13 Best political science books like Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama

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Liberalism and Its Discontents

By: Francis Fukuyama

3.93

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth…

"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

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1. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

2. The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

By: Christopher Lasch

3.91

Format: 241 pages, Paperback

In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts hav… read more

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3. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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4. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

By: Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more

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5. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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  • history
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6. Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

By: Henry Kissinger

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Henry Kissinger analyses how six extraordinary leaders he has known have shaped their countries and… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • political science
"Well before the end of the 20th century however print had lost its former dominance. This resulted in, among other things, a different kind of person getting elected as leader. One who can present hi…"

-Henry Kissinger, Leadership : Six Studies in World Strategy

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7. Liberalism and Its Discontents

By: Francis Fukuyama

3.93

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more

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  • social science
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  • economics
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  • audiobook
"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

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8. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
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  • audiobook
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9. How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement

By: Fredrik deBoer

3.84

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

An eye-opening exploration of American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of… read more

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  • history
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10. The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism

By: Sebastian Edwards

4.16

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment―and what its downfall sugg… read more

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  • politics
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11. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

By: Gary Gerstle

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more

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12. A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more

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"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

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13. After the End of History: Conversations with Francis Fukuyama

By: Mathilde C. Fasting

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and… read more

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14. Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

By: Roger Scruton

3.84

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“…one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western poli… read more

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"The American liberal is certainly not averse to the power of the state, provided it is exerted by liberals, and exerted against conservatives."

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

"What makes a political order legitimate, in the conservative view, is not the free choices that create it, but the free choices that it creates."

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

"The lesson of history for Hume is that the established order, founded on customs that are followed and accepted, is always to be preferred to the ideas, however exultant and inspiring, of those who w…"

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

"When society is organised from above, either by the top-down government of a revolutionary dictatorship, or by the impersonal edicts of an inscrutable bureaucracy, then accountability rapidly disappe…"

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

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15. The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure

By: Yascha Mounk

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Barack Obama's Recommended Reads for Summer  “ [A] brave and necessary book . . . Anyone in… read more

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16. The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World

By: Gideon Rachman

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In The Age of the Strongman, Gideon Rachman finds global coherence in the chaos of the new national… read more

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"Durable political systems ultimately rely on institutions, not individuals."

-Gideon Rachman, The Age of the Strongman: How the Cult of the Leader Threatens Democracy around the World

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17. This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

By: David Sloan Wilson

3.94

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It is widely understood that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution completely revolutionized the stu… read more

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18. The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century

By: Helena Rosenblatt

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a political creed that h… read more

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19. The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism

By: Thomas Frank

4.24

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an… read more

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20. Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

By: Daniel Chandler

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, ma… read more

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21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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Transform Your Habits

The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Liberalism and Its Discontents

Francis Fukuyama

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

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4.23

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The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Greg Lukianoff

3.93

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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

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Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

Evan Osnos

4.24

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Ezra Klein

4.22

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