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1.
The Long Twentieth Century
by:
Giovanni Arrighi
4.24 avg rating β 774 ratings
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Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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David Graeber
4.21 avg rating β 25,633 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
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Fernand Braudel
4.35 avg rating β 1,711 ratings
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by:
Mehrsa Baradaran
4.47 avg rating β 2,300 ratings
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
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Edward E. Baptist
4.45 avg rating β 5,509 ratings
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Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking Democratic
by:
Christopher W. Shaw
3.77 avg rating β 13 ratings
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After Redlining: The Urban Reinvestment Movement in the Era of Financial Deregulation
by:
Rebecca K. Marchiel
4.75 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
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Robert William Fogel
3.38 avg rating β 250 ratings
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Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
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Kristen R. Ghodsee
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7,038 ratings
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Slavery And American Economic Development
by:
Gavin Wright
4.06 avg rating β 35 ratings
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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
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Paul Krugman
3.86 avg rating β 2,465 ratings
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Capitalism & Slavery
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Eric Williams
4.23 avg rating β 1,593 ratings
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Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power
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Gene Dattel
4.13 avg rating β 61 ratings
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
by:
Sven Beckert
4.08 avg rating β 348 ratings
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
by:
Michael K. Honey
4.08 avg rating β 131 ratings
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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Sven Beckert
3.89 avg rating β 3,595 ratings
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Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South
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Charles A. Beard
3.67 avg rating β 15 ratings
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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
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Katharina Pistor
4.03 avg rating β 915 ratings
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Economics In Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide To A Political World
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Robert B. Reich
3.75 avg rating β 150 ratings
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism
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David Harvey
4.13 avg rating β 7,148 ratings
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A Little History of Economics
by:
Niall Kishtainy
4.09 avg rating β 5,612 ratings
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
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Ellen Meiksins Wood
4.17 avg rating β 2,623 ratings
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Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
by:
Clair Brown
3.53 avg rating β 206 ratings
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In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution
by:
Geoff Mann
4.28 avg rating β 158 ratings
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Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?: A Story of Women and Economics
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Katrine Kielos
3.67 avg rating β 3,788 ratings
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Money: The Unauthorised Biography
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Felix Martin
3.83 avg rating β 1,187 ratings
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The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art
by:
Don Thompson
3.86 avg rating β 279 ratings
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Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism
by:
Christine Desan
4.23 avg rating β 53 ratings
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The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa's Economic Miracle
by:
Ashish J. Thakkar
3.90 avg rating β 84 ratings
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
by:
Ernst F. Schumacher
4.09 avg rating β 6,888 ratings
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John Maynard Keynes
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Hyman P. Minsky
4.20 avg rating β 167 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
by:
Paul Kennedy
4.14 avg rating β 6,199 ratings
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
by:
Zachary D. Carter
4.43 avg rating β 3,207 ratings
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Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
by:
TomΓ‘Ε‘ SedlΓ‘Δek
3.86 avg rating β 1,760 ratings
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New Ideas from Dead Economists: An Introduction to Modern Economic Thought
by:
Todd G. Buchholz
3.84 avg rating β 2,369 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3: The Perspective of the World
by:
Fernand Braudel
4.42 avg rating β 478 ratings
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Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture
by:
Megan J. Elias
3.77 avg rating β 26 ratings
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Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
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Philip S. Foner
4.48 avg rating β 60 ratings
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Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
by:
Stephen Wendel
4.09 avg rating β 408 ratings
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How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by:
Mehrsa Baradaran
4.10 avg rating β 614 ratings
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Cartoon Introduction to Economics, Volume I: Microeconomics
by:
Yoram Bauman
4.15 avg rating β 1,149 ratings
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Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
by:
Fernand Braudel
4.46 avg rating β 578 ratings
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Stone Age Economics
by:
Marshall Sahlins
3.93 avg rating β 509 ratings
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The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America (Galaxy Books)
by:
Lawrence Goodwyn
3.80 avg rating β 332 ratings
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Economics: The User's Guide
by:
Ha-Joon Chang
4.16 avg rating β 8,277 ratings
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The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire
by:
Leo Panitch
4.21 avg rating β 373 ratings
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Environmental Debt: The Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy
by:
Amy Larkin
3.80 avg rating β 61 ratings
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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace
by:
Matthew C. Klein
4.15 avg rating β 1,841 ratings
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Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition
by:
Charles Eisenstein
4.22 avg rating β 1,844 ratings
