Appendix D — Bibliography

Acemoglu, Daron, and Simon Johnson. 2023. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781541702530. Argues that technological progress has historically served elites over workers, and outlines what would be needed to redirect it toward shared prosperity.

Achen, Christopher, and Larry Bartels. 2017. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400888740. Challenges the idea that elections produce representative government, arguing that voters choose based on group identity and retrospective satisfaction rather than policy.

Adelstein, Jake. 2023. The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld. Scribe. ISBN 9781957363578. A journalist’s firsthand account of decades covering the Yakuza, Japan’s organized crime syndicates, and the underworld culture surrounding them (originally published 2010).

Andreessen, Marc. 2023. The Techno-Optimist Manifesto. Andreessen Horowit. Silicon Valley venture capitalist’s self-serving manifesto arguing that technology is an unambiguous force for human progress and that pessimism about it is irrational.

Arendt, Hannah. 2006. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Penguin. ISBN 9780143039884. Report on the trial of Nazi bureaucrat Adolf Eichmann, introducing the concept of the ’banality of evil’ to describe how ordinary people commit atrocities within institutional structures (originally published 1963).

Babiak, Paul, and Robert D. Hare. 2019. Snakes in Suits: Understanding and Surviving the Psychopaths in Your Office. HarperBusiness. ISBN 9780062697547. Examines how psychopathic personality traits (charm, ruthlessness, and lack of empathy) can enable corporate success while causing organizational harm (originally published 2006).

Baiocchi, Gianpaolo. 2005. Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participatory Democracy in Porto Alegre. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804751230. Studies the participatory budgeting experiment in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Bakan, Joel. 2005. The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. Simon; Shuster. ISBN 9780743247467. Argues that the modern corporation, by legal mandate and design, behaves like a psychopath.

Baldwin, Peter. 2014. The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400851911. Traces three centuries of transatlantic disputes over copyright law, showing how cultural and economic interests have repeatedly clashed over who owns creative work.

Banaji, Mahzarin R., and Anthony G. Greenwald. 2013. Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People. Delacorte. ISBN 9780553804645. Reports decades of research showing that most people, including those who explicitly reject prejudice, harbor automatic associations between social groups in ways that affect their judgments and behavior.

Bandura, Albert. 1999. “Moral Disengagement in the Perpetration of Inhumanities.” Personality and Social Psychology Review 3 (3). https://doi.org/10.1207/s15327957pspr0303_3. Analyzes the psychological mechanisms (moral justification, euphemistic labeling, and diffusion of responsibility) that allow people to commit harmful acts without feeling culpable.

Barthes, Roland. 1972. Mythologie. Translated by Annette Lavers. Hill; Wang. ISBN 9780374521509. Shows how myths naturalize what are actually historical, ideological constructions to make happenstance appear inevitable (originally published 1957).

Beard, Mary. 2017. Women & Power: A Manifesto. Profile Books. ISBN 9781788160612. Traces two thousand years of women’s exclusion from public speech and power, arguing that the patterns are structural and require more than individual success to change.

Becker, Gary S. 1971. The Economics of Discrimination. 2nd ed. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226041162. Argued that employers who discriminate pay a competitive cost, and incorrectly predicted that market forces would eventually eliminate labor discrimination.

Beckerman, Gal. 2022. The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas. Crown. ISBN 9781524759186. Traces how radical social movements have historically incubated in ’slow media’ like letters, pamphlets, and newsletters before breaking into public consciousness.

Bellos, David, and Alexandre Montagu. 2024. Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs. WW Norton. ISBN 9781324073710. A history of copyright law that shows how it has consistently favored powerful intermediaries over creators and users.

Berlin, Isaiah. 1991. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780679401315. Essays arguing that the pursuit of utopian ideals inevitably leads to violence when imposed on the real world.

Bernays, Edward L. 2024. Propaganda. Martino Fine Books. ISBN 9781684228416. The foundational text of modern public relations, arguing that manufactured consent through propaganda is necessary and beneficial in a mass democracy (originally published 1928).

Black, William K. 2005. 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. ISBN 9780292706385. Forensic analysis of how savings-and-loan executives in the 1980s systematically looted their own institutions with the complicity of regulators and politicians.

