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Capitalism

Markets, money, and power shape every corner of modern life, and the books in this section pull back the curtain on the systems, ideologies, and forces that drive them. From critiques of billionaire ambition to defenses of free markets, these works challenge readers to question who benefits, who loses, and what kind of world we're building together.

Capitalism Book Summaries

The Great Risk Shift
by Jacob S. Hacker • 2006
Income swings five times more than in the 1970s; the safety net was dismantled on purpose.
3.81
274
📉 Financial Fragility🛡️ Safety Net Erosion💼 Job Insecurity👴 Retirement Crisis🏥 Health Insurance Crisis
The Great Risk Shift Summary
The Great Risk Shift
Income swings five times more than in the 1970s; the safety net was dismantled on purpose.
by Jacob S. Hacker 2006 256 pages
3.81
274 ratings
📉 Financial Fragility🛡️ Safety Net Erosion💼 Job Insecurity👴 Retirement Crisis🏥 Health Insurance Crisis
It Didn't Happen Here
by Seymour Martin Lipset • 2000
Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.
3.60
105
🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism🌍 Comparative Politics🏭 Labor Movement History🗳️ Electoral Systems🏛️ Party Systems
It Didn't Happen Here Summary
It Didn't Happen Here
Marx bet on America going socialist. Its political system, unions, and immigrants had other plans.
by Seymour Martin Lipset 2000 374 pages
3.60
105 ratings
🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism🌍 Comparative Politics🏭 Labor Movement History🗳️ Electoral Systems🏛️ Party Systems
How the West Grew Rich
by Nathan Rosenberg • 1985
Fractured power, secure property, and corporate experiment built a prosperity no empire could match.
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📈 Economic History🏛️ Institutional Economics🏭 Industrial Revolution🗺️ State Competition📜 Property Rights
How the West Grew Rich Summary
How the West Grew Rich
Fractured power, secure property, and corporate experiment built a prosperity no empire could match.
by Nathan Rosenberg 1985 368 pages
3.67
131 ratings
📈 Economic History🏛️ Institutional Economics🏭 Industrial Revolution🗺️ State Competition📜 Property Rights
Blood in the Streets
by James Dale Davidson • 1987
When empires decline, money dies. Where it goes, and the playbook for riding the wreckage.
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37
🏛️ Political Economy💥 Financial Crises🔄 Hegemonic Cycles🏭 Creative Destruction↔️ Contrarian Investing
Blood in the Streets Summary
Blood in the Streets
When empires decline, money dies. Where it goes, and the playbook for riding the wreckage.
by James Dale Davidson 1987
3.86
37 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy💥 Financial Crises🔄 Hegemonic Cycles🏭 Creative Destruction↔️ Contrarian Investing
The Acquisitive Society
by R.H. Tawney • 1920
When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.
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110
🏛️ Political Economy💰 Critique Of Capitalism✝️ Christian Socialism📜 Moral Economy⚖️ Economic Justice
The Acquisitive Society Summary
The Acquisitive Society
When property rights outrank social purpose, owners collect without contributing. The diagnosis.
by R.H. Tawney 1920 192 pages
4.09
110 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy💰 Critique Of Capitalism✝️ Christian Socialism📜 Moral Economy⚖️ Economic Justice
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
by Roberto Sirvent • 2019
American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.
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287
🏛️ American Empire🪓 Settler Colonialism📜 National Myths⚪ White Supremacy📢 Propaganda Studies
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence Summary
American Exceptionalism and American Innocence
American history is the original fake news: a cover story for genocide, slavery, and endless war.
by Roberto Sirvent 2019 256 pages
4.08
287 ratings
🏛️ American Empire🪓 Settler Colonialism📜 National Myths⚪ White Supremacy📢 Propaganda Studies
The Populist Explosion
by John B. Judis • 2016
Populism is a language, not an ideology. The Great Recession taught the West to speak it.
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1k+
🔥 Populist Politics💰 Neoliberalism Critique🇺🇸 American Populism🔄 Political Realignment🇪🇺 European Union Crisis
The Populist Explosion Summary
The Populist Explosion
Populism is a language, not an ideology. The Great Recession taught the West to speak it.
by John B. Judis 2016 182 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
🔥 Populist Politics💰 Neoliberalism Critique🇺🇸 American Populism🔄 Political Realignment🇪🇺 European Union Crisis
The Fall of the House of Labor
by David Montgomery • 1987
Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.
