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Saving capitalism: for the many, not the few
By Robert B Reich. 2015
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Movie and television tie-insBestsellers (Non-fiction), Business and economics, Economics
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Reich outlines how the American economic system is failing, with increasing income inequality and a shrinking middle class, and reveals…
how a market designed for broad prosperity can reverse the trend toward diminished opportunity. Bestseller. 2015.Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores The Hidden Side Of Everything
By Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner, Anatole Muchnik. 2006
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Movie and television tie-insBusiness and economics, Economics
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Quel lien entre la législation de l'avortement et la baisse de la criminalité aux États-Unis ? Quelles sont les vraies…
motivations des agents immobiliers ? Pourquoi les revendeurs de drogue vivent-ils plus longtemps chez leur mère ? L'économie, vue sous cet angle, incongru en apparence, mais qui est celui de la plus sérieuse rationalité des agents, des comportements, des causes et effets, traite de sujets peu conventionnels. Elle a reçu un nom : freakonomics, ou " économie saugrenue ". Elle jette une lumière de biais sur le désordre des événements ; elle met à nu des a priori à prétention de scientificité irréfutable ; elle transforme notre regard sur le monde globalisé, qui nous apparaît, pour finir, moins impénétrable et incompréhensible. 2006. Titre uniforme: Freakonomics.Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
By Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner. 2005
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Movie and television tie-insBusiness and economics, Economics
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The author offers his view of how the economy really works; examining issues from cheating and crime, to sports and…
child-rearing. He offers a very different view on what drives the economy. 2005.Vengeance: the true story of an Israeli counter-terrorist mission
By George Jonas. 2005
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Movie and television tie-insCanadian non-fiction, General non-fiction, History, Espionage
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The mission of five ordinary Israelis: to hunt down and kill the PLO terrorists responsible for the massacre of eleven…
Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Details the mechanics, the horror, and the day-by-day suspense, as they changed identities constantly, moved from country to country, and were themselves tracked in turn (and some killed) by PLO assassins. Some strong language and descriptions of violence. 2005.