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The Gridlock Economy
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Michael Heller
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HOW TOO MUCH OWNERSHIP WRECKS MARKETS, STOPS INNOVATION, AND COSTS LIVES
Today's leading edge of innovation - in high tech, biomedicine, music, film, real estate - requires the assembly of separately owned resources. But gridlock is blocking economic growth all along the wealth creation frontier.
Michael Heller takes readers on a lively tour of gridlock battlegrounds. He zips from medieval robber barons to modern-day broadcast spectrum squatters; from Mississippi courts selling African-American family farms to troubling New York City land confiscations; and from Chesapeake Bay oyster pirates to today’s gene patent and music mash-up outlaws. Each tale offers insights into how to spot gridlock in operation and how we can overcome it.
The Gridlock Economy is a startling, accessible biography of an idea. We can unlock the grid; this book shows us where to start ...
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Just How Stupid Are We?
Facing the Truth About the American Voter
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Rick Shenkman
Politicians tell us constantly that they trust the wisdom of “The American People.” New York Times best-selling author Rick Shenkman explains why we shouldn’t-at least when it comes to politics
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Sex in Crisis
The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics
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Dagmar Herzog
America is in the midst of a second sexual revolution-and this time, argues historian Dagmar Herzog, the love isn’t free
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Thousand Mile Song
Whale Music In a Sea of Sound
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David Rothenberg
The man who plays music with animals returns with a fascinating exploration of an alien intelligence in our midst: whales and their profoundly mysterious music
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The Red Prince
The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke
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Timothy Snyder
From the palaces of the Habsburg Empire to the torture chambers of Stalin’s Soviet Union, the extraordinary story of a life suspended between the collapse of the imperial order and the violent emergence of modern Europe
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Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat
The Dire Warning
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JOHN R LUKACS
A best-selling historian considers Churchill’s first speech before Parliament-a speech that transformed both Churchill and the nation he had come to lead
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George Washington on Leadership
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Richard Brookhiser
America’s first president was also one of its strongest leaders-from the military, to government, and to business
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