Best Capitalism Books | Summaries & Audio

Capitalism Book Summaries

The Robber Barons

by Matthew Josephson • 1934

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

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💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

The Robber Barons

A handful of men seized America's railroads, oil, and steel; government helped them do it.

by Matthew Josephson 1934 496 pages

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💰 Gilded Age 🏭 Captains Of Industry 🎩 Monopoly And Trusts 🚂 Railroad Empires 🏛️ Political Corruption

Capitalism without Capital

by Jonathan Haskel • 2017

Investment shifted from machines to ideas, and ideas refuse to follow the old economic rules.

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 📊 Intangible Assets 📉 Productivity Paradox 💡 Innovation Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Capitalism without Capital

Investment shifted from machines to ideas, and ideas refuse to follow the old economic rules.

by Jonathan Haskel 2017 288 pages

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 📊 Intangible Assets 📉 Productivity Paradox 💡 Innovation Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Average Is Over

by Tyler Cowen • 2013

The labor market is now a chess match: winning means teaming up with the machine.

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🛠️ Labor Economics 🔮 Future Of Work 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🤝 Human-Machine Teams 💸 Wage Inequality

Average Is Over

The labor market is now a chess match: winning means teaming up with the machine.

by Tyler Cowen 2013 304 pages

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🛠️ Labor Economics 🔮 Future Of Work 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🤝 Human-Machine Teams 💸 Wage Inequality

The Value of Everything

by Mariana Mazzucato • 2018

Economics lost the line between earning and extracting. A 150-year mistake now shapes every sector.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💎 Value Theory 💹 Financialization 🎰 Rent-Seeking 📊 Shareholder Capitalism

The Value of Everything

Economics lost the line between earning and extracting. A 150-year mistake now shapes every sector.

by Mariana Mazzucato 2018

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🏛️ Political Economy 💎 Value Theory 💹 Financialization 🎰 Rent-Seeking 📊 Shareholder Capitalism

Why Liberalism Failed

by Patrick J. Deneen • 2018

Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🤝 Communitarianism 🧩 Individualism Critique 📉 Meritocracy Critique 🏚️ Civic Decline

Why Liberalism Failed

Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.

by Patrick J. Deneen 2018 248 pages

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 🤝 Communitarianism 🧩 Individualism Critique 📉 Meritocracy Critique 🏚️ Civic Decline

The Day the World Stops Shopping

by J.B. MacKinnon • 2021

Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.

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🧃 Consumer Culture 📉 Environmental Economics 🛒 Overconsumption 📊 Degrowth 🌱 Voluntary Simplicity

The Day the World Stops Shopping

Less shopping saves the planet and wrecks the economy. The path through that trap.

by J.B. MacKinnon 2021 336 pages

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🧃 Consumer Culture 📉 Environmental Economics 🛒 Overconsumption 📊 Degrowth 🌱 Voluntary Simplicity

Shop Class as Soulcraft

by Matthew B. Crawford • 2009

White-collar work dulls the mind. The intellectual case for picking up a wrench instead.

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🔨 Craftsmanship 🧑‍💻 Knowledge Work 🧠 Tacit Knowledge 💼 Meaningful Work 🤸 Embodied Cognition

Shop Class as Soulcraft

White-collar work dulls the mind. The intellectual case for picking up a wrench instead.

by Matthew B. Crawford 2009 241 pages

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🔨 Craftsmanship 🧑‍💻 Knowledge Work 🧠 Tacit Knowledge 💼 Meaningful Work 🤸 Embodied Cognition

Monopoly Capital

by Paul A. Baran • 1966

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

Monopoly Capital

A surplus the system cannot absorb: monopoly capitalism's real engine is not production, but waste.

by Paul A. Baran 1966 416 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 🇺🇸 American Capitalism 📉 Economic Stagnation 💣 Military-Industrial Complex ⚠️ Crisis Theory

The Mushroom at the End of the World

by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing • 2015

A global commodity mushroom reveals how life, value, and freedom endure in capitalism's wreckage.

