BOOKS ECONOMIC CRITIQUES

  

Appelbaum, Binyamin, The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society, Little, Brown and Company, 2019

 

Aschoff, Nicole, The New Prophets of Capital (Jacobin), Verso Books, 2015

 

Barlett, Donald L., James B. Steele, America: What Went Wrong?: The Crisis Deepens, Mission Point Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Berman, Elizabeth Popp, Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, Princeton University Press,, 2022

 

Block, Fred L., Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion, University of California Press, 2018

 

Block, Fred, Margaret R. Somers, The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique, Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Buller, Adrienne, The Value of a Whale: On the Illusions of Green Capitalism, Manchester University Press, 2022

 

Burgin, Angus, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression, Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Carnes, Nicholas, White-Collar Government: The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making (Chicago Studies in American Politics), University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition, 2013

 

Case, Anne, Angus Deaton, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Princeton University Press, 2021

 

Chang, Ha-Joon, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Bloomsbury Publishing; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Chomsky, Noam Marv Waterstone, Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance, Haymarket Books, 2021

 

Christophers, Brett, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?, Verso, 2022

 

Clugston, Christopher O., Blip: Humanity's 300 year self-terminating experiment with industrialism, Booklocker.com, Inc., 2019

 

Cobham, Alex, The Uncounted, Polity, 2020

 

Cohen, Donald, Allen Mikaelian, The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back, The New Press, 2023

 

Cowie, Jefferson, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor (with a New Epilogue), The New Press, 2001

 

Davies, Richard, Extreme Economies: What Life at the Margins Can Teach Us about Our Own Future, Picador; Reprint edition, 2021

 

De Soto, Hernando, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Basic Books; Reprint edition, 2003

 

Eeckhout, Jan, The Profit Paradox: How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work, Princeton University Press (October 25, 2022

 

Einav, Liran, Amy Finkelstein, Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It, Yale University Press, 2023

 

Fletcher, Ian, Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why, 2011 Edition, Coalition for a Prosperous America, 2011

 

Fraser, Nancy, Cannibal Capitalism: How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planetand What We Can Do About It, Verso, 2023

 

Fraser, Nancy, Rahel Jaeggi, Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory,Polity, 2018

 

Foroohar, Rana, Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, Crown Business, 2016

 

Friedman, Benjamin M., The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, Vintage; Reprint edition (September 12, 2006

 

Giblin, Rebecca, Cory Doctorow, Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured creative labour markets, and how we'll win them back, Scribe UK, 2022

 

Gray, John, False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism, The New Press, 2000

 

Hacker, Jacob S., Paul Pierson, American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper, Simon & Schuster, 2016

 

Hacker, Jacob S., The American Political Economy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics), Cambridge University Press, 2021

 

Han, Byung-Chul, Daniel Steuer, Capitalism and the Death Drive, Polity, 2021

 

Hartmann, Thom, The Thom Hartmann Reader, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011

 

Harvey, Phil, Lisa Conyers, Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires' Pockets―And What You Can Do About It, Post Hill Press, 2020

 

Hill, Steven, Raw Deal: How the "Uber Economy" and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers, St. Martin's Press, 2015

 

Hudson, Michael, J IS FOR JUNK ECONOMICS: A GUIDE TO REALITY IN AN AGE OF DECEPTION, ISLET, 2017

 

Goodwin, Michael, David Bach, Economix: How and Why Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) in Words and Pictures, Harry N. Abrams; 45735th edition, 2012

 

Hyman, Louis, Edward E. Baptist, American Capitalism: A Reader, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Jansson, Bruce S., The Sixteen-Trillion-Dollar Mistake, Columbia Univ, 2001

 

Johnson, Simon and James Kwak, White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Kay, John, Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance, PublicAffairs, 2015

 

Kelly, Marjorie, Edgar Villanueva, Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023

 

Konczal, Mike, Freedom From the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand, The New Press, 2021

 

Kuttner, Robert, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

 

Lonergan, Eric, Mark Blyth, Angrynomics, Agenda Publishing, 2020

 

Macekura, Stephen J., The Mismeasure of Progress: Economic Growth and Its Critics, University of Chicago Press, 2020

 

Marx, Karl, Martin Nicolaus (Translator), Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Penguin Classics), Penguin Classics; Reprint edition, 1993

 

Mattei, Clara E., The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism, University of Chicago Press, 2022

 

Mazzucato, Mariana, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Anthem Other Canon Economics), Anthem Press, 2013

 

Mazzucato, Mariana, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy, PublicAffairs, Illustrated edition (May 12, 2020

 

Milanovic, Branko, Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2021

 

Nace, Ted, Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy, Berrett Koehler, 2005

 

Nocera, Joe, A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class, Simon & Schuster; Reissue edition, 2013

 

Oreskes, Naomi, Erik M. Conway, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023 

 

Pearlstein, Steven, Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won't Make Us Poor, St. Martin's Press, 2018

 

Pfeffer, Jeffrey, Dying for a Paycheck: How Modern Management Harms Employee Health and Company Performance—and What We Can Do About It, HarperBusiness, 2018

 

Philippon, Thomas, The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; 2021

 

Piketty, Thomas, Arthur Goldhammer, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, 2014 

 

Piketty, Thomas, Arthur Goldhammer (Translator), The Economics of Inequality, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Translation edition, 2015

 

Pontusson, Jonas, Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe Vs. Liberal America, Cornell University Press, 2005  

 

Reich, Robert B., Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Reich, Robert B., The Future of Success: Working and Living in the New Economy, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2002

 

Roberts, Michael, The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism, Haymarket Books, 2016

 

Rosenfeld, Jake, You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2021

 

Sennett, Richard, The Culture of the New Capitalism, Yale University Press, 2007

 

Shaikh, Anwar, Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Shaxson, Nicholas, Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, St. Martin's Griffin, 2012

 

Skidelsky, Robert, What’s Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed, Yale University Press, 2020

 

Slobodian, Quinn, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Metropolitan Books, 2023  

 

Slootman, Frank, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity, Wiley, 2022

 

Smith, Hedrick, Who Stole the American Dream?, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013

 

SRNICEK, Nick, Alex Williams, Inventing the Future (revised and updated edition): Postcapitalism and a World Without Work, Verso; Revised, Updated ed. Edition, 2016

 

Standing, Guy, The Corruption of Capitalism: Why rentiers thrive and work does not pay, Biteback Publishing; New edition, 2021

 

Stiglitz, Joseph E., The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Stockman, David, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2014

 

Streeck, Wolfgang, Critical Encounters: Capitalism, Democracy, Ideas, Verso; Critical edition, 2020

 

Temin, Peter, The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy (The MIT Press), The MIT Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Viscelli, Steve, The Big Rig: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream, University of California Press, 2016

 

Wade, Eric, Phil Herel, America vs. Americans: How Capitalism Has Failed a Capitalist Nation and What We Can Do About It, Forefront Books, 2024

 

Wark, McKenzie, Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse?, Verso, 2019

 

Wolff, Richard D., The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, Democracy at Work, 2020

 

Wolf, Martin, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, Penguin Press, 2023

 

Wood, Ellen Meiksins, Empire of Capital, Verso, 2005

 

Wright, Erik Olin, Joel Rogers, American Society: How It Really Works (Second Edition), W. W. Norton & Company; Second Edition, 2015

 

Zepezauer, Mark, Take the Rich off Welfare, South End Press, 2004

 

Zuboff, Shoshana, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2020



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