Социальные науки

Наш мир пронизан невидимыми паттернами человеческого поведения, групповой динамикой и социальными силами, которые формируют всё — от дружеских отношений до финансовых рынков. Благодаря строгим исследованиям и убедительному анализу эти книги раскрывают, как люди думают, взаимодействуют и организуются, обнажая скрытую архитектуру нашего социального мира.

Социальные науки Саммари книг

The Indoctrinated Brain

— Michael Nehls • 2023

The global attack on mental freedom begins by targeting your hippocampus. Defend it.

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🧠 Cognitive Liberty 🌀 Thought Reform 🏛️ Technocracy 💉 Vaccine Skepticism 📡 Digital Surveillance

The Indoctrinated Brain

The global attack on mental freedom begins by targeting your hippocampus. Defend it.

— Michael Nehls 2023 290 стр.

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🧠 Cognitive Liberty 🌀 Thought Reform 🏛️ Technocracy 💉 Vaccine Skepticism 📡 Digital Surveillance

Hidden Order

— David D. Friedman • 1996

Economics isn't about money: it's a toolkit for human behavior, from marriage to murder.

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🏛️ Chicago School 🗽 Libertarianism 🍎 Everyday Economics 🎯 Rational Choice ⚖️ Public Choice

Hidden Order

Economics isn't about money: it's a toolkit for human behavior, from marriage to murder.

— David D. Friedman 1996 352 стр.

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🏛️ Chicago School 🗽 Libertarianism 🍎 Everyday Economics 🎯 Rational Choice ⚖️ Public Choice

Killing the Host

— 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.

— Michael Hudson 2013 400 стр.

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

The Golem (Canto Classics)

— Harry Collins • 1992

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

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🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

The Golem (Canto Classics)

Science, like a golem, is powerful but clumsy. Its real process is social, not neat method.

— Harry Collins 1992 214 стр.

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🔬 Sociology Of Science 🤔 Philosophy Of Science 🧪 Scientific Method 🧫 Laboratory Studies 🌍 Science And Society

50 Economics Classics

— Tom Butler-Bowdon • 2017

Fifty classics, one insight each: the ideas that built modern capitalism, and the euro's fatal flaw.

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📚 Economics Primers 🇪🇺 Eurozone Crisis 💰 Monetary Policy 🔗 Currency Unions 📉 Market Failures

50 Economics Classics

Fifty classics, one insight each: the ideas that built modern capitalism, and the euro's fatal flaw.

— Tom Butler-Bowdon 2017 386 стр.

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📚 Economics Primers 🇪🇺 Eurozone Crisis 💰 Monetary Policy 🔗 Currency Unions 📉 Market Failures

The Civilizing Process

— Norbert Elias • 2000

Table manners aren't trivial: they mark a centuries-old shift from violence to inner self-restraint.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 🏰 State Formation 🍽️ Manners And Etiquette 🧘 Self-Restraint 😳 Shame And Embarrassment

The Civilizing Process

Table manners aren't trivial: they mark a centuries-old shift from violence to inner self-restraint.

— Norbert Elias 2000 592 стр.

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🏛️ Historical Sociology 🏰 State Formation 🍽️ Manners And Etiquette 🧘 Self-Restraint 😳 Shame And Embarrassment

Anger

— Carol Tavris • 1983

Venting anger doesn't cool you down; it fuels the fire. The evidence against catharsis.

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👥 Social Psychology 😤 Anger Management 🧠 Emotion Regulation 💭 Cognitive Psychology 🔍 Myth-Busting Psychology

Anger

Venting anger doesn't cool you down; it fuels the fire. The evidence against catharsis.

— Carol Tavris 1983 385 стр.

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👥 Social Psychology 😤 Anger Management 🧠 Emotion Regulation 💭 Cognitive Psychology 🔍 Myth-Busting Psychology

Поведенческая экономика

— Мишель Бадделей • 2017

Standard economics assumes rational choice. Real decisions run on bias, impulse, and social forces.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🚶 Nudge Theory 👥 Social Norms 💰 Behavioral Finance

Поведенческая экономика

Standard economics assumes rational choice. Real decisions run on bias, impulse, and social forces.

— Мишель Бадделей 2017 168 стр.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 🚶 Nudge Theory 👥 Social Norms 💰 Behavioral Finance

Bobos in Paradise

— David Brooks • 2000

Why the new elite spends fortunes on kitchen stoves but despises luxury cars.

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🏛️ American Elites 📊 Class Analysis 🎭 Cultural Capital 📡 Status Signaling 🏢 Information Economy

Bobos in Paradise

Why the new elite spends fortunes on kitchen stoves but despises luxury cars.

— David Brooks 2000 284 стр.

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🏛️ American Elites 📊 Class Analysis 🎭 Cultural Capital 📡 Status Signaling 🏢 Information Economy

The Edge of Reason

— Julian Baggini • 2016

Reason is not sterile logic. It depends on judgment, emotion, and the temperament we bring.

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🧠 Reason And Judgment ⛓️ Limits Of Reason 💭 Emotion And Reasoning 🔬 Science And Subjectivity ⚖️ Moral Reasoning

The Edge of Reason

Reason is not sterile logic. It depends on judgment, emotion, and the temperament we bring.

— Julian Baggini 2016 272 стр.

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🧠 Reason And Judgment ⛓️ Limits Of Reason 💭 Emotion And Reasoning 🔬 Science And Subjectivity ⚖️ Moral Reasoning

Be Who You Want

— Christian Jarrett • 2021

Personality is not set in stone. The neuroscience that proves you can reshape who you are.

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🧠 Personality Psychology 🔄 Behavioral Change 🧬 Neuroplasticity 💖 Self-Compassion 📖 Life Narratives

Be Who You Want

Personality is not set in stone. The neuroscience that proves you can reshape who you are.

— Christian Jarrett 2021 304 стр.

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🧠 Personality Psychology 🔄 Behavioral Change 🧬 Neuroplasticity 💖 Self-Compassion 📖 Life Narratives

Здесь, чтобы подружиться

— Хоуп Келахер • 2020

Proximity made your childhood friends. Here is the intentional system for making them as an adult.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Adult Friendships 😔 Loneliness 🔗 Attachment Theory 🗣️ Social Skills 💗 Emotional Vulnerability

Здесь, чтобы подружиться

Proximity made your childhood friends. Here is the intentional system for making them as an adult.

— Хоуп Келахер 2020 208 стр.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Adult Friendships 😔 Loneliness 🔗 Attachment Theory 🗣️ Social Skills 💗 Emotional Vulnerability

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

— Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2015

A Nobel economist reveals which rules broke the American economy, and how to fix them.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Inequality Economics 💰 Rent-Seeking 👷 Labor Markets 🏦 Financialization

Rewriting the Rules of the American Economy

A Nobel economist reveals which rules broke the American economy, and how to fix them.

— Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 256 стр.

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🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Inequality Economics 💰 Rent-Seeking 👷 Labor Markets 🏦 Financialization

Coming Apart

— Charles Murray • 2012

Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.

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🧱 Class Divide 📉 Cultural Decline 🤝 Social Capital 🏛️ Elite Isolation ⛪ Secularization

Coming Apart

Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.

— Charles Murray 2012 416 стр.

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🧱 Class Divide 📉 Cultural Decline 🤝 Social Capital 🏛️ Elite Isolation ⛪ Secularization

Economics Rules

— Dani Rodrik • 2015

Economics is a toolkit, not a doctrine. The skill is knowing which model the moment demands.

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🔬 Economic Methodology 🧩 Model Thinking 📉 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics 🔎 Neoliberal Critique

Economics Rules

Economics is a toolkit, not a doctrine. The skill is knowing which model the moment demands.

— Dani Rodrik 2015 272 стр.

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🔬 Economic Methodology 🧩 Model Thinking 📉 Financial Crises 🌍 Development Economics 🔎 Neoliberal Critique

Blind Spots

— Max H. Bazerman • 2011

Most unethical behavior is driven by mental gaps, not character flaws. A lens to see what you miss.

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🐝 Behavioral Ethics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👀 Unconscious Bias 📈 Behavioral Economics 🏢 Corporate Ethics

Blind Spots

Most unethical behavior is driven by mental gaps, not character flaws. A lens to see what you miss.

— Max H. Bazerman 2011 191 стр.

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🐝 Behavioral Ethics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👀 Unconscious Bias 📈 Behavioral Economics 🏢 Corporate Ethics

Perception - How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

— Dennis Proffitt • 2020

Hills steepen with fatigue and distances swell with weight: a tour of the body-built reality.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌏 Cultural Psychology 🌿 Ecological Psychology 👁️ Perception Studies

Perception - How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

Hills steepen with fatigue and distances swell with weight: a tour of the body-built reality.

— Dennis Proffitt 2020 320 стр.

