Heterodox Economics Book Club

1.
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Debt: The First 5,000 Years 4.21 avg rating β€” 25,629 ratings
2.
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating β€” 23,215 ratings
3.
Foundations of Economics: A beginner's companion
Foundations of Economics: A beginner's companion 4.28 avg rating β€” 142 ratings
4.
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises 4.53 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
5.
Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
Debunking Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned? 4.05 avg rating β€” 807 ratings
6.
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor 4.20 avg rating β€” 619 ratings
7.
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism 3.96 avg rating β€” 12,349 ratings
8.
Capital in the Twenty First Century
Capital in the Twenty First Century 4.06 avg rating β€” 33,859 ratings
9.
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time 4.20 avg rating β€” 5,134 ratings
10.
The Worldly Philosophers
The Worldly Philosophers 4.16 avg rating β€” 8,759 ratings
11.
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism
The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism 4.03 avg rating β€” 158 ratings
12.
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century 4.30 avg rating β€” 854 ratings
13.
The Theory of the Leisure Class
The Theory of the Leisure Class 3.87 avg rating β€” 3,941 ratings
14.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 3.85 avg rating β€” 5,679 ratings
15.
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism 4.08 avg rating β€” 1,169 ratings
16.
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5)
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (Democracy at Work, 5) 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,677 ratings
17.
Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution (The Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics)
Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution (The Roundtable Series in Behavioral Economics) 4.31 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
18.
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics 4.10 avg rating β€” 174 ratings
19.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Thinking, Fast and Slow 4.17 avg rating β€” 564,661 ratings
20.
The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian"
The Indispensable Zinn: The Essential Writings of the "People's Historian" 4.40 avg rating β€” 83 ratings
21.
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics 4.16 avg rating β€” 23,024 ratings
22.
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology 3.85 avg rating β€” 116 ratings
23.
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises 3.93 avg rating β€” 4,272 ratings
24.
The Affluent Society
The Affluent Society really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3,046 ratings
25.
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance 4.13 avg rating β€” 719 ratings
26.
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities 3.97 avg rating β€” 490 ratings
27.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β€” 189,289 ratings
28.
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
by: Karl Marx
4.28 avg rating β€” 1,923 ratings
29.
The State and Revolution
The State and Revolution 4.25 avg rating β€” 17,447 ratings
29.
J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception
J Is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception 4.26 avg rating β€” 118 ratings
31.
Economics for the Common Good
Economics for the Common Good 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,046 ratings
32.
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
by: Karl Marx
4.05 avg rating β€” 421 ratings
32.
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution 3.78 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
32.
Capital and Ideology
Capital and Ideology 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,928 ratings
35.
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire 4.21 avg rating β€” 372 ratings
35.
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Worksβ€”and How It Fails
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Worksβ€”and How It Fails 4.13 avg rating β€” 20,011 ratings
35.
Development as Freedom
Development as Freedom 4.10 avg rating β€” 7,023 ratings
38.
Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World
Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World 4.54 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
39.
Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey Through Heaven and Hell
Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey Through Heaven and Hell 3.60 avg rating β€” 52 ratings
40.
The Essential Wallerstein
The Essential Wallerstein 4.10 avg rating β€” 87 ratings
41.
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions 4.12 avg rating β€” 129,373 ratings
41.
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home 4.03 avg rating β€” 35,751 ratings
43.
History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective
History of Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective
by: E.K. Hunt
3.92 avg rating β€” 216 ratings
44.
Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics
Maynard's Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market Macroeconomics 3.69 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
45.
The Accumulation of Capital (Palgrave Classics in Economics)
The Accumulation of Capital (Palgrave Classics in Economics) 4.04 avg rating β€” 666 ratings
46.
Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities : Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory
Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities : Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory 4.08 avg rating β€” 75 ratings
47.
The Theory of Capitalist Development
The Theory of Capitalist Development 4.10 avg rating β€” 157 ratings
47.
The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy
The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World-Economy
by: Minqi Li
3.86 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
49.
The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences 3.80 avg rating β€” 164 ratings
50.
Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order 4.19 avg rating β€” 267 ratings
51.
Introduction to Political Economy
Introduction to Political Economy 3.82 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
52.
