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Ethics and Economics An Introduction to Free Markets, Equality and Happiness
Ethics and Economics: An Introduction to Free Markets, Inequality and Happiness (2021)
Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Contro
Monopolies Suck: 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control (2020)
Book Cover: When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency (2020)
When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency (2020)
Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It
Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It (2020)
Accountable; The Rise of Citizen Capitalism
Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism (2020)
Greed Is Dead; Politics after Individualism
Greed Is Dead; Politics After Individualism (2020)
Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power
Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power (2020)
After the Gig How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back (2020)
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All (2020)
Economic Dignity by Gene Sperling
Economic Dignity (2020)
What's Wrong with Economics? A Primer for the Perplexed
What’s Wrong with Economics? A Primer for the Perplexed (2020)
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, by Rebecca Henderson
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire (2020)
Book Cover: Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit (2020)
Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit (2020)
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business
The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business (2020)
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (2020)
Capitalism on Edge How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia
Capitalism on Edge; How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia (2020)
Book Cover: The Essential Milton Friedman (2019)
The Essential Milton Friedman (2019)
Change Everything; Creating an Economy for the Common Good
Change Everything; Creating an Economy for the Common Good (2019)
Good Economics for Hard Times
Good Economics for Hard Times; Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (2019)
'Don't Be Evil' by Rana Foroohar
Don't Be Evil; How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - And All of Us (2019)
Capitalism, Alone; The Future of the System that Rules the World
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World (2019)
Economics after Neoliberalsm
Economics after Neoliberalism (2019)
The Economists' Hour; False Prophets, Free Markets and the Fracture of Society
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society (2019)
How to Be an Anti-Capitalistin the 21st Century
How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
The Healing Organization by Sisodia & Gelb
The Healing Organization: Awakening the Conscience of Business to Help Save the World (2019)
The Case for the Green New Deal
The Case for the Green New Deal (2019)
The Making of a Democratic Economy, by Marjorie Kelly and Ted Howard
The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few (2019)
Is Capitalism Sustainable? by Michael Munger
Is Capitalism Sustainable? (2019)
Book Cover: People, Power, and Profits; Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (2019)
People, Power, and Profits; Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent (2019)
Economics in Two Lessons
Economics in Two Lessons; Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly (2019)
Open; The Progressive Case for Free Trade by Kimberley Clausing
Open; The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (2019)
Honorable Business; A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society
Honorable Business; A Framework for Business in a Just and Humane Society (2019)
The Third Pillar; How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
The Third Pillar; How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind (2019)
The Enlightened Capitalists; Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to do Well by Doing Good
The Enlightened Capitalists; Cautionary Tales of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good (2019)
Humanomics; Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the 21st Century
Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century (2019)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - book cover
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism; The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (2019)
Book Cover: The Economics of Arrival; Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy (2019)
The Economics of Arrival; Ideas for a Grown-Up Economy (2019)
Foundations of Real-World Economics
Foundations of Real-World Economics: What Every Economics Student Needs to Know (2018)
The Myth of Capitalism; Monopolies and the Death of Competition
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (2018)
Prosperity; Better Business Makes the Greater Good
Prosperity; Better Business Makes the Greater Good (2018)
Are Chief Executives Overpaid? by Deborah Hargreaves
Are Chief Executives Overpaid? (2018)
A Finer Future; Creating an Economy in Service to Life
A Finer Future: Creating an Economy in Service to Life (2018)
'The Future of Capitalism' by Paul Collier
The Future of Capitalism; Facing New Anxieties (2018)
Why Can't You Afford a Home, by Josh Ryan-Collins
