50 Books like The Age of Dignity

Labours of Love

by Madeleine Bunting • 2020

The work that sustains us from birth to death has been deliberately erased from economic view.

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160

🏥 Care Work 🔄 Social Reproduction 🎭 Emotional Labor 📉 Feminist Economics 🤝 Ethics Of Care

Labours of Love 95%

The work that sustains us from birth to death has been deliberately erased from economic view.

by Madeleine Bunting 2020

4.07

160 ratings

🏥 Care Work 🔄 Social Reproduction 🎭 Emotional Labor 📉 Feminist Economics 🤝 Ethics Of Care

Passages in Caregiving

by Gail Sheehy • 2010

No one handed you a map. The predictable stages and the team you need to survive.

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287

🧓 Elder Care 🤝 Caregiver Support 🏥 Healthcare Navigation 🌅 End-Of-Life Planning 🥪 Sandwich Generation

Passages in Caregiving 95%

No one handed you a map. The predictable stages and the team you need to survive.

by Gail Sheehy 2010

4.13

287 ratings

🧓 Elder Care 🤝 Caregiver Support 🏥 Healthcare Navigation 🌅 End-Of-Life Planning 🥪 Sandwich Generation

Dementia Reimagined

by Tia Powell • 2019

Alzheimer's drugs fail 99.6 percent of the time. A physician's case for joy over cure.

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445

🧠 Dementia Care 🧓 Aging And Health 🕊️ End-Of-Life Care 💔 Caregiver Burden 💰 Healthcare Economics

Dementia Reimagined 93%

Alzheimer's drugs fail 99.6 percent of the time. A physician's case for joy over cure.

by Tia Powell 2019

3.90

445 ratings

🧠 Dementia Care 🧓 Aging And Health 🕊️ End-Of-Life Care 💔 Caregiver Burden 💰 Healthcare Economics

The Longevity Economy

by Joseph F. Coughlin • 2017

Older adults spend $5.6 trillion annually. Most companies have no idea what they want.

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366

💰 Silver Economy 📊 Aging Demographics 🏠 Universal Design 🏡 Aging In Place 🚫 Ageism

The Longevity Economy 93%

Older adults spend $5.6 trillion annually. Most companies have no idea what they want.

by Joseph F. Coughlin 2017

3.91

366 ratings

💰 Silver Economy 📊 Aging Demographics 🏠 Universal Design 🏡 Aging In Place 🚫 Ageism

How to Live Forever

by Marc Freedman • 2018

Everyone's chasing a longer life. The real answer is pouring yours into the generation behind you.

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126

🤝 Age Integration 💞 Generational Bonds 🎯 Purposeful Aging ⏳ Mortality Acceptance ✨ Positive Aging

How to Live Forever 93%

Everyone's chasing a longer life. The real answer is pouring yours into the generation behind you.

by Marc Freedman 2018

3.81

126 ratings

🤝 Age Integration 💞 Generational Bonds 🎯 Purposeful Aging ⏳ Mortality Acceptance ✨ Positive Aging

How to Age

by Anne Karpf • 2014

You were born aging. The fear is cultural, not biological, and it can be unlearned.

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477

🏛️ Aging And Culture ⚖️ Ageism 👩 Aging And Gender 🛤️ Life Course 👵 Intergenerational Bonds

How to Age 93%

You were born aging. The fear is cultural, not biological, and it can be unlearned.

by Anne Karpf 2014

3.66

477 ratings

🏛️ Aging And Culture ⚖️ Ageism 👩 Aging And Gender 🛤️ Life Course 👵 Intergenerational Bonds

Already Toast

by Kate Washington • 2021

Her husband's cancer made her an unpaid nurse. The system was counting on it.