Blackmon, Douglas A. 2008. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Doubleday. ISBN 9780385722704. Documents how Southern states re-imposed forced labor on Black Americans after the Civil War through convict leasing and debt peonage.

Board, Belinda J., and Katarina Fritzon. 2005. “Disordered Personalities at Work.” Psychology, Crime & Law 11 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/10683160310001634304. Study finding that senior British executives score higher on several psychopathic personality traits than criminal inmates in a high-security hospital.

Bollier, David. 2025. Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Common. 2nd ed. New Society Publishers. ISBN 9781774060117. Accessible introduction to the concept of the commons—shared resources governed collectively.

Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 2011. A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691151250. Argues that humans evolved as a fundamentally cooperative species, not as self-interested maximizers.

Bracha, Oren. 2019. Owning Ideas: The Intellectual Origins of American Intellectual Property, 1790-1909. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108790697. A history of how American intellectual property law developed from competing visions of authorship, invention, and the public good.

Brandt, Allan M. 2007. The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. Basic Books. ISBN 9780465070480. A history of how the tobacco industry created, marketed, and defended cigarettes while suppressing evidence of harm through scientific manipulation and regulatory capture.

Breckenridge, Keith. 2016. Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107434899. A history of how South Africa became a global pioneer in biometric identification in order to implement apartheid.

Bregman, Rutger. 2020. Humankind: A Hopeful Histor. Translated by Erica Moore and Elizabeth Manton. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316418539. Reexamines famous social-science studies—Stanford Prison Experiment, Robbers Cave, the bystander effect—and argues they were methodologically flawed or misrepresented, making a popular case that humans are fundamentally cooperative rather than selfish.

Browne, Simone. 2015. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822359388. Argues that surveillance technologies have always been designed with Black people as primary targets, from slave passes to facial recognition systems.

Burke, Edmund. 1790. Reflections on the Revolution in France. J. Dodsley. Classic statement of the conservative case for gradual reform, including the argument that society is a partnership between the dead, the living, and those yet to be born.

Campbell, W. Joseph. 2011. Yellow Journalism: Puncturing the Myths, Defining the Legacies. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780275981136. Debunks the legend that yellow journalism caused the Spanish-American War, while examining how the press shapes and distorts historical memory.

Case, Anne, and Angus Deaton. 2021. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism. Princeton Universitiy Press. ISBN 9780691217079. Looks at deaths from suicide and substance abuse among working-class Americans, and at the social and economic forces that are causing them.

Cech, Erin. 2021. The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520303232. Shows how the ideology of ’following your passion’ in work intensifies labor exploitation and concentrates opportunity among already-privileged groups.

Chang, Ha-Joon. 2012. 23 Things They Don’t Tell You about Capitalism. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781608193387. An accessible refutation of twenty-three standard free-market claims about capitalism, drawing on economic history to show the gap between theory and practice.

Chenoweth, Erica, and Maria J. Stephan. 2011. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231156820. An empirical study showing nonviolent civil resistance campaigns succeed roughly twice as often as violent ones in achieving political goals.

Chouldechova, Alexandra. 2017. “Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact: A Study of Bias in Recidivism Prediction Instruments.” Big Data 5 (2). https://doi.org/10.1089/big.2016.0047. Mathematical proof that commonly used fairness criteria for recidivism prediction algorithms are mutually incompatible when base rates differ across groups.

Christopher J. Boyce, Gordon D. A. Brown, and Simon C. Moore. 2010. “Money and Happiness: Rank of Income, Not Income, Affects Life Satisfaction.” Psychological Science 21 (4). https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797610362671. Study showing that relative income predicts life satisfaction better than absolute income.

Cole, Simon A. 2002. Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674010024. A history of fingerprinting from its origins in colonial India through its adoption by police worldwide.

Conquest, Robert. 1986. The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195051803. A history of Stalin’s forced collectivization of Soviet agriculture in the early 1930s and the resulting famine that killed millions, particularly in Ukraine.

Crick, Bernard. 2000. In Defence of Politics. 5th ed. Continuum. ISBN 9780826450654. A classic defense of politics, understood as the negotiation of competing interests, against ideologies that promise to transcend it through technocracy or purity (originally published 1962).

Daniel, Pete. 1972. The Shadow of Slavery: Peonage in the South, 1901-1969. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252061462. History of peonage in the American South after Reconstruction, documenting how debt bondage re-created conditions of virtual slavery for Black and poor white workers.