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📚 Labor History🛠️ Craft Unionism⚙️ Scientific Management🏭 Working Class Culture💰 Gilded Age
The Fall of the House of Labor Summary
The Fall of the House of Labor
Worker knowledge ran the factory floor. Management's fifty-year fight to seize it.
by David Montgomery 1987 508 pages
3.93
147 ratings
📚 Labor History🛠️ Craft Unionism⚙️ Scientific Management🏭 Working Class Culture💰 Gilded Age
Liberalism
by Edmund Fawcett • 2014
Liberalism is a two-century argument, not a creed: over freedom, power, and who belongs.
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🏛️ Political Theory💡 Intellectual History🗽 Liberal Tradition📊 Political Economy🗳️ Democratic Theory
Liberalism Summary
Liberalism
Liberalism is a two-century argument, not a creed: over freedom, power, and who belongs.
by Edmund Fawcett 2014 488 pages
3.90
277 ratings
🏛️ Political Theory💡 Intellectual History🗽 Liberal Tradition📊 Political Economy🗳️ Democratic Theory
Beyond Outrage
by Robert B. Reich • 2012
The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.
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2k+
🏚️ Economic Inequality💰 Money In Politics🏢 Corporate Power📈 Progressive Economics🏛️ Political Economy
Beyond Outrage Summary
Beyond Outrage
The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.
by Robert B. Reich 2012 72 pages
4.06
2k+ ratings
🏚️ Economic Inequality💰 Money In Politics🏢 Corporate Power📈 Progressive Economics🏛️ Political Economy
The Day Wall Street Exploded
by Beverly Gage • 2008
Wall Street, 1920: thirty-eight dead, none caught. The failed investigation that built the FBI.
3.75
318
🏭 Labor History🏴 Anarchist Movements🔴 Red Scare💥 Terrorism History🔒 Political Repression
The Day Wall Street Exploded Summary
The Day Wall Street Exploded
Wall Street, 1920: thirty-eight dead, none caught. The failed investigation that built the FBI.
by Beverly Gage 2008 400 pages
3.75
318 ratings
🏭 Labor History🏴 Anarchist Movements🔴 Red Scare💥 Terrorism History🔒 Political Repression
Yankee Leviathan
by Richard Franklin Bensel • 1991
The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.
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49
📜 Civil War History🏚️ Reconstruction Era🏛️ State Formation💰 Political Economy🗳️ American Political Development
Yankee Leviathan Summary
Yankee Leviathan
The Confederacy's statist war machine, not the Constitution, built the modern American state.
by Richard Franklin Bensel 1991 466 pages
3.69
49 ratings
📜 Civil War History🏚️ Reconstruction Era🏛️ State Formation💰 Political Economy🗳️ American Political Development
Regulating the Poor
by Frances Fox Piven • 1971
Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.
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321
🏛️ Welfare State🔧 Work And Welfare🎛️ Social Control💰 Political Economy✊ Social Movements
Regulating the Poor Summary
Regulating the Poor
Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.
by Frances Fox Piven 1971 544 pages
4.24
321 ratings
🏛️ Welfare State🔧 Work And Welfare🎛️ Social Control💰 Political Economy✊ Social Movements
The Mind and the Market
by Jerry Z. Muller • 2002
Thinkers have argued for centuries whether markets free us or enslave us. The fight is unfinished.
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📚 Intellectual History💡 Economic Thought⚔️ Critique Of Capitalism🛡️ Defenses Of Capitalism⚖️ Morality And Markets
The Mind and the Market Summary
The Mind and the Market
Thinkers have argued for centuries whether markets free us or enslave us. The fight is unfinished.
by Jerry Z. Muller 2002 512 pages
4.17
347 ratings
📚 Intellectual History💡 Economic Thought⚔️ Critique Of Capitalism🛡️ Defenses Of Capitalism⚖️ Morality And Markets
The Noodle Narratives
by Frederick K. Errington • 2013
Japan, U.S. prisons, Papua New Guinea: what instant noodles reveal about global capitalism.
