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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

most pernicious enemy.” The problem was that Hayek was considered conservative, yet acknowledged there could be an important role for government-sponsored health care, unemployment insurance, and a minimum wage. “Here is where the whole case is given away,” Rand noted in her copy of The Road to Serfdom. Addressing Lane, she compared

Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet

by Linda Herrera  · 14 Apr 2014  · 186pp  · 49,595 words

, hold them accountable, evaluate their performance, and define the priorities, not vice versa. In the document, poverty is reduced to two demands: raising the minimum wage, and providing unemployment benefits to university graduates for a limited period. These goals come across as ad hoc when compared to the more pointed demands of eliminating

Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

by Erik Brynjolfsson  · 23 Jan 2012  · 72pp  · 21,361 words

still well above subsistence if there are downward rigidities that prevent them from falling as quickly as advances in technology reduce the costs of automation. Minimum wage laws, unemployment insurance, health benefits, prevailing wage laws, and long-term contracts—not to mention custom and psychology—make it difficult to rapidly reduce wages.3

Death of the Liberal Class

by Chris Hedges  · 14 May 2010  · 422pp  · 89,770 words

week. Then the financial meltdown knocked the wind out of the local economy. “Everybody in my apartment building has had their hours cut, are unemployed, or have taken minimum-wage jobs,” he says. “I was laid off last year. I try to find work as an independent carpenter. I don’t have health

The Levelling: What’s Next After Globalization

by Michael O’sullivan  · 28 May 2019  · 756pp  · 120,818 words

of the United States from an emerging to a developed nation. Some of the measures proposed by Roosevelt administration members such as Frances Perkins—a minimum wage and unemployment compensation, for example15—are already in place in China or are incarnated in the form of “iron rice bowls.”* But the Chinese system is

The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals Its Secrets

by Michael Blastland  · 3 Apr 2019  · 290pp  · 82,871 words

unemployment 221–2, 263n17 unintended consequences 105, 229 United States of America China trade 220–3 incarceration rates 222, 240, 280n10 labour market 221 minimum wage 266–7n10 unemployment 221–2 universal gravitational attraction, theory of 140–1 unknowns 85–7, 206 unusual, the 195 upbringing 23–5 Uyeno, Lori 47 validity across

The Trouble With Billionaires

by Linda McQuaig  · 1 May 2013  · 261pp  · 81,802 words

do with less. But Eccles stunned the room by calling for a new government activism that would involve massive spending on public works projects and unemployment relief, minimum wage laws and tax reform to redistribute income, as well as changes to the Federal Reserve System that would strip power from the hands of

Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

by Mark Skousen  · 22 Dec 2006  · 330pp  · 77,729 words

and similar labor legislation reduce incentives for the unemployed to find work. He provided evidence that unionized labor and the adoption of minimum-wage and living-wage laws actually increases the unemployment rate. Finally, he offered a c^e study on Henry Ford's famous $5 workday as an example of higher productivity and

Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?

by Thomas Geoghegan  · 20 Sep 2011  · 364pp  · 104,697 words

leave May Day parade in Berlin (2001) Mazower, Mark McKinnon, Robert Meany, George Merkel, Angela and co-determined boards and German model and unemployment rates Microsoft military spending minimum wage Mitbestimmung (German magazine) mobility and public transportation Le Monde Moscow, Russia A Moveable Feast (Hemingway) Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Munnell, Alicia Muslims Netherlands bank

Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don't Talk About It)

by Elizabeth S. Anderson  · 22 May 2017  · 205pp  · 58,054 words

among the poor whom he imagined to be voluntarily unemployed, he also argued that property owners should be required to hire the involuntarily unemployed at a state-prescribed minimum wage. John Locke, “An Essay on the Poor Law,” Locke: Political Essays, edited by Mark Goldie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 188. 3. Elizabeth

Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-Hour Workweek

by Rutger Bregman  · 13 Sep 2014  · 235pp  · 62,862 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want

by Diane Mulcahy  · 8 Nov 2016  · 229pp  · 61,482 words

Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends

by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas  · 19 Jan 2010  · 492pp  · 70,082 words

Getting Back to Full Employment: A Better Bargain for Working People

by Dean Baker and Jared Bernstein  · 14 Nov 2013  · 128pp  · 35,958 words

Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

by George Gilder  · 30 Apr 1981  · 590pp  · 153,208 words

Small Wars, Big Data: The Information Revolution in Modern Conflict

by Eli Berman, Joseph H. Felter, Jacob N. Shapiro and Vestal Mcintyre  · 12 May 2018  · 517pp  · 147,591 words

A People's History of the United States

by Howard Zinn  · 2 Jan 1977  · 913pp  · 299,770 words

Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato  · 31 Jul 2016  · 370pp  · 102,823 words

Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy

by Benjamin Barber  · 20 Apr 2010  · 454pp  · 139,350 words

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.  · 15 Jan 1987

Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It

by Robert B. Reich  · 3 Sep 2012  · 124pp  · 39,011 words

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

by Karl Polanyi  · 27 Mar 2001  · 495pp  · 138,188 words

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

by John Cassidy  · 12 May 2025  · 774pp  · 238,244 words

Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

by Jeff Madrick  · 11 Jun 2012  · 840pp  · 202,245 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom

by Doug Henwood  · 30 Aug 1998  · 586pp  · 159,901 words

Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values

by Sharon Beder  · 30 Sep 2006  · 273pp  · 34,920 words

Automating Inequality

by Virginia Eubanks  · 294pp  · 77,356 words

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

by Paul Collier  · 4 Dec 2018  · 310pp  · 85,995 words

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson  · 20 Mar 2012  · 547pp  · 172,226 words

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

by Stephanie Kelton  · 8 Jun 2020  · 338pp  · 104,684 words

Essential: How the Pandemic Transformed the Long Fight for Worker Justice

by Jamie K. McCallum  · 15 Nov 2022  · 349pp  · 99,230 words

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream

by Alissa Quart  · 14 Mar 2023  · 304pp  · 86,028 words

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon  · 12 Jan 2016  · 1,104pp  · 302,176 words

Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

by George Packer  · 14 Jun 2021  · 173pp  · 55,328 words

The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum  · 4 Sep 2019  · 614pp  · 174,226 words

How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present

by Thomas J. Dilorenzo  · 9 Aug 2004  · 283pp  · 81,163 words

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman  · 2 Jan 1980  · 376pp  · 118,542 words

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage

by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders  · 1 Jul 2001  · 267pp  · 79,905 words

What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right

by George R. Tyler  · 15 Jul 2013  · 772pp  · 203,182 words

Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell  · 1 Jan 2000  · 850pp  · 254,117 words

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 14 May 2014  · 372pp  · 92,477 words

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America

by Alissa Quart  · 25 Jun 2018  · 320pp  · 90,526 words

The Story of Work: A New History of Humankind

by Jan Lucassen  · 26 Jul 2021  · 869pp  · 239,167 words

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

by Thomas Sowell  · 31 Aug 2015  · 877pp  · 182,093 words

The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future

by Joseph C. Sternberg  · 13 May 2019  · 336pp  · 95,773 words

The Classical School

by Callum Williams  · 19 May 2020  · 288pp  · 89,781 words

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

by Daniel Markovits  · 14 Sep 2019  · 976pp  · 235,576 words

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

by Nick Romeo  · 15 Jan 2024  · 343pp  · 103,376 words

Economists and the Powerful

by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas  · 30 Sep 2012  · 261pp  · 103,244 words

The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope

by John A. Allison  · 20 Sep 2012  · 348pp  · 99,383 words

The Globalization of Inequality

by François Bourguignon  · 1 Aug 2012  · 221pp  · 55,901 words

Social Democratic America

by Lane Kenworthy  · 3 Jan 2014  · 283pp  · 73,093 words

Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

by Dani Rodrik  · 12 Oct 2015  · 226pp  · 59,080 words

The Second Intelligent Species: How Humans Will Become as Irrelevant as Cockroaches

by Marshall Brain  · 6 Apr 2015  · 215pp  · 56,215 words

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

by Sarah Kessler  · 11 Jun 2018  · 246pp  · 68,392 words

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght  · 20 Mar 2017

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics

by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt  · 15 Mar 2010

The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law

by Timothy Sandefur  · 16 Aug 2010  · 399pp  · 155,913 words

It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

by Gregg Easterbrook  · 20 Feb 2018  · 424pp  · 119,679 words

Hawai'I Becalmed: Economic Lessons of the 1990s

by Christopher Grandy  · 30 Sep 2002  · 145pp  · 43,599 words

The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future

by Alec Ross  · 13 Sep 2021  · 363pp  · 109,077 words

The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

by Robert D. Putnam  · 12 Oct 2020  · 678pp  · 160,676 words

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Premilla Nadasen  · 10 Oct 2023  · 288pp  · 82,972 words

Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy

by Diane Coyle  · 14 Jan 2020  · 384pp  · 108,414 words

Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook  · 28 Mar 2016  · 345pp  · 92,849 words

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

by Tamara Draut  · 4 Apr 2016  · 255pp  · 75,172 words

Capitalism and Freedom

by Milton Friedman  · 1 Jan 1962  · 275pp  · 77,955 words

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians

by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman  · 21 Mar 2017  · 441pp  · 113,244 words

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

Fifty Degrees Below

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 25 Oct 2005  · 560pp  · 158,238 words

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

by Thomas Philippon  · 29 Oct 2019  · 401pp  · 109,892 words

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

by Arun Sundararajan  · 12 May 2016  · 375pp  · 88,306 words

The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy

by Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz  · 4 Nov 2016  · 374pp  · 97,288 words

A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

by Tom Standage  · 16 Aug 2021  · 290pp  · 85,847 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson  · 28 Sep 2001

Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

by Cass R. Sunstein  · 23 Aug 2006

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

by Linsey McGoey  · 14 Sep 2019

Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect

by David Goodhart  · 7 Sep 2020  · 463pp  · 115,103 words