3.92

666

🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

Already Toast 93%

Her husband's cancer made her an unpaid nurse. The system was counting on it.

by Kate Washington 2021

3.92

666 ratings

🏥 Medical Memoir 🔥 Caregiver Burnout 👨‍👩‍👧 Family Caregiving 👩 Gendered Care Work 🏛️ Healthcare Critique

Elderhood

by Louise Aronson • 2019

A geriatrician's diagnosis: ageism is the last tolerated prejudice, right in your doctor's office.

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🩺 Geriatric Medicine 🏥 Ageism In Healthcare 💊 Medicalization Of Aging ✊ Anti-Ageism 📖 Narrative Medicine

Elderhood 93%

A geriatrician's diagnosis: ageism is the last tolerated prejudice, right in your doctor's office.

by Louise Aronson 2019

3.96

2k+ ratings

🩺 Geriatric Medicine 🏥 Ageism In Healthcare 💊 Medicalization Of Aging ✊ Anti-Ageism 📖 Narrative Medicine

Essential Labor

by Angela Garbes • 2022

The invisible labor of mothering holds up the economy. It could also remake it.

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🧹 Care Work 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ✊ Anti-Capitalist Feminism ⚖️ Reproductive Justice ♿ Disability Justice

Essential Labor 92%

The invisible labor of mothering holds up the economy. It could also remake it.

by Angela Garbes 2022

3.79

3k+ ratings

🧹 Care Work 🤝 Intersectional Feminism ✊ Anti-Capitalist Feminism ⚖️ Reproductive Justice ♿ Disability Justice

The Next America

by Paul Taylor • 2014

By 2033 the safety net runs dry. The generation expected to save it is already underwater.

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697

🏛️ Generational Conflict 📊 Demographic Change 🏥 Social Safety Net 💰 Wealth Inequality 📈 Economic Mobility

The Next America 92%

By 2033 the safety net runs dry. The generation expected to save it is already underwater.

by Paul Taylor 2014

3.67

697 ratings

🏛️ Generational Conflict 📊 Demographic Change 🏥 Social Safety Net 💰 Wealth Inequality 📈 Economic Mobility

A Generation of Sociopaths

by Bruce Cannon Gibney • 2017

A generation raised with no limits grew up, seized power, and wrote its appetite into law.

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👴 Baby Boomer History 🗳️ Demographic Politics 🧾 Tax Policy 💸 Debt And Deficits 🏥 Entitlement Reform

A Generation of Sociopaths 92%

A generation raised with no limits grew up, seized power, and wrote its appetite into law.

by Bruce Cannon Gibney 2017

3.55

3k+ ratings

👴 Baby Boomer History 🗳️ Demographic Politics 🧾 Tax Policy 💸 Debt And Deficits 🏥 Entitlement Reform

What We Owe Each Other

by Minouche Shafik • 2021

The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.

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1k+

🏛️ Social Policy 📉 Economic Inequality 👷 Labor Markets 🎓 Education Reform 👶 Early Childhood

What We Owe Each Other 92%

The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.

by Minouche Shafik 2021

3.85

1k+ ratings

🏛️ Social Policy 📉 Economic Inequality 👷 Labor Markets 🎓 Education Reform 👶 Early Childhood

What We Carry

by Maya Shanbhag Lang • 2020

Alzheimer's erases her mother, and a daughter learns the family stories she carried were fictions.

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🏠 Family Memoirs 🤲 Caregiver Memoirs 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 🌏 Immigrant Experience

What We Carry 92%

Alzheimer's erases her mother, and a daughter learns the family stories she carried were fictions.

by Maya Shanbhag Lang 2020

4.32

4k+ ratings

🏠 Family Memoirs 🤲 Caregiver Memoirs 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 🌏 Immigrant Experience

The Perennials

by Mauro F. Guillén • 2023

The old sequence of school, work, retirement is dead. More years demand many careers and learning.

