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Walter E. Williams
 

 
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Robert Wade 2003 _Governing the Market: Economic Theory and the Role of Government in East Asian Industrialization_ (490 pages)

Rodd Wagner 2015 _Widgets: The 12 New Rules for Managing Your Employees as if They're Real People_ (280 pages; 1.5MB)

(40) Linda J. Waite & Maggie Gallagher 2002 _The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially_ (272 pages; 547KB; 306.81; Main+NE)

Roger Waldinger & Michael I. Lichter 2003 _How the Other Half Works: Immigration and the "Social Organization" of Labor_ ()

David W. Walker 8888 _Financial Armageddon_ ()

Francis Amasa Walker 1888, 2006, 2017 _Political Economy_ (530 pages)

David W. Walker 8888 _Financial Armageddon_ ()

(39) Jeff Walker 2021 _Launch: How to Sell Almost AnyThing OnLine, Build a Business You Love, & Live the Life of Your Dreams_ (287 pages; ISBN 9781401960230; OCLC ; Hay House; on order 2022-03-15 Wal; Main)

(13) Wanda T. Wallace 2019 _You Can't Know It All: Leading in the Age of Deep Expertise_ (hyper-specialization; 215 pages; 658.4 Wal; Main)

Immanuel Wallerstein 1974, 2011 _The Modern World-System: 1 Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the 16th Century_ (420 pages; 4.2MB)

Immanuel Wallerstein 1974, 2011 _The Modern World-System: 2 Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy 1600-1750_ (390 pages; 3.5MB)

Immanuel Wallerstein 1974, 2011 _The Modern World-System: 3 The 2nd Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy 1730s-1840s_ (380 pages; 3.1MB)

Immanuel Wallerstein 1974, 2011 _The Modern World-System: 4 Centrist Liberalism Triumphant 1789-1914_ (390 pages; 1.3MB)

Peter J. Wallison 2013 _Bad History, Worse Policy: How A False Narrative About the Financial Crisis Led to the Dodd-Frank Act_ (540 pages; 6.2MB)

Peter J. Wallison 2015 _Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World's Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again_ (432 pages; 332.7; Main)

Peter J. Wallison, Thomas H. Stanton & Bert Ely 2004 _Privatizing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Home Loan Banks: Why and How_ (120 pages)

James Walsh 1998, 2011 _You Can't Cheat an Honest Man: How Ponzi Shemes and Pyramid Frauds Work and Why They're More Common Than Ever_ (350 pages)

Carl Walter & Fraser J.T. Howie 2012 _Red "Capitalism": The Fragile Financial Foundation of Red China's ExtraOrdinary Rise_ (250 pages; 5.3MB)

Francis Walton 1956 _The Miracle of World War 2: How USA Industry Made Victory Possible_ (575 pages)

Gary M. Walton & Hugh Rockoff 2010, 2013, 2017 _History of the American Economy_/_History of the USA Economy_ (600-615 pages; 32.1MB-51.6MB)

Mary Walton 1986 _The Deming Management Method_ ()

Fei-ling Wang 2003 _Organizing Through Division and Exclusion: China's Hukou System_ ()

Hong Wang 1993 _China's Exports Since 1979_ ()

 
(33) ►Nicholas Wapshott 2011, 2012 _Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics_ (390 pages; 750KB; ILL request)◀
 
 

James Paul Warburg 1934 _The Money Muddle_ ()

James Paul Warburg 1935 _It's Up to Us_ ()

James Paul Warburg 1934, 1964 _The Long Road Home: The AutoBiography of a Maverick_ ()

Paul Warburg 1930 _The Federal Reserve System: Its Origins and Growth_ ()

Phyllis Baldwin Warburg 1936 _New Deal Noodles_ ()

Barbara McLean Ward 1994 _Produce and Conserve, Share and Play Square: The Grocer and the Consumer on the Home-Front BattleField during World War 2_ (230 pages)

Diane Raines Ward 2002 _Water Wars_ ()

James A. Ward 1995, 1997 _The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company_ (315 pages)

Matt Ward 2018 _Demons of the Valley: How [Executives of] Today's Tech Giants Monopolize the Future [and Block Positive Changes]_ (245 pages; 6.3MB)
 

Caroline F. Ware 1942 _The Consumer Goes to War_ (290 pages)

Norman J. Ware 1964 _The Industrial Worker_ ()

Amos Griswold Warner 1894, 1908, 1878 _American Charities: A Study in Philanthropy and Economics_ (435 pages; regressive)

Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi 2003 _The 2 Income Trap_ ()

George Frederick Warren & Frank A. Pearson 1933 _Prices_ ()

Kenneth Warren 1933 _Big Steel: The First Century of the United States Steel Corporation 1901-2001_ (415 pages; 16.1MB)

David Warsh 2007 _Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery_ ()

Rick Wartzman 2011 _What Would Drucker Do Now?: Solutions to Today's Toughest Challenges from the Father of Modern Management_ (288 pages)

 
(39) ►Rick Wartzman 2022-11-15 _Still Broke: WM's Remarkable Transformation & the Limits of "Socially Conscious" Capitalism_ (272 pages; ISBN 9781541757998; OCLC ; PublicAffairs; ILL request)◀
 
 

(14) Shaa Wasmund 2015 _Do Less, Get More: How to Work Smart and Live Life Your Way_ (218 pages; 650.1 Was; East)
 

Benjamin C. Waterhouse 2013, 2014 _Lobbying USA: The Politics of Business from Nixon to NAFTA_ (345 pages; 5MB)

Benjamin C. Waterhouse 2017 _The Land of Enterprise: A Business History of the USA_ (280 pages; 1.7MB)

Don Watkins 2014 _RooseveltDoesn'tCare: How Socialist Insecurity is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance_ (155 pages; 770KB)

Richter Watkins 2016 _USA on Suicide Watch: The Rise of the Regressive SuperState and theFall of the USA Idea_ (170 pages; 397KB)

Bradley C.S. Watson & Charles R. Kesler 2020 _Regressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea_ (260 pages; 1.2MB)

Ben Wattenbeg 2004 _Fewer: How the New Demography of DePopulation Will Shape Our Future_ ()

() Duncan J. Watts 2011 _Everything Is Obvious Once You Know the Answer: How Common Sense [Sometimes] Fails Us_ (342 pages; 153.4; ???was catalogued, now it is not???)

Steven Watts 2009 _The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the USA Century_ (640 pages; 4.3MB)

Carolyn Webber & Aaron Wildavsky 1986 _An History of Taxation and Expenditure in the Western World_ (725 pages)

Michael J. Webber & David L. Rigby 1996 _The Golden Age Illusion: ReThinking PostWar Capitalism_ (after WW2; 535 pages)

Joseph Wechsberg 1966, 2014 _The Merchant Bankers_ (370 pages; 1.2MB)

Erik Wecks 2012 _How to Manage Your Money When You Don't Have Any_ (190 pages; 2.9MB)

(50) Janine R. Wedel 2009, 2011 _Shadow Elite: How the World's New Power Brokers Undermine Democracy, Government, and the Free Market_ (283 pages; 724KB; 320.9; )

Albert L. Weeks 2010 _Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the USSR in World War 2_ (180 pages)

Peter Wehner, Arthur C. Brooks & Philip Jenkins 2010 _Wealth & Justice: The Morality of Democratic Capitalism_ ()

Gavin Weightman 2010 _The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Making of the Modern World 1776-1914_ (420 pages; 1.5MB)

David Weil 2014 _The Fissured WorkPlace: Why Work Became So Bad for So Many and What Can Be Done to Improve It_ (420 pages; 5.2MB)