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🧑‍🔬 Food Anthropology📦 Commodity Histories🏭 Industrial Food🌍 Global Food Systems⚖️ Food Politics
The Noodle Narratives Summary
The Noodle Narratives
Japan, U.S. prisons, Papua New Guinea: what instant noodles reveal about global capitalism.
by Frederick K. Errington 2013 216 pages
3.43
79 ratings
🧑‍🔬 Food Anthropology📦 Commodity Histories🏭 Industrial Food🌍 Global Food Systems⚖️ Food Politics
Anti-System Politics
by Jonathan Hopkin • 2020
Market rule produces its own opposition: anti-system left and right are the predictable backlash.
3.90
51
🏛 Political Economy💰 Neoliberalism🗳 Populism⚠️ Democratic Backsliding📉 Financial Crisis
Anti-System Politics Summary
Anti-System Politics
Market rule produces its own opposition: anti-system left and right are the predictable backlash.
by Jonathan Hopkin 2020 331 pages
3.90
51 ratings
🏛 Political Economy💰 Neoliberalism🗳 Populism⚠️ Democratic Backsliding📉 Financial Crisis
The Outsourced Self
by Arlie Russell Hochschild • 2012
The village is gone. Strangers find partners, raise children, tell us what to want.
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🏡 Sociology Of Intimacy📊 Economic Sociology🎭 Emotional Labor🤲 Care Work👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Culture
The Outsourced Self Summary
The Outsourced Self
The village is gone. Strangers find partners, raise children, tell us what to want.
by Arlie Russell Hochschild 2012 320 pages
3.66
337 ratings
🏡 Sociology Of Intimacy📊 Economic Sociology🎭 Emotional Labor🤲 Care Work👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting Culture
One Nation Under God
by Kevin M. Kruse • 2015
The 'Christian nation' was invented in the 1930s by corporations fighting the New Deal.
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2k+
🏛️ Church And State🕰️ American Religious History🔍 Invented Tradition🇺🇸 Religious Nationalism💼 Corporate Influence
One Nation Under God Summary
One Nation Under God
The 'Christian nation' was invented in the 1930s by corporations fighting the New Deal.
by Kevin M. Kruse 2015 384 pages
3.96
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Church And State🕰️ American Religious History🔍 Invented Tradition🇺🇸 Religious Nationalism💼 Corporate Influence
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
by Gerald Horne • 2018
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
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189
🌊 Atlantic History🏚️ Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism◻️ Origins Of Whiteness⛓️ Slave Trade History
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism Summary
The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism
Slavery, white supremacy, and capitalism: fused in the 1600s, they still power the modern world.
by Gerald Horne 2018 280 pages
4.26
189 ratings
🌊 Atlantic History🏚️ Settler Colonialism💰 Racial Capitalism◻️ Origins Of Whiteness⛓️ Slave Trade History
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
by Michael B. Katz • 1986
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
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📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality🏭 Racial Capitalism💰 Political Economy
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse Summary
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
by Michael B. Katz 1986 410 pages
3.74
138 ratings
📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality🏭 Racial Capitalism💰 Political Economy
The Great U-turn
by Barry Bluestone • 1988
After 1973, the American Dream reversed. The cause: deliberate choices by firms and the state.
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15
🏭 Deindustrialization⚖️ Income Inequality💰 Financialization🌏 Offshoring⚒️ Union Decline
The Great U-turn Summary
The Great U-turn
After 1973, the American Dream reversed. The cause: deliberate choices by firms and the state.
by Barry Bluestone 1988 272 pages
3.40
15 ratings
🏭 Deindustrialization⚖️ Income Inequality💰 Financialization🌏 Offshoring⚒️ Union Decline
Against Inequality
by Tom Malleson • 2023
Billionaires didn't earn it. They captured a common inheritance, and we can cap their fortunes.
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13
💰 Wealth Inequality📊 Redistributive Policy🧾 Tax Justice🎓 Meritocracy Critique🚫 Limitarianism
Against Inequality Summary
Against Inequality
Billionaires didn't earn it. They captured a common inheritance, and we can cap their fortunes.
by Tom Malleson 2023 345 pages
4.69
13 ratings
💰 Wealth Inequality📊 Redistributive Policy🧾 Tax Justice🎓 Meritocracy Critique🚫 Limitarianism
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
by Fred L. Block • 2014
The self-regulating market was always a fiction. Enforcing it consumes the society that created it.
