6 must-read sociology books like The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz

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The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo…

If you liked the sociology plot in The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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2. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • business
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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3. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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5. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

By: Grace Blakeley

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Shock Doctrine and Evil Geniuses, this timely manifesto from an acclaimed journa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
"The work of a revolutionary is more like that of a gardener than a builder. The new world will not be brought about overnight - its seeds have to be planted, nurtured, and protected."

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"The US government wanted to send a message to poor and downtrodden people around the world: they could not hope to resist the power of American capitalism. Such a show of force was necessary because …"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"Ultimately, the US state took it upon itself to ensure that no part of the world could close its doors to international investment. This desire to keep the world 'open' to capital, rather than overac…"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

"The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment w…"

-Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

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6. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

By: Fei-Fei Li

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at … read more

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  • nonfiction
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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
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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9. Limitarianism

By: Ingrid Robeyns

3.99

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

‘The best case I've read for putting an upper limit on the accumulation of wealth’ Richard Wilkinso… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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10. New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West

By: David E. Sanger

4.37

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced account of America’s plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adv… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedo… read more

Similar categories in Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society book and Joseph E. Stiglitz's The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society

  • social science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
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12. Languishing: How to Feel Alive Again in a World That Wears Us Down

By: Corey Keyes

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Emory University sociologist who coined the term languishing—low-grade mental weariness that af… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
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13. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality

By: Angus Deaton

3.80

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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14. Growth: A Reckoning

By: Daniel Susskind

3.92

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethin… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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15. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back

By: Torsten Bell

4.37

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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16. May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics and Studies Exploit Our Biases - And What We Can Do About It

By: Alex Edmans

4.08

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

How our biases cause us to fall for misinformation—and how to combat it. Our lives are minefield… read more

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  • social science
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
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17. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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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18. Perparim Hetemaj – Selviytyjä

By: Erkko Meri

4.12

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Tahtopelaajan tie Balkanin julmuuksista eurooppalaisen jalkapallon huipulle. Perparim Hetemaj’n … read more

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19. What Went Wrong with Capitalism

By: Ruchir Sharma

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A century of expanding government has distorted financial markets, stoked massive inequality, and s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
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20. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business

10 must-read history books like The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph E. Stiglitz

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Yascha Mounk

4.08

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Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

Grace Blakeley

4.15

Transform Your Habits

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

Fareed Zakaria

4.23

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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

William Egginton

4.28

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Yascha Mounk

4.08

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

Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

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