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214

🧬 Multi-Stage Lives 💰 Longevity Economy 👥 Age Diversity 📚 Lifelong Learning 🔄 Career Reinvention

The Perennials 91%

The old sequence of school, work, retirement is dead. More years demand many careers and learning.

by Mauro F. Guillén 2023

3.55

214 ratings

🧬 Multi-Stage Lives 💰 Longevity Economy 👥 Age Diversity 📚 Lifelong Learning 🔄 Career Reinvention

It Never Ends

by Nan Gefen • 2017

Mothering grown daughters: why silence hurts and how to reconnect without overstepping.

4.75

👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Relationships 🧓 Aging Parents 🔄 Role Reversal 😔 Caregiver Guilt 🫠 Emotional Labor

It Never Ends 91%

Mothering grown daughters: why silence hurts and how to reconnect without overstepping.

by Nan Gefen 2017

4.75

4 ratings

👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Relationships 🧓 Aging Parents 🔄 Role Reversal 😔 Caregiver Guilt 🫠 Emotional Labor

The Theft of a Decade

by Joseph C. Sternberg • 2019

The economy isn't broken for Millennials. It's working exactly as Boomer policy designed it to.

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221

📊 Generational Economics 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 🏠 Housing Affordability 💼 Labor Market Shifts ⚖️ Intergenerational Inequality

The Theft of a Decade 91%

The economy isn't broken for Millennials. It's working exactly as Boomer policy designed it to.

by Joseph C. Sternberg 2019

3.42

221 ratings

📊 Generational Economics 🎓 Student Debt Crisis 🏠 Housing Affordability 💼 Labor Market Shifts ⚖️ Intergenerational Inequality

Unfinished Business

by Anne-Marie Slaughter • 2015

Closing the gender gap means changing work, not women: revaluing care and rewriting the rules.

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🏢 Workplace Equality 🧱 Care Infrastructure 🔄 Career Reentry 🏠 Flexible Work 💼 Working Mothers

Unfinished Business 91%

Closing the gender gap means changing work, not women: revaluing care and rewriting the rules.

by Anne-Marie Slaughter 2015

3.91

3k+ ratings

🏢 Workplace Equality 🧱 Care Infrastructure 🔄 Career Reentry 🏠 Flexible Work 💼 Working Mothers

Kids These Days

by Malcolm Harris • 2017

Childhood became a competition for human capital. Millennials are what that competition produces.

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2k+

👥 Generational Economics 💼 Human Capital Theory 💸 Student Debt Crisis 🔧 Precarious Labor 🏛️ Neoliberal Critique

Kids These Days 91%

Childhood became a competition for human capital. Millennials are what that competition produces.

by Malcolm Harris 2017

3.77

2k+ ratings

👥 Generational Economics 💼 Human Capital Theory 💸 Student Debt Crisis 🔧 Precarious Labor 🏛️ Neoliberal Critique

Why We Can't Sleep

by Ada Calhoun • 2020

Stalled careers, crashing hormones, aging parents: midlife ambushed Gen X women all at once.

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9k+

📊 Generational Analysis 🌅 Midlife Transitions 🥪 Sandwich Generation 🌡️ Perimenopause 💼 Women And Work

Why We Can't Sleep 91%

Stalled careers, crashing hormones, aging parents: midlife ambushed Gen X women all at once.

by Ada Calhoun 2020

3.69

9k+ ratings

📊 Generational Analysis 🌅 Midlife Transitions 🥪 Sandwich Generation 🌡️ Perimenopause 💼 Women And Work

Happiness Is a Choice You Make

by John Leland • 2018

People with positive views of aging live 7.5 years longer. Six elders over 85 show why.

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👵 Positive Aging 👴 Elder Wisdom 🙏 Gratitude Practice 🧠 Positivity Effect 🔬 Aging Research

Happiness Is a Choice You Make 91%

People with positive views of aging live 7.5 years longer. Six elders over 85 show why.

by John Leland 2018

3.72

4k+ ratings

👵 Positive Aging 👴 Elder Wisdom 🙏 Gratitude Practice 🧠 Positivity Effect 🔬 Aging Research

My Father's Brain

by Sandeep Jauhar • 2023

A cardiologist watches his father forget how to use a fork. His medical training offers nothing.

