Corruption, Plutocracy, Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, Corporatocracy — Solutions: Reasoning & Alternatives
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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Timothy Snyder
4.27 avg rating — 89,981 ratings 2. 
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition 4.22 avg rating — 1,844 ratings
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No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
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Naomi Klein
4.10 avg rating — 10,394 ratings 4. 
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
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Jane Mayer
4.31 avg rating — 26,733 ratings 5. 
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Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
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Bill McKibben
4.06 avg rating — 3,994 ratings 7. 
Optimism over Despair: On Capitalism, Empire, and Social Change
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Noam Chomsky
3.71 avg rating — 1,940 ratings 
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Thrivability: Breaking through to a World that Works
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Jean M. Russell
4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings 10. 
A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
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Jimmy Carter
4.04 avg rating — 2,220 ratings 11. 
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Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth
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David C. Korten
3.93 avg rating — 234 ratings 14. 
Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth
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David C. Korten
4.03 avg rating — 132 ratings 14. 
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
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Gar Alperovitz
3.77 avg rating — 237 ratings 16. 
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating A Caring Economics
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Riane Eisler
4.09 avg rating — 226 ratings 17. 
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
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George Lakoff
3.97 avg rating — 6,982 ratings 18. 
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
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Herman E. Daly
4.17 avg rating — 168 ratings 19. 
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
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Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 6,948 ratings 20. 
Nation on the Take: How Big Money Corrupts Our Democracy and What We Can Do About It
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Wendell Potter
3.99 avg rating — 124 ratings 
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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Joshua D. Greene
4.02 avg rating — 3,255 ratings 24. 
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating — 73,876 ratings 27. 
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back
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Douglas Rushkoff
3.94 avg rating — 1,194 ratings 29. 
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating — 29,271 ratings 
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The Power of Partnership: Seven Relationships that Will Change Your Life
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Riane Eisler
4.15 avg rating — 121 ratings 33. 
The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living
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Fritjof Capra
3.98 avg rating — 725 ratings 34. 
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating — 844,302 ratings 35. 
Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
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Robert B. Reich
4.07 avg rating — 2,130 ratings 36. 
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Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) 4.05 avg rating — 11,577 ratings
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What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
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Gar Alperovitz
3.91 avg rating — 304 ratings 39. 
Engaging Resistance: How Ordinary People Successfully Champion Change
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Aaron Anderson
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,461 ratings
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
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Angela Y. Davis
4.44 avg rating — 33,950 ratings 43. 
Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair, and Sustainable
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Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.90 avg rating — 418 ratings 44. 
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
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Grace Lee Boggs
4.34 avg rating — 1,177 ratings 
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The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
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Jared Diamond
3.78 avg rating — 10,885 ratings 47. 
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
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Van Jones
3.70 avg rating — 865 ratings 
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The China-America Alliance: East Asian and American Cultural Values Promote Global Harmony
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Jack C. Westman
4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings 50. 
This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
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Elizabeth Warren
4.19 avg rating — 4,903 ratings 51. 
The Art of the Impossible: Politics as Morality in Practice
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Václav Havel
4.30 avg rating — 109 ratings 52. 
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
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Graham Allison
4.20 avg rating — 7,032 ratings 53. 
The Speech: A Historic Filibuster on Corporate Greed and the Decline of Our Middle Class
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Bernie Sanders
4.20 avg rating — 898 ratings 54. 
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
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Malcolm Gladwell
3.97 avg rating — 189,415 ratings 
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The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture
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Fritjof Capra
4.11 avg rating — 1,479 ratings 
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Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
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Sheldon S. Wolin
4.17 avg rating — 962 ratings 57. 
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society & Redefine Democracy
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Raj Patel
3.76 avg rating — 1,729 ratings 
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves 4.15 avg rating — 41,838 ratings
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Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society
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Peter M. Senge
4.07 avg rating — 1,631 ratings 65. 
Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation
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Mary Daly
3.93 avg rating — 866 ratings 67. 
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by:
Jeremy Rifkin
3.92 avg rating — 2,056 ratings 68. 
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
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Max H. Bazerman
3.67 avg rating — 580 ratings 69. 
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
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Bruce Schneier
3.78 avg rating — 1,461 ratings 70. 
Lesterland: The Corruption of Congress and How to End It
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Lawrence Lessig
4.11 avg rating — 194 ratings 72. 
The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
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Fritjof Capra
4.18 avg rating — 1,910 ratings 
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The Local Economy Solution: How Innovative, Self-Financing Pollinator Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity 4.07 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
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Rutger Bregman
4.21 avg rating — 41,581 ratings 77. 
The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community
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Fritjof Capra
3.92 avg rating — 104 ratings 78. 
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies
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Noam Chomsky
4.13 avg rating — 1,542 ratings 
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Reversing the Apocalypse: Hijacking the Democratic Party to Save the World
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Krystal Ball
4.26 avg rating — 42 ratings 82. 
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
by:
David Graeber
4.09 avg rating — 1,725 ratings 82. 
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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Elinor Ostrom
4.21 avg rating — 1,200 ratings 82. 
Threshold: The Progressive Plan to Pull America Back from the Brink
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Thom Hartmann
4.02 avg rating — 178 ratings 85. 
Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development
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Herman E. Daly
4.14 avg rating — 254 ratings 
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
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Richard Heinberg
3.97 avg rating — 916 ratings 92. 
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Predictable Surprises: The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming, and How to Prevent Them
by:
Max H. Bazerman
3.52 avg rating — 83 ratings 95. 
You're More Powerful than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen
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Eric Liu
3.85 avg rating — 416 ratings 96. 
Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
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Becky Bond
3.84 avg rating — 750 ratings 
