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Crisis of capitalism reading list
1.
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by:
Nick Srnicek
3.98 avg rating β 2,513 ratings
2.
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash
by:
Alexander Clapp
4.26 avg rating β 640 ratings
3.
Green Capital: A New Perspective on Growth
by:
Christian de Perthuis
3.80 avg rating β 10 ratings
4.
Fascism: A Warning
by:
Madeleine K. Albright
4.25 avg rating β 20,519 ratings
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
by:
Mark Fisher
4.21 avg rating β 37,069 ratings
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Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
by:
Mark Blyth
4.09 avg rating β 1,976 ratings
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Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Worksβand How It Fails
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.13 avg rating β 20,011 ratings
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Empire Falls
by:
Richard Russo
3.94 avg rating β 124,816 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating β 209 ratings
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
by:
Richard Heinberg
3.97 avg rating β 916 ratings
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Aid State: Elite Panic, Disaster Capitalism, and the Battle to Control Haiti
by:
Jake Johnston
4.14 avg rating β 209 ratings
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This Machine Kills Secrets: How Wikileakers, Hacktivists, and Cipherpunks Are Freeing the World's Information
by:
Andy Greenberg
4.01 avg rating β 1,188 ratings
12.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by:
Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating β 90,005 ratings
14.
The Great Acceleration: How the World is Getting Faster, Faster
by:
Robert Colvile
3.56 avg rating β 162 ratings
15.
The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by:
Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating β 5,134 ratings
16.
The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
by:
Richard Heinberg
4.03 avg rating β 749 ratings
17.
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by:
Martin Ford
3.96 avg rating β 9,473 ratings
18.
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by:
Branko MilanoviΔ
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,092 ratings
18.
The Closing of the Net
by:
Monica Horten
3.89 avg rating β 9 ratings
20.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by:
Kate Raworth
4.17 avg rating β 15,077 ratings
21.
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by:
Philip Mirowski
4.15 avg rating β 291 ratings
21.
No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs
by:
Naomi Klein
3.89 avg rating β 32,436 ratings
23.
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
by:
Byung-Chul Han
4.08 avg rating β 6,183 ratings
23.
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by:
David Harvey
4.13 avg rating β 7,148 ratings
25.
The Price of Thirst: Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos
by:
Karen Piper
3.83 avg rating β 156 ratings
26.
How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System
by:
Wolfgang Streeck
3.89 avg rating β 728 ratings
26.
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
by:
Mark Fisher
3.99 avg rating β 5,376 ratings
28.
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
by:
David Harvey
4.08 avg rating β 1,169 ratings
28.
Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses
by:
Louis Althusser
4.14 avg rating β 1,681 ratings
28.
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
by:
Noam Chomsky
3.87 avg rating β 1,135 ratings
31.
Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
by:
Antony Loewenstein
3.75 avg rating β 311 ratings
31.
Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism
by:
Benjamin Noys
3.45 avg rating β 308 ratings
31.
Reading Capital
by:
Louis Althusser
3.91 avg rating β 968 ratings
34.
Ruling the Void: The Hollowing of Western Democracy
by:
Peter Mair
3.92 avg rating β 475 ratings
34.
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trumpβs Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by:
Naomi Klein
4.10 avg rating β 10,394 ratings
34.
Critical Theory: Selected Essays
by:
Max Horkheimer
3.98 avg rating β 260 ratings
34.
Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments
by:
Max Horkheimer
4.11 avg rating β 8,007 ratings
34.
The Culture Industry
by:
Theodor W. Adorno
4.05 avg rating β 5,726 ratings
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Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
by:
Greta R. Krippner
4.33 avg rating β 160 ratings
40.
The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
by:
Lisa Duggan
4.04 avg rating β 368 ratings
41.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,264 ratings
42.
How to Rig an Election
by:
Nic Cheeseman
3.94 avg rating β 315 ratings
43.
A Crisis Wasted: Barack Obama's Defining Decisions
by:
Reed Hundt
3.67 avg rating β 145 ratings
44.
Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future
by:
Paul Mason
3.76 avg rating β 3,881 ratings
44.
The New Roberts Court, Donald Trump, and Our Failing Constitution
by:
Stephen M. Feldman
3.82 avg rating β 17 ratings
44.
Freedom City
by:
Philip Becnel
4.07 avg rating β 30 ratings
44.
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating β 225 ratings
44.
Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
by:
Heather Marsh
4.39 avg rating β 132 ratings
44.
Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
by:
Lisa Duggan
3.69 avg rating β 337 ratings
44.
The Creation of Me, Them and Us
by:
Heather Marsh
4.55 avg rating β 42 ratings
44.
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism
by:
Ellen Meiksins Wood
4.30 avg rating β 284 ratings
44.
TWAS The Year 2020
by:
Karl Wiggins
3.85 avg rating β 34 ratings
44.