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2k+

🧠 Alzheimer's Disease 📋 Dementia Care 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Caregiving 🕳️ Memory Loss 📖 Medical Memoir

My Father's Brain 91%

A cardiologist watches his father forget how to use a fork. His medical training offers nothing.

by Sandeep Jauhar 2023

4.14

2k+ ratings

🧠 Alzheimer's Disease 📋 Dementia Care 👨‍👩‍👦 Family Caregiving 🕳️ Memory Loss 📖 Medical Memoir

The Nordic Theory of Everything

by Anu Partanen • 2016

What Americans call socialist actually produces the world's most self-sufficient individuals.

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9k+

🏔️ Nordic Model 🏛️ Welfare State 🌹 Social Democracy 📊 Comparative Politics 🏥 Universal Healthcare

The Nordic Theory of Everything 91%

What Americans call socialist actually produces the world's most self-sufficient individuals.

by Anu Partanen 2016

3.86

9k+ ratings

🏔️ Nordic Model 🏛️ Welfare State 🌹 Social Democracy 📊 Comparative Politics 🏥 Universal Healthcare

The Two Percent Solution

by Matt Miller • 2003

America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.

3.98

🏛️ Domestic Policy 🏥 Healthcare Reform 📚 Education Reform 💰 Campaign Finance 🤝 Bipartisan Solutions

The Two Percent Solution 90%

America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.

by Matt Miller 2003

3.98

89 ratings

🏛️ Domestic Policy 🏥 Healthcare Reform 📚 Education Reform 💰 Campaign Finance 🤝 Bipartisan Solutions

Medicare for All

by Abdul El-Sayed • 2021

$5,220 for a US hospital day, $765 in Australia. The fix, and how to win it.

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349

🏥 Healthcare Reform 🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏛️ Single-Payer Systems 💰 Health Economics 🏢 Corporate Power

Medicare for All 90%

$5,220 for a US hospital day, $765 in Australia. The fix, and how to win it.

by Abdul El-Sayed 2021

4.36

349 ratings

🏥 Healthcare Reform 🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏛️ Single-Payer Systems 💰 Health Economics 🏢 Corporate Power

30 Lessons for Living

by Karl Pillemer • 2011

What 1,000 older Americans wish they'd known at your age. None of them said money.

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🧓 Elder Wisdom 🌅 Aging Well ⏳ Living Without Regret 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💼 Career Fulfillment

30 Lessons for Living 90%

What 1,000 older Americans wish they'd known at your age. None of them said money.

by Karl Pillemer 2011

4.11

3k+ ratings

🧓 Elder Wisdom 🌅 Aging Well ⏳ Living Without Regret 🙏 Gratitude Practice 💼 Career Fulfillment

We've Got You Covered

by Liran Einav • 2023

America already covers the uninsured, just badly. The fix: automatic, basic, free, and budgeted.

4.09

386

🏥 American Healthcare 📊 Health Economics 🏛 Health Policy 🩺 Universal Coverage 🩻 Health Insurance

We've Got You Covered 90%

America already covers the uninsured, just badly. The fix: automatic, basic, free, and budgeted.

by Liran Einav 2023

4.09

386 ratings

🏥 American Healthcare 📊 Health Economics 🏛 Health Policy 🩺 Universal Coverage 🩻 Health Insurance

The 100-Year Life

by Lynda Gratton • 2016

A 100-year lifespan breaks the old school, work, retire sequence. The rules that replace it.

