[align=center]Official Poll - January & February 2009 Non-Fiction Book[/align]
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Official Poll - Jan. & Feb. 2009 Non-Fiction Book
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Book 1
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067001 ... 0670019070
Product Description
The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put America's global future at risk
In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing cost of scarce oil. The current housing and mortgage debacle is proof once more of Phillips's prescience, and only the first harbinger of a national crisis. In Bad Money, Phillips describes the consequences of our misguided economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing market, our threatened oil, and the end of American domination of world markets. America's current challenges (and failures) run striking parallels to the decline of previous leading world economic powers
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067001 ... 0670019070
Product Description
The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put America's global future at risk
In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing cost of scarce oil. The current housing and mortgage debacle is proof once more of Phillips's prescience, and only the first harbinger of a national crisis. In Bad Money, Phillips describes the consequences of our misguided economic policies, our mounting debt, our collapsing housing market, our threatened oil, and the end of American domination of world markets. America's current challenges (and failures) run striking parallels to the decline of previous leading world economic powers
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I know I suggested Beyond Culture but I think that it would be better for me, right now, to read Bad Money. Beyond Culture isn't going anywhere and it isn't a 'new' book anyway.
I don't know how accurate this book can be as all this is just happening and is continuing to happen. I'll give it a chance as I'd like to be somewhat in the know.
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2 Bad Money
1 Beyond Culture
I don't know how accurate this book can be as all this is just happening and is continuing to happen. I'll give it a chance as I'd like to be somewhat in the know.
So,
2 Bad Money
1 Beyond Culture
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Ah, this is a tough one. I'm tempted to think that After Tamerlane might challenge me the most, since it steers away from Eurocentrism. But I like the potential of Hall's book to spark a more wide-ranging discussion. And then I'd welcome more background on why the U.S. seems to be losing it fast, which Philips will tell us.
3 votes for (eenie meanie minie).... Beyond Culture (there are always future months for the others).
3 votes for (eenie meanie minie).... Beyond Culture (there are always future months for the others).
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3 votes for book #1 Bad Money
Thanks for not finalizing any religious titles. I also believe that this book Bad Money has the greatest likelihood of being relevant and informative.
Thanks for not finalizing any religious titles. I also believe that this book Bad Money has the greatest likelihood of being relevant and informative.
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Three votes for Bad Money, but I think it is extremely useful to also read After Tamerlane, as it provides one of the best diagnostics I have seen of the historic causes of the rise and fall of empires. As the US Dollar shifts from being a reserve currency, the monopolar vision since the Second World War will come more under challenge. Darwin provides a very eye-opening account of the relations between European empires and their colonial subjects in a way that is highly relevant to contemporary politics.
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