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🧠 Embodied Cognition 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🌏 Cultural Psychology 🌿 Ecological Psychology 👁️ Perception Studies

Liquid Surveillance

— Zygmunt Bauman • 2012

Surveillance has gone from prison tower to loyalty card: fluid, seductive, and nearly invisible.

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👁️ Surveillance Studies 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏛️ Post-Panoptic Theory 📊 Social Sorting ⚙️ Technological Determinism

Liquid Surveillance

Surveillance has gone from prison tower to loyalty card: fluid, seductive, and nearly invisible.

— Zygmunt Bauman 2012 152 стр.

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👁️ Surveillance Studies 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏛️ Post-Panoptic Theory 📊 Social Sorting ⚙️ Technological Determinism

The Injustice of Place

— Kathryn J. Edin • 2023

America's poorest places were deliberate: they were stripped for profit, and the design persists.

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🗺️ Internal Colonialism 📍 Spatial Inequality ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🏫 School Segregation ⛓️ Racial Subjugation

The Injustice of Place

America's poorest places were deliberate: they were stripped for profit, and the design persists.

— Kathryn J. Edin 2023 352 стр.

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🗺️ Internal Colonialism 📍 Spatial Inequality ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🏫 School Segregation ⛓️ Racial Subjugation

Why Nothing Works

— Marvin Harris • 1981

An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🇺🇸 American Society 📖 Cultural Criticism 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Service Economy

Why Nothing Works

An anthropologist finds that broken toasters, inflation, and cults share a single cause.

— Marvin Harris 1981 224 стр.

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🏛️ Cultural Anthropology 🇺🇸 American Society 📖 Cultural Criticism 📊 Political Economy 🏪 Service Economy

Evolutionary Ideas

— Sam Tatam • 2022

Most innovation fails. The answer: borrow the behavioral shortcuts evolution already built into us.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 💡 Innovation Strategy 🦎 Biomimicry 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎛️ Behavioral Design

Evolutionary Ideas

Most innovation fails. The answer: borrow the behavioral shortcuts evolution already built into us.

— Sam Tatam 2022 326 стр.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 💡 Innovation Strategy 🦎 Biomimicry 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 🎛️ Behavioral Design

Rock, Paper, Scissors

— Len Fisher • 2000

The hidden logic traps that sabotage everyday cooperation, and the game theory that outsmarts them.

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🎲 Game Theory ⚖️ Social Dilemmas ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🔄 Cooperation Strategies

Rock, Paper, Scissors

The hidden logic traps that sabotage everyday cooperation, and the game theory that outsmarts them.

— Len Fisher 2000 288 стр.

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🎲 Game Theory ⚖️ Social Dilemmas ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🤝 Conflict Resolution 🔄 Cooperation Strategies

2052

— Jørgen Randers • 2012

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning ⚡ Energy Transition 👶 Demographic Decline

2052

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

— Jørgen Randers 2012 416 стр.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning ⚡ Energy Transition 👶 Demographic Decline

Environmental Economics

— Stephen Smith • 2011

Why unregulated markets destroy the environment, and how the same market logic can save it.

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🏛️ Environmental Economics 📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis 💨 Emissions Trading 💰 Carbon Pricing 🌳 Environmental Valuation

Environmental Economics

Why unregulated markets destroy the environment, and how the same market logic can save it.

— Stephen Smith 2011 136 стр.

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🏛️ Environmental Economics 📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis 💨 Emissions Trading 💰 Carbon Pricing 🌳 Environmental Valuation

Thinking like an Economist

— Elizabeth Popp Berman • 2022

How efficiency-driven economics took over US policy, even from liberals, and what it left behind.

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📜 Economic Policy History 🌐 Neoliberalism ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🏛️ Law And Economics 💰 Market Fundamentalism

Thinking like an Economist

How efficiency-driven economics took over US policy, even from liberals, and what it left behind.

— Elizabeth Popp Berman 2022 344 стр.

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📜 Economic Policy History 🌐 Neoliberalism ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🏛️ Law And Economics 💰 Market Fundamentalism

The Power of Discord

— Ed Tronick • 2020

Seventy percent of interactions are out of sync, and that mismatch fuels intimacy and trust.

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🧠 Developmental Psychology 🔧 Rupture And Repair 🫂 Co-Regulation 👶 Modern Attachment Theory 💯 Anti-Perfectionism

The Power of Discord

Seventy percent of interactions are out of sync, and that mismatch fuels intimacy and trust.

— Ed Tronick 2020 288 стр.