Why Can't You Afford a Home? (2018)
Can American Capitalism Survive? by Steven Pearlstein
Can American Capitalism Survive? Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal, and Fairness Won't Make Us Poor (2018)
What's Wrong with Protectionism; Answering Common Objections to Free Trade
What's Wrong with Protectionism: Answering Common Objections to Free Trade (2018)
Adam Smith; What He Thought and Why It Matters
Adam Smith; What He Thought, and Why It Matters (2018)
Markets, Ethics and Business Ethics by Steven Scalet
Markets, Ethics, and Business Ethics (2018)
Bean Counters; The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism
Bean Counters; The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism (2018)
An Economy of Wellbeing by Mark Anielski
An Economy of Well-being; Common-Sense Tools for Building Genuine Wealth and Happiness (2018)
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (2018)
Marketcraft; How Governments Make Markets Work
Marketcraft; How Governments Make Markets Work (2018)
Sustainable consumption; key issues
Sustainable Consumption; Key Issues (2018)
The Value of Everything; Makers and Takers in the Global Economy
The Value Of Everything; Makers and Takers in the Global Economy (2018)
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data (2018)
'We the Corporations' by Adam Winkler
We the Corporations; How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (2018)
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Economics for the Common Good (2017)
Marx, Capital and the Maddness of Economic Reason
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017)
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things; A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (2017)
Book Cover: Firms as Political Entities; Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism (2017)
Firms as Political Entities; Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism (2017)
Cover of 'A World of Three Zeros'
A World of Three Zeros; The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions (2017)
Buddhist Economics; An Enlightened Approach to the Dismall Science
Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science (2017)
Cents and Sensibility; What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
Cents and Sensibility; What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities (2017)
Book Cover: Straight Talk on Trade; Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017)
Straight Talk on Trade; Ideas for a Sane World Economy (2017)
Private Government; How Employers Rule Our Lives
Private Government; How Employers Rule Our Lives (2017)
The Wisdom of Finance
The Wisdom of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return (2017)
Wellbeing economy; Success in a World without Growth
Wellbeing Economy; Success in a World without Growth (2017)
Covr of Doughnut Economics
Doughnut Economics; Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist (2017)
Book Cover: The Production of Money; How to Break the Power of Bankers (2017)
The Production of Money; How to Break the Power of Bankers (2017)
Cover of "The limits of the market"
The Limits of the Market; The Pendulum Between Government and Market (2017)
Civil Economy; Another Idea of the Market
Civil Economy; Another Idea of the Market (2017)
Prosperity without Growth by Tim Jackson
Prosperity without Growth; Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow (2016)
Empire of Things; How We Became a World of Consumers
Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the 15th Century to the 21st (2016)
Book Cover: The Econocracy; The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts (2016)
The Econocracy; The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts (2016)
the invisible hand
The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined Since AD 500 (2016)
the inner lives of markets; hoe people shape them and they shape us
The Inner Lives of Markets; How People Shape Them and They Shape Us (2016)
Book Cover: Bourgeois Equality; How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (2016)
Bourgeois Equality; How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World (2016)
Money Changes Everything; How Finance Made Civilization Possible
Money Changes Everything; How Finance Made Civilization Possible (2016)
Adam Smith; His Life, Thought and Legacy
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy (2016)
Economic analysis, moral philosophy, and public policy
Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy (2016)
Markets without Limits; Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests
Markets without Limits; Moral Virtues and Commercial Interests (2016)
The Moral Economy by Bowles
The Moral Economy; Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (2016)
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Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few (2016)
Alternatives to Capitalism; Proposas for a Democratic Economy
Alternatives to Capitalism: Proposals for a Democratic Economy (2016)
Work, Consumption and Capitalism
Work, Consumption and Capitalism (2015)
Economics Rules; The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
Economics Rules; The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science (2015)
Conceptualizing Capitalism; Institutions, Evolution, Future
Conceptualizing Capitalism; Institutions, Evolution, Future (2015)
