Economic Policy
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We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth
$20.99 Add to cartWith a new afterword by the authors
A powerful, intimate collection of conversations with Indigenous Americans on the climate crisis and the Earth’s futureAlthough for a great many people, the human
- Author: Jamail, Dahr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978598
- Language: English
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Unjust Debts: How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal
$27.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Best Summer Books in Economics by the Financial Times
A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field“Unjust D
- Author: Jacoby, Melissa B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1620977869
- Language: English
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The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
$32.50 Add to cartWith the nation lurching from one crisis to the next, many Americans believe that something fundamental has gone wrong. Why aren’t college graduates able to achieve financial security? Why is governme
- Author: Baradaran, Mehrsa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324091169
- Language: English
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The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy
$28.99 Add to cartWith a foreword by Angela Garbes
From the president of the Economic Security Project, a book that shows how a just future is around the corner, if we are ready to seize it
The Guarantee asks us to imagi- Author: Foster, Natalie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978466
- Language: English
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True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
$24.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.
In True Wealth, economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sa
- Author: Schor, Juliet B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119427
- Language: English
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The Brew Deal: How Beer Helped Battle the Great Depression
$32.99 Read moreDuring the final stages of Prohibition, the US government allowed the consumption and sale of “non-intoxicating” beer, which was at or below 3.2% alcohol-by-weight. Beer’s return–permitted with an ey
- Author: Taylor, Jason E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: December 02 2024
- ISBN10: 3031731328
- Language: English
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Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America
$30.00 Add to cartFrom political economist, cabinet member, beloved professor, media presence, and bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, a deeply felt, compelling memoir of growing up in a baby-b… [more below]
- Author: Reich, Robert B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803280
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Economic Freedom: Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism
$29.95 Read more“This readable and important book makes a strong case that the received version of economic history taught in high schools and colleges across the country is off the mark and that its errors distort c… [more below]
- Author: Gramm, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798881808365
- Language: English
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The Catalysts: The Accelerating Forces Forging the New World Financial Order
$34.95 Add to cartSince the end of WWII, America has dominated the global economic stage. Not coincidentally, the US dollar has served as the world’s default currency. America has routinely rattled its saber to wage wa
- Author: Wick, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 9798990924208
- Language: English
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As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West
$22.95 Add to cart“In this masterly book, [Alfani] offers an insightful long-run perspective and fascinating lessons for the future. A must-read!”–Thomas Piketty, author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
A sweepi- Author: Alfani, Guido
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 069122711X
- Language: English
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Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
$35.00 Add to cartA leading economist explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and shows why its future stability is far from assured
Our Dollar, Your Problem argues that America’s currency might not have reached to- Author: Rogoff, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275315
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline
$24.00 Add to cartThe long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its current leadership threatens this delicate balance
“Riveting.”–Tunku Varadarajan, Wall Street Journa- Author: Huang, Yasheng
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281935
- Language: English
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Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
$29.99 Add to cartA timely work of singular reportage and a damning indictment of the private equity industry told through the stories of four American workers whose lives and communities were upended by the ruinous ef
- Author: Greenwell, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0063299356
- Language: English
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The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)
$29.95 Add to cartFinance serves the rich and powerful. We need to democratize it.
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master’s Tools, award-winning author Michael A. McCarthy argues the answer- Author: McCarthy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1788730666
- Language: English
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Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries
$30.00 Add to cartIn the tradition of Three Women and Hidden Valley Road, international reporter and radio producer Abigail Leonard’s page-turning work blends reporting, research and history as it follows four women–A… [more below]
- Author: Leonard, Abigail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1643756532
- Language: English
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Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left
$32.00 Read moreIncluded in National Review‘s “Books of 2024” List
America is now reaping what the federal government has sown for decades and the Biden administration cultivated over the last four years: an unpreced
- Author: Young, Jt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891381292
- Language: English
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The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions–And How the World Lost Its Mind
$20.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2024 Financial Times Book of the Year. How life and the economy became a black box–a collection of systems no one understands, producing outcomes no one likes.
Passengers get bump- Author: Davies, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843084
- Language: English
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The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged investor changed American finance forever.
Before Bill Gross was known among investors as the Bond King,- Author: Childs, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 31 2024
- ISBN10: 1250120861
- Language: English
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Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret
$17.99 Add to cartThe MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist’s riveting memoir of a life fighting for a cleaner future for America’s most vulnerable
A Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Science Book of 20
- Author: Flowers, Catherine Coleman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1620977133
- Language: English
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21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to Covid-19
$35.00 Add to cartIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve deployed an extraordinary range of policy tools that helped prevent the collapse of the financial system and the U.S. economy. Chair Jerome Po
- Author: Bernanke, Ben S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020466
- Language: English
