| 1. |  | Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution -- and How It Can Renew America
from Macmillan Audio
Price: $19.77
Customer Review:
The problem with this work is that in order for it to be reasonable, one must accept Mr. Friedman's premise: that the earth is getting hotter, flatter, and more crowded. While it is not a stretch to believe these things, he presents them as an emergency. Without the emergency he initially creates... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
from Penguin Press HC, The
Price: $17.61
Customer Review:
Have you ever wondered how banking started? How the South really lost the war? What really happened last year on Wall Street? This book explains the real reason behind nearly every historical event for the past 800 years. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
from Viking/Allen Lane
Customer Review:
I purchased this book since it has such high reviews on Amazon. Unfortunately, all the book provides are obsessive techniques on how to organize your tasks. Still, you would come up with them yourself anyway as they are all basic common sense.
If anything, taking the time to read this book... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
from W. W. Norton
Price: $14.97
Customer Review:
Extremely readable explanation of the current US economic crisis, in historical context. Paul Krugman makes a strong case for his prescription to get our economy back on a sustainable track. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | The Black Swan
from Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Customer Review:
Most of the criticisms of Taleb and this book seem sensible:
- His confidence sometimes seems to reach the level of condescending arrogance.
- With a wave of the hand, he dismisses those he disagrees with, even Nobel prize winners. And perhaps he oversimplifies their positions in order to... more info | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
from W.W. Norton & Co.
Price: $17.60
Customer Review:
its a collection of articles written going back 20 years. there very informative, but some are very complicated and since most articles are by different authors and on similar subjects you end up reading the same information a few times. | 3.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It
from Harper
Price: $17.79
Customer Review:
This book is a great read. It is very interesting and very insightful. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about politics. | 3.5 / 5.0
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| 8. |  | Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
from William Morrow
Price: $19.17
Customer Review:
Freakonomics' strongest asset is its blunt force mauling of conventional wisdom and the often unveering faith that journalists, experts and ordinary folks pay it, often only to serve (sadly) their own interests. When that is the authors' approach they deliver sound arguments. That, thankfully, is... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
from Picador
Price: $10.88
Customer Review:
A great composite history of neoliberal political economy and the ways it has been instituted worldwide. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 10. |  | Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence
from Viking Adult
Customer Review:
So I bought the revised edition and while I really like the book...its really nothing new. Its just common sense. Get out of debt, save, live within your means, don't play the game of "keeping up with the joneses," invest and diversify your stock portfolio. This is advice that my own mother has... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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