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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 59 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,682 ratings — published 2017
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,260 ratings — published 1988
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,009 ratings — published 2000
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,838 ratings — published 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 118,767 ratings — published 2016
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 97,115 ratings — published 2008
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 56,705 ratings — published 2025
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,700 ratings — published 2010
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 67,605 ratings — published 2012
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 14,447 ratings — published 2003
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 20,964 ratings — published 1961
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,569 ratings — published 1956
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 15,235 ratings — published 2019
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.55 — 86,117 ratings — published 1516
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 893 ratings — published 2024
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 49,005 ratings — published 2018
The Naked Communist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,821 ratings — published 1960
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,101 ratings — published 2016
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,479 ratings — published 2013
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.66 — 196,961 ratings — published 2001
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,967 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,079 ratings — published 1902
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 67,594 ratings — published 2023
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.70 — 210,848 ratings — published 1848
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,242 ratings — published 2011
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 912,810 ratings — published 2005
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,215 ratings — published 2020
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,248 ratings — published 1999
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.53 — 31,954 ratings — published 1974
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,715 ratings — published 1988
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.67 — 596 ratings — published 1984
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,048 ratings — published 2023
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,927 ratings — published 2022
In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 406 ratings — published
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,547 ratings — published 2017
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,486 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Public Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.81 — 246 ratings — published 1969
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,907 ratings — published 1944
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.35 — 14,786 ratings — published 1973
Why Socialism Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.20 — 692 ratings — published 2017
Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 163 ratings — published
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,366 ratings — published 2017
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 35,180 ratings — published 2018
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 7,321 ratings — published 2009
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,451 ratings — published 2024
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 288,538 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 168,927 ratings — published 2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 183,508 ratings — published 2019
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,687 ratings — published 2018
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,885 ratings — published 2012
“On joining the aquarium community we all agreed to put aside our carnivorous ways to live off Professor Brown’s fish food. Every one of us agreed!
If we start to eat each other, what kind of life would that be?”
― FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
If we start to eat each other, what kind of life would that be?”
― FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
“What about what Doc said?" asked Big Moe. "If we turn up the temperature it might hurt some of the fishes."
"Collateral damage," said Sarin. "Nothing more. I tell you what, Big Moe, we'll turn it up slowly and the fish won't even notice.”
― FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
"Collateral damage," said Sarin. "Nothing more. I tell you what, Big Moe, we'll turn it up slowly and the fish won't even notice.”
― FISH TANK: A Fable for Our Times
