Econs For Change
1. 
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,226 ratings 2. 
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,264 ratings 3. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating β 445,096 ratings 4. 
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
by:
Naomi Klein
4.29 avg rating β 51,943 ratings 
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A Modern Declaration of Independence: Crimes Against Humanity and a New System
by:
Jakub Lasak
4.48 avg rating β 25 ratings 8. 
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating β 23,744 ratings
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by:
Malcolm Gladwell
4.01 avg rating β 844,311 ratings 10. 
Beyond Outrage: What has gone wrong with our economy and our democracy, and how to fix it
by:
Robert B. Reich
4.07 avg rating β 2,130 ratings 
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A Naked View of the Trans-Pacific Partnership: An Unbiased Informational Review in Plain English
by:
Timothy Barnes
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings 13. 
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
by:
Chris Anderson
3.82 avg rating β 29,932 ratings 14. 
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
by:
Larry M. Bartels
3.91 avg rating β 445 ratings 15. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating β 114,830 ratings 16. 
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
by:
Paul Krugman
3.86 avg rating β 2,465 ratings 17. 
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century 3.69 avg rating β 102,340 ratings
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Mind Your Own Business: Survive and Thrive in Good Times and Bad
by:
Feargal Quinn
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings 
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The Big Shift: Rethinking Money, Tax, Welfare and Governance for the Next Economic System.
by:
Deirdre Kent
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings 20. 
Friendly Fascism: The New Face of Power in America
by:
Bertram M. Gross
3.96 avg rating β 225 ratings 20. 
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by:
Kate Raworth
4.17 avg rating β 15,077 ratings 20. 
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
by:
Jeffrey D. Sachs
3.69 avg rating β 11,197 ratings 
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The Eco Principle: Ecology and Economics in Symbiosis
by:
Arthur L. Dahl
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 20. 
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by:
Ray Dalio
4.27 avg rating β 15,909 ratings 20. 
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Healthy Money, Healthy Planet: Developing Sustainablilty Through New Money Systems
by:
Deirdre Kent
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings 30. 
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
by:
Rutger Bregman
4.21 avg rating β 41,581 ratings 30. 
"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by:
Annelise Orleck
3.69 avg rating β 108 ratings 
30. 
Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It 4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
35. 
Cheating Justice: How Bush and Cheney Attacked the Rule of Law and Plotted to Avoid Prosecution- and What We Can Do about It 4.04 avg rating β 25 ratings
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The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by:
Nina Munk
3.93 avg rating β 1,450 ratings 
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Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike that Changed America 4.15 avg rating β 230 ratings
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Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty 4.14 avg rating β 546 ratings
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The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism
by:
Michael Hudson
4.49 avg rating β 86 ratings 45. 
Playing God in Yellowstone: The Destruction of America's First National Park
by:
Alston Chase
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 201 ratings 45. 
The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
by:
Richard Heinberg
3.97 avg rating β 916 ratings 45. 
Poverty, Politics, and Race: The View From Down Here it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
48. 
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by:
Paul Hawken
4.40 avg rating β 4,279 ratings 
51. 
The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
by:
Earl Swift
3.90 avg rating β 1,858 ratings 
51. 
The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
by:
Andrew Yang
4.26 avg rating β 9,703 ratings 54. 
The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey in and out of Medicine
by:
Maggie Kozel
3.84 avg rating β 49 ratings 54. 
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
by:
Herman E. Daly
4.17 avg rating β 168 ratings 56. 
Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems 3.61 avg rating β 28 ratings
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Economics In Wonderland: Robert Reich's Cartoon Guide To A Political World
by:
Robert B. Reich
3.75 avg rating β 150 ratings 58. 
Changing Business from the Inside Out: A Treehugger's Guide to Working in Corporations
by:
Tim Mohin
3.83 avg rating β 47 ratings 
60. 
The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do
by:
Phillip Harris
3.71 avg rating β 28 ratings 60. 
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems 4.22 avg rating β 14,334 ratings
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Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
by:
Kelly Gallagher
4.29 avg rating β 6,103 ratings 63. 
Hypercapitalism: The Modern Economy, Its Values, and How to Change Them
by:
Larry Gonick
4.30 avg rating β 400 ratings 
65. 
We Own the Future: Democratic SocialismβAmerican Style
by:
Kate Aronoff
3.92 avg rating β 144 ratings 
68. 
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy
by:
Kevin Bales
4.22 avg rating β 1,456 ratings 68. 
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis
by:
Vandana Shiva
4.09 avg rating β 527 ratings 68. 
Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science
by:
Clair Brown
3.53 avg rating β 206 ratings 71. 
Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West
by:
Stephen Fried
4.20 avg rating β 1,162 ratings 71. 
Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications
by:
Herman E. Daly
4.17 avg rating β 183 ratings 71. 
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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Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street 3.86 avg rating β 1,760 ratings
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Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.12 avg rating β 2,642 ratings 
78. 
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions
by:
Jason Hickel
4.61 avg rating β 3,649 ratings 
80. 
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by:
Muhammad Yunus
4.12 avg rating β 10,336 ratings 80. 
The Simple Road to Riches: How to Pay Off Debt & Make a Plan to Live Your Best Life
by:
Anna Fani
3.67 avg rating β 9 ratings 82. 
Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy
by:
Alex S. Jones
3.61 avg rating β 167 ratings 82. 
I Moved Your Cheese: For Those Who Refuse to Live as Mice in Someone Else's Maze
by:
Deepak Malhotra
3.52 avg rating β 2,891 ratings 
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The Excellence Habit - How Small Changes In Our Mindset Can Make A Big Difference In Our Lives: For All Who Feel Stuck
by:
Vlad Zachary
3.52 avg rating β 198 ratings 86. 
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating β 5,081 ratings
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The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by:
Angus Deaton
3.82 avg rating β 2,418 ratings 88. 
Sacred Economics, Revised: Money, Gift & Society in the Age of Transition 4.22 avg rating β 1,844 ratings
90. 
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability
by:
Paul Hawken
4.12 avg rating β 2,350 ratings 90. 
Watchdog: How Protecting Consumers Can Save Our Families, Our Economy, and Our Democracy
by:
Richard Cordray
3.85 avg rating β 55 ratings 92. 
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
by:
David Bornstein
3.94 avg rating β 2,168 ratings 92. 
Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy
by:
Jay Inslee
3.56 avg rating β 88 ratings 94. 
Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism That Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs
by:
Muhammad Yunus
3.98 avg rating β 1,884 ratings 94. 
The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
by:
Peter Joseph
4.34 avg rating β 612 ratings 96. 
Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in a Fast-Changing World
by:
Aron Cramer
3.93 avg rating β 28 ratings 96. 
The Global Economy as Youβve Never Seen It: 99 Ingenious Infographics That Put It All Together
by:
Thomas Ramge
4.01 avg rating β 149 ratings 98. 
Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy
by:
Bill Clinton
3.69 avg rating β 3,415 ratings 98. 
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better 4.13 avg rating β 7,059 ratings
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The Economy of You: Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Recession-Proof Your Life
by:
Kimberly Palmer
3.44 avg rating β 223 ratings