Davies, Dan. 2022. Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World. Scribner. ISBN 9781982114930. Explains the mechanics of financial fraud by showing the structural features of markets that make them possible.

Davies, Dan. 2025. The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226843087. Looks back to the cybernetics movement to explain how large organizations have evolved to shield their leaders from personal accountability.

Doctorow, Cory. 2025. Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do about It. Farrar, Straus; Giroux. ISBN 9780374619329. Diagnoses the systematic degradation of digital platforms from useful services into exploitative traps, and argues for structural reforms to reverse it.

Doctorow, Cory, and Rebecca Giblin. 2022. Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807007068. Examines how power concentrated in media and technology allows corporations to lock in both creators and consumers.

Douglas, Mary. 2002. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. Routledge. ISBN 9780415289955. Anthropological analysis of how all societies use categories of purity and pollution to enforce social boundaries and mark outsiders as dangerous (originally published 1966).

Drèze, Jean, and Amartya Sen. 2013. An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691160795. Examines India’s economic development failures, arguing that growth has not translated into adequate improvements in health, education, or equality.

Dudley, Renée, and Daniel Golden. 2022. The Ransomware Hunting Team: A Band of Misfits’ Improbable Crusade to Save the World from Cybercrime. Farrar, Straus; Giroux. ISBN 9780374603304. An account of a volunteer team of malware analysts who hunt ransomware gangs, exposing the criminal infrastructure behind a billion-dollar extortion industry.

Dutton, Kevin. 2013. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us about Success. Farrar, Straus; Giroux. ISBN 9780374533984. Argues that psychopathic traits are not uniformly harmful and can confer advantages in professions requiring high-stakes decision-making.

Ehmke, Coraline Ada. 2025. We Just Build Hammers: Stories from the Past, Present, and Future of Responsible Tech. Apress. ISBN 9798868812484. Collection of stories and analysis about how technologists have confronted the harmful uses of their work and what responsible practice might look like.

Epstein, Helen. 2007. The Invisible Cure: Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS. Farrar, Straus; Giroux. ISBN 9780374281526. Examines Uganda’s successful early response to the HIV epidemic, arguing that community-based open discussion—rather than external resources—drove the decline in prevalence.

Eubanks, Virginia. 2018. Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. St. Martin’s Press. ISBN 9781250074317. Documents how automated decision systems in welfare, child protection, and criminal justice systematically harm poor and working-class Americans.

Ewing, Jack. 2017. Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393254501. Describes how Volkswagen spent a decade systematically cheating on emissions tests, and how a culture of hierarchical pressure made the fraud possible.

Faderman, Lillian. 2015. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451694123. Comprehensive history of the American gay rights movement from the 1950s through marriage equality, told through the lives of its activists and adversaries.

Falk, Brett Hemenway, and Gerry Tsoukalas. 2026. The AI Layoff Trap. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20617. Argues that if AI ’succeeds’ it will make everyone poorer.

Federici, Silvia. 2004. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570270598. Argues that the early modern witch trials were a way to discipline female labor and enclosing women’s reproductive work inside unpaid domestic roles.

Ferguson, Christopher J. 2015. “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). https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691615592234. Meta-analysis of research on violent video games finding minimal evidence that they cause aggression, identifying methodological flaws in studies claiming otherwise.

FitzPatrick, Robert L. 2020. Ponzinomics: The Untold Story of Multi-Level Marketing. Pyramid Scheme Alert Press. ISBN 9780970975430. A detailed exposé of the multi-level marketing industry’s structural similarities to pyramid schemes and the financial harm it inflicts on most participants.

Folbre, Nancy. 2001. The Invisible Heart: Economics and Family Values. The New Press. ISBN 9781565846555. Shows how unpaid care work sustains the entire economy while remaining systematically excluded from economic measurement and theory.

Frank, Robert H. 1985. Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195049459. Argues that humans care about relative status within local reference groups more than absolute wealth, explaining many economically ’irrational’ behaviors.

Frankfurt, Harry G. 2005. On Bullshit. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691122946. A philosophical analysis distinguishing bullshit (indifference to truth) from lying.

Frenkel, Sheera, and Cecilia Kang. 2021. An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination. Harper. ISBN 9780062960672. Describes Facebook’s decade of prioritizing growth and engagement over addressing its platform’s role in misinformation and political manipulation.

Funder, Anna. 2011. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall. Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062077325. Oral histories from East Germans who lived under Stasi surveillance, revealing the devastation wrought by a state security apparatus that infected every relationship (originally published 2002).

Galbraith, John Kenneth. 1954. The Great Crash 1929. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395859995. Classic account of the speculative bubble and crash of 1929, examining the psychological, institutional, and regulatory failures that produced it.

Galbraith, John Kenneth. 1998. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395925003. Argued that postwar American prosperity masked a dangerous imbalance: abundance of private goods alongside systematic neglect of public ones (originally published 1958).

Galinsky, Adam D., and Thomas Mussweiler. 2001. “First Offers as Anchors: The Role of Perspective-Taking and Negotiator Focus.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 81 (4). https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.81.4.657. Demonstrates that making the first offer in a negotiation anchors the outcome in the first mover’s favor.

Gawande, Atul. 2009. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 9780805091748. Argues that checklists are the most effective tool for reducing catastrophic error in complex high-stakes environments.

Giridharadas, Anand. 2018. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Knopf. ISBN 9780525533184. Argues that plutocratic philanthropy allows the wealthy to appear to help the world while preserving the economic arrangements that make help necessary.

Goffman, Erving. 1959. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Anchor. ISBN 9780385094023. Argues that everyday social interaction is a kind of performance in which people manage impressions to shape how others perceive and treat them.

Gordon, Andrew. 2001. The Wages of Affluence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674007062. A history of Japanese labor-management relations from postwar reconstruction through the economic miracle, examining how cooperation was built.

Graeber, David. 2011. Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Melville House. ISBN 9781933633862. Anthropological history of debt across five thousand years, arguing that the standard economic account of money emerging from barter is a myth.

Graeber, David. 2018. Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781501143335. Argues that a large fraction of modern employment consists of jobs that even those who hold them consider pointless, and explores why such work proliferates.

Gray, Mary L. 2009. Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814731932. Examines how rural LGBTQ+ youth use media and internet access to create community and visibility outside urban queer spaces.

Grossman, Dave. 1995. On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316330114. A military historian’s analysis of the psychological barriers to killing in combat, and how modern training methods systematically overcome them.

Grossman, Dave, and Gloria Degaetano. 1999. Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence. Crown. ISBN 9780804139359. Argues that violent media, particularly video games, condition children to kill by overcoming the same inhibitions targeted by military training.

Hannig, Anita. 2023. The Day i Die the Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America. Sourcebooks. ISBN 9781728259420. Ethnographic account of the assisted dying debate in America through the stories of patients, families, and practitioners.

Hardin, Garrett. 1968. “The Tragedy of the Commons.” Science 162. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.162.3859.1243. Influential but deeply flawed essay arguing that individuals will inevitably overexploit shared resources, used to justify privatization.

Hari, Johann. 2015. Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408857823. Shows that the war on drugs was built on racism and prohibition ideology rather than evidence of harm.

Harvey, Neil. 1998. The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822322382. History and analysis of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, examining the indigenous communities’ political agency and their construction of autonomous governance structures outside the state.

Herman, Edward S., and Noam Chomsky. 1988. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. Pantheon. ISBN 9780375714498. Proposes a ’propaganda model’ of media, arguing that commercial pressures, advertiser dependence, and sourcing from official institutions systematically filter out dissent.

Hilts, Philip J. 2003. Protecting America’s Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807854716. A history of the FDA as an institution that has repeatedly been captured by the industries it regulates, then periodically reformed after public health disasters.

Hirsch, Fred. 2015. Social Limits to Growth* (2nd Ed. Routledge. ISBN 9781138834941. Argues that positional goods lose value as more people gain access to them, creating a growth trap (originally published 1977).

Hirshman, Linda. 2012. Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution. Harper. ISBN 9780061965500. Political history of the American gay rights movement’s legal and legislative strategy.

Hochschild, Adam. 2006. Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves. Mariner Books. ISBN 9780618619078. History of the British abolitionist movement, showing how a small group of dedicated people built the world’s first successful human rights campaign.

