15 must-read nonfiction books like Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Near Future) by Melinda Cooper

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Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Near Future)

By: Melinda Cooper

4.80

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterize…

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1. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

By: Kim Phillips-Fein

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST An epic, riveting history of New York City on the edge of disaster―and an … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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2. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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3. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

By: Wendy Brown

3.85

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Neoliberal rationality -- ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, educa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history

4. Minima Moralia: Reflections from a Damaged Life

By: Theodor W. Adorno , None

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections. A reflection… read more

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5. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

6. Red Harvest

By: Dashiell Hammett

4.12

Format: 652 pages, ebook

The Continental Op first heard Personville called Poisonville by Hickey Dewey. But since Dewey also… read more

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7. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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8. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
"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

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9. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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10. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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12. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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13. Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom

By: Maya Wind

4.69

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

How Israeli universities collaborate in Israeli state violence against PalestiniansIsraeli universi… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. The Benjamin Files

By: Fredric Jameson

4.12

Format: 272 pages, ebook

The Benjamin Files offers a comprehensive new reading of all of Benjamin's major works and a great … read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan

By: Samo Tomšič

3.84

Format: 248 pages, ebook

A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan’s workDespite a resurgence of int… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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16. Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

By: Alberto Toscano

3.94

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

How do we understand the return of fascism today? In a world shaken by ecological, economic and po… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

By: Brett Christophers

4.34

Format: 565 pages, Kindle Edition

"Standard theories of the causes of climate breakdown will not survive this book. Readers will be a… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
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18. Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Near Future)

By: Melinda Cooper

4.80

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

A thorough investigation of the current combination of austerity and extravagance that characterize… read more

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  • history
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19. Marxist Modernism: Introductory Lectures on Frankfurt School Critical Theory

By: Gillian Rose

4.32

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Marxist Modernism is a comprehensive yet concise and conversational introduction to the Frankfurt S… read more

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20. The Asset Economy

By: Lisa Adkins

4.25

Format: 176 pages, ebook

Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion's share of wealth growth going … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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21. Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture

By: Andrew Dewaard

3.80

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's O… read more

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11 must-read history books like Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance (Near Future) by Melinda Cooper

Transform Your Habits

Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics

Kim Phillips-Fein

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

Wendy Brown

3.85

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

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12 Top fiction books like 2666 by Roberto Bolaño

Transform Your Habits

Hopscotch

Julio Cortázar , Gregory Rabassa

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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