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Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
by (shelved 60 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 11,893 ratings — published 2017
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,216 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 — 993 ratings — published 2000
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 113,381 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.44 — 45,737 ratings — published 2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 116,985 ratings — published 2010
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,476 ratings — published 2008
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.95 — 37,367 ratings — published 2025
Gulag: A History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,568 ratings — published 2003
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 62,455 ratings — published 2012
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,268 ratings — published 1956
Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.55 — 82,760 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 4.16 — 603 ratings — published 2024
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,723 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,965 ratings — published 2018
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.65 — 195,377 ratings — published 2001
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,849 ratings — published 1961
The Naked Communist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,599 ratings — published 1960
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 34,475 ratings — published 2013
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,428 ratings — published 1917
What Is to Be Done? (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,173 ratings — published 1902
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.68 — 196,711 ratings — published 1848
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 502,177 ratings — published 2016
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 17,709 ratings — published 2020
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,895 ratings — published 2023
Development as Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,102 ratings — published 1999
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 895,417 ratings — published 2005
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,322 ratings — published 1988
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,327 ratings — published 2011
Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (Longman Classics Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.69 — 577 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 4.38 — 2,730 ratings — published 2023
In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.23 — 366 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 4.30 — 8,161 ratings — published 2017
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,884 ratings — published 1974
The Gulag Archipelago (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.35 — 13,823 ratings — published 1973
Why Socialism Works (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 474 ratings — published
Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 150 ratings — published
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,813 ratings — published 1998
Understanding Public Policy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.81 — 244 ratings — published 1969
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,136 ratings — published 2024
Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,622 ratings — published 2022
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 273,970 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 160,621 ratings — published 2020
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,588 ratings — published 2017
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.13 — 17,167 ratings — published 2018
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 9,326 ratings — published 2012
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 216,787 ratings — published 2014
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,708 ratings — published 2012
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,637 ratings — published 2012
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as public-policy)
avg rating 3.85 — 7,989 ratings — published 2007
“In fact, the center of our problems is political in nature. It is not with Americans ourselves.”
― A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America
― A More Perfect Union: Unifying Ideas for a Divided America
“When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.”
― Take Back your Government: A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Change
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