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Featured Reading
The Great Reversal
How America Gave Up on Free Markets | By Thomas Philippon
Thomas Philippon, one of the world’s leading economists argues that many key problems of the American economy are due to the concentration of corporate power and not to the flaws of capitalism or the inevitabilities of globalization. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits higher while depressing wages and limiting opportunities for investment, innovation, and growth. The data from his cutting-edge research proved undeniable. American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on healthy competition. It answers the questions like “Why are cell-phone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe?”
Read more at the Harvard University Press
The Age of Acquiescence:
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power | By Steve Fraser
Do you ever wonder how the economy became so bad for the average American worker and college grad? Is it the government? Maybe, but Steve Fraser, a labor historian, shows that our current economic hardship is traced to the moral behavior of the banks, financial institutions and the elite rich in a second Gilded Age.
See NY Times Book Review and reviews on Amazon
A Call to Action
Women, Religion, Violence, Power | By Jimmy Carter
Calling it the number one challenge in the world today, Jimmy Carter’s new book “A Call To Action,” urges the end of discrimination and abuse against women. Although discrimination is not new, Carter argues the scale is historically unprecedented, from slavery to rape and infanticide to honor killings.
Read More On the Carter Center.
The Tyranny of Merit:
What’s Become of the Common Good? | By Michael J. Sandel
“Sandel communicates the key concept that in our modern meritocracy, we (both the liberal and conservative mainstreams) have tightly linked personal professional/academic success to moral value and social status, which leaves the ‘losers’ in this system not only with less money and lower status, but also with the societal judgment that their fate is their fault alone, a personal failure.”
“It will make for important and uncomfortable reading for many people who believe they occupy their privileged position by merit. Sandel is scathing in his elimination of this conceit. … In an age where we have made going to university a form of apartheid they should be read by every academic and policy maker.”
– Amazon Reviews