Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
By: Elizabeth Popp Berman
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s--and wh…
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1. The C Programming Language
By: Brian W. Kernighan , Dennis M. Ritchie
4.44
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
This book is meant to help the reader learn how to program in C. It is the definitive reference gui… read more
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2. Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon B. Johnson, cont… read more
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3. Liberalism
By: Ludwig von Mises , Bettina Bien Greaves
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
This book presents the theoretical and practical arguments for liberalism. Mises contrasts liberali… read more
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4. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more
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5. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid
By: Jimmy Carter
4.48
Format: 252 pages,
Following his #1 New York Timesbestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president and winner o… read more
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6. An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R
By: Gareth James , None , None , None
3.49
Format: 182 pages, Hardcover
An Introduction to Statistical Learning provides an accessible overview of the field of statistical… read more
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7. The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
By: Robert A. Caro
3.79
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE, THE MARK LYNTON… read more
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8. Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer
4.61
Format: 313 pages, Hardcover
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more
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9. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
By: David Harvey
3.76
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Neoliberalism--the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guid… read more
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10. The Stone Diaries
By: Carol Shields
3.89
Format: 361 pages, Paperback
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy St… read more
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"From surfeit to loss is a short line."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"Here's to another year and let's hope it's above ground."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"It was as though she had veered, accidentally, into her own life."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
"A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo."-Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
11. The Road to Serfdom
By: Friedrich A. Hayek
3.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more
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12. Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism
By: Melinda Cooper
3.92
Format: None pages,
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13. Banner in the Sky
By: James Ramsey Ullman
4.67
Format: 523 pages, Paperback
The Citadel It stands unconquered, the last great summit of the Alps. Only one man has ever dared t… read more
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14. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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15. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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16. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
By: Michael Harriot
4.59
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly… read more
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17. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
By: Marc Lamont Hill
4.21
Format: 227 pages, Hardcover
A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more
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18. The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
By: Michael Lewis
4.09
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waite… read more
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"The problems that had been Obama's problems for the past eight years were about to become Trump's problems. But his people didn't seem to want to know about them."-Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
19. The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
By: Stephanie Kelton
4.04
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Bestseller The leading thinker and most visible public advocate of modern monetary… read more
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20. Some Desperate Glory
By: Emily Tesh
4.06
Format: 438 pages, Hardcover
While we live, the enemy shall fear us. All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge … read more
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"While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
"While we live, the enemy shall fear us. We are what's left. We are what must survive."-Emily Tesh, Some Desperate Glory
21. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
4.00
Format: 157 pages, Paperback
A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more
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"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)
22. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
By: Daniel Yergin
4.20
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more
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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
23. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
24. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
By: Naomi Oreskes
4.42
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America… read more
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25. Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
By: Quinn Slobodian
4.10
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas… read more
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26. Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
By: Elizabeth Popp Berman
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
The story of how economic reasoning came to dominate Washington between the 1960s and 1980s--and wh… read more
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- school
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- academic
- philosophy
- nonfiction
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27. 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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28. 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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29. Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
By: Heather Havrilesky
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating, poignant, and savagely funny examination of modern marriage from Ask Polly advice … read more
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"I wasn’t sure I wanted to spend forever with anyone, least of all myself."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"But we weren’t married yet, so he still thought he could do whatever he wanted."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"Forever is two immortal elves, sipping pink champagne by a burbling stream, then exploring the wild, gorgeous woods around them in everlasting harmony. Forever is set in New Zealand, not New Jersey."-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
"I wrote this book to explore that tedium, along with everything else that marriage brings: the feeling of safety, the creeping darkness, the raw fear and suspense of growing older together, the tiny …"-Heather Havrilesky, Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
30. Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
By: Gregg Colburn
4.23
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisi… read more
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31. The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy
By: Joseph Fishkin
4.07
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A bold call to reclaim an American tradition that argues the Constitution imposes a duty on governm… read more
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