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Acemoglu2023: Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson: Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. PublicAffairs, 2023, 978-1541702530.
Achen2017: Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels: Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Princeton University Press, 2017, 978-1400888740.
Arendt2006: Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Penguin, 2006, 978-0143039884

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Bakan200t: Joel Bakan: The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Simon and Shuster, 2005, 978-0743247467.
Baldwin2014: Peter Baldwin: The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. Princeton University Press, 2014, 978-1400851911.
Bandura1999: Albert Bandura: “Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities.” Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3(3), 1999, doi:10.1207/s15327957pspr0303_3.
Beckerman2022: Gal Beckerman: The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. Crown, 2022, 97801524759186.
Bellos2024: David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu: Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs. WW Norton, 2024, 978-1324073710.
Berlin1991: Isaiah Berlin: The Crooked Timber Of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas. Alfred A. Knopf, 1991, 978-0679401315.
Black2005: William K. Black: The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. University of Texas Press, 2005, 978-0292706385.
Blackmon2008: Douglas A. Blackmon: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Doubleday, 2008, 978-0385722704.
Bollier2014: David Bollier: Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons (2nd. ed.). New Society Publishers, 2025, 978-1774060117.
Bracha2019: Oren Bracha: Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909. Cambridge University Press, 2019, 978-1108790697.

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Campbell2001: W. Joseph Campbell: Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies. Bloomsbury, 2011, 97800275981136.
Cassidy2025: John Cassidy: Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025, 978-0374601089.
Cech2021: Erin Cech: The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality. University of California Press, 2021, 978-0520303232.
Chang2012: Ha-Joon Chang: 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism. Bloomsbury, 2012, 978-1608193387.
Chenoweth2011: Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan: Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. Columbia University Press, 2011, 978-0231156820.
Chouldechova2017: Alexandra Chouldechova: “Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact: A Study of Bias in Recidivism Prediction Instruments”. Big Data, 5(2), 2017, doi:10.1089/big.2016.0047.
Cottom2017: Tressie McMillan Cottom: Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. The New Press, 2017, 978-1620970607.

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Dallaire2005: Roméo Dallaire with Brent Beardsley: Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda. Carroll & Graf, 2005, 978-0786715107
Daniel1972: Pete Daniel: The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969. University of Illinois Press, 1972, 978-0252061462.
Davies2022: Dan Davies: Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World. Scribner, 2022, 978-1982114930.
Devries2008: Jan de Vries: The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Behavior and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, 2008, 978-0521719254.
Doctorow2022: Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin: Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back. Beacon Press, 2022, 978-0807007068.
Doctorow2025: Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025, 978-0374619329.
Douglas2002: Mary Douglas: Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Routledge, 2002, 978-0415289955.
Dowbiggin2007: Ian Dowbiggin: A Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine. Bloomsbury, 2007, 978-0742531116.

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Ehmke2025: Coraline Ada Ehmke: We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech. Apress, 2025, 979-8868812484.
Eubanks2018: Virginia Eubanks: Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. St. Martin’s Press, 2018, 978-1250074317.

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Faderman2015: Lillian Faderman: The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle. Simon & Schuster, 2015, 978-1451694123.
Ferguson2015: Christopher J. Ferguson: “Do Angry Birds Make for Angry Children? A Meta-Analysis of Video Game Influences on Children’s and Adolescents’ Aggression, Mental Health, Prosocial Behavior, and Academic Performance.” Perspectives on Psychological Science, 10(5), 2015, doi:10.1177/1745691615592234.
Funder2011: Anna Funder: Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall. Harper Collins, 2011, 978-0062077325.

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Galbraith1954: John Kenneth Galbraith: The Great Crash 1929. Houghton Mifflin, 1954, 978-0395859995.
GartonAsh2016: Timothy Garton Ash: Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World. Yale University Press, 2016, 978-0300226942.
Gawande2009: Atul Gawande: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Metropolitan Books, 2009, 978-0805091748.
Gawande2014: Atul Gawande: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt, 2014, 978-0805095159.
Giridharadas2018: Anand Giridharadas: Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Knopf, 2018, 978-0525533184.
Gordon2001: Andrew Gordon: The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Press, 2001, 978-0674007062.
Gray2009: Mary L. Gray: Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. NYU Press, 2009, 978-0814731932.
Grossman1995: Dave Grossman: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Little, Brown, 1995, 978-0316330114.
Grossman1999: Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano: Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence. Crown, 1999, 978-0609605685.