The Long Twentieth Century
The Long Twentieth Century 4.24 avg rating β€” 774 ratings
53.
Micromotives and Macrobehavior
Micromotives and Macrobehavior 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,177 ratings
54.
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First Century 4.14 avg rating β€” 307 ratings
55.
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) 4.21 avg rating β€” 1,200 ratings
55.
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline Of Leisure 3.91 avg rating β€” 419 ratings
57.
Does Capitalism Have a Future?
Does Capitalism Have a Future? 3.81 avg rating β€” 215 ratings
57.
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need
The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,048 ratings
59.
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,892 ratings
60.
Structure and Change in Economic History
Structure and Change in Economic History 4.04 avg rating β€” 198 ratings
61.
The Marx-Engels Reader
The Marx-Engels Reader
by: Karl Marx
3.98 avg rating β€” 6,941 ratings
62.
Das Kapital
Das Kapital
by: Karl Marx
4.09 avg rating β€” 23,215 ratings
63.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Theory of Moral Sentiments 4.07 avg rating β€” 4,564 ratings
63.
No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die
No One Can Escape the 4 Laws: Negotiate or Die 3.88 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
63.
Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
Talking to My Daughter about the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism 4.13 avg rating β€” 20,011 ratings
63.
In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution
In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution 4.28 avg rating β€” 158 ratings
63.
Capitalism for Democrats: Why The Country Needs It Now
Capitalism for Democrats: Why The Country Needs It Now 4.58 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
63.
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future 4.02 avg rating β€” 9,789 ratings
63.
The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies)
The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the World Economy (Economic Controversies) 4.17 avg rating β€” 2,405 ratings
70.
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers
The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers 3.69 avg rating β€” 418 ratings
70.
Economics: An Anti-Text
Economics: An Anti-Text 4.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
70.
Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century 4.08 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
73.
Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy 4.34 avg rating β€” 362 ratings
73.
Theory of Economic Dynamics
Theory of Economic Dynamics 4.02 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
75.
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: A Twentieth Century Fund Report (20th Century Fund Report)
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy: A Twentieth Century Fund Report (20th Century Fund Report) 4.17 avg rating β€” 334 ratings
76.
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy 3.99 avg rating β€” 2,893 ratings
77.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
A Brief History of Neoliberalism 4.13 avg rating β€” 7,148 ratings
78.
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism 4.02 avg rating β€” 1,483 ratings
79.
The Essential Chomsky
The Essential Chomsky 4.09 avg rating β€” 1,619 ratings
80.
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One 4.18 avg rating β€” 2,526 ratings
81.
The Limits to Capital
The Limits to Capital 4.18 avg rating β€” 700 ratings
82.
An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory 3.92 avg rating β€” 587 ratings
82.
The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession
The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession 4.19 avg rating β€” 460 ratings
84.
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves 3.93 avg rating β€” 16,725 ratings
85.
The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy
The Boom and the Bubble: The US in the World Economy 4.10 avg rating β€” 67 ratings
86.
The Economics of Global Turbulence
The Economics of Global Turbulence 4.21 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
87.
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire 3.81 avg rating β€” 891 ratings
88.
Empire
Empire 3.77 avg rating β€” 2,502 ratings
89.
Marxism: For and Against
Marxism: For and Against 3.81 avg rating β€” 133 ratings
90.
The Making of Economic Society
The Making of Economic Society 3.70 avg rating β€” 166 ratings
91.
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought
An Outline of the History of Economic Thought 3.81 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
92.
Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian
Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian 4.03 avg rating β€” 219 ratings
93.
The Economics of Imperfect Competition, 2nd Edition
The Economics of Imperfect Competition, 2nd Edition 3.94 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
94.
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism
The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism 3.89 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
95.
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism
The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Capitalism 4.38 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
96.
Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System
Revolution from Above: The Demise of the Soviet System 3.90 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
97.
The Crisis of Neoliberalism
The Crisis of Neoliberalism 3.89 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
98.
The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach
The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach 4.03 avg rating β€” 161 ratings
99.
Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy
Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy 3.66 avg rating β€” 61 ratings
100.
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation 4.25 avg rating β€” 2,279 ratings
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