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Two New Books Try to Explain How We Lost a Truly Productive Economynew

The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences by John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, and Alan Beattie's False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World try to explain how we got here.
The Texas Observer  |  Anis Shivani  |  06-17-2009  |  Books

Independent Bookshops Chain to Close After 82 Yearsnew

Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops, one of the largest and oldest independent chains in Wisconsin, survived the Great Depression but wasn't able to overcome titanic changes in the retail sector, exacerbated by the current economic crisis.
Shepherd Express  |  Evan Rytlewski  |  01-23-2009  |  Books

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