Economics and Finance

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson

The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

Bernard E. Harcourt

Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations

Brandon L. Garrett

Bailout Nation, with New Post-Crisis Update: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy

Barry Ritholtz, Bill Fleckenstein, and Aaron Task

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

Michael J. Sandel

Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy

ROBERT NEUWIRTH

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

Charles Eisenstein

Back to Full Employment (Boston Review Books)

Robert Pollin

Socialism After Hayek

Theodore A. Burczak (Author)

John Maynard Keynes

Hyman Minsky

Can "It" Happen Again

Hyman P. Minsky

Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy

Dean Baker and Thomas Frank

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

Thomas Frank

Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Marjorie Kelly and David C Korten

The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business As a Force for Good

Ryan Honeyman

False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy

Dean Baker

Our Common Wealth: The Hidden Economy That Makes Everything Else Work

Jonathan Rowe

Beggar Thy Neighbor: A History of Usury and Debt

Charles R. Geisst

The Great Crash 1929

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money

Steven Drobny, Nouriel Roubini, and Jared Diamond

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm

A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

Stephen Mihm

Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality

Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth PhD

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

Judith Stein

The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street

John R. Talbott

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

Steven Greenhouse

Putting Poor People to Work: How the Work-First Idea Eroded College Access for the Poor

Sara Goldrick-Rab, Christopher Mazzeo, and Jerry A. Jacobs

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters

Diane Coyle

The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and what to Do about it

Robert J. Shiller

Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink

Louis Hyman

Borrow: The American Way of Debt (Vintage Original)

Louis Hyman

The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy

Michael Lewis and Patrick Conaty

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Michael Lewis

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

Michael Lewis

The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization

Kevin Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski

Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era

Michael W. Klein and Jay C. Shambaugh

The Localization Reader: Adapting to the Coming Downshift

Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen

Austerity: The Great Failure

Florian Schui (Author)

Localist Movements in a Global Economy: Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States

David J. Hess

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

Chrystia Freeland

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

Martin Jacques

The Zero-Sum Society: Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change

Lester C. Thurow

Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy

Rhonda Phillips (Author) and Ed Antczak (Author)

The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans

Beth Shulman

Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World

William D. Cohan

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman

Irrational Exuberance

Robert J. Shiller

Sleepwalking Into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

Christopher Wickham

The Org: The Underlying Logic of the Office

Ray Fisman

Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics and the Transformation of American Punishment

Hadar Aviram

Governing by Debt

Maurizio Lazzarato

Understanding Global Crises: An Emerging Paradigm

Assaf Razin

The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History

Gregory Zuckerman

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

Daniel Yergin

Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism

David McNally

For Love or Money

Melissa Gira Grant and Sarah Jaffe

Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic: How Microlending Lost Its Way and Betrayed the Poor

Hugh Sinclair

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

Steve Coll

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Jeremy Rifkin

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View

Ellen Meiksins Wood

Exorbitant Privilege:The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System

Barry Eichengreen

The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848

Niall Ferguson

In Pursuit of Justice: Just Us! Coffee Roasters Co-Op and the Fair Trade Movement

Stacey Byrne and Errol Sharpe

When Money Was In Fashion: Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs, and the Founding of Wall Street

June Breton Fisher

Selected Works of Joseph E. Stiglitz: Volume II: Information and Economic Analysis: Applications to Capital, Labor, and Product Markets

Joseph E. Stiglitz (Author)

Wildcat Currency: How the Virtual Money Revolution Is Transforming the Economy

Edward Castronova

Islamic Finance: Issues in Sukuk and Proposals for Reform

Mohammad Hashim Kamali and A. K. Abdullah

The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap

Matt Taibbi (Author)

The Nature of Business: Redesign for Resilience

Giles Hutchins

The Price of Fish: A New Approach to Wicked Economics and Better Decisions

Michael Mainelli and Ian Harris

Creating Wealth: Growing Local Economies with Local Currencies

Gwendolyn Hallsmith and Bernard Lietaer

Small is Possible: Life in a Local Economy

Lyle Estill

The Art of Social Enterprise: Business as if People Mattered

Carl Frankel and Allen Bromberger

Nononsense the Money Crisis: How Bankers Have Grabbed Our Money - and How We Can Get It Back

Peter Stalker

Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception

George A. Akerlof, Robert J. Shiller, and Stanley B Resor Professor of Economics Robert J Shiller

Informal Market Worlds: Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure

Helge Mooshammer, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, and Peter Mörtenböeck

Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It

Jeffrey D. Clements and Bill Moyers

Building Co-Operative Power: Stories and Strategies from Worker Cooperatives in the Connecticut River Valley

Janelle Cornwell, Michael Johnson, and Adam Trott

The Globalization of Inequality

François Bourguignon

The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives

Sasha Abramsky (Author)

$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer

The Local Economy Solution: Innovative Solutions for Maximizing Social Capital and Local Meta-business Creation

Michael Shuman

Looting Greece: A New Financial Imperialism Emerges

Jack Rasmus

Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis

Thomas Piketty

Crisis in the Eurozone

Stathis Kouvelakis (introduction) and Costas Lapavitsas

Understanding Class

Erik Olin Wright

A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929-1939

Charles R. Morris

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

Joyce Appleby

Noise: Living and Trading in Electronic Finance

Alex Preda

The Politics of Value: Three Movements to Change How We Think about the Economy

Jane L. Collins

Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History

Alexis Stenfors

Wall Street's Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014

Laurence H. Shoup

Philanthro-capitalism: how the rich can save the world

Matthew Bishop and Michael F. Green

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

Mehrsa Baradaran (Author)

The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System: Being also a theory of crises

Henryk Grossman

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