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🧠 Developmental Psychology 🔧 Rupture And Repair 🫂 Co-Regulation 👶 Modern Attachment Theory 💯 Anti-Perfectionism

Kremlin Rising

— Peter Baker • 2005

Putin didn't seize Russia. Russians handed it to him, desperate for order after a decade of chaos.

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🇷🇺 Post-Soviet Russia 🔒 Authoritarian Consolidation 📺 State Propaganda ⚔️ Chechen Wars 💰 Oligarchs

Kremlin Rising

Putin didn't seize Russia. Russians handed it to him, desperate for order after a decade of chaos.

— Peter Baker 2005 464 стр.

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🇷🇺 Post-Soviet Russia 🔒 Authoritarian Consolidation 📺 State Propaganda ⚔️ Chechen Wars 💰 Oligarchs

Our Kind

— Marvin Harris • 1989

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

Our Kind

Built for a lost world: why we crave, worship, and wage war, from an anthropologist.

— Marvin Harris 1989 547 стр.

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🧬 Human Evolution 🏺 Prehistory 🏛️ Cultural Evolution 🗣️ Origin Of Language 📊 Social Hierarchy

The Social Atom

— Mark Buchanan • 2007

Segregation, fads, and wealth gaps are not about human nature. They are physics.

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🔬 Complexity Science 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 📈 Social Contagion 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

The Social Atom

Segregation, fads, and wealth gaps are not about human nature. They are physics.

— Mark Buchanan 2007 256 стр.

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🔬 Complexity Science 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔍 Cognitive Biases 📈 Social Contagion 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology

Paranormal America

— Christopher D. Bader • 2010

Paranormal belief is normal, and its strongest predictor isn't intelligence but social conformity.

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⛪ Sociology Of Religion 📊 Survey Research 👻 Paranormal Culture 👽 Paranormal Beliefs 🔬 Pseudoscience

Paranormal America

Paranormal belief is normal, and its strongest predictor isn't intelligence but social conformity.

— Christopher D. Bader 2010 272 стр.

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⛪ Sociology Of Religion 📊 Survey Research 👻 Paranormal Culture 👽 Paranormal Beliefs 🔬 Pseudoscience

The Cost-Benefit Revolution

— Cass R. Sunstein • 2018

Government rules used to be about politics. Then Reagan made them about arithmetic.

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⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 📜 Regulatory Policy 🏛️ Technocratic Governance ⚠️ Risk Regulation 📋 Administrative Law

The Cost-Benefit Revolution

Government rules used to be about politics. Then Reagan made them about arithmetic.

— Cass R. Sunstein 2018 288 стр.

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⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 📜 Regulatory Policy 🏛️ Technocratic Governance ⚠️ Risk Regulation 📋 Administrative Law

Economies and Cultures

— Richard R. Wilk • 1996

The rational market actor is a myth: economic life runs on gifts, status, and cultural meaning.

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🔗 Embedded Economies 🎁 Reciprocity 🧠 Rationality Critique 💭 Symbolic Value

Economies and Cultures

The rational market actor is a myth: economic life runs on gifts, status, and cultural meaning.

— Richard R. Wilk 1996 252 стр.

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🔗 Embedded Economies 🎁 Reciprocity 🧠 Rationality Critique 💭 Symbolic Value

Contesting Democracy

— Jan-Werner Müller • 2006

It wasn't democracy versus its enemies. It was a fight over what 'democracy' actually meant.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Thought 🛑 Totalitarianism 🚩 State Socialism 👊 Fascist Ideology

Contesting Democracy

It wasn't democracy versus its enemies. It was a fight over what 'democracy' actually meant.

— Jan-Werner Müller 2006 304 стр.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Political Thought 🛑 Totalitarianism 🚩 State Socialism 👊 Fascist Ideology

Democracy at Work

— Richard D. Wolff • 2012

Capitalism's crises are by design. The only fix: workers run the company.

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🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🏛️ Economic Democracy 🌱 Post-Capitalism 🛠️ Workers' Self-Management 🤝 Cooperative Economics

Democracy at Work

Capitalism's crises are by design. The only fix: workers run the company.

— Richard D. Wolff 2012 220 стр.

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🗳️ Workplace Democracy 🏛️ Economic Democracy 🌱 Post-Capitalism 🛠️ Workers' Self-Management 🤝 Cooperative Economics

The Age of Dignity

— Ai-jen Poo • 2015

Ten thousand Americans turn sixty-five each day. The fix is infrastructure, not more nursing homes.

