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Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
Capital and Ideology (2020)
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)
The Technology Trap; Capital, Labor and Power in the Age of Automation
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (2019)
Book Cover: Grocery Story; The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants (2019)
Grocery Story; The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants (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)
Open; The Progressive Case for Free Trade by Kimberley Clausing
Open; The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (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)
'The Inclusive Economy' by Michael Tanner
The Inclusive Economy: How to Bring Wealth to America's Poor (2018)
The Myth of Capitalism; Monopolies and the Death of Competition
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition (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)
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society (2018)
The Divide; Global Inequality from Conquests to Free Markets
The Divide; Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets (2018)
The Pocket Piketty
Pocket Piketty: A Handy Guide to Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2017)
After Piketty
After Piketty; The Agenda for Economics and Inequality (2017)
Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century; An Introduction
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century; An Introduction (2017)
Book Cover: Raw Deal; How the "Uber Economy" & Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers (2017)
Raw Deal; How the "Uber Economy" & Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers (2017)
Economic Freedom and Welfare before and after the Crisis
Economic Freedom and Welfare Before and After the Crisis (2017)
'Too Much Stuff' by Kozo Yamamura
Too Much Stuff; Capitalism in Crisis (2017)
The Anti Piketty volume
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st-Century (2017)
Alternatives to Neoliberalism; Towards Equality and Democracy
Alternatives to Neoliberalism; Towards Equality and Democracy (2017)
The Piketty Opportunity
The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century; The Piketty Opportunity (2017)
Uberworked and Underpaid
Uberworked and Underpaid: How Workers Are Disrupting the Digital Economy (2016)
Four Futures; Life after Capitalism
Four Futures; Life After Capitalism (2016)
Capital and the Common Good by Keohane
Capital and the Common Good; How Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World's Most Urgent Problems (2016)
the invisible hand
The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined Since AD 500 (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)
cover of 'saving capitalism'
Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not the Few (2016)
Free Markets with Sustainability & Solidarity - Facing the Challenge
Free Markets with Sustainability and Solidarity: Facing the Challenge (2016)
Conceptualizing Capitalism; Institutions, Evolution, Future
Conceptualizing Capitalism; Institutions, Evolution, Future (2015)
Corporate welfare - crony capitalism that enriches the rich
Corporate Welfare; Crony Capitalism that Enriches the Rich (2015)
'Postcapitalism' by Paul Mason
Postcapitalism; A Guide to Our Future (2015)
capital in the 21st century cover
Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2014)
What Adam Smith Knew
What Adam Smith Knew; Moral Lessons on Capitalism from Its Greatest Champions and Fiercest Opponents (2014)
Is Fair Trade Fair?
Is Fairtrade Fair? (2013)
Making Capitalism Fit for Society
Making Capitalism Fit for Society (2013)
Inventing the market; Smith, hegel & political theory
Inventing the Market; Smith, Hegel, and Political Theory (2013)
Free Market Fairness
Free Market Fairness (2012)
Life without Money; Building Fair & Sustainable Economies
Life Without Money; Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (2011)
Book Cover: The Market, Happiness, and Solidarity; A Christian Perspective (2010)
The Market, Happiness, and Solidarity; A Christian Perspective (2010)
Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice
Fair Trade Coffee: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Market-Driven Social Justice (2007)
The Moral Ecology of Markets
The Moral Ecology of Markets; Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice (2006)
Free Markets and Social Justice
Free Markets and Social Justice (1999)
Cover of unequal freedoms: the global market as an ethical system
Unequal Freedoms: The Global Market as an Ethical System (1998)
The Acquisitive Society, by R.H. Tawney
The Acquisitive Society (1920)

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