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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,847 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 — 48,229 ratings — published 2017
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as policy)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,409 ratings — published 2025
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,627 ratings — published 2012
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,575 ratings — published 2008
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,105 ratings — published 2010
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,634 ratings — published 2023
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,505 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 — 1,006 ratings — published 2000
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,251 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 — 7,339 ratings — published 1998
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,292 ratings — published 2013
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,753 ratings — published 1961
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,989 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 — 7,827 ratings — published 2009
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,859 ratings — published 2014
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,277 ratings — published 2019
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,150 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,839 ratings — published 2018
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,671 ratings — published 2017
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,566 ratings — published 2020
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,514 ratings — published 2011
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,673 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 — 25,078 ratings — published 2011
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,106 ratings — published 2022
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,230 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 — 9,081 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 — 68,834 ratings — published 2012
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,087 ratings — published 2006
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,776,518 ratings — published 1945
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,717 ratings — published 1944
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,296 ratings — published 2005
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 16,674 ratings — published 2025
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 22,385 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 — 10,163 ratings — published 2020
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,545 ratings — published 2020
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,459 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,772 ratings — published 2018
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,886 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 — 8,503 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,457 ratings — published 2005
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,431 ratings — published 2017
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.34 — 20,240 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,115 ratings — published 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 225,689 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 — 4,126 ratings — published 2013
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,992 ratings — published 2007
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,521 ratings — published 2025
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,791 ratings — published 2023
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,708 ratings — published 2020
“If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.”
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“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
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[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
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