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2k+

🧭 Career Planning 🌍 Aging Societies 🔄 Life Design 📘 Lifelong Learning ⚖ Work-Life Balance

The 100-Year Life 90%

A 100-year lifespan breaks the old school, work, retire sequence. The rules that replace it.

by Lynda Gratton 2016

3.82

2k+ ratings

🧭 Career Planning 🌍 Aging Societies 🔄 Life Design 📘 Lifelong Learning ⚖ Work-Life Balance

Knocking on Heaven's Door

by Katy Butler • 2013

Her father's pacemaker outlived his mind. Medicine needs to learn when less is more.

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3k+

🫀 End-Of-Life Care 🏥 Medical Overreach 🤲 Caregiving 💰 Healthcare Economics 📋 Patient Advocacy

Knocking on Heaven's Door 90%

Her father's pacemaker outlived his mind. Medicine needs to learn when less is more.

by Katy Butler 2013

4.12

3k+ ratings

🫀 End-Of-Life Care 🏥 Medical Overreach 🤲 Caregiving 💰 Healthcare Economics 📋 Patient Advocacy

Can't Even

by Anne Helen Petersen • 2020

Millennial burnout is not a personal failure. It is the bill for decades of broken promises.

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9k+

👥 Millennial Generation 🔥 Burnout 💸 Economic Precarity 🎓 Higher Education Crisis 📱 Gig Economy Critique

Can't Even 90%

Millennial burnout is not a personal failure. It is the bill for decades of broken promises.

by Anne Helen Petersen 2020

3.91

9k+ ratings

👥 Millennial Generation 🔥 Burnout 💸 Economic Precarity 🎓 Higher Education Crisis 📱 Gig Economy Critique

Travelers to Unimaginable Lands

by Dasha Kiper • 2023

Your brain is built to misunderstand dementia; that's why caregiving feels like a moral failure.

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1k+

🧠 Dementia Care 👥 Caregiver Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🔬 Neuropsychology

Travelers to Unimaginable Lands 90%

Your brain is built to misunderstand dementia; that's why caregiving feels like a moral failure.

by Dasha Kiper 2023

4.18

1k+ ratings

🧠 Dementia Care 👥 Caregiver Psychology 🧩 Cognitive Biases ⚖️ Moral Psychology 🔬 Neuropsychology

The People's Hospital

by Ricardo Nuila • 2020

America treats patients as revenue streams. One Houston hospital proves there is another way.

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4k+

🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics ⚖️ Medical Inequality 📖 Narrative Medicine 🩺 Medical Memoir

The People's Hospital 90%

America treats patients as revenue streams. One Houston hospital proves there is another way.

by Ricardo Nuila 2020

4.38

4k+ ratings

🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics ⚖️ Medical Inequality 📖 Narrative Medicine 🩺 Medical Memoir

The Geography of Memory

by Jeanne Murray Walker • 2013

She came home to care for her mother and found her own lost childhood waiting.

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🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 📖 Family Stories 🕰️ Memory And Aging 🙏 Spiritual Memoir

The Geography of Memory 90%

She came home to care for her mother and found her own lost childhood waiting.

by Jeanne Murray Walker 2013

3.98

117 ratings

🧠 Alzheimer's Caregiving 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 📖 Family Stories 🕰️ Memory And Aging 🙏 Spiritual Memoir

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution

by Bernie Sanders • 2017

The top 0.1% owns as much as the bottom 90%. A progressive senator's guide for changing that.

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💸 Economic Inequality 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🎓 College Affordability ✊ Workers Rights 🌍 Climate Action

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution Summary

Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution 90%

The top 0.1% owns as much as the bottom 90%. A progressive senator's guide for changing that.

by Bernie Sanders 2017

3.99

2k+ ratings

💸 Economic Inequality 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🎓 College Affordability ✊ Workers Rights 🌍 Climate Action

Showing Up for Life

by Bill Gates Sr. • 2009

Father, lawyer, philanthropist: quiet principles that built a life of meaning across nine decades.

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🧭 Values-Based Living 👴 Elder Wisdom 🤲 Philanthropic Giving 🎯 Being Present 📚 Lifelong Learning

Showing Up for Life 90%

Father, lawyer, philanthropist: quiet principles that built a life of meaning across nine decades.

by Bill Gates Sr. 2009

3.75

1k+ ratings

🧭 Values-Based Living 👴 Elder Wisdom 🤲 Philanthropic Giving 🎯 Being Present 📚 Lifelong Learning

The Conscience of a Liberal

by Paul Krugman • 2007

Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.

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📊 Income Inequality 🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Racial Politics 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🛡️ Welfare State Politics

The Conscience of a Liberal 90%

Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.

by Paul Krugman 2007

3.97

6k+ ratings

📊 Income Inequality 🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Racial Politics 🏥 Universal Healthcare 🛡️ Welfare State Politics

Cognitive Aging

by Institute of Medicine • 2015

Cognitive aging is not dementia, and the evidence for protecting it is stronger than advertised.

🧠 Cognitive Aging 👴 Gerontology 💪 Brain Health 🍃 Healthy Aging 🏥 Population Health

Cognitive Aging 90%

Cognitive aging is not dementia, and the evidence for protecting it is stronger than advertised.

by Institute of Medicine 2015

🧠 Cognitive Aging 👴 Gerontology 💪 Brain Health 🍃 Healthy Aging 🏥 Population Health

The New Feminist Agenda

by Madeleine Kunin • 2012

Most rich nations mandate paid family leave. The US does not. A former governor on why.

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119

🏛️ Work-Family Policy 🇩🇰 Nordic Social Model 🧒 Child Poverty 💰 Gender Wage Gap 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

The New Feminist Agenda 90%

Most rich nations mandate paid family leave. The US does not. A former governor on why.

by Madeleine Kunin 2012

3.76

119 ratings

🏛️ Work-Family Policy 🇩🇰 Nordic Social Model 🧒 Child Poverty 💰 Gender Wage Gap 👩‍👧 Working Mothers

Morality

by Jonathan Sacks • 2019

Loneliness rivals smoking. Broken politics. Amoral markets. All from one trade: community for self.

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🔗 Social Capital 🫂 Loneliness Epidemic 🧍 Individualism Critique 🏘️ Communitarianism 🪞 Self-Help Critique

Morality 90%

Loneliness rivals smoking. Broken politics. Amoral markets. All from one trade: community for self.

by Jonathan Sacks 2019

4.34

2k+ ratings

🔗 Social Capital 🫂 Loneliness Epidemic 🧍 Individualism Critique 🏘️ Communitarianism 🪞 Self-Help Critique

Your Life in My Hands

by Rachel Clarke • 2017

Britain's most beloved public service is failing. A junior doctor shows you why, from the inside.

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🏥 NHS Crisis 👨‍⚕️ Medical Residency 🔥 Physician Burnout 🗣️ Patient Advocacy 📜 Healthcare Reform

Your Life in My Hands 90%

Britain's most beloved public service is failing. A junior doctor shows you why, from the inside.

by Rachel Clarke 2017

3.78

4k+ ratings

🏥 NHS Crisis 👨‍⚕️ Medical Residency 🔥 Physician Burnout 🗣️ Patient Advocacy 📜 Healthcare Reform

Our Malady

by Timothy Snyder • 2020

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

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🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

Our Malady 90%

From a hospital bed, a tyranny scholar diagnoses America's for-profit medicine as a freedom crisis.

by Timothy Snyder 2020

4.14

2k+ ratings

🇺🇸 American Healthcare 🏥 Healthcare Reform 💰 Profit In Medicine ⚖️ Health Inequality 🌐 Universal Healthcare

The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty

by Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz • 2014

Nail Social Security timing, avoid Medicare penalties, and build a retirement paycheck that lasts.

