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Book review: Life Inc.

Posted July 7, 2009 - 14:24 by Philip Brewer

Consumer Affairs, General Tips

Cover of Life Inc

Corporations were invented a few hundred years ago--created to increase the wealth and power of favored businessmen (and the governments that favored them). They have become such a universal feature of our economy that few people give much thought to their origins--or how our economies are structured to suit them. But exactly that is the topic of Douglas Rushkoff's new book.

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Book review: Towers of Gold

Posted December 10, 2008 - 03:15 by Philip Brewer

Personal Finance

Cover of Towers of Gold

It will not, I think, surprise my regular readers to hear that I like to read books about money. All kinds of books about money--not just books on personal finance and frugality, but just about anything, including monetary histories and stories of wealth. Dinkelspiel's new book hits those last two categories (besides being an engaging biography as well).

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