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Hannig2023: Anita Hannig: The Day I Die The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America. Sourcebooks, 2023, 978-1728259420.
Hari2015: Johann Hari: Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. Bloomsbury, 2015, 978-1620408926.
Hemenway2009: David Hemenway: While We Were Sleeping: Success Stories in Injury and Violence Prevention. University of California Press, 2009, 978-0520258464.
Herman1988: Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky: Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Pantheon, 1988, 978-0375714498.
Hirshman2012: Linda Hirshman: Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. Harper, 2012, 978-0061965500.
Hoffer2010: Eric Hoffer: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Harper Perennial, 2010, 978-0060505912.

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Igo2020: Sarah E. Igo: The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. Harvard University Press, 2020, 978-0674244795.

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Jaffe2021: Sarah Jaffe: Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. Bold Type Books, 2021, 978-1568589398.

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Kahneman2011: Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, 978-0374533557.
Karabel2006: Jerome Karabel: The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Mariner Books, 2006, 978-0618773558.
Keefe2021: Patrick Radden Keefe: Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. Doubleday, 2021, 978-0385545686.
Kelly2012: Marjorie Kelly: Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution. Berrett-Koehler, 2012, 978-1605093109.
Kelly2022: Kim Kelly: Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. One Signal, 2022, 978-1982171063.
Khan2017: Lina Khan: “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.” Yale Law Journal, 126(3), 2017.
Khera2019: Reetika Khera (ed.): Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data Meets Big Brother. Orient BlackSwan, 2019, 978-9352875429.
Kindleberger2005: Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Aliber: Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (5th ed.). Wiley, 2005, 978-0471467144.
Kohn1999: Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson (eds.): To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. National Academies Press, 2000, 978-0309068376.

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Lakey2018: George Lakey: How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning. Melville House, 2018, 978-1612197531.
Lapierre2002: Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro: Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World’s Deadliest Industrial Disaster. Grand Central Publishing, 2002, 978-0446530880.
Lewis2010: Michael Lewis: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. W. W. Norton, 2010, 978-0393338829.
Lewy2011: Guenter Lewy: Assisted Death in Europe and America Four Regimes and Their Lessons. Oxford University Press, 2011, 978-0199746415.
Lindsey1942: Almont Lindsey: The Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval. University of Chicago Press, 1942.
Linebaugh2014: Peter Linebaugh: Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance. PM Press, 2014, 978-1604867473.
Linklater2015: Andro Linklater: Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership. Bloomsbury, 2015, 978-1620402917.

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Macintyre2020: Stuart Macintyre: A Concise History of Australia (5th ed.). Cambridge University Press, 2020, 978-1108728485.
Mackay1841: Charles Mackay: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Richard Bentley, 1841.
Markey2017: Patrick M. Markey and Christopher J. Ferguson: Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong. BenBella, 2017, 978-1942952992.
Mazzucato2013: Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths. PublicAffairs, 2015, 978-1610396134.
Michaels2008: David Michaels: Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health. Oxford University Press, 2008, 978-0195300673.

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Nasaw2000: David Nasaw: The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. Houghton Mifflin, 2000, 978-0618154463.
Nixon2011: Rob Nixon: Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press, 2011, 978-0674049307.
Nutt2012: David Nutt: Drugs Without the Hot Air: Making Sense of the Drug Debate. Bloomsbury, 2012, 978-1906860165.

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Oluo2018: Ijeoma Oluo: So You Want to Talk About Race. Basic Books, 2018, 978-1580056786.
ONeil2016: Cathy O’Neil: Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Crown, 2016, 978-0553418811.
Orenstein2020: Peggy Orenstein: Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Loneliness, Vulnerability, and the Search for Something Real. Harper, 2020, 978-0062666987.
Oreskes2010: Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway: Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change. Bloomsbury, 2010, 978-1608193943.
Ostrom2015: Elinor Ostrom: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press, 2015, 978-1107569782.

