Reading Left Economics (28 books)

A list of texts from the very simple to more in-depth, focusing on socialist and social democratic economics, both in terms of critiquing the capitalist system and discussing the socialist alternative.

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1	Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher 4.21 avg rating — 40,655 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Talking to my Daughter about the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis 4.13 avg rating — 21,194 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism and Syndicalism by Bertrand Russell 3.87 avg rating — 1,056 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels 4.14 avg rating — 8,045 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 by Karl Marx 4.30 avg rating — 14,312 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang 3.96 avg rating — 12,722 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell 3.99 avg rating — 407 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Foundations #4) by Friedrich Engels 4.26 avg rating — 9,034 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell 3.89 avg rating — 985 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Vladimir Ilich Lenin 4.27 avg rating — 10,791 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Red Plenty: Inside the Fifties’ Soviet Dream by Francis Spufford (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 4,565 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by Joseph Stalin 3.66 avg rating — 283 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber 4.21 avg rating — 27,099 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism by Michael Hudson 4.43 avg rating — 96 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation by Grace Blakeley 4.09 avg rating — 710 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto by Aaron Bastani 3.68 avg rating — 2,725 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Stasi State or Socialist Paradise?: The German Democratic Republic and What Became of It by Bruni de la Motte 4.32 avg rating — 456 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers by Ann Pettifor 3.69 avg rating — 424 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence by Kristen R. Ghodsee (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 7,909 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy by Mariana Mazzucato 4.07 avg rating — 3,702 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Phillips 3.89 avg rating — 2,142 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Platform Capitalism by Nick Srnicek 3.92 avg rating — 1,429 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Rise and Fall of the British Nation by David Edgerton 4.04 avg rating — 351 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	New Jerusalems: The Labour Party and the economics of democratic socialism by Elizabeth F. Durbin 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Politics of Planning: The Debate on Economic Planning in Britain in the 1930's (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Daniel Ritschel 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi 4.21 avg rating — 5,365 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty 4.06 avg rating — 34,697 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason by David Harvey 4.09 avg rating — 714 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars