wealth tax

back to index

description: levy on the total value of personal assets, including owner-occupied housing; cash, bank deposits, money funds, and savings in insurance and pension plans

182 results

Women & Power: A Manifesto

by Mary Beard  · 2 Nov 2017  · 50pp  · 15,155 words

because she is acting explicitly as the spokesperson for the women of Rome (and for women only), after they have been subject to a special wealth tax to fund a dubious war effort. Women, in other words, may in extreme circumstances publicly defend their own sectional interests, but not speak for men

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project

by Hans Kundnani  · 16 Aug 2023  · 198pp  · 54,815 words

was “ni gauche, ni droite” (“neither left nor right”). After becoming president, however, he seemed to govern from the right—in particular, he scrapped a wealth tax and liberalised the labour market—and was thus seen as “president of the rich”.25 The thinking in the Elysée was that if France reformed

The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car

by Witold Rybczynski  · 8 Oct 2024  · 187pp  · 65,740 words

rather with the way it made you feel. In a word, it was fun. * * * i“Sign of wealth” was a reference to an annual household wealth tax that the French government had instituted in 1945. iiThe innovative Dyna Z was not an unqualified success. Because of faulty cost estimates and a rise

Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

by Daniel Gordis  · 17 Oct 2016  · 632pp  · 171,827 words

(1984). Katz, Shmuel. Lone Wolf: A Biography of Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade Books, 1995. Kaya, Furkan. “Minority Policies of Turkey and Wealth Tax of 1942.” Yeditepe University (February 12, 2014), http://mpra.ub.uni -muenchen.de/53617/1/MPRA_paper_53617.pdf. Kedar, Nir. “Ben-Gurion’s Mamlakhtiyut

The Divided Nation: A History of Germany, 1918-1990

by Mary Fulbrook  · 14 Oct 1991  · 934pp  · 135,736 words

three-class voting system obtaining in Prussia entailed the division of the population of each electoral district into three classes according to the payment of wealth taxes. The minority who were the richest then obtained one-third of the votes; the moderately wealthy the next one-third, and the large majority who

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm  · 2 Sep 2020  · 304pp  · 90,084 words

. It takes wars to get people to vote for substantial tax hikes, and successive left governments have found it very difficult to introduce even modest wealth taxes. This is where the honest activities get overtaken by less honest ones. In the US and some European ‘green new deals’, the tax issue is

The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War

by Norman Stone  · 15 Feb 2010  · 851pp  · 247,711 words

were political wrangles as the parties fought over one proposal or another, and the non-Communists managed to win one such, a proposal for a wealth tax that would have damaged small enterprise. But Czechoslovakia, her borders reaching far into the bloc, and even, for a few miles, contiguous with the Soviet

Investing Demystified: How to Invest Without Speculation and Sleepless Nights

by Lars Kroijer  · 5 Sep 2013  · 300pp  · 77,787 words

. Subject to proper data protection and guarantees of confidentiality, this risk assessment could include data such as your job, education, residence, mortgage, marital status, family wealth, tax returns, Linkedin and Facebook profiles, etc. that are already available subject to a few clicks and permissions. While intrusive sounding, I wouldn’t be surprised

Basic Income And The Left

by henningmeyer  · 16 May 2018

she mean by ‘middle class’? However we finance basic income – via an increase in income tax, eco- Work And Income taxes, consumption taxes, capital gains/wealth tax or A possible starting point for breaking with the capi‐ talist-dominated work society is to separate basic individual and societal needs from paid work

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

by Naomi Klein  · 11 Sep 2023

book about corporate globalization back in the day. And the NDP has always stood up to big business and bad trade deals. They want a wealth tax—” “Nah. I’ve had it,” she said, calling back her dog and retreating farther. “I’m going with the People’s Party this time.” And

Cultureshock Paris

by Cultureshock Staff  · 6 Oct 2010  · 401pp  · 108,855 words

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

by Orlando Whitfield  · 5 Aug 2024  · 306pp  · 104,072 words

Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely  · 19 Feb 2007  · 383pp  · 108,266 words

Istanbul Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

by Michael Knox Beran  · 2 Aug 2021  · 800pp  · 240,175 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

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem

by Tim Shipman  · 30 Nov 2017  · 721pp  · 238,678 words

The Passenger: Paris

by AA.VV.  · 26 Jun 2021  · 199pp  · 62,204 words

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider  · 15 Dec 2024  · 346pp  · 84,111 words

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross  · 19 Nov 2020  · 197pp  · 53,831 words