Eleven
by:
Paul Hanley
4.29 avg rating β 49 ratings
44.
Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
by:
Sarah Jaffe
3.95 avg rating β 5,176 ratings
44.
Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
by:
Nancy Fraser
4.04 avg rating β 158 ratings
44.
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
by:
Vladimir Lenin
4.26 avg rating β 9,469 ratings
44.
Foreign Agents: How American Lobbyists and Lawmakers Threaten Democracy Around the World
by:
Casey Michel
4.12 avg rating β 288 ratings
44.
The End of Normal: The Great Crisis and the Future of Growth
by:
James K. Galbraith
3.95 avg rating β 238 ratings
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The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer
by:
John C. Mutter
3.87 avg rating β 45 ratings
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The End of Growth Update: Europe & America Stumble, China Hits the Wall
by:
Richard Heinberg
4.09 avg rating β 46 ratings
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Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale
by:
Heather Marsh
4.39 avg rating β 132 ratings
59.
Understanding Class
by:
Erik Olin Wright
4.18 avg rating β 95 ratings
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Critique of Forms of Life
by:
Rahel Jaeggi
4.12 avg rating β 51 ratings
59.
The Apprentice's Sorcerer: Liberal Tradition and Fascism
by:
Ishay Landa
4.54 avg rating β 121 ratings
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Justice Is Coming: How Progressives Are Going to Take Over the Country and America Is Going to Love It
by:
Cenk Uygur
4.25 avg rating β 417 ratings
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Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis
by:
James K. Galbraith
3.82 avg rating β 62 ratings
67.
Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
by:
Edward L. Glaeser
4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings
67.
The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by:
Susan Faludi
3.83 avg rating β 871 ratings
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Capitalism: With a New Postscript on the Financial Crisis and Its Aftermath
by:
Geoffrey Ingham
3.91 avg rating β 35 ratings
67.
Oil: Politics, Poverty and the Planet
by:
Toby Shelley
3.58 avg rating β 24 ratings
67.
Alienation (New Directions in Critical Theory, 4)
by:
Rahel Jaeggi
3.94 avg rating β 111 ratings
67.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
by:
Michael Parenti
4.40 avg rating β 8,495 ratings
67.
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
by:
Kevin Phillips
3.73 avg rating β 1,037 ratings
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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
4.18 avg rating β 2,092 ratings
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Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines
by:
Richard Heinberg
3.88 avg rating β 377 ratings
74.
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
by:
Susan Faludi
4.04 avg rating β 9,234 ratings
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Capitalism: A Ghost Story
by:
Arundhati Roy
3.94 avg rating β 2,964 ratings
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Warlord Politics And African States
by:
William Reno
3.64 avg rating β 47 ratings
74.
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
by:
Michael Parenti
4.53 avg rating β 805 ratings
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One World Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism
by:
William Greider
4.10 avg rating β 154 ratings
81.
Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System
by:
Barry Eichengreen
3.89 avg rating β 703 ratings
81.
Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
by:
George Monbiot
4.07 avg rating β 1,963 ratings
81.
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United
by:
Zephyr Teachout
3.86 avg rating β 549 ratings
81.
Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by:
Angela Nagle
3.45 avg rating β 6,560 ratings
81.
Democracy Kills
by:
Humphrey Hawksley
3.83 avg rating β 98 ratings
81.
The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy
by:
William Greider
3.76 avg rating β 136 ratings
87.
Keynes: The Return of the Master
by:
Robert Skidelsky
3.78 avg rating β 1,068 ratings
87.
The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse
by:
Richard Heinberg
3.57 avg rating β 30 ratings
87.
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
by:
Sheldon S. Wolin
4.17 avg rating β 962 ratings
87.
Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalismβs Stealth Revolution (Near Future Series)
by:
Wendy Brown
4.24 avg rating β 883 ratings
87.
This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
by:
Extinction Rebellion
3.96 avg rating β 3,098 ratings
87.
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
by:
Bernie Sanders
4.10 avg rating β 6,793 ratings
93.
Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects
by:
Dmitry Orlov
3.98 avg rating β 597 ratings
93.
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
by:
Wendy Brown
4.23 avg rating β 295 ratings
93.
Ill Fares the Land
by:
Tony Judt
4.01 avg rating β 4,247 ratings
93.
Country Capitalism: How Corporations from the American South Remade Our Economy and the Planet
by:
Bartow J. Elmore
3.73 avg rating β 11 ratings
97.
The People's Republic of Chemicals
by:
William J. Kelly
4.09 avg rating β 56 ratings
97.
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
by:
Wendy Brown
4.21 avg rating β 220 ratings
97.
The End of Economics?: Ethics and the Disorder of Progress
by:
Cristovam Buarque
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 5 ratings
97.
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
by:
Yanis Varoufakis
4.03 avg rating β 6,353 ratings
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