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🧓 Elder Care 🥪 Sandwich Generation 📜 Aging Policy 💰 Care Economy 👪 Family Caregiving

The Age of Dignity

Ten thousand Americans turn sixty-five each day. The fix is infrastructure, not more nursing homes.

— Ai-jen Poo 2015 176 стр.

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🧓 Elder Care 🥪 Sandwich Generation 📜 Aging Policy 💰 Care Economy 👪 Family Caregiving

On Being Nice

— The School of Life • 2017

We turned nice into a synonym for boring and bankrupt. That was a catastrophic misreading.

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🤝 Social Virtues ⚖️ Everyday Ethics 💛 Kindness Practice 💝 Emotional Generosity 👥 Friendship Philosophy

On Being Nice

We turned nice into a synonym for boring and bankrupt. That was a catastrophic misreading.

— The School of Life 2017 124 стр.

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🤝 Social Virtues ⚖️ Everyday Ethics 💛 Kindness Practice 💝 Emotional Generosity 👥 Friendship Philosophy

Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

— Andrew Gelman • 2008

Wealthy states lean left; within them, wealth predicts right. The data that reconciles the split.

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🗺️ Electoral Geography 🗳️ Voting Behavior 💰 Income And Voting ↔️ Political Polarization 🔵🔴 Cultural Divides

Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State

Wealthy states lean left; within them, wealth predicts right. The data that reconciles the split.

— Andrew Gelman 2008 240 стр.

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🗺️ Electoral Geography 🗳️ Voting Behavior 💰 Income And Voting ↔️ Political Polarization 🔵🔴 Cultural Divides

Social Security Fd 3e

— PETERSON • 2012

The single biggest Social Security decision: when to claim. Get it wrong and lose a third.

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🧭 Retirement Planning 🏛️ Government Benefits 💰 Retirement Income 🏥 Medicare Guide ♿ Disability Benefits

Social Security Fd 3e

The single biggest Social Security decision: when to claim. Get it wrong and lose a third.

— PETERSON 2012 336 стр.

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🧭 Retirement Planning 🏛️ Government Benefits 💰 Retirement Income 🏥 Medicare Guide ♿ Disability Benefits

"I Have Nothing to Hide"

— Heidi Boghosian • 2021

Mass surveillance survives on one belief: privacy is for wrongdoers. Twenty myths keep it expanding.

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🛰️ Mass Surveillance 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏢 Corporate Surveillance 👮 Predictive Policing 🔐 Encryption Politics

"I Have Nothing to Hide"

Mass surveillance survives on one belief: privacy is for wrongdoers. Twenty myths keep it expanding.

— Heidi Boghosian 2021 240 стр.

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🛰️ Mass Surveillance 🔒 Digital Privacy 🏢 Corporate Surveillance 👮 Predictive Policing 🔐 Encryption Politics

Discover Your Inner Economist

— Tyler Cowen • 2007

Hidden economics of love, lunch, and looking good: incentives that work when cash fails.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Everyday Economics 🕊️ Signaling Theory 🎭 Self-Deception ⏳ Attention Scarcity

Discover Your Inner Economist

Hidden economics of love, lunch, and looking good: incentives that work when cash fails.

— Tyler Cowen 2007 245 стр.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Everyday Economics 🕊️ Signaling Theory 🎭 Self-Deception ⏳ Attention Scarcity

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

— John Kenneth Galbraith • 2004

Free markets, consumer choice, central bank rescue: stories the powerful tell to hide their control.

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🌐 Political Economy 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🏢 Corporate Power 📢 Manufactured Demand 📋 Corporate Governance

The Economics of Innocent Fraud

Free markets, consumer choice, central bank rescue: stories the powerful tell to hide their control.

— John Kenneth Galbraith 2004 81 стр.

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🌐 Political Economy 🏛️ Institutional Economics 🏢 Corporate Power 📢 Manufactured Demand 📋 Corporate Governance

The Dialectical Imagination

— Martin Jay • 1973

After the revolutions failed, a circle of Marxists turned their critique from capital to culture.

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🏫 Frankfurt School 🧠 Intellectual History ⛏️ Western Marxism 🛋️ Psychoanalysis And Society 📺 Mass Culture Critique

The Dialectical Imagination

After the revolutions failed, a circle of Marxists turned their critique from capital to culture.

— Martin Jay 1973 420 стр.

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🏫 Frankfurt School 🧠 Intellectual History ⛏️ Western Marxism 🛋️ Psychoanalysis And Society 📺 Mass Culture Critique

The Givers

— David Callahan • 2017

When the richest Americans give, they also take: control over public life, without a vote.

