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Financial meltdown, a deep recession, and political polarization—combined with strong growth outside the U.S. —have led to a global bubble of pessimism surrounding the U.S. and its economic prospects. But Gross shows that much of the talk about decline is misplaced.

A news-breaking account of the global stock market’s subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the “bots”- artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who’ve created them.

From the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter comes the remarkable, step-by-step story of how the American Dream was dismantled over the past 40 years by a series of landmark legislative, electoral, and corporate decisions.

Should we pay children to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? Michael J. Sandel takes on the biggest ethical questions of our time.

From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of “How Capitalism Will Save Us”—comes a new way of thinking about the role of government and the morality of free markets.

Follows the incursions of the market into every stage of intimate life and reveals a world in which the most intuitive and emotional of human acts have become work for hire.

With other nations aggressively forging ahead in clean tech—including renewable energy, electric vehicles, and green buildings—how can the United States position itself for success? Industry experts Pernick and Wilder assess current clean-tech leaders worldwide and offer a Seven-Point Action Plan for Repowering America.

A century of auto-centric culture has left most of America with public transport that is underfunded and ill maintained. But as the demand for petroleum is fast outpacing the world’s supply, a revolution is under way. Grescoe explores the growing number of people who rely on public transportation.