Price: $9.00 -
THE GOOD FIGHT: The Education of an American Reformer.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Random House, (1993). SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of his life in public service by this Senator and presidential candidate whose candidacy was derailed by scandal.This book emphasizes his accomplishmens in the Senate and elsewhere. INSCRIBED on the title page."For -- best wishes.Index. xl, 327 pp. ISBN: 0-679419888.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68749More details Price: $25.00 -
THE GREAT ASCENT: The Struggle for Economic Development in Our Time
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Condition: VG- (some underlining)
Book ID: 10206More details Price: $10.00 -
BUSINESS CIVILIZATION IN DECLINE
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Norton, 1976.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 12314More details Price: $10.00 -
THE GREAT ASCENT: The Struggle for Economic Development in Our Time
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Condition: Very good.
Book ID: 22741More details Price: $10.00 -
THE WORLDLY PHILOSOPHERS: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Third edition, revised. Classic book on economists from Adam Smith and Malthus through the utopian socialists, to Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen and John Maynard Keynes, originally published in 1955. Bibliography, index. 320 pages. ISBN: 0-671-201514.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 23693More details Price: $9.00 -
THE LIMITS OF AMERICAN CAPITALISM.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. Notes, index. 144 pp.
Condition: Very good overall (some penciling underlining and markings).
Book ID: 23694More details Price: $10.00 -
THE GODS OF ANTENNA.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41843More details Price: $12.50 -
THE FATE OF MIDAS and Other Essays.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
San Francisco: Ramparts Press, (1973). First edition - Essays on the relevance of Marxism to contemporary issues and which pose a challenge to complacent orthodoxy whether in or out of the establishment. Includes personal appreciations of Isaac Deutscher and Bertrand Russell. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-878670335.
Condition: Very good (some rubbing to the covers, light toning to the pages, a tight copy)
Book ID: 85052More details Price: $15.00 -
PREPARING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Random House, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the global economy. Includes appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. ISBN: 0-394-58443-0.
Condition: Very good+ in very good+ dust jacket. 428 pgs.
Book ID: 15227More details Price: $15.00 -
OBAMA'S CHALLENGE: America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company. (2008.). First edition - Although published just before Obama's election, this remains significant, as the challenges facing Obama continue to grow. Notes. Index. 213 pp. ISBN: 1603580794.
Condition: Fine (a new copy.)
Book ID: 46277More details Price: $15.00 -
THE STORY OF STUFF: How Our Obsession with Stuff Is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-and a Vision for Change.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Free Press, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - A book which explores the effects of overconsumption on the environment, economy, and our health. "From sneaking into factories and dumps around the world to visiting textile workers in Haiti and children mining coltan for cell phones in the Congo, Leonard, named one of Time magazines 100 environmental heroes of 2009, highlights each step of the materials economy and its actual effect on the earth and the people who live near sites like these. [She] shares concrete steps for taking action at the individual and political level that will bring about sustainability, community health, and economic justice." SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with graphs and small drawings. Endnotes, index. xxxiv, 317 pp. ISBN: 978-1439125663.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 76073More details Price: $25.00 -
THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL. A Chemist's Interpretation/
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Little Brown, 1928. Hardcover first edition - From the preface: "The thread which binds [this book] together is the reiterated emphasis upon the debt which Industry owes to Chemistry and the necessity of utlizing the creative power of research if we are to avoid its alternative, which is retrogression." Published just before the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, this in an interesting look at the American economy at the time. Includes comments on immigration and a long chapter on future fuel. Index. 287 pp.
Condition: Very good in burgundy cloth with gold lettering (some pages were opened carelessly with tears to the margins,)
Book ID: 65147More details Price: $25.00 -
THE PERVERTED PRIORITIES OF AMERICAN POLITICS
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Macmillan, 1976.
Condition: VG
Book ID: 10197More details Price: $8.50 -
MERGE LEFT: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The New Press, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "From the author of 'Dog Whistle Politics', an essential road map to neutralizing the role of racism as a divide-and-conquer political weapon and to building a broad multiracial progressive future." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Notes, index. xxiii, 263 pp. ISBN: 978-1620975640.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 81286More details Price: $35.00 -
THE RICH AND THE SUPER RICH: A Study in the Power of Money Today.
Edition: 6th printing (just 4 months after publication).
New York: Lyle Stuart, Inc, (1968) dj. Hardcover - A detailed and exhaustive look at who really owns America and how do they keep their wealth and their power - a book which is arguably even more relevant today, with the increase in wealth and power by a few, than when it was published. Notes, index. 812 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 83191More details Price: $21.50 -
POLITICAL WRITINGS.
Edition: Limited, leatherbound edition - first thus.
