Winner of the 2012 Gold Medal IPPY Award for Finance/Investment/Economics.

"Mainelli and Harris offer an original and insightful look at the big and important long-term issues facing society today. . . . Policy makers need to read this book."Donald J. Smith, Boston University, author of "BOND MATH: The Theory Behind the Formulas"

"In this thought-provoking and enlightening book, Mainelli and Harris highlight a point that economists too often forget: that economics is, at its heart, the study of human behavior, and that both commerce and its wicked sister, finance, mean nothing unless...