Your public library is constantly bringing in new fiction and non-fiction books on lots of different subjects — dozens every month. Get to know the locations in the library where we keep your favorite topics. Check in with the reference
Your public library is constantly bringing in new fiction and non-fiction books on lots of different subjects — dozens every month.
Get to know the locations in the library where we keep your favorite topics. Check in with the reference librarian for information. And check back often to see what’s new.
Here we’ll review a few of them on one popular subject: economics and personal finance.
With the national, world, and local economic crises getting lots of buzz lately, many may want to read more about it. This Book Buzz list features various aspects of current economics with reporting on how we got here, ideas on how to get out, and suggestions of alternate economic models. These books remind us of the pitfalls and opportunities inherent to financial slumps and challenge us to re-think business as usual.
Go Green Live Rich:
50 Simple Ways to
Save the Earth and
Get Rich Trying
By David Bach
640 Ba
Combines two hot issues: environmental and economic sustainability. What’s not to love about this idea? Author of Smart Women Finish First and several other finance books, this is Bach’s first book to go green.
The Blue Way: How to Profit by Investing in a Better World
By Daniel de Faro Adamson
& Joe Andrew
332.6042 Ad
The authors argue the outrageous idea that socially progressive companies that make political contributions to “blue” politicians and causes outperform “red” companies. They provide a guide for identifying and investing in blue companies for a more profitable return. Americans who “buy blue,” they say, aren’t just acting on their values; they are helping to grow the American economy.
Common Wealth:
Economics for a
Crowded Planet
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
338.9 Sa
Noted economist, Jeffrey Sachs, author of The End of Poverty, writes a state of the world report with recommendations fundamental to human welfare. He addresses poverty, climate change and environmental destruction arguing that policies to help the world’s poor and the global environment are in fact the very best economic bargains on the planet.
The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage
By Alexandra Harney
337.51 Ha
The China price has been known as the best (cheapest) price for labor-intensive manufactured goods. But behind the ubiquitous ‘Made in China’ label is a tumult of hope, fear and skullduggery. The author brings to light the inconvenient truths: the factors and conditions that cheapen the production process to achieve the Chinese economic miracle, the China price.
Are the Rich Necessary? Great Economic
Arguments and How They Reflect Our
Personal Values
By Hunter Lewis
330 Le
Are the rich compatible with democracy? Should we accept so much inequality in our society? Does the profit system glorify greed? Author Lewis addresses provocative questions and their underlying value systems. He challenges conventional positions on both sides of each issue, and proposes a new approach to the economy.
Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place
By John Abrams
332 Ab
Part memoir and part examination of a new business model involving employee ownership and workplace democracy, this book demonstrates how companies can flourish using the cornerstones of community commitment and a socially entrepreneurial spirit.
Megacommunities: How
Leaders of Government,
Business and Non-Profits
Can Tackle Today’s Global Challenges Together
By Mark Gerencser, et. al.
303.484 Mc
The authors propose a collaborative problem-solving model for our interconnected world using a recast consciousness and a revolution in perspective. The challenge falls to leaders of organizations in three sectors: business, government and civil society.
Small Loans, Big Dreams How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are
Changing the World
By Alex Counts
332 Co
Read the astounding story of the visionary Grameen Bank in India, and its Nobel-Prize-Winning founder Muhammad Yunus who demonstrated banking success using a new model of seeking the impoverished and excluding the rich. The book presents compelling stories of women in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago that benefited from Yunus’s microcredit and demonstrated the success of the powerful microfinance strategy.
•Carolyn Larson is head librarian at Lihu‘e Public Library. Her weekly column brings you the buzz on new, popular and good books available at your neighborhood library.