Phishing for Phools; The Economics of Manipulation and Deceipt
Phishing for Phools; The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (2015)
The Environmental Capitalist by Carl Hall
The Environmental Capitalist: Making Billions by Saving the Planet (2014)
Book Cover: The Local Economy Solution; How Innovative, Self-Financing ''Pollinator'' Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity (2015)
The Local Economy Solution; How Innovative, Self-Financing ''Pollinator'' Enterprises Can Grow Jobs and Prosperity (2015)
cover of the road to moral capitalism
The Road to Moral Capitalism (2015)
Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets
Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets (2015)
Corporate welfare - crony capitalism that enriches the rich
Corporate Welfare; Crony Capitalism that Enriches the Rich (2015)
Other People's Money by John Kay
Other People's Money: The Real Business of Finance (2015)
Book Cover: Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism (2015)
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism (2015)
Ethics in Economics; An Introduction to Moral Frameworks
Ethics in Economics; An Introduction to Moral Frameworks (2015)
The Buddha on Wall Street; What's Wrong with Capitalism and What to Do about It
The Buddha on Wall Street: What’s Wrong with Capitalism and What We Can Do about It (2015)
Civic Capitalism by Colin Hay and Anthony Payne
Civic Capitalism (2015)
'Postcapitalism' by Paul Mason
Postcapitalism; A Guide to Our Future (2015)
Economics after the Crisis by Irene van Staveren
Economics After the Crisis; An Introduction to Economics from a Pluralist and Global Perspective (2014)
homo economicus; the lost prophet of modern times
Homo Economicus: The (Lost) Prophet of Modern Times (2014)
Ethics in Finance by John Boatright
Ethics in Finance (2014)
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
SOS Alternatives to Capitalism
S.O.S. Alternatives to Capitalism (2014)
Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (2014)
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Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business (2013)
The Bankers' New Clothes
The Bankers' New Clothes; What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It (2012)
Finance and the Good Society
Finance and the Good Society (2012)
How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life
How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life (2012)
The Globalisation Paradoxby Dani Rodrik
The Globalization Paradox; Why Global Markets, States, and Democracy Can't Coexist (2012)
Cover of The Wound and the Blessing
The Wound and the Blessing; Economics, Relationships and Happiness (2012)
Enough Is Enough; Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources
Enough is Enough; Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources (2012)
Why Capitalism? by Allan Meltzer
Why Capitalism? (2012)
Reckoning with Markets; Moral Reflecion in Economics
Reckoning With Markets; The Role of Moral Reflection in Economics (2012)
A Capitalism for the People (cover)
A Capitalism for the People; Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012)
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What Money Can't Buy; The Moral Limits of Markets (2012)
23 things they don't tell you about capitalism
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (2011)
Economic of good and evul by Sedlacek
Economics of Good and Evil; The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street (2011)
The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism
The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism (2011)
Why Marx was right
Why Marx Was Right (2011)
How Markets Fail; The Logic of Economic Calamities
How Markets Fail; The Logic of Economic Calamities (2010)
the myth of the ethical consumer
The Myth of the Ethical Consumer (2010)
cover of 'economics and ethics; an introduction'
Economics and Ethics; An Introduction (2010)
"Aristotle, Adam Smith and Karl Marx" by Spencer Pack
Aristotle, Adam Smith & Karl Marx on Some Fundamental Issues in 21st Century Political Economy (2010)
The Value of Nothing by Raj Patel
The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society & Redefine Democracy (2010)
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Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy (2010)
Why Not Socialism? by G.A. Cohen
Why Not Socialism? (2009)
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The Authentic Adam Smith: His Life and Ideas (2006)
Th Bourgeois Virtues; Ethics for an Age of Commerce
The Bourgeois Virtues; Ethics for an Age of Commerce (2006)
The Truth about Markets
The Truth about Markets: Why Some Countries Are Rich and Others Remain Poor (2003)
lindblom the market system
The Market System; What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It (2001)
Free Markets and Social Justice
Free Markets and Social Justice (1999)
Cover of the spirit of democratic capitalism
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (1990)
The Road to Serfdom
The Road to Serfdom (1944)
Capital by Karl Marx
Capital; A Critique of Political Economy - Volumes I (1867), II (1885) & III (1894)
cover the wealth of nations
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
the theory of moral sentiments - cover
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
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