Policy


Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Abundance
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Poverty, by America
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Capital in the Twenty First Century
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOn China by Henry KissingerLeftover Women by Leta Hong FincherMeltdown in Tibet by Michael  Buckley
Informative Books on China
45 books — 17 voters
The Nazi, the Princess, and the Shoemaker by Scott M. NeumanThe Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. EvansMy New Order by Adolf HitlerThe Pharmacist of Auschwitz by Patricia PosnerThe Pendulum by Julie Lindahl
Nazi Germany Non fiction
29 books — 14 voters

Bullshit Jobs by David GraeberManifesto of the Free People's Union by Jakub LasakUnderstanding Power by Noam ChomskyTalking to My Daughter about the Economy by Yanis VaroufakisPost-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
Literature of the Left
39 books — 24 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinBlack Food Matters by Hanna GarthThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonCaste by Isabel Wilkerson
PPIA JSI Ford 26 Rec List
15 books — 1 voter

Michael Bassey Johnson
Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies. ...more
Michael Bassey Johnson

Jonathan Haidt
I had escaped from my prior partisan mind-set (reject first, ask rhetorical questions later) and began to think about liberal and conservative policies as manifestations of deeply conflicting but equally heartfelt visions of the good society. It felt good to be released from partisan anger. And once I was no longer angry, I was no longer committed to reaching the conclusion that righteous anger demands: we are right, they are wrong. I was able to explore new moral matrices, each one supported by ...more
Jonathan Haidt

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