Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
By: Annie Lowrey
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income--a stipend given to every citizen--an…
Want to Read $ 14.99"When I told my parents, John and Celine, that I was writing a book, my dad responded, “I always knew you’d write one!,"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
"When I told my parents, John and Celine, that I was writing a book, my dad responded, “I always knew you’d write one!,"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
"They were not charity cases. They were businesses waiting to start, individuals striving to prosper, families searching for a better life. The main thing they lacked was cash."-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
"They were not charity cases. They were businesses waiting to start, individuals striving to prosper, families searching for a better life. The main thing they lacked was cash."-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
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1. A Nation of Immigrants
By: John F. Kennedy
2.96
Format: None pages,
Throughout his presidency, John F. Kennedy was passionate about the issue of immigration reform. He… read more
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2. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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3. Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream
By: Andy Stern
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Advances in technology are creating the next economy and enabling us to make things/do things/conne… read more
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4. It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
By: Bernie Sanders
4.09
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A progressive takedown of the uber-capitalist status quo that has enriched millionaires and billion… read more
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"The goal of any democratic, moral, and rational nation must be to create a society where people are healthy, happy and able to live long and productive lives. Not just the rich and the powerful, but …"-Bernie Sanders, It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
5. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
By: David Graeber
4.03
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling writer David Graeber, a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfi… read more
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"Economies around the world have, increasingly, become vast engines for producing nonsense."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"Bullshit jobs regularly induce feelings of hopelessness, depression, and self-loathing. They are forms of spiritual violence directed at the essence of what it means to be a human being."-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"What we are witnessing is the rise of those forms of popular culture that office workers can produce and consume during the scattered, furtive shards of time they have at their disposal in workplaces…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
"A fact-finding commission is a way of telling the public that the government is doing something it is not. But a large corporations will behave exactly the same way, if, say, there are revealed to be…"-David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
6. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
7. A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
By: Daniel Susskind
3.84
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of ho… read more
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"the future , they say ; holds both obsolescence and ever-greater relevance ; technology is a threat and an opportunity ; a rival and a partner , a foe and a friend"-Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
8. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
9. 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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10. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By: Henry Grabar
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more
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11. Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
By: Rutger Bregman
4.22
Format: 262 pages, Paperback
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. Does it sound too good to be true? One of… read more
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- audiobook
"You can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps if you have no boots."-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Whether it’s the growth of the economy, audience shares, publications – slowly but surely, quality is being replaced by quantity. ... And driving it all is a force sometimes called “liberalism,"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"Frankly, there's almost no country on Earth where the American Dream is less likely to come true than in the U.S. of A. Anybody eager to work their way up from rags to riches is better off trying the…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
"True progress begins with something no knowledge economy can produce: wisdom about what it means to live well. We have to do what great thinkers like John Stuart Mill, Bertrand Russell, and John Mayn…"-Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
12. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
By: J.B. MacKinnon
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more
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"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
13. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy
By: Thomas F. Schaller
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more
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14. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town
By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.
4.26
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Discover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - an… read more
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15. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
16. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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17. The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
By: Andrew Yang
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang, a captivating account of how "a skinny Asi… read more
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18. The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe
By: Josh Mitchell
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of 2021 From acclaimed Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Mitchell, the “devastati… read more
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19. Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
By: Annie Lowrey
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income--a stipend given to every citizen--an… read more
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- social justice
- poverty
- economics
- sociology
- business
- audiobook
"When I told my parents, John and Celine, that I was writing a book, my dad responded, “I always knew you’d write one!,"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
"They were not charity cases. They were businesses waiting to start, individuals striving to prosper, families searching for a better life. The main thing they lacked was cash."-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
". . .cash is highly effective at slashing the poverty rate. Moreover, GiveDirectly argues that cash is more valuable to its recipients than in-kind gifts, such as food or bed nets or sports equipment…"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
"Here, poverty in the United States is a choice. Stagnant middle-class incomes are a choice. Technology-fueled mass unemployment is a choice. Racism is a choice. The patriarchy is a choice. This is no…"-Annie Lowrey, Give People Money: The Simple Idea to Solve Inequality and Revolutionise Our Lives
20. The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
By: Alicia Garza
4.35
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from… read more
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"Intersectionality asks us to examine the places where we are marginalized but it also demands that we examine how and why those of us who are marginalized can in turn exercise marginalization over ot…"-Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
"Diversity is what happens when you have representation of various groups in one place. Representation is what happens when groups that haven’t previously been included, are included. Intersectionalit…"-Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
21. The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
By: Robert B. Reich
4.27
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good , comes an urgent analysis of … read more
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"The system is created by people. The question is, 'Which people?' The central issue is not more or less government. It’s 'Who is government for?'. In other words, it’s all a question of power — who h…"-Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
"The most important political competition over the next decades will not be between the right and left or between Republicans and Democrats. It will be between a majority of Americans who have been lo…"-Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
"Americans have clung to the meritocratic tautology that individuals are paid what they’re worth in the market, without examining changes in the legal and political institutions that define the market…"-Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It
