Books Discussed on this Blog
Brian Alexander, Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town.
Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein, Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People
Thomas Barlow, Between the Eagle and the Dragon
Alan S. Blinder, After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
Derek Bok, Higher Education in America
Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Jeff Faux, The Servant Economy
Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class
Martin Ford, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Carl Benedikt Frey, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
Lawrence B. Glickman, A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society
Alice Goffman, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Michael Grunwald, The New New Deal: The Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era
Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Malcolm Harris, Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
Christopher Hayes, Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
Robert B. Horwitz, America’s Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party
Philip H. Howard, Concentration and Power in the Food System
Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
George Lakey, Viking Economics
Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future?
Amy Larkin, Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of the Changing Global Economy
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die
Henry C. Lucas, Jr., Technology and the Disruption of Higher Education
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
Colin Mayer, Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good
Branko Milanovic, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
Enrico Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs
Helaine Olen, Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry
Shannon K. O’Neil, Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead
Anu Partanen, The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Benjamin Radcliff, The Political Economy of Human Happiness
Robert Samuels, Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free
Vaclav Smil, Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
Ken Stern, With Charity for All: Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give
Joseph Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future
U.S. Global Change Research Program, Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States
J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Really enjoying this site. A few books I’ve read recently that might sync well with your interests: Cornered (Barry Lynn), Chain of Title (David Dayen), Takers and Makers (Rana Foroonar), and Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste (Philip Mirowski).