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🧬 Multispecies Ethnography 🌍 Political Ecology 🌪️ Disturbance Ecology 🚢 Global Supply Chains 💹 Alternative Economies

The Mushroom at the End of the World

A global commodity mushroom reveals how life, value, and freedom endure in capitalism's wreckage.

by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 2015 331 pages

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🧬 Multispecies Ethnography 🌍 Political Ecology 🌪️ Disturbance Ecology 🚢 Global Supply Chains 💹 Alternative Economies

Freefall

by Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2010

The 2008 crash was a crisis of economic ideas, not just banks. The ideas are still orthodox.

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📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Economic Policy ⚖️ Market Regulation 🔓 Deregulation ⚠️ Moral Hazard

Freefall

The 2008 crash was a crisis of economic ideas, not just banks. The ideas are still orthodox.

by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2010 361 pages

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📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Economic Policy ⚖️ Market Regulation 🔓 Deregulation ⚠️ Moral Hazard

Paper Belt on Fire

by Michael Gibson • 2022

Progress died in the 1970s. A venture fund now bets on dropouts to revive it.

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🎓 Credentialism 📉 Technological Stagnation 💰 Venture Capital 📈 Progress Studies 🚀 Alternative Education

Paper Belt on Fire

Progress died in the 1970s. A venture fund now bets on dropouts to revive it.

by Michael Gibson 2022 383 pages

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🎓 Credentialism 📉 Technological Stagnation 💰 Venture Capital 📈 Progress Studies 🚀 Alternative Education

Trouble in Paradise

by Slavoj Žižek • 2014

Financial crises don't break capitalism. They renew it. The way out was buried on purpose.

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🏛️ Critical Theory 👁️ Cultural Critique 🏴 Anti-Capitalism 🧠 Hegemony And Ideology ⚡ Crisis Theory

Trouble in Paradise

Financial crises don't break capitalism. They renew it. The way out was buried on purpose.

by Slavoj Žižek 2014 272 pages

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🏛️ Critical Theory 👁️ Cultural Critique 🏴 Anti-Capitalism 🧠 Hegemony And Ideology ⚡ Crisis Theory

The System

by Robert B. Reich • 2020

An oligarchy replaced American democracy. The forty-year playbook, and the path to taking it apart.

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Money In Politics 📉 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Democratic Reform

The System

An oligarchy replaced American democracy. The forty-year playbook, and the path to taking it apart.

by Robert B. Reich 2020 224 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 💰 Money In Politics 📉 Economic Inequality 🏢 Corporate Power 🗳️ Democratic Reform

The Trouble with Diversity

by Walter Benn Michaels • 2006

The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.

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🏛️ Class Politics 💸 Economic Inequality 🏷️ Identity Politics 🏦 Neoliberalism Critique ⚖️ Wealth Redistribution

The Trouble with Diversity

The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.

by Walter Benn Michaels 2006 256 pages

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🏛️ Class Politics 💸 Economic Inequality 🏷️ Identity Politics 🏦 Neoliberalism Critique ⚖️ Wealth Redistribution

The Mystery Of Capital

by Hernando de Soto • 2000

$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.

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🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Development Economics 🏘️ Informal Economies 🏛️ Institutional Economics ⚖️ Rule Of Law

The Mystery Of Capital

$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.

by Hernando de Soto 2000 276 pages

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🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Development Economics 🏘️ Informal Economies 🏛️ Institutional Economics ⚖️ Rule Of Law

The Price of Time

by Edward Chancellor • 2022

Interest kept low for too long doesn't stimulate: it creates bubbles, zombies, and oligarchs.

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🏦 Monetary Policy 🫧 Asset Bubbles 📜 Financial History ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🦅 Austrian Economics

The Price of Time

Interest kept low for too long doesn't stimulate: it creates bubbles, zombies, and oligarchs.

by Edward Chancellor 2022 432 pages

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🏦 Monetary Policy 🫧 Asset Bubbles 📜 Financial History ⚖️ Economic Inequality 🦅 Austrian Economics

Crisis Economics

by Nouriel Roubini • 2010

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

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💥 Financial Crises 🌐 Global Finance ⚠️ Systemic Risk 💸 Debt And Leverage 🫧 Market Bubbles

Crisis Economics

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

by Nouriel Roubini 2010 368 pages

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💥 Financial Crises 🌐 Global Finance ⚠️ Systemic Risk 💸 Debt And Leverage 🫧 Market Bubbles

The Global Minotaur

by Yanis Varoufakis • 2011

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

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🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

The Global Minotaur

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

by Yanis Varoufakis 2011 252 pages

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🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

The Age of Addiction

by David T. Courtwright • 2019

Your bad habits are not personal failures. They are a business model, centuries in the making.