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🏛️ Political Economy📊 Economic Sociology🚫 Market Fundamentalism💰 Commodification🛡️ Social Protection
The Power of Market Fundamentalism Summary
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
The self-regulating market was always a fiction. Enforcing it consumes the society that created it.
by Fred L. Block 2014 312 pages
4.34
67 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy📊 Economic Sociology🚫 Market Fundamentalism💰 Commodification🛡️ Social Protection
Who Rules America?
by G William Domhoff • 2021
America's 0.5%: how interlocking boards, elite schools, and a captured court hold power.
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20
📊 Political Sociology🔺 Power Elite Theory🕸️ Elite Networks🏢 Corporate Influence📢 Opinion Manufacturing
Who Rules America? Summary
Who Rules America?
America's 0.5%: how interlocking boards, elite schools, and a captured court hold power.
by G William Domhoff 2021 260 pages
3.70
20 ratings
📊 Political Sociology🔺 Power Elite Theory🕸️ Elite Networks🏢 Corporate Influence📢 Opinion Manufacturing
Capitalism and Its Critics
by John Cassidy • 2025
The critics capitalism tried to ignore, and the 200-year history that proves they were right.
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🔬 Intellectual History🏭 Economic History⚡ Critiques Of Capitalism⛓️ Colonial Capitalism📉 Crisis Cycles
Capitalism and Its Critics Summary
Capitalism and Its Critics
The critics capitalism tried to ignore, and the 200-year history that proves they were right.
by John Cassidy 2025 624 pages
4.19
500+ ratings
🔬 Intellectual History🏭 Economic History⚡ Critiques Of Capitalism⛓️ Colonial Capitalism📉 Crisis Cycles
Africa in the World
by Frederick Cooper • 2014
Africa co-created global capitalism. The nation-state map that emerged was nobody's intended plan.
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🏛️ Atlantic World💰 Political Economy🏴 European Colonialism🗳️ Decolonization🏢 Nation-State Critique
Africa in the World Summary
Africa in the World
Africa co-created global capitalism. The nation-state map that emerged was nobody's intended plan.
by Frederick Cooper 2014 144 pages
3.53
47 ratings
🏛️ Atlantic World💰 Political Economy🏴 European Colonialism🗳️ Decolonization🏢 Nation-State Critique
The Rise of the Western World
by Douglass C. North • 1973
The West did not rise because of technology. It rose because of property rights.
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171
📊 Economic History🏛️ Institutional Economics🔑 Property Rights🤝 Transaction Costs🏰 State Formation
The Rise of the Western World Summary
The Rise of the Western World
The West did not rise because of technology. It rose because of property rights.
by Douglass C. North 1973 180 pages
3.85
171 ratings
📊 Economic History🏛️ Institutional Economics🔑 Property Rights🤝 Transaction Costs🏰 State Formation
Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista
by China Miéville • 2022
A novelist on the Communist Manifesto as a live spell and the moral case for class hatred.
3.97
1k+
🧠 Marxist Theory📜 Communist History⚒️ Class Struggle🏢 Capitalist Critique🔥 Revolutionary Thought
Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista Summary
Un espectro recorre el mundo. Sobre el Manifiesto comunista
A novelist on the Communist Manifesto as a live spell and the moral case for class hatred.
by China Miéville 2022 338 pages
3.97
1k+ ratings
🧠 Marxist Theory📜 Communist History⚒️ Class Struggle🏢 Capitalist Critique🔥 Revolutionary Thought
Nacionalismo contra Globalismo. Dicotomía del Siglo XXI antes de la Inteligencia Artificial
by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme • 2019
The real clash of the century is nationalism versus globalism, and it's already redrawing borders.
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13
🌐 Degloabalization🗳️ Right-Wing Populism🏛️ State Capitalism🌏 Multipolar Order⚔️ Trade Wars
Nacionalismo contra Globalismo. Dicotomía del Siglo XXI antes de la Inteligencia Artificial Summary
Nacionalismo contra Globalismo. Dicotomía del Siglo XXI antes de la Inteligencia Artificial
The real clash of the century is nationalism versus globalism, and it's already redrawing borders.
by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme 2019 208 pages
4.23
13 ratings
🌐 Degloabalization🗳️ Right-Wing Populism🏛️ State Capitalism🌏 Multipolar Order⚔️ Trade Wars
The Market Revolution
by Charles Grier Sellers • 1992
How capitalism conquered America: a 30-year clash that remade its courts, churches, and bedrooms.