The Irrational Bundle

by Dan Ariely  · 3 Apr 2013  · 898pp  · 266,274 words

The the Rough Guide to Turkey

by Rough Guides  · 15 Oct 2023

Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism

by Wendy Liu  · 22 Mar 2020  · 223pp  · 71,414 words

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction

by Adrian Hon  · 5 Oct 2020  · 340pp  · 101,675 words

The New Prophets of Capital

by Nicole Aschoff  · 10 Mar 2015  · 128pp  · 38,187 words

This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook

by Extinction Rebellion  · 12 Jun 2019  · 138pp  · 40,525 words

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

by Rebecca Henderson  · 27 Apr 2020  · 330pp  · 99,044 words

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge  · 27 Feb 2018  · 267pp  · 72,552 words

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

by Rory Sutherland  · 6 May 2019  · 401pp  · 93,256 words

How to Write Your Will: The Complete Guide to Structuring Your Will, Inheritance Tax Planning, Probate and Administering an Estate

by Marlene Garsia  · 1 Jan 2008  · 280pp  · 76,376 words

Kicking Awaythe Ladder

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 4 Sep 2000  · 192pp

Antwerp: The Glory Years

by Michael Pye  · 4 Aug 2021  · 409pp  · 107,511 words

The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

by Grace Blakeley  · 14 Oct 2020  · 82pp  · 24,150 words

More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker  · 14 Jun 2025  · 381pp  · 119,533 words

Lonely Planet Turkey (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, James Bainbridge, Brett Atkinson, Steve Fallon, Jessica Lee, Virginia Maxwell, Hugh McNaughtan and John Noble  · 31 Jan 2017  · 2,313pp  · 330,238 words

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

by Matthew Yglesias  · 14 Sep 2020

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism

by Robin Chase  · 14 May 2015  · 330pp  · 91,805 words

Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 20 Feb 2018  · 306pp  · 82,765 words

Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History

by Stephen D. King  · 22 May 2017  · 354pp  · 92,470 words

Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation

by Sophie Pedder  · 20 Jun 2018  · 337pp  · 101,440 words

Planet Ponzi

by Mitch Feierstein  · 2 Feb 2012  · 393pp  · 115,263 words

The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

by Ross Douthat  · 25 Feb 2020  · 324pp  · 80,217 words

Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth

by Selina Todd  · 11 Feb 2021  · 598pp  · 150,801 words

Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms

by Mark Spitznagel  · 9 Aug 2021  · 231pp  · 64,734 words

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  · 26 Sep 2022  · 396pp  · 113,613 words

Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World

by Michal Zalewski  · 11 Jan 2022  · 337pp  · 96,666 words

Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto

by Mark Helprin  · 19 Apr 2009  · 272pp  · 83,378 words

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale  · 14 May 2020  · 1,172pp  · 114,305 words

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

by Anne Case and Angus Deaton  · 17 Mar 2020  · 421pp  · 110,272 words

The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches From the Dismal Science

by Paul Krugman  · 18 Feb 2010  · 162pp  · 51,473 words

The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business

by Richard Brooks  · 2 Jan 2014  · 301pp  · 88,082 words

Irrational Exuberance: With a New Preface by the Author

by Robert J. Shiller  · 15 Feb 2000  · 319pp  · 106,772 words

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure  · 18 May 2020  · 459pp  · 138,689 words

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed  · 22 Jan 2009  · 708pp  · 196,859 words

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  · 9 May 2016  · 515pp  · 126,820 words

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

by Jason Hickel  · 12 Aug 2020  · 286pp  · 87,168 words

Social Democratic America

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

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason  · 29 Jul 2015  · 378pp  · 110,518 words

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria  · 5 Oct 2020  · 289pp  · 86,165 words

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy

by Mervyn King  · 3 Mar 2016  · 464pp  · 139,088 words

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

by Kariappa Bheemaiah  · 26 Feb 2017  · 492pp  · 118,882 words

Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety

by Gideon Rachman  · 1 Feb 2011  · 391pp  · 102,301 words

The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job

by John Tamny  · 6 May 2018  · 165pp  · 47,193 words

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

by Chris Hayes  · 11 Jun 2012  · 285pp  · 86,174 words

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford  · 4 May 2015  · 484pp  · 104,873 words

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf  · 24 Nov 2015  · 524pp  · 143,993 words

The Last President of Europe: Emmanuel Macron's Race to Revive France and Save the World

by William Drozdiak  · 27 Apr 2020  · 241pp  · 75,417 words

How Asia Works

by Joe Studwell  · 1 Jul 2013  · 868pp  · 147,152 words

Money: The Unauthorized Biography

by Felix Martin  · 5 Jun 2013  · 357pp  · 110,017 words

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

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn  · 14 Jan 2020  · 307pp  · 96,543 words

Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

by Scott E. Page  · 27 Nov 2018  · 543pp  · 153,550 words

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince  · 22 Aug 2022  · 302pp  · 92,206 words

Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety

by Dalton Conley  · 27 Dec 2008  · 204pp  · 67,922 words

Growth: A Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind  · 16 Apr 2024  · 358pp  · 109,930 words

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

by James Meek  · 5 Mar 2019  · 232pp  · 76,830 words

Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life

by Kristen R. Ghodsee  · 16 May 2023  · 302pp  · 112,390 words

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg  · 14 Feb 2023  · 651pp  · 162,060 words

Do You Sincerely Want To Be Rich?

by Charles Raw, Bruce Page and Godfrey Hodgson  · 16 May 2005  · 552pp  · 169,398 words

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

by Harold James  · 15 Jan 2023  · 469pp  · 137,880 words

Flight of the WASP

by Michael Gross  · 562pp  · 177,195 words

No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

by Linsey McGoey  · 14 Apr 2015  · 324pp  · 93,606 words

Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

by Paul Krugman  · 28 Jan 2020  · 446pp  · 117,660 words

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle  · 3 May 2023  · 245pp  · 88,158 words

Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century

by Mark Walker  · 29 Nov 2015

Quit Like a Millionaire: No Gimmicks, Luck, or Trust Fund Required

by Kristy Shen and Bryce Leung  · 8 Jul 2019  · 389pp  · 81,596 words

Angrynomics

by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth  · 15 Jun 2020  · 194pp  · 56,074 words

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  · 15 May 2023  · 619pp  · 177,548 words

Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible

by William N. Goetzmann  · 11 Apr 2016  · 695pp  · 194,693 words

The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire

by Jeff Berwick and Charlie Robinson  · 14 Apr 2020  · 491pp  · 141,690 words

Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy

by Kevin Mellyn  · 18 Jun 2012  · 183pp  · 17,571 words

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

by Robert B. Reich  · 24 Mar 2020  · 154pp  · 47,880 words

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

by Ian Morris  · 11 Oct 2010  · 1,152pp  · 266,246 words

Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation

by Grace Blakeley  · 9 Sep 2019  · 263pp  · 80,594 words

Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom

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

The Economics of Inequality

by Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer  · 7 Jan 2015  · 165pp  · 45,129 words

The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival

by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan  · 8 Aug 2020  · 438pp  · 84,256 words

Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets

by John Plender  · 27 Jul 2015  · 355pp  · 92,571 words

The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge

by Faisal Islam  · 28 Aug 2013  · 475pp  · 155,554 words

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

by David Callahan  · 1 Jan 2004  · 452pp  · 110,488 words

A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income

by Guy Standing  · 3 May 2017  · 307pp  · 82,680 words

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth  · 22 Mar 2017  · 403pp  · 111,119 words

Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil

by Alex Cuadros  · 1 Jun 2016  · 433pp  · 125,031 words

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

Imagining India

by Nandan Nilekani  · 25 Nov 2008  · 777pp  · 186,993 words

A People's History of the United States

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

An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

by Marc Levinson  · 31 Jul 2016  · 409pp  · 118,448 words

Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World

by Adam Tooze  · 31 Jul 2018  · 1,066pp  · 273,703 words

The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing

by Taylor Larimore, Michael Leboeuf and Mel Lindauer  · 1 Jan 2006  · 335pp  · 94,657 words

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

by Andro Linklater  · 12 Nov 2013  · 603pp  · 182,826 words

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin  · 31 Aug 2014  · 362pp  · 83,464 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 Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality

by Branko Milanovic  · 15 Dec 2010  · 251pp  · 69,245 words

Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and William Greider  · 9 Jan 2009  · 278pp  · 82,069 words

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

by Robert B. Reich  · 21 Sep 2010  · 147pp  · 45,890 words

The Limits of the Market: The Pendulum Between Government and Market

by Paul de Grauwe and Anna Asbury  · 12 Mar 2017

The Making of a World City: London 1991 to 2021

by Greg Clark  · 31 Dec 2014

The Inequality Puzzle: European and US Leaders Discuss Rising Income Inequality

by Roland Berger, David Grusky, Tobias Raffel, Geoffrey Samuels and Chris Wimer  · 29 Oct 2010  · 237pp  · 72,716 words

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

by David Edgerton  · 27 Jun 2018

Give People Money

by Annie Lowrey  · 10 Jul 2018  · 242pp  · 73,728 words

How Will Capitalism End?

by Wolfgang Streeck  · 8 Nov 2016  · 424pp  · 115,035 words

Big Debt Crises

by Ray Dalio  · 9 Sep 2018  · 782pp  · 187,875 words

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 28 Jan 2020  · 408pp  · 108,985 words

