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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 115,328 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 46,792 ratings — published 2017
Abundance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 45,295 ratings — published 2025
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 118,401 ratings — published 2010
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 64,249 ratings — published 2012
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 95,381 ratings — published 2008
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 63,504 ratings — published 2023
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 43,568 ratings — published 2014
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,231 ratings — published 1988
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 34,847 ratings — published 2013
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 996 ratings — published 2000
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 7,026 ratings — published 1998
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 2,839 ratings — published 2023
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 7,762 ratings — published 2009
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 265,112 ratings — published 2014
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 20,220 ratings — published 1961
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 172,709 ratings — published 2019
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
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avg rating 4.22 — 14,905 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 48,342 ratings — published 2018
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 20,041 ratings — published 2020
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 12,439 ratings — published 2017
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 24,637 ratings — published 2011
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 42,876 ratings — published 2022
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 33,307 ratings — published 2018
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 8,814 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 66,963 ratings — published 2012
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 210,948 ratings — published 2006
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,626,774 ratings — published 1945
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 39,837 ratings — published 2005
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 9,987 ratings — published 2020
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 2,532 ratings — published 2020
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,382 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,427 ratings — published 2018
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,836 ratings — published 2018
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 8,296 ratings — published 2017
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 3,425 ratings — published 2011
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 111,657 ratings — published 2017
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 14,539 ratings — published 2025
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 21,785 ratings — published 2021
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
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avg rating 4.34 — 20,033 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 27,861 ratings — published 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 220,496 ratings — published 2014
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 4,078 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 26,215 ratings — published 1944
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 54,588 ratings — published 2007
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 901,570 ratings — published 2005
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,406 ratings — published 2023
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.31 — 279,280 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 119,957 ratings — published 2019
The Truth Behind the Lies: One Man s Journey Through Wwiii (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 301 ratings — published
“While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work...
A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.
(pg.87, "Think Little")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways.
(pg.87, "Think Little")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“Rather than pushing money into the economy, the central bank is in reality pulled by finance and its form of bank-created money—credit. The inconsistency between the official push story and the unofficial pull story, pretending they have competence when in reality they don’t, undermines the high priests of money and so often renders them after-the-event explainers rather than masters of money’s destiny. When you ask yourself why we have recurrent banking and financial crises, this is the answer—the people in charge are not in charge. And behind all the central banking pomp and ceremony, which is dressed up as theory, almost catechism, there are mortal humans dealing with that most incendiary of substances: money. Bear in mind when you are looking for a mortgage that the price of it is determined by the credit cycle, that most unstable element of money, which is less governed by rational economics and more a function of the madness of crowds.”
― The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
― The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