Myron Weiner & Mary Fainsod Katzenstein 1981 _India's Preferential Policies_ ()

Leon A. Weinstein 2011 _Capitalism 101_ ()

Steven R. Weisman 2016 _The Great TradeOff: Confronting Moral Conflicts in the Age of Globalization_ (310 pages; 2.4MB)

Rudolph L. Weissman 1939 _The New Wall Street_ ()

Martin L. Weitzman 2007 _Income, Wealth, & the Maximum Principle_ (350 pages)

David Ames Wells 2007 _The Creed of Free Trade_ (25 pages)

Wyatt C. Wells 1994 _Economist in an UnCertain World: Arthur F. Burns and the Federal Reserve 1970-1978_ (325 pages)

Morris Robert Werner 2009 _Little Napoleons and Dummy Directors: Being the Narrative of the Bank of the United States of America_ (215 pages)

David Wessell 2009 _In Fed We [Suckers!] Trust: [Bubbles] Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic_ (recessions; 2007-2016; 330 pages; 873KB)

David Wessell 8888 _Lessons of the Rescue: A Drama in 5 Acts_ ()

Edwin G. West 1990 _Adam Smith and Modern Economics_ ()

Edwin G. West 1994, 2010 _Education and the State: A Study in Political Economy_ (385 pages)

Harald Ludwig Westergaard 1922, 2015 _Economic Development in Denmark Before and During the World War_ (125 pages; 372KB)

Amy S. Wharton 2015 _Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change in a New Economic Era_ (340 pages; 4.1MB)

(30) Charles J. Wheelan 2019 _Naked Economics_ (366 pages; 330 Whe; Main+E+BLPerry)

Charles J. Wheelan 2016 _Naked Money_ (332.4)

Andrew Dickson White 1896, 2008 _Fiat Money Inflation in France_ ()

Elizabeth White 2019 _55, UnderEmployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Life_ (265 pages; 3.9MB)

Gordon White, Jude Howell & Shang Xiaoyuan 1996 _In Search of Civil Society: Market Reform and Social Change in Contemporary China_ ()

Harry Dexter White 1933 _The French InterNational Accounts 1880-1913_ ()

Lawrence H. White 1995 _Free Banking in Britain_ ()

Lawrence H. White 1989, 1992 _Competition and Currency: Essays on Free Banking and Money_ (260 pages)

Roger White 2010 _Migration and International Trade: The US Experience Since 1945_ (220 pages)

(55) Shane White 2015 _Prince of Darkness: The UnTold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire_ (360 pages; 1.7MB; biography Hamilton; )
 

Alfred North Whitehead & Lucien Price 1954 _Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead as Recorded by Lucien Price_ ()

Ben Whitter 2019 _Employee Experience: Develop a Happy, Productive, and Supported WorkForce for Exceptional Individual and Business Performance_ (280 pages; 1MB)

William H. Whyte & Joseph Nocera 1956, 1967, 1972, 2002, 2013 _The Organization Man_ (440 pages; 2.1MB)
 

Elmus Wicker 2000, 2006 _The Banking Panics of the Gilded Age_ (recessions; 175 pages; Cambridge)

Elmus Wicker 1996, 2000 _The Banking Panics of the Great Depression_ (recessions; 190 pages)

Elmus Wicker 1966 _Federal Reserve Monetary Policy 1917-1933_ ()

Philip Wicksteed, Jeffrey A. Tucker, Peter J. Boettke, Israel M. Kirzner & Lionel Robbins 2013 _The Common Sense of Political Economy_ (LFB; 515 pages; 10MB)

Clair Wilcox 1940, 1970 _Competition & Monopoly in American Industry_ ()

 
(55) ►Reeves Wiedemann 2020-10-20 _Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise & Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann & WeWork_ (340 pages; 947KB; ISBN 0316461369; Little Brown; ILL request)◀
 
 

Ben Wildavsky 2012 _The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Destroying the World_ (255 pages; 1.4MB)

Mira Wilkins 1989, 2009 _The History of Foreign Investment_ (980 pages; 10.5MB)

Mira Wilkins 2011 _American Business Abroad: Ford on 6 Continents_ (570 pages)

Mira Wilkins 1970 _The Emergence of MultiNational Enterprise_ (310 pages)

Amy Wilkinson 2015, 2016 _The Creator's Code: The 6 Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs_ (230 pages; 2.2MB)

Tim Wilkinson & Andrew R. Thomas _The Distribution Trap_ ()
 

Joan C. Williams 2017 _White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in the USA_ (or rejection of the notion of "class"; 190 pages; 695KB)

Jonathan Williams, Je Cribb & Elizabeth Errington 1997 _Money: An History_ ()

Michael Williams 2000 _The War for Talent: Getting the Best from the Best_ (260 pages)

  - - - - - Walter E. Williams

 
(35) ►Walter E. Williams 2015 _American Contempt for Liberty_ (441 pages; 1.4MB; ILL request)◀
 

Walter E. Williams 1995 _Do the Right Thing_ (180 pages)

Walter E. Williams 1996 _Fundamentals of Business Mathematics_ (600 pages)

Walter E. Williams 2008 _Liberty vs. the Tyranny of Socialism_ (370 pages; 3MB)

 
(40) ►Walter E. Williams 2011 _Race and Economics_ (180 pages; 392KB-1.6MB)

(45) Walter E. Williams 2010 _Up from the Projects_ (150 pages; biography Williams)

 
(49) ►Walter E. Williams 1977 _Youth and Minority UnEmployment_ (50 pages; ILL request)◀
 
 

John Williamson 1994 _The Political Economy of Policy Reform_ (615 pages)

Kevin D. Williamson 2010 _The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism_ (314 pages; 813KB)

Kevin D. Williamson 2012 _The Dependency Agenda_ (38 pages)

Kevin D. Williamson 2013 _The End Is Near and It Is Going to Be Awesome: How Going Broke Will Leave the USA Richer, Happier, and More Secure_ (229 pages; 1.2MB; )
 

Carol Willis 1995 _Form Follows Finance: SkyScrapers & SkyLines in New York & Chicago_ (215 pages)

Shomari Wills 2018 _Black Fortunes: The Story of the First 6 African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires_ (290 pages; 2.9MB)
 

Lonnie Wilson 2019 _Sustaining WorkForce Engagement: How to Ensure Your Employees Are Healthy, Happy, and Productive_ (490 pages; 17.9MB)

Patricia Wilson 1992 _Exports and Local Development: Mexico's New Maquiladoras_ ()

Robert A. Wilson & Bill Hosokawa _East to America: An History of the Japanese in the United States_ ()

William Julius Wilson 1996, 1997, 2011 _When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor_ (310 pages; 1.5MB)

William Julius Wilson 1987, 1990, 2012 _The Truly DisAdvantaged: The Inner City, the UnderClass, and Public Policy_ (320 pages; 4.2MB)

William Julius Wilson 1980, 2012 _The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks & Changing USA Institutions_ (275 pages; 2MB)

Barnie F. Winkelman 1934 _10 Years of Wall Street_ ()

Elmer Louis Winter 1965 _Cutting Costs Through the Effective AbUse of Temporary & Part-Time Help_ (150 pages)

John F. Witte 1985 _Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax_ ()
 

Jonathan R. Woetzel 1989 _China's Economic Opening to the Outside World: The Politics of Empowerment_ ()

Alison Wolf 2002 _Does Education Matter: Myths About Education and Economic Growth_ ()

Martin Wolf 2004 _Why Globalization Works_ ()

John Truman Wolfe 2010, 2012-08-01 _Crisis by Design: The UnTold Story of the Global Financial Coup and What You Can Do About It_ (174-190-227-248 pages; 1.3MB; ISBN 9781936449293/ 9780982201565/ 9780982201558; OCLC 855678977/ 664270680/ 772505014; Hugo House/Roberts & Ross)
 