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🧠 Attention Economy 🍔 Food Engineering 🔄 Behavioral Addiction 🏥 Public Health History ❤️‍🩹 Harm Reduction

The Age of Addiction

Your bad habits are not personal failures. They are a business model, centuries in the making.

by David T. Courtwright 2019 336 pages

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🧠 Attention Economy 🍔 Food Engineering 🔄 Behavioral Addiction 🏥 Public Health History ❤️‍🩹 Harm Reduction

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

by Karl Marx • 1846

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

The German Ideology / Theses on Feuerbach / Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

History's engine is not ideas but the struggle over who controls the tools of survival.

by Karl Marx 1846 584 pages

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🏭 Materialist History ⚒️ Class Struggle 🎭 Ideology Critique 🛠️ Division Of Labor 😔 Alienation

The Real Crash

by Peter D. Schiff • 2012

America's recovery is a debt-fueled illusion. The 2008 crash was merely the preview.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 💵 Monetary Policy 🥇 Gold Standard 📊 National Debt 📉 Economic Collapse

The Real Crash

America's recovery is a debt-fueled illusion. The 2008 crash was merely the preview.

by Peter D. Schiff 2012 352 pages

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🏫 Austrian Economics 💵 Monetary Policy 🥇 Gold Standard 📊 National Debt 📉 Economic Collapse

Socialism

by Friedrich Engels • 1880

Socialism is not a dream: it is the scientific endpoint of capitalism's own contradictions.

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🏛️ Political Theory ☭ Marxism ✊ Socialist Thought 🏗️ Materialist History 🔄 Dialectical Thinking

Socialism

Socialism is not a dream: it is the scientific endpoint of capitalism's own contradictions.

by Friedrich Engels 1880 86 pages

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🏛️ Political Theory ☭ Marxism ✊ Socialist Thought 🏗️ Materialist History 🔄 Dialectical Thinking

J.P. Morgan - The Life and Deals of America’s Banker

by J.R. MacGregor • 2019

He rescued American capitalism twice, so the government built the Federal Reserve to replace him.

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🎭 Gilded Age 🏦 Banking History 📈 Wall Street History 📉 Financial Panics 🏛️ Federal Reserve Origins

J.P. Morgan - The Life and Deals of America’s Banker

He rescued American capitalism twice, so the government built the Federal Reserve to replace him.

by J.R. MacGregor 2019 224 pages

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🎭 Gilded Age 🏦 Banking History 📈 Wall Street History 📉 Financial Panics 🏛️ Federal Reserve Origins

Saving Capitalism

by Robert B. Reich • 2004

Capitalism's rules are written by the powerful, and the rest of us pay the price.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Economic Inequality 🏗️ Market Regulation 🏢 Corporate Power ⚒️ Labor And Unions

Saving Capitalism

Capitalism's rules are written by the powerful, and the rest of us pay the price.

by Robert B. Reich 2004 219 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Economic Inequality 🏗️ Market Regulation 🏢 Corporate Power ⚒️ Labor And Unions

The Constitution of Liberty

by Friedrich A. Hayek • 1978

Socialism's fatal flaw isn't corruption: no one mind can know enough to run a nation.

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🏔️ Austrian Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🧮 Economic Calculation 📋 Central Planning 💲 Price Signals

The Constitution of Liberty

Socialism's fatal flaw isn't corruption: no one mind can know enough to run a nation.

by Friedrich A. Hayek 1978 580 pages

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🏔️ Austrian Economics 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 🧮 Economic Calculation 📋 Central Planning 💲 Price Signals

Fanged Noumena

by Nick Land • 2011

The future is a virus that has already infected the present. The host will not survive.

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📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy 🐙 Lovecraftian Philosophy 🤖 Cybernetic Theory

Fanged Noumena

The future is a virus that has already infected the present. The host will not survive.

by Nick Land 2011 666 pages

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📈 Accelerationism 🏛️ Continental Philosophy 🔄 Deleuzian Philosophy 🐙 Lovecraftian Philosophy 🤖 Cybernetic Theory

The End of Alchemy

by Mervyn A. King • 2016

Your bank lends your deposit out for decades. You can demand it back this afternoon.

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🏦 Monetary Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ❓ Unknowable Futures 🔧 Banking Reform

The End of Alchemy

Your bank lends your deposit out for decades. You can demand it back this afternoon.

by Mervyn A. King 2016 464 pages

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🏦 Monetary Policy 📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Central Banking ❓ Unknowable Futures 🔧 Banking Reform

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

by Murray N. Rothbard • 2018

Why gold became money, how governments broke it, and the tax nobody sees coming.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 💰 Monetary Theory 🥇 Gold Standard 🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Free Banking

What Has Government Done to Our Money?

Why gold became money, how governments broke it, and the tax nobody sees coming.

by Murray N. Rothbard 2018 116 pages

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🏫 Austrian Economics 💰 Monetary Theory 🥇 Gold Standard 🏦 Central Banking 🏛️ Free Banking

City of Gold

by Jim Krane • 2009

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

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🏛️ State Capitalism ⛽ Resource Curse 👑 Gulf Monarchies 🏙️ Instant Cities 👷 Migrant Labor

City of Gold

Dubai's skyline was built by men who will never be allowed to call it home.

by Jim Krane 2009 368 pages

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🏛️ State Capitalism ⛽ Resource Curse 👑 Gulf Monarchies 🏙️ Instant Cities 👷 Migrant Labor

This Changes Everything

by Naomi Klein • 2014

Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.

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🏛️ Climate Politics 🌹 Eco-Socialism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry 🟢 Greenwashing

This Changes Everything

Capitalism demands endless growth. The climate demands we stop. Only one can win.

by Naomi Klein 2014 577 pages

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🏛️ Climate Politics 🌹 Eco-Socialism ⚖️ Climate Justice 🛢️ Fossil Fuel Industry 🟢 Greenwashing

George Soros On Globalization

by George Soros • 2002

Financial markets are inherently unstable. The fix is stricter regulation and a new kind of aid.

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🌍 Globalization Critique 📉 Market Instability 🕊️ Open Society 🏦 IMF And World Bank 🎗️ Foreign Aid Policy

George Soros On Globalization

Financial markets are inherently unstable. The fix is stricter regulation and a new kind of aid.

by George Soros 2002 160 pages

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🌍 Globalization Critique 📉 Market Instability 🕊️ Open Society 🏦 IMF And World Bank 🎗️ Foreign Aid Policy

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

by Nancy Fraser • 2019

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

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🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

Progressive movements allied with finance, left working people behind, and the crisis isn't over.

by Nancy Fraser 2019 63 pages

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🏛️ Gramscian Analysis 💸 Neoliberalism Critique 🇺🇸 American Politics 🎭 Identity Politics ✊ Socialist Feminism

The End of the World As We Know It

by Immanuel Wallerstein • 1999

The modern world-system emerged in the 1500s. It will not survive this century.

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🌐 World-Systems Theory 🏛️ Historical Sociology 💰 Global Political Economy 📖 Postcolonial Critique 📉 Capitalist Crisis

The End of the World As We Know It

The modern world-system emerged in the 1500s. It will not survive this century.

by Immanuel Wallerstein 1999 288 pages

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🌐 World-Systems Theory 🏛️ Historical Sociology 💰 Global Political Economy 📖 Postcolonial Critique 📉 Capitalist Crisis

Radical Markets

by Eric A. Posner • 2018

We stopped markets halfway. Finishing them means anyone can buy your house at your price.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🎛️ Market Design 🗳️ Voting Reform 🛂 Immigration Reform 📊 Data Economy

Radical Markets

We stopped markets halfway. Finishing them means anyone can buy your house at your price.

by Eric A. Posner 2018 368 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 🎛️ Market Design 🗳️ Voting Reform 🛂 Immigration Reform 📊 Data Economy

Subprime Attention Crisis

by Tim Hwang • 2020

The internet's ad economy is a bubble of fake clicks, hidden fees, and bad incentives.

