Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis
by Benjamin Kunkel · 11 Mar 2014 · 142pp · 45,733 words
interest rates on student loans figured among the main grievances in demonstrations throughout the southern winter. And the Occupy movement in the US—whose slogan, “We are the 99 percent,” was reportedly first floated by Graeber himself—has condemned not only the maldistribution of wealth but the related vice of massive consumer debt, in
We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency
by Parmy Olson · 5 Jun 2012 · 478pp · 149,810 words
in September 2011 and saw tens of thousands take to the streets in major capitals to protest social and economic inequality, often using the slogan “We are the 99%.” Activist-style supporters of Anonymous largely showed their support for Occupy, promoting it on Twitter and blogs and wearing the V for Vendetta masks at
Think Complexity
by Allen B. Downey · 23 Feb 2012 · 247pp · 43,430 words
New York City, where thousands of protesters gathered to express their dismay with the distribution of wealth, among other things. The movement’s motto is “We are the 99%,” reminding politicians to serve the majority, not the 1% who control more than a third of the nation’s wealth. A major goal of the
Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
by Peter Frase · 10 Mar 2015 · 121pp · 36,908 words
income in the world has become an increasing focus of attention from activists, politicians, and pundits. Occupy Wall Street struck a chord with the slogan “we are the 99 percent,” drawing attention to the fact that almost all the gains from economic growth in recent decades have accrued to 1 percent or less of
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
elsewhere on the web. It was a platform for political commentary and personal diary-like entries at first. Occupy Wall Street even had a Tumblr, “We are the 99%,” that was its online focal point, where activists shared their faces and their stories of financial hardship. But writing original text and uploading original images
The Myth of Meritocracy: Why Working-Class Kids Still Get Working-Class Jobs (Provocations Series)
by James Bloodworth · 18 May 2016 · 82pp · 21,414 words
American elite and the rest of society, the term ‘1 per cent’ has spawned an extensive literature on both sides of the Atlantic. Its corollary – ‘We are the 99 per cent’ – was the slogan adopted by the influential anti-capitalist protest movement Occupy Wall St. Political grumbling about inequality never went away, of course
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
by Owen Jones · 14 Jul 2011 · 317pp · 101,475 words
in hundreds of cities across the globe-including London, where tents were erected outside St Paul's Cathedral. The key slogan of the Occupy movement, 'We are the 99 per cent', reflected that the interests of the overwhelming majority of people conflicted with those of the elite 1 per cent at the top. It
The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
by Satyajit Das · 9 Feb 2016 · 327pp · 90,542 words
, the financialization of the economy, allocation of the responsibility and burden of the GFC, disenfranchisement of voters, and inequality. The Guy Fawkes mask and the “We are the 99 percent” chant, first heard in New York's Zuccotti Park, are emblems of a moral protest. The 1 percent saw it as violent revolution. An
Affluence Without Abundance: The Disappearing World of the Bushmen
by James Suzman · 10 Jul 2017
things while standing for nothing in particular. In the end, this ensemble of discordant voices found episodic moments of harmony around the rallying call of “We are the 99 percent!”—a slogan that captured one thing they could all agree on: they were all angry about what they saw to be rampant material and
Still Broke: Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism
by Rick Wartzman · 15 Nov 2022 · 215pp · 69,370 words
Walmart to raise workers’ wages. “We’re here today to let the people at Occupy Wall Street know that Walmart’s associates stand with them; we are the 99 percent,” said Girshriela Green, who had gone to work at the company in 2009 as a part-timer in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay
by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman · 14 Oct 2019 · 232pp · 70,361 words
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani · 20 Feb 2024 · 262pp · 69,328 words
Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets
by John Plender · 27 Jul 2015 · 355pp · 92,571 words
Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class
by Jeff Faux · 16 May 2012 · 364pp · 99,613 words
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
by George Packer · 4 Mar 2014 · 559pp · 169,094 words
The Meritocracy Myth
by Stephen J. McNamee · 17 Jul 2013 · 440pp · 108,137 words
This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers
by Andy Greenberg · 12 Sep 2012 · 461pp · 125,845 words
Revolting!: How the Establishment Are Undermining Democracy and What They're Afraid Of
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Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us
by John Hills · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 107,280 words
The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War
by Jeff Sharlet · 21 Mar 2023 · 308pp · 97,480 words
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 words
The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It
by Timothy Noah · 23 Apr 2012 · 309pp · 91,581 words
Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby
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The Populist Explosion: How the Great Recession Transformed American and European Politics
by John B. Judis · 11 Sep 2016 · 177pp · 50,167 words
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street's Post-Crash Recruits
by Kevin Roose · 18 Feb 2014 · 269pp · 83,307 words
The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
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What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
by Linda Yueh · 4 Jun 2018 · 453pp · 117,893 words
What's the Matter with White People
by Joan Walsh · 19 Jul 2012 · 284pp · 85,643 words
Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil
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The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce · 20 Apr 2017 · 223pp · 58,732 words
Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
by Richard V. Reeves · 22 May 2017 · 198pp · 52,089 words
The Rich and the Rest of Us
by Tavis Smiley · 15 Feb 2012 · 181pp · 50,196 words
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2012 · 206pp · 9,776 words
Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
by Chris Hayes · 11 Jun 2012 · 285pp · 86,174 words
Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump
by Tom Clark and Anthony Heath · 23 Jun 2014 · 401pp · 112,784 words
Speaking Code: Coding as Aesthetic and Political Expression
by Geoff Cox and Alex McLean · 9 Nov 2012
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles · 30 May 2022 · 318pp · 91,957 words
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
by Gary Gerstle · 14 Oct 2022 · 655pp · 156,367 words
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
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Occupying Wall Street: The Inside Story of an Action That Changed America
by Writers For The 99% · 17 Dec 2011 · 173pp · 54,729 words
The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America
by Charlotte Alter · 18 Feb 2020 · 504pp · 129,087 words
Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
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Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason
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Who Stole the American Dream?
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How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America's Future
by Jean M. Twenge · 25 Apr 2023 · 541pp · 173,676 words
The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class
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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
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Digital Bank: Strategies for Launching or Becoming a Digital Bank
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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
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A Fine Mess
by T. R. Reid · 13 Mar 2017 · 363pp · 92,422 words
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
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The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives
by Lisa Servon · 10 Jan 2017 · 279pp · 76,796 words
The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
by Frederik Obermaier · 17 Jun 2016 · 372pp · 109,536 words
In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a Metropolis
by Clifton Hood · 1 Nov 2016 · 641pp · 182,927 words
Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by Adam Tooze · 31 Jul 2018 · 1,066pp · 273,703 words
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
End This Depression Now!
by Paul Krugman · 30 Apr 2012 · 267pp · 71,123 words
Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
by Manuel Castells · 19 Aug 2012 · 291pp · 90,200 words
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
by Bhaskar Sunkara · 1 Feb 2019 · 324pp · 86,056 words
Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire
by Bruce Nussbaum · 5 Mar 2013 · 385pp · 101,761 words
Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?
by John Kay · 2 Sep 2015 · 478pp · 126,416 words
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
by Martin Gurri · 13 Nov 2018 · 379pp · 99,340 words
Hunger: The Oldest Problem
by Martin Caparros · 14 Jan 2020 · 684pp · 212,486 words
A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
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Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
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Peggy Seeger
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Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire
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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
by Robert J. Shiller · 14 Oct 2019 · 611pp · 130,419 words
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 10 Jun 2012 · 580pp · 168,476 words
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty · 10 Mar 2014 · 935pp · 267,358 words
Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement
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Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
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Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci · 14 May 2017 · 444pp · 130,646 words
Inequality and the 1%
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The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
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Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence
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Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions
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