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🏛️ Jacksonian Democracy🕯️ Antebellum America⚒️ Class Politics🏭 Capitalist Development⛪ Religious Revivalism
The Market Revolution Summary
The Market Revolution
How capitalism conquered America: a 30-year clash that remade its courts, churches, and bedrooms.
by Charles Grier Sellers 1992 512 pages
3.63
293 ratings
🏛️ Jacksonian Democracy🕯️ Antebellum America⚒️ Class Politics🏭 Capitalist Development⛪ Religious Revivalism
Scale and Scope
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. • 1990
Why some firms dominate for decades while rivals vanish: the secret isn't technology or capital.
3.93
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📊 Industrial Organization🌐 Comparative Capitalism⚖️ Economies Of Scale🏃 First-Mover Advantage🏢 Managerial Hierarchies
Scale and Scope Summary
Scale and Scope
Why some firms dominate for decades while rivals vanish: the secret isn't technology or capital.
by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. 1990 780 pages
3.93
71 ratings
📊 Industrial Organization🌐 Comparative Capitalism⚖️ Economies Of Scale🏃 First-Mover Advantage🏢 Managerial Hierarchies
Internal Improvement
by John Lauritz Larson • 2001
Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.
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33
🏛️ Early American Republic🛤️ Infrastructure Politics🚂 Railroad Development⚖️ Federal Vs State Power🦅 Republican Ideology
Internal Improvement Summary
Internal Improvement
Public works were meant to knit the early republic together. Private capital drew the map instead.
by John Lauritz Larson 2001 342 pages
3.73
33 ratings
🏛️ Early American Republic🛤️ Infrastructure Politics🚂 Railroad Development⚖️ Federal Vs State Power🦅 Republican Ideology
Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's
by G. William Domhoff • 1083
Exclusive clubs, think tanks, and family offices: how a tiny ruling class kept the American agenda.
4.17
30
🏛️ Political Sociology🧐 Class Analysis💰 Wealth Inequality🏢 Corporate Influence👑 Elite Theory
Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's Summary
Who Rules America Now? A View for the 80's
Exclusive clubs, think tanks, and family offices: how a tiny ruling class kept the American agenda.
by G. William Domhoff 1083 256 pages
4.17
30 ratings
🏛️ Political Sociology🧐 Class Analysis💰 Wealth Inequality🏢 Corporate Influence👑 Elite Theory
These United States
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore • 2015
For fifty years, equality won. Then inequality struck back. A century of America's unfinished fight.
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🇺🇸 Modern American History💰 Economic Inequality⚒️ Labor History✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement🌐 American Foreign Policy
These United States Summary
These United States
For fifty years, equality won. Then inequality struck back. A century of America's unfinished fight.
by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore 2015 736 pages
3.75
111 ratings
🇺🇸 Modern American History💰 Economic Inequality⚒️ Labor History✊🏾 Civil Rights Movement🌐 American Foreign Policy
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
by Robert Kuttner • 2018
Centrists killed the alternative to laissez-faire. Now the far right is rising from the corpse.
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🏛️ Political Economy💸 Neoliberalism Critique🏦 Financial Deregulation👷 Precarious Work🚩 Authoritarian Populism
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? Summary
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
Centrists killed the alternative to laissez-faire. Now the far right is rising from the corpse.
by Robert Kuttner 2018 384 pages
4.10
318 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy💸 Neoliberalism Critique🏦 Financial Deregulation👷 Precarious Work🚩 Authoritarian Populism
Corporation Nation
by Charles Derber • 1998
The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.
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🏢 Corporate Power💰 Corporate Welfare🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism🗳️ Economic Democracy✊ Labor Movements
Corporation Nation Summary
Corporation Nation
The biggest threat to American democracy isn't in the White House. It's in the corner office.
by Charles Derber 1998 384 pages
3.74
65 ratings
🏢 Corporate Power💰 Corporate Welfare🤝 Stakeholder Capitalism🗳️ Economic Democracy✊ Labor Movements
Hell to Pay
by Michael Lind • 2023
Stagnant wages aren't fate. They were engineered by a decades-long campaign to crush worker power.
