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Bad Samaritans- The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang - 9781596915985 - Amazon.com - Books - - This book shine an appropriately glaring light on the hypocracy of neo-liberal demands for unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade. They say it worked for us; it should work for others, too. Of course, it didn't: We shamlessly did all the things they would deny to aspiring nations. Buy it at Bookshop, or buy it on Amazon.

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Nature's Keepers--> - Endangered species have a lot more to fear than logging companies and housing developments. The real threat, these days, is poaching. Many are sought after because they're rare. Protection, even in the U.S. is nil- equivalent to having three cops for all of L.A.. Tobias gives you the details, and tells what you can do to help.

Tax Shift - Right now, we tax things we want, like income and productivity, instead of things we would rather have less of, like pollution and resource depletion. It's especialy ironic that we then have to raise even more tax money to clean up the messes encouraged by our present system. The idea is not to raise or lower taxes, but to shift what is taxed.

Bad Samaritans- The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang - 9781596915985 - Amazon.com - Books - - This book shine an appropriately glaring light on the hypocracy of neo-liberal demands for unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade. They say it worked for us; it should work for others, too. Of course, it didn't: We shamlessly did all the things they would deny to aspiring nations. Buy it at Bookshop, or buy it on Amazon.