Edward N. Wolff 2006 _Does Education Really Help?: Skill, Work and Inequality_ ()

Joshua D. Wolff 2014 _Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order 1845-1893_ ()

Gary Wolfram 2000 _Towards a Free "Society": An Introduction to Markets and the Political System_ (138 pages)

Gary Wolfram 2012 _A Capitalist Manifesto: Understanding the Market Economy and Defending Liberty_ (150 pages; 1.1MB)

George Wolfskill 1962 _The Revolt of the Conservative_ ()
 

Leo Wolman 1916, 2016 _The Boycott in USA Trade Unions_ (Johns Hopkins U dissertation; 155 pages; 55.9MB)

Paul Wolman 1992, 2000 _Most Favored Nation: The Republican Revisionists and USA Tariff Policy 1897-1912_ (leftist revisionists vs. non-leftist revisionists; 335 pages; 1.4MB)

Jung-en Woo 1991 _Race to the Swift: State and Finance in Korean Industrialization_ (270 pages)
 

Charles H. Wood & Jose A.M. Carvalho 1988 _The Democracy of Inequality in Brazil_ ()

John H. Wood 1999 _Money: Its Origins, Development, Debasement and Prospects_ ()
 

Conor Woodman 2011 _UnFair Trade: The Truth Behind Big Business, Politics, and Fair Trade_ (230 pages)

Harold Woodman 1966 _Slavery and the Southern Economy_ ()
 

Ngaire Woods 2007, 2014 _The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers_ (255 pages; 1.3MB)

Philip H. Woods 2011 _Bath, Maine's Charlie Morse: Ice King & Wall Street Scoundrel_ (126 pages; ISBN 9781609492748; OCLC 711864769; History)

Thomas E. Woods ii 2011, 2012, 2014 _Back on the Road to Serfdom_ (225 pages; 846KB)

Thomas E. Woods ii 2011 _RollBack: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse_ (230 pages; 496KB)

Adrian Wooldridge 2011 _Masters of Management: A Modern Approach_ (446 pages; 658; Main)

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge 2012 _Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach_ (900 pages; 30.8MB)

Dan Wos 2013 _Defining Success in USA: An Exploration of Success, and Why It Is So Easy for Some to Achieve_ (288 pages)

Daniel A. Wren & Ronald G. Greenwood 1998 _Management Innovators: The People and Ideas That Have Shaped Modern Business_ (255 pages; 1MB)
 

Chester Wright 1941 _Economic History of the United States_ ()

Gavin Wright 1978 _The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the 19th Century_ (220 pages)

Gavin Wright 1986, 1997 _Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War_ (330 pages)

J. Patrick Wright 1979, 1980, 1990 _On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. de Lorean's Look Inside the Automotive Giant_ (235-300 pages)

Robert E. Wright 2008 _One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What [the Federal Government] Owe_ (245 pages; 5.6MB)

Robert E. Wright 2002 _The Wealth of Nations ReDiscovered: Integration and Expansion in USA Financial Markets 1780-1850_ (245 pages)

Walter B. Wriston 1992, 1997 _The TwiLight of Sovereignty: How the Information Revolution Is TransForming Our World_ (185 pages)

Wu Jinglian/Jinglian Wu 2005, 2014 _Understanding and Interpreting Red Chinese Economic Reforms_ (515 pages)

Yuan-li Wu & Chun-hsi Wu 1980 _Economic Development in SouthEast Asia: The Red Chinese Dimension_ ()

Robert Wuthnow 2019 _The Left Behind: Decline & Rage in Small-Town USA_ (195 pages; 1.2MB)

Irvin G. Wyllie 1954, 1966 _The Self-Made Man in America: The Myth of Rags to Riches_ ()
 

 

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