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🧑‍🔧 Labor Economics🏛️ Political Economy💸 Wage Inequality🪧 Union Decline🎓 Credentialism
Hell to Pay Summary
Hell to Pay
Stagnant wages aren't fate. They were engineered by a decades-long campaign to crush worker power.
by Michael Lind 2023 240 pages
3.93
80 ratings
🧑‍🔧 Labor Economics🏛️ Political Economy💸 Wage Inequality🪧 Union Decline🎓 Credentialism
The Deindustrialization of America
by Barry Bluestone • 1982
Plant closures were a strategy, not fate. Government made capital mobile and communities expendable.
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25
🏗️ Rust Belt Economy🏚️ Plant Closings🔄 Economic Restructuring🏢 Corporate Power💔 Social Costs
The Deindustrialization of America Summary
The Deindustrialization of America
Plant closures were a strategy, not fate. Government made capital mobile and communities expendable.
by Barry Bluestone 1982 336 pages
3.92
25 ratings
🏗️ Rust Belt Economy🏚️ Plant Closings🔄 Economic Restructuring🏢 Corporate Power💔 Social Costs
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
by Richard Franklin Bensel • 2000
How did Gilded Age democracy coexist with industrial capitalism? Tariffs, gold, and the courts.
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22
🏛️ Political Economy🕰️ Gilded Age🇺🇸 American Political Development🏭 Industrialization📜 Tariff Politics
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900 Summary
The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900
How did Gilded Age democracy coexist with industrial capitalism? Tariffs, gold, and the courts.
by Richard Franklin Bensel 2000 576 pages
3.50
22 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy🕰️ Gilded Age🇺🇸 American Political Development🏭 Industrialization📜 Tariff Politics
The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism
by Samir Amin • 2013
Monopoly capitalism's financialized phase is terminal, not a crisis. The only way out: socialism.
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56
🏛️ Political Economy🔨 Marxist Economics🌐 Dependency Theory📉 Financialization Critique⚖️ Class Polarization
The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism Summary
The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism
Monopoly capitalism's financialized phase is terminal, not a crisis. The only way out: socialism.
by Samir Amin 2013 144 pages
4.00
56 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy🔨 Marxist Economics🌐 Dependency Theory📉 Financialization Critique⚖️ Class Polarization
Age of Betrayal
by Jack Beatty • 2007
The Civil War freed the slaves. The next generation freed the corporations.
3.66
142
🏦 Gilded Age💼 Corporate Power🔨 Labor History💰 Economic Inequality🏛️ Corporate Personhood
Age of Betrayal Summary
Age of Betrayal
The Civil War freed the slaves. The next generation freed the corporations.
by Jack Beatty 2007 512 pages
3.66
142 ratings
🏦 Gilded Age💼 Corporate Power🔨 Labor History💰 Economic Inequality🏛️ Corporate Personhood
Socializing Capital
by William G. Roy • 1997
Corporations dominate industry because state law and banks built a system only they could win.
3.90
21
🏢 Corporate History🇺🇸 American Capitalism📚 Historical Sociology⚡ Corporate Power💰 Financial History
Socializing Capital Summary
Socializing Capital
Corporations dominate industry because state law and banks built a system only they could win.
by William G. Roy 1997 360 pages
3.90
21 ratings
🏢 Corporate History🇺🇸 American Capitalism📚 Historical Sociology⚡ Corporate Power💰 Financial History
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
by Mark S. Mizruchi • 2013
The corporate elite once united to serve the nation. Winning all it wanted broke it.
3.47
19
🏢 Corporate Elites🕊️ Postwar Consensus💰 Shareholder Primacy⚒️ Labor Relations🔒 Political Gridlock
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite Summary
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite
The corporate elite once united to serve the nation. Winning all it wanted broke it.
by Mark S. Mizruchi 2013 384 pages
3.47
19 ratings
🏢 Corporate Elites🕊️ Postwar Consensus💰 Shareholder Primacy⚒️ Labor Relations🔒 Political Gridlock
Organizing America
by Charles Perrow • 2001
The corporation wasn't a business model. It was a legal weapon engineered to concentrate power.