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🌐 Internet Economy 👀 Attention Economy 💥 Market Bubbles ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🕵️ Advertising Fraud

Subprime Attention Crisis

The internet's ad economy is a bubble of fake clicks, hidden fees, and bad incentives.

by Tim Hwang 2020 176 pages

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🌐 Internet Economy 👀 Attention Economy 💥 Market Bubbles ⚠️ Systemic Risk 🕵️ Advertising Fraud

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier • 2013

Free services enter the internet. Middle-class jobs leave. A plan to reverse the pump.

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💻 Digital Economy 🔍 Big Tech Critique 🔐 Data Ownership 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🌐 Decentralization

Who Owns the Future?

Free services enter the internet. Middle-class jobs leave. A plan to reverse the pump.

by Jaron Lanier 2013 416 pages

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💻 Digital Economy 🔍 Big Tech Critique 🔐 Data Ownership 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🌐 Decentralization

Work Won't Love You Back

by Sarah Jaffe • 2021

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

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✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor 🔥 Burnout Culture 📝 Unpaid Internships

Work Won't Love You Back

From unpaid interns to burned-out coders, one ideology fuels it all: devotion to the job.

by Sarah Jaffe 2021 432 pages

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✊ Labor Organizing 🧡 Passion Economy 🎭 Emotional Labor 🔥 Burnout Culture 📝 Unpaid Internships

The Clash of the Cultures

by John C. Bogle • 2012

Your fund manager trades constantly. The index fund pioneer showed why that helps them, not you.

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📊 Index Investing 💼 Mutual Funds 🧠 Investment Philosophy 🎰 Market Speculation 🏛️ Corporate Governance

The Clash of the Cultures

Your fund manager trades constantly. The index fund pioneer showed why that helps them, not you.

by John C. Bogle 2012 384 pages

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📊 Index Investing 💼 Mutual Funds 🧠 Investment Philosophy 🎰 Market Speculation 🏛️ Corporate Governance

Go Woke, Go Broke

by Charles Gasparino • 2024

How Disney, Budweiser, and Target lost billions betting their customers wanted progressive politics.

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📋 Corporate Governance ✊ Corporate Activism 🏛️ Free Market Advocacy 📊 ESG Investing 💼 Shareholder Capitalism

Go Woke, Go Broke

How Disney, Budweiser, and Target lost billions betting their customers wanted progressive politics.

by Charles Gasparino 2024 320 pages

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📋 Corporate Governance ✊ Corporate Activism 🏛️ Free Market Advocacy 📊 ESG Investing 💼 Shareholder Capitalism

Essential Works of Lenin

by Vladimir Lenin • 1964

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

Essential Works of Lenin

Monopoly, finance capital, and empire: Lenin's thesis on capitalism's inevitable last chapter.

by Vladimir Lenin 1964 400 pages

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⚒️ Marxist Theory 📈 Political Economy ⚔️ Class Struggle 🌍 Imperialism 🏢 Monopoly Capitalism

Killing the Host

by Michael Hudson • 2013

Debt inflates wealth, then crushes the real economy; the 2008 bailouts saved the wrong patient.

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🏦 Financialization 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Debt Cycles 💰 Rent Extraction ✂️ Austerity Critique

Killing the Host

Debt inflates wealth, then crushes the real economy; the 2008 bailouts saved the wrong patient.

by Michael Hudson 2013 400 pages

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🏦 Financialization 🏛️ Political Economy 💸 Debt Cycles 💰 Rent Extraction ✂️ Austerity Critique

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

by Thomas Frank • 2004

The poorest county in America votes Republican. Why a culture war delivers wealth to the top.