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1982. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated by Geoffrey Moss. A title in the 100 Greatest Books series. Bound in full dark blue leather, decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Silk moire endpapers and silk ribbon marker bound-in. Included is the original 22 page pamphlet with "Notes from the Editors." 417 pp.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 58028More details Price: $40.00 -
AMERICA, INC.: Who Owns and Operates The United States.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1971. dj. Hardcover - "This well-documented expose reveals the incorporated rulers of the United States and, it shows them to be private governments which, as effectively as legitimate public governments, decide whether large numbers of us live or die. They levy taxes in the form of price increases, unrestrained by competition. The legitimate governments, turning nations into welfare states for corporations. . . the citizen is powerless while the conglomerates enforce private socialism and decry public socialism." Introduction by Ralph Nader, notes and index, xix, 424 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (gift inscription, toning to pages and dj, price-clipped)
Book ID: 61286More details Price: $16.50 -
CONSERVATIZE ME: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Ann Coulter, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author is an NPR commentator, a contributor to McSweeney's and a political humorist who decided to see what would happen if he listened to nothing but conservative radio and television and interviews major conservative figures. INSCRIBED on the title page "to -- thanks for reading" and dated in the year of publication. 313 pp. ISBN: 0-060854014.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76287More details Price: $25.00 -
CONSERVATIZE ME: How I Tried to Become a Righty with the Help of Richard Nixon, Ann Coulter, Toby Keith, and Beef Jerky.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author is an NPR commentator, a contributor to McSweeney's and a political humorist who decided to see what would happen if he listened to nothing but conservative radio and television and interviews major conservative figures. SIGNED on the title page, 313 pp. ISBN: 0-060854014.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 76288More details Price: $25.00 -
BREAKING THROUGH POWER: It's Easier Than We Think,
Edition: Uncorrected proof (trade paperback format. )
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (2016). First edition - A book written shortly before Trump's Electoral College victory, and more urgent and important now than ever. Author Chris Hedges calls this "a brilliant analysis of corporate power and the popular mechanisms that can be used to wrest back our democracy. No one has been fighting corporate domination longer, or understands it better, than Nader, who will go down in history not only as a prophet but an example of what it means to live the moral life. We disregard his wisdom and his courage at our peril." Endnotes. 153 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy white printed wrappers.
Book ID: 86054More details Price: $15.00 -
HORSEMEN OF THE TRUMPOCALYPSE: A Field Guide to the Most Dangerous People in America.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 88829More details Price: $20.00 -
THE AUDACITY OF HOPE: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (2006) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book by then Senator, and soon-to-be President, Obama. True first edition with number line beginning with a '1,' original price of 25.00 on dust jacket flap. Index. 375 pp. ISBN: 0-307-237699.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 63809More details Price: $30.00 -
INFLATION, RECESSION - and All That.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1972.). First edition - Designed to be an informal introduction to some of the basic concepts of economics, presented without charts and jargons, in clear and concise language. Suggested readings, index. 105 pp. ISBN: 0-030885205.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 41180More details Price: $10.00 -
PEOPLE OF PLENTY: Economic Abundance and the American Character
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1966.). A study of how Americans have been shaped by the ideas of abundance. Index. 217 pp.
Condition: Very good (some underlining.notations)
Book ID: 10129More details Price: $11.50 -
WATERGATE AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PROCESS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Praeger, (1975.). Includes essays by Henry Steele Commager, Theodore H. White, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr and more. ix, 246 pp. ISBN: 0-275852202.
Condition: Good only in glossy illustrated wrappers (underlining on several pages,).
Book ID: 52548More details Price: $10.00 -
WATERGATE AND THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PROCESS.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Praeger, (1975.). Includes essays by Henry Steele Commager, Theodore H. White, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr and more. ix, 246 pp. ISBN: 0-275852202.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 52547More details Price: $12.00 -
NEW FORCES IN THE WORLD ECONOMY: A Washington Quarterly Reader.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (1996). First edition - A collection of 24 articles originally published between 1990 and 1996 in The Washington Quarterly which examine the "features of the new world economic order, beginning with a review of the changing structure of the world economy (including articles on trade, investment, finance, and competitiveness), then turning to a review of the policy debate (with articles on major international institutions, prominent bilateral relationships, and the role of the private sector)." Also includes articles on currency, labor standards, investing in the Asia-Pacific area and more. Illustrated with graphs. Notes and sources at the end of each article. 437 pp. ISBN: 0-262680890.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 77878More details Price: $20.00 -
IRWIN SCHIFF'S HOW ANYONE CAN STOP PAYING INCOME TAXES.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good overall in red cloth with gilt lettering - previous owner's name on front pastedown, marginal check marks, brackets and some underlining throughout, most in pencil - in a good only dust jacket with some soiling, minor edgewear and a few spots of dampstaining on the back cover. Uncommon in the first edition, and especially so signed. .
Book ID: 85221More details Price: $85.00