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Paasonen2011: Susanna Paasonen: Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography. MIT Press, 2011, 978-0262551274.
Packard1957: Vance Packard: The Hidden Persuaders. McKay, 1957.
Palazzo2025: Guido Palazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage: The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals. PublicAffairs, 2025, 978-1541705302.
Pasquale2015: Frank Pasquale: The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. Harvard University Press, 2015, 978-0674368279.
Patel2017: Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. University of California Press, 2017, 978-0520299931.
Peiss2011: Kathy Peiss: Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 978-0812221404.
Perrow1999: Charles Perrow: Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton University Press, 1999, 978-0691004129.
Phillips2019: Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski: The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. Verso, 2019, 978-1786635167.
Popper2011: Karl Popper: The Open Society and Its Enemies. Routledge, 2011, 978-0415610216.

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Reich2018: Rob Reich: Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. Princeton University Press, 2018, 978-0691183497.
Rivera2015: Lauren A. Rivera: Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton University Press, 2015, 978-0691155623.
Robin2017: Corey Robin: The Reactionary Mind. Oxford University Press, 2017, 978-0190692001.

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Sandel2020: Michael J. Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, 978-0374289980.
Schlosser2001: Eric Schlosser: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Houghton Mifflin, 2001, 978-0395977897.
Schneier2023: Bruce Schneier: A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back. WW Norton, 2023, 978-0393866667.
Scott1998: James C. Scott: Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press, 1998, 978-0300078152.
Segrave1994: Kerry Segrave: Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991. McFarland, 2013, 978-0786476145.
Shaxson2011: Nicholas Shaxson: Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens. St. Martin’s, 2012, 978-0230341722.
Shiller2015: Robert J. Shiller: Irrational Exuberance (3rd ed.). Princeton University Press, 2015, 978-0691166261.
Silver2003: Beverly J. Silver: Forces of Labor: Workers’ Movements and Globalization Since 1870. Cambridge University Press, 2003, 978-0521520775.
Singer2023: Jessie Singer: There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster. Simon & Schuster, 2023, 978-1982129668.
Skarbek2014: David Skarbek: The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System. Oxford University Press, 2014, 978-0199328499.
Southern1990: R.W. Southern: Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (2nd ed.). Penguin, 1990, 978-0140137552.
Spufford2012: Francis Spufford: Red Plenty. Graywolf Press, 2012, 978-1555976040.
SteinLubrano2024: Alexis Stein Lubrano: Don’t Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st Century Minds. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025, 978-1399413923.
Stoller2019: Matt Stoller: Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy. Simon & Schuster, 2019, 978-1501183089.

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Tarrant2016: Shira Tarrant: The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford University Press, 2016, 978-0190205140.
Thelen1992: Kathleen Thelen: Union of Parts: Labor Politics in Postwar Germany. Cornell University Press, 1991, 978-0801425868.
Thompson1963: E.P. Thompson: The Making of the English Working Class. Knopf, 1966, 978-0394703220.

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Vaughan1996: Diane Vaughan: The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA. University of Chicago Press, 1996, 978-0226851754.
Veblen1899: Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class. Macmillan, 1899.

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Wainwright2017: Tom Wainwright: Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel. PublicAffairs, 2017, 978-1610397704.
Walder2017: Andrew G. Walder: China Under Mao A Revolution Derailed. Harvard University Press, 2017, 9780674975491.
Waldron2012: Jeremy Waldron: The Harm in Hate Speech. Harvard University Press, 2014, 978-0674416864.
Whyte1991: William Foote Whyte and Kathleen King Whyte: Making Mondragón: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex. Cornell University Press, 1991, 978-0875461823.
Wilkinson2011: Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Bloomsbury Press, 2011, 978-1608193417.
Winkler2011: Adam Winkler: Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America. W.W. Norton, 2013, 978-0393345834.
Wu2010: Tim Wu: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. Knopf, 2011, 978-0307390998.
Wu2016: Tim Wu: The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. Random House, 2016, 978-0385352024.

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Young1958: Michael Young: The Rise of the Meritocracy. Thames and Hudson, 1958.
Young2024: Kevin A. Young: Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons From Movements That Won. PM Press, 2024, 979-8887440330.

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Zucman2015: Gabriel Zucman: The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens. University of Chicago Press, 2015, 978-0226422640.