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🗳️ Political Realignment 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏭 Class Politics 😤 Cultural Backlash 🤔 Voting Against Interest

What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America

The poorest county in America votes Republican. Why a culture war delivers wealth to the top.

by Thomas Frank 2004 332 pages

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🗳️ Political Realignment 🐘 Conservative Movement 🏭 Class Politics 😤 Cultural Backlash 🤔 Voting Against Interest

Money and Power

by William D. Cohan • 2011

Goldman Sachs's rise from a near-fatal 1970 crisis to the most powerful bank in the world.

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🏦 Investment Banking 🏛️ Wall Street History 📜 Corporate Biography 📉 Financial Crises 🤝 Banking Culture

Money and Power

Goldman Sachs's rise from a near-fatal 1970 crisis to the most powerful bank in the world.

by William D. Cohan 2011 672 pages

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🏦 Investment Banking 🏛️ Wall Street History 📜 Corporate Biography 📉 Financial Crises 🤝 Banking Culture

Makers and Takers

by Rana Foroohar • 2016

Finance has stopped serving business; it now feeds on it, extracting wealth, not creating it.

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🏦 Financialization ⏳ Short-Termism 🏙️ Wall Street 📈 Shareholder Activism 🗳️ Money In Politics

Makers and Takers

Finance has stopped serving business; it now feeds on it, extracting wealth, not creating it.

by Rana Foroohar 2016 400 pages

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🏦 Financialization ⏳ Short-Termism 🏙️ Wall Street 📈 Shareholder Activism 🗳️ Money In Politics

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

by Kristen R. Ghodsee • 2018

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism

Women have better sex when economically independent. A Cold War experiment proves it.

by Kristen R. Ghodsee 2018 240 pages

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✊ Socialist Feminism 🧹 Care Work 👩‍💼 Women And Work 🏥 Welfare State 🏢 State Feminism

The New Human Rights Movement

by Peter Joseph • 2017

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

The New Human Rights Movement

The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.

by Peter Joseph 2017 266 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy ⚖️ Structural Inequality 🔗 Systems Thinking 💔 Structural Violence 🤖 Technological Unemployment

Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual

by John Eckhardt • 2014

No market, no prices. No prices, no economic calculus. That's why socialism devours its own capital.

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🧮 Economic Calculation 🚫 Critique Of Socialism 👑 Consumer Sovereignty 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Deliverance and Spiritual Warfare Manual

No market, no prices. No prices, no economic calculus. That's why socialism devours its own capital.

by John Eckhardt 2014 272 pages

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🏫 Austrian Economics 🧮 Economic Calculation 🚫 Critique Of Socialism 👑 Consumer Sovereignty 🗽 Classical Liberalism

The New Lombard Street

by Perry G. Mehrling • 2010

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

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🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

The New Lombard Street

The Fed's 1873 playbook broke in 2008. The new role: dealer of last resort.

by Perry G. Mehrling 2010 192 pages

4.26

274 ratings

🏦 Central Banking 📜 Monetary History 🔧 Financial Plumbing 🔄 Credit Cycles 🕶️ Shadow Banking

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by Robert P. Murphy • 2015

Socialism cannot do arithmetic. Without market prices, no planner can know what anything is worth.

4.60

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🏛️ Austrian Economics 🔄 Spontaneous Order 💰 Monetary Theory 📉 Business Cycle Theory 🗽 Classical Liberalism

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Socialism cannot do arithmetic. Without market prices, no planner can know what anything is worth.

by Robert P. Murphy 2015 336 pages

4.60

259 ratings

🏛️ Austrian Economics 🔄 Spontaneous Order 💰 Monetary Theory 📉 Business Cycle Theory 🗽 Classical Liberalism

A Renegade History of the United States

by Thaddeus Russell • 2010

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

3.81

1k+

📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

A Renegade History of the United States

America's founders feared pleasure. Its drunkards, prostitutes, and gangsters made freedom real.

by Thaddeus Russell 2010 400 pages

3.81

1k+ ratings

📚 Revisionist History 👇 History From Below 🚔 Social Control 💋 Sexual Politics 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Race And Whiteness

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