3.70

238

🏖️ Retirement Planning 📋 Social Security 🏥 Medicare 📜 Estate Planning 🛡️ Long-Term Care

The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty Summary

The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty 90%

Nail Social Security timing, avoid Medicare penalties, and build a retirement paycheck that lasts.

by Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz 2014

3.70

238 ratings

🏖️ Retirement Planning 📋 Social Security 🏥 Medicare 📜 Estate Planning 🛡️ Long-Term Care

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

by Kristen R. Ghodsee • 2018

East German women had more orgasms. The reason: they didn't need men's money.

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🧮 Feminist Economics 🔗 Political Economy 🏠 Unpaid Care Work 💰 Gender Wage Gap 🏛️ Welfare State

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism Summary

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism 90%

East German women had more orgasms. The reason: they didn't need men's money.

by Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018

3.98

8k+ ratings

🧮 Feminist Economics 🔗 Political Economy 🏠 Unpaid Care Work 💰 Gender Wage Gap 🏛️ Welfare State

Mother of Invention

by Katrine Marçal • 2020

From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?

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💰 Feminist Economics ⚙️ History Of Technology 💡 Gender And Innovation 🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History 🤲 Care Work

Mother of Invention 90%

From the wheeled suitcase to AI, one question decides what succeeds: does it threaten masculinity?

by Katrine Marçal 2020

3.90

2k+ ratings

💰 Feminist Economics ⚙️ History Of Technology 💡 Gender And Innovation 🕵️‍♀️ Hidden Women In History 🤲 Care Work

The Price of Civilization

by Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2010

What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.

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2k+

🏛️ Political Economy 📉 American Decline 🗽 Civic Decline 🏢 Corporate Influence ⚖️ Economic Inequality

The Price of Civilization 90%

What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.

by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2010

3.84

2k+ ratings

🏛️ Political Economy 📉 American Decline 🗽 Civic Decline 🏢 Corporate Influence ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Pérez • 2019

Crash dummies are male. Drug trials skip women. GDP ignores unpaid care. The pattern runs deep.

4.34

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📊 Data Journalism 🔧 Inclusive Design 💰 Feminist Economics 🏠 Unpaid Care Work 🏥 Medical Gender Bias

Invisible Women 90%

Crash dummies are male. Drug trials skip women. GDP ignores unpaid care. The pattern runs deep.

by Caroline Criado Pérez 2019

4.34

173k+ ratings

📊 Data Journalism 🔧 Inclusive Design 💰 Feminist Economics 🏠 Unpaid Care Work 🏥 Medical Gender Bias

The Price We Pay

by Marty Makary • 2019

A CT scan costs $487 here, $13,000 there. A surgeon follows the money.

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🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics ⚕️ Overtreatment 💊 Opioid Crisis 💸 Healthcare Pricing

The Price We Pay 90%

A CT scan costs $487 here, $13,000 there. A surgeon follows the money.

by Marty Makary 2019

4.45

4k+ ratings

🏥 American Healthcare 💰 Healthcare Economics ⚕️ Overtreatment 💊 Opioid Crisis 💸 Healthcare Pricing

Glimpses of Utopia

by Jess Scully • 2020

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

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110

🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🤲 Care Economy 🏦 Financial Reform

Glimpses of Utopia 90%

A fair society is not theoretical. Its pieces are already running in cities across the world.

by Jess Scully 2020

3.97

110 ratings

🗳️ Participatory Democracy 💡 Alternative Economics 🌳 Commons Stewardship 🤲 Care Economy 🏦 Financial Reform

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt

by Madeline Pendleton • 2024

The financial rules that work when you are broke look nothing like the ones in the bestsellers.

4.52

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💰 Financial Memoir 📱 Millennial Money 🏚️ Economic Precarity 🤝 Ethical Business ✊ Anti-Capitalist Critique

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt Summary

I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt 90%

The financial rules that work when you are broke look nothing like the ones in the bestsellers.

by Madeline Pendleton 2024

4.52

4k+ ratings

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