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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,591 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as policy)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,717 ratings — published 2017
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as policy)
avg rating 3.88 — 56,302 ratings — published 2025
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,414 ratings — published 2012
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,595 ratings — published 2010
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,992 ratings — published 2008
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,406 ratings — published 2023
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,745 ratings — published 2014
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as policy)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,009 ratings — published 2000
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,259 ratings — published 1988
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,464 ratings — published 1998
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,441 ratings — published 2013
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,917 ratings — published 1961
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,034 ratings — published 2023
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,838 ratings — published 2009
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 182,854 ratings — published 2019
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,693 ratings — published 2014
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,214 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,976 ratings — published 2018
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,709 ratings — published 2017
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as policy)
avg rating 4.20 — 20,734 ratings — published 2020
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 4.38 — 47,102 ratings — published 2022
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,081 ratings — published 2018
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,209 ratings — published 2011
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,540 ratings — published 2011
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 17,246 ratings — published 2025
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,897 ratings — published 2018
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 401,478 ratings — published 1513
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,151 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,375 ratings — published 2012
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,451 ratings — published 2006
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,818,962 ratings — published 1945
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,867 ratings — published 1944
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 3.88 — 40,437 ratings — published 2005
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.61 — 22,565 ratings — published 2021
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,217 ratings — published 2020
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,551 ratings — published 2020
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,477 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,861 ratings — published 2018
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,539 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,018 ratings — published 2005
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 287,927 ratings — published 2020
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 20,355 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,197 ratings — published 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 227,297 ratings — published 2014
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,141 ratings — published 2013
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,323 ratings — published 2009
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,457 ratings — published 2007
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,535 ratings — published 2017
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,591 ratings — published 2025
“As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013.”
― Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
― Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
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