Hochschild, Arlie, and Anne Machung. 1989. The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home. Viking. ISBN 9780142002926. Describes how women in dual-income American households perform roughly a month of additional unpaid domestic labor per year compared to their partners, and how they rationalize this inequality as personal choice.

Hoffer, Eric. 2010. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements. Harper Perennial. ISBN 9780060505912. Psychological portrait of mass movement fanatics, arguing that personal frustration and self-hatred drive fanatical commitment (originally published 1951).

Igo, Sarah E. 2020. The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674244795. History of how American attitudes toward privacy have shifted from the nineteenth century to the present, shaped by census surveys, social science, and surveillance technology.

Jaffe, Sarah. 2021. Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. Bold Type Books. ISBN 9781568589398. Argues that the ideology of work-as-passion serves employers by inducing workers to accept poor conditions in exchange for the feeling of doing something meaningful.

Jenkins, Rob, and Anne Marie Goetz. 1999. “Accounts and Accountability: Theoretical Implications of the Right-to-Information Movement in India.” Third World Quarterly 20 (3). https://doi.org/10.1080/01436599913712. Analysis of the grassroots campaign for the right to information in rural Rajasthan and its implications for democratic accountability and bottom-up legal reform.

Jenkins, Tiffany. 2024. Strangers and Intimates: How the State Took over Your Most Private Relationships. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781529034165. Argues that the boundary between public and private life is a political artifact, tracing how states have repeatedly redrawn it—often at the demand of reformers—and what this means for individual freedom and social accountability.

Jonas, Hans. 1984. The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226405971. Argues that modern technology demands a new ethics of responsibility oriented toward the long-run future, because our power to cause irreversible harm has far outgrown our ethical frameworks (original Germanly published 1979).

Joseph R. Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, and Douglas L. Kruse. 2013. The Citizen’s Share: Putting Ownership Back into Democracy. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300209334. Historical and economic argument for broadening employee ownership as a way to share the gains from capitalism more widely.

Kahneman, Daniel. 2011. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus; Giroux. ISBN 9780374533557. Synthesizes decades of behavioral economics research to show that human judgment is systematically distorted by cognitive biases that violate rational-choice theory.

Kaplan, David E., and Alec Dubro. 2012. Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520269064. A comprehensive history of the Yakuza, examining their structure, social functions, political connections, and decline (originally published 1986).

Karabel, Jerome. 2006. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Mariner Books. ISBN 9780618773558. Describes how Harvard, Yale, and Princeton used admissions criteria ostensibly about merit to exclude Jews and maintain the dominance of Protestant elites through the twentieth century.

Kathleen Tierney, Christine Bevc, and Erica Kuligowski. 2006. “Metaphors Matter: Disaster Myths, Media Frames, and Their Consequences in Hurricane Katrina.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 604. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002716205285589. Shows how media coverage of Hurricane Katrina deployed myths of looting and social breakdown that contradicted evidence and guided disastrously wrong government responses.

Kelly, Kim. 2022. Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor. One Signal. ISBN 9781982171063. A history of organized labor in the US, told through the stories of workers and organizers across industries.

Kelly, Marjorie. 2012. Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution. Berrett-Koehler. ISBN 9781605093109. Argues that a revolution in ownership forms—including worker cooperatives, community land trusts, and public banks—is already underway and could replace the shareholder corporation.

Kendi, Ibram X. 2016. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. Nation Books. ISBN 9781568584638. A history of racist ideas in American intellectual and political life, arguing that racism is not ignorance but a post-hoc justification for policies serving elite interests.

Khan, Lina. 2017. “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox.” Yale Law Journal 126 (3). A legal argument that antitrust doctrine has failed to address Amazon’s anti-competitive behavior because it focuses only on consumer prices, ignoring market power.

Khera, Reetika, ed. 2019. Dissent on Aadhaar: Big Data Meets Big Brother. Orient BlackSwan. ISBN 9789352875429. A collection of critical essays on India’s Aadhaar biometric identity system, examining its governance failures, exclusions, and surveillance.

Kindleberger, Charles P., and Robert Aliber. 2005. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises. 5th ed. Wiley. ISBN 9780471467144. A classic analysis of financial crises from the seventeenth century to the late twentieth (originally published 1978).

Lakey, George. 2018. How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning. Melville House. ISBN 9781612197531. A practical handbook for nonviolent direct action campaigns, drawing on historical examples to identify effective strategies and organizational structures.

Lewis, Michael. 2010. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. W. W. Norton. ISBN 9780393338829. The story of the traders and analysts who bet on the 2008 mortgage collapse.

Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, and Molla S. Donaldson (eds.). 2000. To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System. National Academies Press. ISBN 9780309068376. A landmark report documenting that medical errors kill tens of thousands of Americans annually, calling for a systemic safety approach rather than individual blame.

Lindsey, Almont. 1942. The Pullman Strike: The Story of a Unique Experiment and of a Great Labor Upheaval. University of Chicago Press. Describes the 1894 Pullman Strike, in which Pullman’s company town became the site of a nationwide railroad boycott and federal intervention.

Linebaugh, Peter. 2014. Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance. PM Press. ISBN 9781604867473. Essays arguing that the historical enclosure of common lands was not inevitable economic progress but a deliberate dispossession, and tracing resistance to it.

Linklater, Andro. 2015. Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781620402917. Global history of land ownership, arguing that private property in land has been the central driver of economic and political history.

Lubrano, Alexis Stein. 2025. Don’t Talk about Politics: How to Change 21st Century Minds. Bloomsbury Continuum. ISBN 9781399413923. Argues that evidence-based persuasion techniques are more effective than fact-dumping at changing minds.

MacAskill, William. 2023. What We Owe the Future. Basic Books. ISBN 9781541604032. Argues that future people matter morally as much as present ones, and that improving the long-run trajectory of civilization should be a central ethical priority—a position called longtermism.

Macintyre, Stuart. 2020. A Concise History of Australia. 5th ed. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108728485. Concise history of Australia from indigenous settlement through the present, examining colonization, federation, immigration, and the evolution of national identity.

Mackay, Charles. 1841. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Richard Bentley. Classic description of episodes of collective folly, including the Dutch tulip mania and South Sea Bubble.

Markey, Patrick M., and Christopher J. Ferguson. 2017. Moral Combat: Why the War on Violent Video Games Is Wrong. BenBella. ISBN 9781942952992. Argues that the moral panic over violent video games was manufactured by politicians and activists and is unsupported by decades of research.

Mashaw, Jerry L., and David L. Harfst. 1990. The Struggle for Auto Safety. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674845305. Study of how the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration was systematically weakened by industry lobbying, showing how regulatory capture works in practice.

Mazer, Sharon. 1998. Professional Wrestling: Sport and Spectacle. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9781578060566. Academic analysis of professional wrestling as a form of popular culture.

Mazzucato, Mariana. 2015. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public Vs. Private Sector Myths. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781610396134. Argues that the state, not private enterprise, has been the primary source of transformative technological innovation, and that public investment deserves public reward.

McGhee, Heather. 2021. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. One World. ISBN 9780525509561. Argues that zero-sum racial thinking has led to policies that damaged white working-class Americans alongside Black ones, and that building solidarity across racial lines serves the interests of most Americans.

McGrann, Owen. 2026. The Dead Economy Theory. https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory. Argues that AI-driven mass labor replacement creates a structural prisoners’ dilemma in which each firm rationally automates beyond the socially optimal level, destroying the consumer base on which all firms depend.

McIntosh, Peggy. 1989. “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” Peace and Freedom. An essay describing how racial and other privileges operate as an invisible set of unearned assets, invisible precisely because those who hold them have never had to notice their absence.

Mesquita, Bruce Bueno de, and Alastair Smith. 2011. The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781610390446. Argues that political leaders of all regime types prioritize keeping a small coalition of key supporters satisfied over serving the general population.

Michael McLeay, Amar Radia, and Ryland Thomas. 2014. “Money Creation in the Modern Economy.” Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/money-creation-in-the-modern-economy. The Bank of England’s explanation of how commercial banks create money through lending rather than lending out pre-existing deposits.

Michaels, David. 2008. Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195300673. Documents the tobacco industry’s strategy of manufacturing scientific doubt, showing how it was adopted by other industries to delay regulation of harmful products.

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Nixon, Rob. 2011. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674049307. Argues that environmental harm inflicted on poor and indigenous communities is largely invisible to the media because it unfolds slowly rather than catastrophically.

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Palazzo, Guido, and Ulrich Hoffrage. 2025. The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781541705302. Analysis of corporate scandals, identifying the organizational and psychological dynamics that normalizes unethical behavior.

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Pasquale, Frank. 2015. The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674368279. Argues that financial and information industries use proprietary algorithms to make consequential decisions while remaining unaccountable to those they affect.

Peiss, Kathy. 2011. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812221404. A critical history of the American beauty industry (originally published 1998).

Perez-Truglia, Ricardo. 2020. “The Effects of Income Transparency on Well-Being: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.” American Economic Review 110 (4). https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20160256. Describes a natural experiment using Norway’s public tax records showing that people’s well-being is more affected by how their income compares to neighbors than its absolute level.

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Pfeffer, Jeffrey. 1992. Managing with Power: Politics and Influence in Organizations. Harvard Business Press. ISBN 9780875844404. Argues that organizational success depends on understanding and exercising power, and that managers who ignore politics systematically lose to those who don’t.

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Quarantelli, E. L., ed. 1998. What Is a Disaster?: A Dozen Perspectives on the Question. Routledge. ISBN 9780415178990. A collection of essays from disaster researchers examining what makes an event a disaster, showing how the concept is contested across disciplines.

Rawls, John. 1999. A Theory of Justice. 2nd ed. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674000780. Foundational work in political philosophy; the ’just savings principle’ addresses obligations across generations, arguing that each generation must preserve the gains of culture and justice and maintain just institutions (originally published 1971).

Reich, Rob. 2018. Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691183497. Argues that philanthropy by the wealthy is anti-democratic, allowing rich individuals to direct public priorities without public accountability.

Rivera, Lauren A. 2015. Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691155623. An ethnographic study of how elite professional firms hire, finding they select for cultural fit with the upper class rather than actual merit.

Roan, Sharon L. 1989. Ozone Crisis: The 15-Year Evolution of a Sudden Global Emergency. Wiley. ISBN 9780471522720. A history of the discovery of the ozone hole and the political and scientific debates that preceded the Montreal Protocol.

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Runciman, David. 2014. Politics. Profile Books. ISBN 9781846685989. A short, accessible introduction to what politics is, why it matters, and why its messiness is preferable to the alternatives.

Russell, Andrew L. 2014. Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology and Networks. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107612044. Explores how technical standards in telecommunications came to be, and the tension between open and proprietary approaches.

Sandel, Michael J. 2020. The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? Farrar, Straus; Giroux. ISBN 9780374289980. Argues that the ideology of meritocracy is both false and corrosive, breeding hubris among winners and humiliation among losers while obscuring structural inequality.

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Schlosser, Eric. 2001. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 9780395977897. A critical investigation of the American fast food industry.

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Scott, James C. 1998. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300078152. Argues that large-scale state projects to improve society fail when they ignore local knowledge.

Segrave, Kerry. 2013. Payola in the Music Industry: A History, 1880-1991. McFarland. ISBN 9780786476145. A history of payola in the music industry from the nineteenth century to the 1990s.

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Skarbek, David. 2014. The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199328499. Argues that American prison gangs emerged as governance institutions filling the vacuum left by inadequate official oversight of the incarcerated.

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Srnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. Polity Press. ISBN 9781509504862. Analyzes digital platforms as a new capitalist form, in which data extraction and network effects replace traditional models of production and profit.

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Torpey, John. 2000. The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521634939. A history of how the passport was invented by states as a tool for controlling population movement.

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Wilkerson, Isabel. 2020. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Random House. ISBN 9780593230251. Argues that American racial hierarchy is best understood not as racism but as a caste system.

Wilkinson, Richard, and Kate Pickett. 2011. The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger. Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 9781608193417. Cross-national empirical study showing that greater economic inequality correlates with worse outcomes on virtually every social indicator, from health to violence.

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Wright, Lawrence. 2013. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. Knopf. ISBN 9780307700667. Investigative account of Scientology’s origins, doctrines, and internal culture.

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Wu, Tim. 2016. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads. Random House. ISBN 9780385352017. A history of the advertising industry’s colonization of human attention.

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Yunus, Muhammad. 2007. Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781586484934. Describes the Grameen Bank’s model of lending to poor women through social accountability rather than collateral.

Zucman, Gabriel. 2015. The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226422640. Economic analysis of offshore tax evasion.