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Money and Government: Unsettled Issues in Macroeconomics
by:
Robert Skidelsky
4.20 avg rating β 249 ratings
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The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade. New Preface and Epilogue with Updates on Economic Issues and Main Characters
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Pietra Rivoli
3.69 avg rating β 2,924 ratings
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The Improbable Wendell Willkie: The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order
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David Levering Lewis
3.67 avg rating β 157 ratings
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Capital in the Twenty First Century
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Thomas Piketty
4.06 avg rating β 33,860 ratings
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The Takeover: Chicken Farming and the Roots of American Agribusiness
by:
Monica R. Gisolfi
3.70 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business
by:
Jessica Berson
4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World
by:
Adam Tooze
4.28 avg rating β 4,042 ratings
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Who Really Feeds the World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology
by:
Vandana Shiva
3.93 avg rating β 419 ratings
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
by:
Charles P. Kindleberger
3.93 avg rating β 4,272 ratings
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The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
by:
Pamela Haag
3.35 avg rating β 319 ratings
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Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by:
Claire Priest
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings
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Backstory: Inside the Business of News
by:
Ken Auletta
3.50 avg rating β 74 ratings
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The Business of Slavery and the Rise of American Capitalism, 1815-1860
by:
Calvin Schermerhorn
4.16 avg rating β 19 ratings
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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
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Thomas Frank
3.84 avg rating β 773 ratings
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
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Cedric J. Robinson
4.39 avg rating β 1,488 ratings
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Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
by:
Marc Levinson
3.93 avg rating β 585 ratings
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A Legal History of Money in the United States, 1774 - 1970
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James Willard Hurst
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire
by:
Herman J. Russell
4.23 avg rating β 75 ratings
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The Age of Capital, 1848β1875
by:
Eric J. Hobsbawm
4.26 avg rating β 4,469 ratings
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Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America
by:
Brian P Luskey
3.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States
by:
Jonathan Levy
4.27 avg rating β 380 ratings
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The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901
by:
Heather Cox Richardson
3.86 avg rating β 103 ratings
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American Taxation, American Slavery
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Robin L. Einhorn
4.18 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America
by:
Joe William Trotter Jr.
4.24 avg rating β 38 ratings
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Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics
by:
Oliver Cromwell Cox
4.38 avg rating β 32 ratings
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Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor
by:
Steven Greenhouse
4.18 avg rating β 786 ratings
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by:
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.26 avg rating β 1,258 ratings
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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
by:
Michael K. Honey
4.08 avg rating β 38 ratings
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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
by:
Karl Polanyi
4.20 avg rating β 5,134 ratings
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Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor
by:
Tom Juravich
4.16 avg rating β 100 ratings
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Reform, Labor, and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League
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Elizabeth Anne Payne
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century (Culture, Labor, History, 6)
by:
Andrew Urban
3.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South
by:
Bruce E. Baker
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings
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The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
by:
Jessica Yirush Stern
3.67 avg rating β 9 ratings
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The Unemployed People's Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941
by:
James J. Lorence
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present
by:
Jacqueline A. Jones
4.18 avg rating β 281 ratings
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Labor Versus Empire
by:
Gilbert G. GonzΓ‘lez
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Last Great Strike: Little Steel, the CIO, and the Struggle for Labor Rights in New Deal America
by:
Ahmed White
4.21 avg rating β 28 ratings
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Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South (Haymarket Series)
by:
Alex Lichtenstein
3.85 avg rating β 33 ratings
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Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba: The Biography of a Cause
by:
Tom Gjelten
4.08 avg rating β 1,340 ratings
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
by:
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
4.26 avg rating β 1,258 ratings
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The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World
by:
Sally Denton
3.66 avg rating β 549 ratings
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating β 109,975 ratings
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Profits and Politics in Paradise: The Development of Hilton Head Island
by:
Michael N. Danielson
3.89 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Blood Profits: How American Consumers Unwittingly Fund Terrorists
by:
Vanessa Neumann
3.88 avg rating β 25 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by:
Shoshana Zuboff
4.06 avg rating β 12,766 ratings
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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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Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
by:
Larry Gonick
4.30 avg rating β 400 ratings
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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
by:
Raj Patel
3.83 avg rating β 1,557 ratings
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The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in 17th Century North America and the Caribbean
by:
Gerald Horne
4.28 avg rating β 176 ratings
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The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500β2000
by:
John Tutino
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings
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