American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity…
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1. The Economic Consequences of the Peace
By: John Maynard Keynes
3.97
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was cond… read more
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"In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes."-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
"With the breakdown of money economy the practice of international barter is becoming prevalent."-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
"When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position."-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
"By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft."-John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace
2. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
3. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
By: Robert Middlekauff
3.75
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically ac… read more
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4. A Moveable Feast
By: Ernest Hemingway
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more
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5. The Origins of Totalitarianism
By: Hannah Arendt
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
Hannah Arendt's definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twent… read more
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6. In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
By: Norman F. Cantor
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Ring around the rosies, A pocketful of posies, Ashes, ashes, We all fall down. --"Ring Around the R… read more
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7. How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
By: Jordan Ellenberg
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
The Freakonomics of math--a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world a… read more
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8. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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9. 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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10. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
11. Civilization and Its Discontents
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey , Peter Gay
4.02
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
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12. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.58
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more
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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)
13. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.87
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more
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"I would like to belong but I dont."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)
14. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
15. 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)
16. The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
By: Clara E. Mattei
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year "A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas Pike… read more
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17. 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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18. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy
By: Christopher Leonard
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The New York Times bestseller from business journalist Christopher Leonard infiltrates one of Ameri… read more
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19. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
By: Tim Wu
4.16
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
"Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dolla… read more
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20. American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
3.85
Format: 220 pages, Paperback
In his new introduction to this classic text on political economy, Galbraith reasserts the validity… read more
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21. Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance
By: Greta R. Krippner
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the U.S. economy has become depe… read more
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