10 Top finance books like The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton

Cover of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton

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…

If you liked the finance plot in The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

By: Mark Blyth

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 Governments today in both Europe and the United Sta… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
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"facts never disconfirm a good ideology"

-Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

"...the centrality of competitiveness as the key to growth is a recurrent EU motif. Two decades of EC directives on increasing competition in every area, from telecommunications to power generation to…"

-Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

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2. Debt: The First 5,000 Years

By: David Graeber

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was inve… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
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  • economics
  • business
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3. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

By: John Maynard Keynes

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

Distinguished British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) set off a series of movements that … read more

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  • politics
  • finance
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business

4. 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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5. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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6. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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7. Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

By: Ha-Joon Chang

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

A rising young star in the field of economics attacks the free-trade orthodoxy of The World Is Flat… read more

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8. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

By: Mariana Mazzucato

3.96

Format: 289 pages, ebook

This book debunks the myth of the State as a large bureaucratic organization that can at best facil… read more

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9. 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

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10. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • science
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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11. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

By: Matthew C. Klein

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A provocative look at how today’s trade conflicts are caused by governments promoting the interests… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton

12. 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

Similar categories in Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy book and Stephanie Kelton's The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • money
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • science
Cover of Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou

13. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

By: Brendan Ballou

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more

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  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis

14. 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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  • audiobook
"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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15. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

By: Mariana Mazzucato

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary efforts that took mankind to the moon 50 years ago were more than a scientific fe… read more

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  • politics
  • philosophy
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  • audiobook
"[A mission-oriented economy] means asking what kind of markets we want, rather than what problem in the market needs to be fixed."

-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

"The ideas in this book have been inspired by many. But it is probably significant that the previous chapter, looking at new theory, cites so many women scholars who have put life at the centre of the…"

-Mariana Mazzucato, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

Cover of 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

16. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

By: Ben S. Bernanke

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics and former chair of the Federal Reserve explains th… read more

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  • money
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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  • audiobook
Cover of The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism by Leigh Phillips

17. The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

By: Leigh Phillips

3.90

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been tak… read more

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18. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • science
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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19. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

By: Mariana Mazzucato

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Modern economies reward activities that extract value rather than create it. This must change to in… read more

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  • economics
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  • audiobook
"Governments and central banks were quietly admitting something they were still reluctant to announce publicly: the extraordinary power of private-sector banks lending to determine the pace of money c…"

-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

"In essence, we behave as economic actors according to the vision of the world of those who device the accounting conventions. The marginalist theory of value underlying contemporary national accounti…"

-Mariana Mazzucato, The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

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20. A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021

By: Alan S. Blinder

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kenn… read more

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Cover of How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain by Peter S. Goodman

21. How the World Ran Out of Everything: Inside the Global Supply Chain

By: Peter S. Goodman

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times’s Global Economics Correspond… read more

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11 Top audiobook books like The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy by Stephanie Kelton

Transform Your Habits

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

Mark Blyth

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

Matthew C. Klein

4.17

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16 Top nonfiction books like 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

Transform Your Habits

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Liaquat Ahamed

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

Stephanie Kelton

4.04

Transform Your Habits

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

Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

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