3.91
35
📜 Historical Sociology🏭 Corporate History🏢 Organizational Theory🚂 Railroad History⚖️ Legal Foundations Of Capitalism
Organizing America Summary
Organizing America
The corporation wasn't a business model. It was a legal weapon engineered to concentrate power.
by Charles Perrow 2001 272 pages
3.91
35 ratings
📜 Historical Sociology🏭 Corporate History🏢 Organizational Theory🚂 Railroad History⚖️ Legal Foundations Of Capitalism
The Architecture of Markets
by Neil Fligstein • 2001
Markets are built by states, firms, and shared beliefs, not spontaneous order.
4.15
52
🧑‍🔬 Economic Sociology🏛️ Political Economy📊 Institutional Economics🏦 Market Institutions🌐 Comparative Capitalism
The Architecture of Markets Summary
The Architecture of Markets
Markets are built by states, firms, and shared beliefs, not spontaneous order.
by Neil Fligstein 2001 288 pages
4.15
52 ratings
🧑‍🔬 Economic Sociology🏛️ Political Economy📊 Institutional Economics🏦 Market Institutions🌐 Comparative Capitalism
Global Civil War
by William I. Robinson • 2022
Tech giants, banks, and the military used Covid to fuse into a global surveillance order.
4.13
32
📊 Political Economy🌐 Global Capitalism📈 Marxist Economics👁️ Surveillance Capitalism💻 Digital Capitalism
Global Civil War Summary
Global Civil War
Tech giants, banks, and the military used Covid to fuse into a global surveillance order.
by William I. Robinson 2022 224 pages
4.13
32 ratings
📊 Political Economy🌐 Global Capitalism📈 Marxist Economics👁️ Surveillance Capitalism💻 Digital Capitalism
Sunbelt Capitalism
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer • 2013
How Phoenix elites seized government, broke unions, and built a corporate model that remade America.
3.23
22
☀️ Sunbelt Politics🏗️ Urban Development🏢 Corporate Power⚒️ Anti-Union Politics🏛️ Political Economy
Sunbelt Capitalism Summary
Sunbelt Capitalism
How Phoenix elites seized government, broke unions, and built a corporate model that remade America.
by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 2013 432 pages
3.23
22 ratings
☀️ Sunbelt Politics🏗️ Urban Development🏢 Corporate Power⚒️ Anti-Union Politics🏛️ Political Economy
One Nation, After All
by Alan Wolfe • 1998
Culture war? Most Americans are too busy living moderate, practical lives to join the fight.
3.24
38
🗳️ Political Attitudes💼 Middle Class📊 Cultural Sociology☮️ Religious Tolerance🌍 Immigration Attitudes
One Nation, After All Summary
One Nation, After All
Culture war? Most Americans are too busy living moderate, practical lives to join the fight.
by Alan Wolfe 1998 368 pages
3.24
38 ratings
🗳️ Political Attitudes💼 Middle Class📊 Cultural Sociology☮️ Religious Tolerance🌍 Immigration Attitudes
Atlas Shrugged Part B
by Ayn Rand • 1957
A railroad VP hunts a vanished inventor as the state devours its creators and industry collapses.
4.37
3k+
📚 Philosophical Fiction🏚️ Dystopian Collapse🎭 Political Allegory💔 Forbidden Affair🔺 Love Triangle
Atlas Shrugged Part B Summary
Atlas Shrugged Part B
A railroad VP hunts a vanished inventor as the state devours its creators and industry collapses.
by Ayn Rand 1957 15 pages
4.37
3k+ ratings
📚 Philosophical Fiction🏚️ Dystopian Collapse🎭 Political Allegory💔 Forbidden Affair🔺 Love Triangle
Cattle Kingdom
by Christopher Knowlton • 2017
The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.
4.10
1k+
🤠 American West🐄 Cattle Industry📈 Economic History💥 Boom And Bust💰 Gilded Age
Cattle Kingdom Summary
Cattle Kingdom
The Wild West was a speculative bubble fueled by British aristocrats and popped by a single winter.
by Christopher Knowlton 2017 426 pages
4.10
1k+ ratings
🤠 American West🐄 Cattle Industry📈 Economic History💥 Boom And Bust💰 Gilded Age
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