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🏛️ Money In Politics 💰 Wealth And Democracy 🕶️ Dark Money 💼 Venture Philanthropy 💸 Billionaire Influence

The Givers

When the richest Americans give, they also take: control over public life, without a vote.

— David Callahan 2017 352 стр.

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🏛️ Money In Politics 💰 Wealth And Democracy 🕶️ Dark Money 💼 Venture Philanthropy 💸 Billionaire Influence

Social Psychology

— Robert A. Baron • 1977

The science of why you bond, why you judge, and how to actually become happier.

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🧷 Attachment Theory 😊 Positive Psychology 🔬 Happiness Research 🫂 Loneliness 🤝 Social Connection

Social Psychology

The science of why you bond, why you judge, and how to actually become happier.

— Robert A. Baron 1977 678 стр.

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🧷 Attachment Theory 😊 Positive Psychology 🔬 Happiness Research 🫂 Loneliness 🤝 Social Connection

The Myth of the State

— Ernst Cassirer • 1946

The Greeks fought myth with reason. The modern state perfected it as a weapon.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Ideas ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🏰 State And Sovereignty 🎭 Myth And Politics

The Myth of the State

The Greeks fought myth with reason. The modern state perfected it as a weapon.

— Ernst Cassirer 1946 303 стр.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Ideas ⛓️ Totalitarianism 🏰 State And Sovereignty 🎭 Myth And Politics

The Origins of Happiness

— Andrew E. Clark • 2018

Money explains just 1% of happiness. What matters more: mental health, relationships, and childhood.

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🧮 Happiness Economics 📊 Subjective Well-Being 🧠 Behavioral Economics 👀 Social Comparison 🤝 Relationship Science

The Origins of Happiness

Money explains just 1% of happiness. What matters more: mental health, relationships, and childhood.

— Andrew E. Clark 2018 339 стр.

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🧮 Happiness Economics 📊 Subjective Well-Being 🧠 Behavioral Economics 👀 Social Comparison 🤝 Relationship Science

Butterfly Economics

— Paul Ormerod • 1998

Crash without a shock: how firms and crowds generate boom, bust, and everything in between.

3.69

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🧩 Complexity Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🕸️ Network Effects 🧬 Evolutionary Economics 💥 Heterodox Economics

Butterfly Economics

Crash without a shock: how firms and crowds generate boom, bust, and everything in between.

— Paul Ormerod 1998 217 стр.

3.69

223 оценок

🧩 Complexity Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🕸️ Network Effects 🧬 Evolutionary Economics 💥 Heterodox Economics

A Fine Mess

— T.R. Reid • 2017

Six billion hours a year on taxes. Other countries need minutes. The reform we keep ignoring.

4.24

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🧾 Tax Reform 🏛️ Public Finance 🕳️ Tax Loopholes 🏢 Tax Avoidance 🏝️ Tax Havens

A Fine Mess

Six billion hours a year on taxes. Other countries need minutes. The reform we keep ignoring.

— T.R. Reid 2017 288 стр.

4.24

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🧾 Tax Reform 🏛️ Public Finance 🕳️ Tax Loopholes 🏢 Tax Avoidance 🏝️ Tax Havens

The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption

— Gad Saad • 2007

Your shopping cart is a fossil. Every purchase reveals a survival strategy from the Pleistocene.

3.87

🧠 Consumer Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💎 Conspicuous Consumption 📡 Costly Signaling ⚠️ Evolutionary Mismatch

The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption

Your shopping cart is a fossil. Every purchase reveals a survival strategy from the Pleistocene.

— Gad Saad 2007 360 стр.

3.87

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🧠 Consumer Psychology 🧬 Evolutionary Psychology 💎 Conspicuous Consumption 📡 Costly Signaling ⚠️ Evolutionary Mismatch

The Happiness Equation

— Nattavudh Powdthavee • 2010

Friends beat a six-figure raise in happiness. A commute never stops hurting.

3.54

142

🧮 Happiness Economics 🧠 Positive Psychology 🎲 Behavioral Economics 🔄 Hedonic Adaptation 🤝 Social Connections

The Happiness Equation

Friends beat a six-figure raise in happiness. A commute never stops hurting.

— Nattavudh Powdthavee 2010 294 стр.

3.54

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🧮 Happiness Economics 🧠 Positive Psychology 🎲 Behavioral Economics 🔄 Hedonic Adaptation 🤝 Social Connections

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