Ten books to survive the meltdown

Once you're done crying into your beer over the nation's increasingly worsening financial prospects, take a moment to pick up one of our 10 Books to Survive the Meltdown, which range from the literal (Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets) to the utopian (Hardt and Negri's Empire--more coverage of Negri on the blog here and here, BTW), to the contemplative (sparkling new edition of Boethius's The Consolation of Philosophy--never hurts to take the long view, I mean at least you're not awaiting execution in a dank prison cell in Padua on largely spurious charges...). So whatever your cast of mind, we've got something for you, reader. And when you're done, put it somewhere safe, like the mattress.