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Thinking like an Economist

Thinking like an Economist

How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

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Elizabeth Popp Berman
Elizabeth Popp Berman
2022

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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114 books

Economics

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Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
Years That Matter Most How College Makes or Breaks Us
Honors of Inequality: How Colleges Work for Some
The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City
A Participatory Economy

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21 books

Economic Inequality

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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
The Viral Underclass
Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World
The Economics of Inequality

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6 books

Neoliberalism

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Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay and Lesbian Liberation
Uncanny Valley
The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation
The Ungovernable Society: A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism
Left Behind: The Democrats' Failed Attempt to Solve Inequality

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180 books

Non Fiction

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Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Into the Wild
Landmark: The Inside Story of America's New Health-Care Law-The Affordable Care Act-and What It Means for Us All
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
The Communist Manifesto
A Season of Stones: Living in a Palestinian Village

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33 books

Economics

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The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Nudge: The Final Edition
The End of Poverty
Globalization and Its Discontents
Development as Freedom
Wealth and Democracy : A Political History of the American Rich

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76 books

2022

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Game Wizards
Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism
Libra Shrugged: How Facebook Tried to Take Over the Money
Quantum of Nightmares
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera
Gangsters of Capitalism
True Believer

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57 books

History

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Power, Faith, and Fantasy
The creation of patriarchy
The Western American Indian: Case Studies in Tribal History
The Art of War
The Colonial Moment in Africa: Essays on the Movement of Minds and Materials, 1900-1940
The Guns of August
The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade

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41 books

Politics

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The Communist Manifesto
Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill
Dying to win
Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea
Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate: The Essential Guide for Progressives
Nudge: The Final Edition
The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad