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Let Them Eat Tweets Summary
Let Them Eat Tweets
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4.09
550 ratings
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Financially Stupid People Are Everywhere Summary
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by Jason Kelly 2010 224 pages
3.49
133 ratings
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Escape from Rome Summary
Escape from Rome
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by Walter Scheidel 2019 670 pages
4.05
475 ratings
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Shadow Network Summary
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by Anne Nelson 2019 431 pages
4.27
507 ratings
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The Great Risk Shift Summary
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3.81
274 ratings
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The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Summary
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
by Gøsta Esping-Andersen 1990 245 pages
3.93
353 ratings
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Debunking Economics Summary
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4.04
820 ratings
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Day of Empire Summary
Day of Empire
How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance—and Why They Fall
by Amy Chua 2007 432 pages
3.77
996 ratings
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The Economist Guide to Investment Strategy Summary
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3.28
201 ratings
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How Markets Fail Summary
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The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy 2009 400 pages
4.06
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The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism Summary
The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism
by Theda Skocpol 2012 264 pages
3.82
412 ratings
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Social Darwinism in American Thought Summary
Social Darwinism in American Thought
by Richard Hofstadter 1992 278 pages
3.77
288 ratings
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The Victory Lab Summary
The Victory Lab
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by Sasha Issenberg 2012 321 pages
3.78
1.6K ratings
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The Division of Labor in Society Summary
The Division of Labor in Society
by Émile Durkheim 1997 416 pages
3.84
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The Theory of Economic Development Summary
The Theory of Economic Development
by Joseph A. Schumpeter 1980 320 pages
4.14
241 ratings
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The Divided Welfare State Summary
The Divided Welfare State
The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States
by Jacob S. Hacker 2002 447 pages
3.7
60 ratings
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The Asian Aspiration Summary
The Asian Aspiration
Why and How Africa Should Emulate Asia
by Greg Mills 2020 313 pages
3.7
20 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth Summary
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The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War
by Robert J. Gordon 2016 784 pages
4.18
2.2K ratings
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Why Did Europe Conquer the World? Summary
Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
by Philip T. Hoffman 2015 282 pages
3.41
256 ratings
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Атлант розправив плечі. Частина друга Summary
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by Ayn Rand 2015 472 pages
4.37
3.5K ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told Summary
The Half Has Never Been Told
Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
by Edward E. Baptist 2014 498 pages
4.45
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History
Race
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Economics Summary
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The Economist Guide
by Philip Coggan 2025 320 pages
3.94
18 ratings
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Introduction à l'économie Summary
Introduction à l'économie
by Jacques Généreux 2001 192 pages
3.48
91 ratings
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Blowback Summary
Blowback
The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
by Chalmers Johnson 2004 268 pages
4.06
2.6K ratings
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War
The Case Against Socialism Summary
The Case Against Socialism
by Rand Paul 2019 373 pages
4.18
1.2K ratings
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Behavioral Economics When Psychology and Economics Collide Summary
Behavioral Economics When Psychology and Economics Collide
by Scott A. Huettel 2014 12 pages
3.95
386 ratings
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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism Summary
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
by Daniel Bell 1996 363 pages
3.83
301 ratings
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A Nation of Deadbeats Summary
A Nation of Deadbeats
An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
by Scott Reynolds Nelson 2012 352 pages
3.69
136 ratings
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The New Economics Summary
The New Economics
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by Steve Keen 2022 210 pages
3.99
231 ratings
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The Populist Explosion Summary
The Populist Explosion
How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
by John B. Judis 2016 182 pages
3.74
1.6K ratings
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Political Order and Political Decay Summary
Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama 2014 672 pages
4.34
4.9K ratings
Politics
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Political Science
It's Even Worse Than It Looks Summary
It's Even Worse Than It Looks
How the American Constitutional System Collided with the Politics of Extremism
by Thomas E. Mann 2012 225 pages
3.89
3.8K ratings
Politics
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More Guns, Less Crime Summary
More Guns, Less Crime
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by John R. Lott Jr. 2000 321 pages
4.07
850 ratings
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Law
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Escape from Capitalism Summary
Escape from Capitalism
An Intervention
by Clara Mattei 2026 224 pages
3.97
31 ratings
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The Privatization of Everything Summary
The Privatization of Everything
How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back
by Donald Cohen 2021 320 pages
4.38
698 ratings
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The Sources of Social Power Summary
The Sources of Social Power
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by Michael Mann 1986 560 pages
4.31
156 ratings
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The Capital Order Summary
The Capital Order
How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
by Clara E. Mattei 2022 480 pages
4.31
489 ratings
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The Efficiency Paradox Summary
The Efficiency Paradox
What Big Data Can't Do
by Edward Tenner 2018 320 pages
3.28
310 ratings
Business
Technology
Science
Democracy in Chains Summary
Democracy in Chains
The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
by Nancy MacLean 2017 334 pages
4.29
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San Fransicko Summary
San Fransicko
Why Progressives Ruin Cities
by Michael Shellenberger 2021 416 pages
4.01
4.5K ratings
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How Summary
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Why How We Do Anything Means Everything...in Business
by Dov Seidman 2007 352 pages
3.59
631 ratings
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The One Best Way Summary
The One Best Way
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by Robert Kanigel 1999 704 pages
4.03
98 ratings
Biography
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Reshuffle Summary
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4.48
194 ratings
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The Acquisitive Society Summary
The Acquisitive Society
by R.H. Tawney 2004 192 pages
4.09
110 ratings
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Unequal Democracy Summary
Unequal Democracy
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by Larry M. Bartels 2008 344 pages
3.89
457 ratings
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Four Threats Summary
Four Threats
The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
by Suzanne Mettler 2020 301 pages
4.03
218 ratings
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The Price of Democracy Summary
The Price of Democracy
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by Vanessa S. Williamson 2025 249 pages
4.51
35 ratings
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Durable Inequality Summary
Durable Inequality
by Charles Tilly 1999 310 pages
4.03
114 ratings
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State of the Union Summary
State of the Union
A Century of American Labor
by Nelson Lichtenstein 2003 352 pages
3.75
170 ratings
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Protecting Soldiers and Mothers Summary
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States
by Skocpol 1995 736 pages
3.79
107 ratings
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American History
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