European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right

by Philippe Legrain  · 22 Apr 2014  · 497pp  · 150,205 words

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

by Philip Coggan  · 6 Feb 2020  · 524pp  · 155,947 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

Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment

by Lucas Chancel  · 15 Jan 2020  · 191pp  · 51,242 words

An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000

by John Steele Gordon  · 12 Oct 2009  · 519pp  · 148,131 words

Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society

by Will Hutton  · 30 Sep 2010  · 543pp  · 147,357 words

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper  · 20 Nov 2018  · 417pp  · 97,577 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

Economic Dignity

by Gene Sperling  · 14 Sep 2020  · 667pp  · 149,811 words

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

by Matthew C. Klein  · 18 May 2020  · 339pp  · 95,270 words

The Scandal of Money

by George Gilder  · 23 Feb 2016  · 209pp  · 53,236 words

Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire

by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson  · 15 Jan 2019  · 502pp  · 128,126 words

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 12 Nov 2019  · 470pp  · 148,730 words

Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals

by Oliver Bullough  · 10 Mar 2022  · 257pp  · 80,698 words

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist

by Alex Zevin  · 12 Nov 2019  · 767pp  · 208,933 words

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

by Alec MacGillis  · 16 Mar 2021  · 426pp  · 136,925 words

American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

by Casey Michel  · 23 Nov 2021  · 466pp  · 116,165 words

Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care About Inequality

by Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell  · 23 May 2023

The Transformation Of Ireland 1900-2000

by Diarmaid Ferriter  · 15 Jul 2009

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age

by Roger Bootle  · 4 Sep 2019  · 374pp  · 111,284 words

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

by J. Bradford Delong  · 6 Apr 2020  · 593pp  · 183,240 words

Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream

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

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

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

Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai  · 25 Jul 2025

Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America

by Garrett Neiman  · 19 Jun 2023  · 386pp  · 112,064 words

Dirty Secrets How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy

by Richard Murphy  · 14 Sep 2017  · 241pp  · 63,981 words

The Joy of Tax

by Richard Murphy  · 30 Sep 2015  · 233pp  · 71,775 words

The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

by Gabriel Zucman, Teresa Lavender Fagan and Thomas Piketty  · 21 Sep 2015  · 121pp  · 34,193 words

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

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

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America

by David Callahan  · 9 Aug 2010

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen  · 14 Sep 2020  · 486pp  · 150,849 words

Endless Money: The Moral Hazards of Socialism

by William Baker and Addison Wiggin  · 2 Nov 2009  · 444pp  · 151,136 words

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty  · 10 Mar 2014  · 935pp  · 267,358 words

The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 15 Mar 2015  · 409pp  · 125,611 words

The Meritocracy Myth

by Stephen J. McNamee  · 17 Jul 2013  · 440pp  · 108,137 words

Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality

by Vito Tanzi  · 28 Dec 2017

The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State

by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg  · 3 Feb 1997  · 582pp  · 160,693 words

A Fine Mess

by T. R. Reid  · 13 Mar 2017  · 363pp  · 92,422 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

The Trouble With Billionaires

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

Be Your Own Financial Adviser: The Comprehensive Guide to Wealth and Financial Planning

by Jonquil Lowe  · 14 Jul 2010  · 433pp  · 53,078 words

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality From the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

by Walter Scheidel  · 17 Jan 2017  · 775pp  · 208,604 words

Why We Can't Afford the Rich

by Andrew Sayer  · 6 Nov 2014  · 504pp  · 143,303 words

Capital Without Borders

by Brooke Harrington  · 11 Sep 2016  · 358pp  · 104,664 words

The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy

by Thomas Stanley and William Danko  · 15 Nov 2010  · 273pp  · 78,850 words

Inequality and the 1%

by Danny Dorling  · 6 Oct 2014  · 317pp  · 71,776 words

The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All

by Martin Sandbu  · 15 Jun 2020  · 322pp  · 84,580 words

Finance and the Good Society

by Robert J. Shiller  · 1 Jan 2012  · 288pp  · 16,556 words

Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us

by John Hills  · 6 Nov 2014  · 352pp  · 107,280 words

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole  · 1 May 2019  · 505pp  · 133,661 words

The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions

by Victor Haghani and James White  · 27 Aug 2023  · 314pp  · 122,534 words

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

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

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

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire

by Tim Schwab  · 13 Nov 2023  · 618pp  · 179,407 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

Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth

by Ingrid Robeyns  · 16 Jan 2024  · 327pp  · 110,234 words

Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World

by Branko Milanovic  · 23 Sep 2019