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- Simon Johnson/James Kwak, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (2010, Pantheon)
- John Lanchester, IOU: Why Everyone Owes Everyone but No One Can Pay (2010, Simon & Schuster)
- Michael Lewis, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (2011, WW Norton)
- Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker (paperback, 2010, WW Norton)
- Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010, WW Norton)
- Jeff Madrick, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970s to the Present (2011, Knopf)
- Moshe Adler, Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science That Makes Life Dismal (2010, New Press)
- George A Akerlof/Robert J Shiller, Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (2009, Princeton University Press)
- Gar Alperovitz/Lew Daly, Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back (paperback, 2009, New Press)
- Daniel Altman, Outrageous Fortunes: The Twelve Surprising Trends That Will Reshape the Global Economy (2011, Times Books)
- Daniel Altman, The Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble With America's Future ()
- Dean Baker, False Profits: Recovering From the Bubble Economy (paperback, 2010, PoliPoint Press)
- Alan Beattie, False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World (2009, Riverhead)
- Jared Bernstein, Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries) (2008, Berrett-Koehler)
- George Brockway, Economics Can Be Bad for Your Health ()
- John Cassidy, How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities (2009, Farrar Straus and Giroux)
- Ha-Joon Chang, Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2007, Bloomsbury Press)
- Daniel Cohen, Globalization and Its Enemies (2006; paperback, 2007, MIT Press)
- Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (2007; paperback, 2008, Oxford University Press)
- John De Graaf/David K Batker, What's the Economy For, Anyway?: Why It's Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness (2011, Bloomsbury Press)
- William Easterly, The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2001; paperback, 2002, MIT Press)
- William Easterly, The White Man's Burden: Why the West's to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (2006, Penguin Press)
- Mark Engler, How to Rule the World: The Coming Battle Over the Global Economy (paperback, 2008, Nation Books)
- John Bellamy Foster/Fred Magdoff, The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (paperback, 2009, Monthly Review Press)
- Justin Fox, The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (2009, Harper)
- Jeffry A Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006; paperback, 2007, WW Norton)
- Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (2005, Farrar Straus and Giroux)
- James K Galbraith, The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too (2008, Free Press)
- Peter S Goodman, Past Due: The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy (2009, Times Books)
- Michael Goodwin, Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work) in Words and Pictures (paperback, 2012, Abrams Comicarts)
- Peter Gosselin, High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families (2008, Basic Books)
- Jacob S Hacker, The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream (2007; paperback, 2008, Oxford University Press)
- Jacob S Hacker/Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer -- and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (2010, Simon & Schuster)
- David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (2010, Oxford University Press)
- Richard C Koo, The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons From Japan's Great Recession (2008; revised, paperback, 2009, Wiley)
- Josh Kosman, The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Is Destroying Jobs and Killing the American Economy (paperback, 2010, Portfolio)
- Paul Krugman, End This Depression Now! (2012, WW Norton)
- Paul Krugman, Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations (paperback, 1995, WW Norton)
- Paul Krugman, Pop Internationalism (1996; paperback, 1997, MIT Press)
- Paul Krugman, The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches From the Dismal Science (paperback, 1999)
- Paul Krugman, The Age of Diminished Expectations: US Economic Policy in the 1990s (1990; 3rd ed, papererback, 1997, MIT Press)
- Paul Krugman, The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 (2008, WW Norton)
- Robert Kuttner, The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity (2007, Knopf)
- Steven D Levitt/Stephen J Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005, William Morrow)
- Barry C Lynn, Cornered: The New Monopoly Capitalism and the Economics of Destruction (2010, Wiley)
- Barry C Lynn, End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (2005, Doubleday)
- Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future (2007, Times Books; paperback, 2008, Henry Holt)
- Charles R Morris, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash (2008, Public Affairs)
- Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy (paperback, 2010, Picador)
- Michael Perelman, Steal This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation of Creativity (2002; paperback, 2004, Palgrave Macmillan)
- Kevin Phillips, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism (2008, Viking)
- Robert Pollin, Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity ()
- Richard A Posner, The Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression (2009, Harvard University Press)
- Nomi Prins, It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street (2009, John Wiley & Sons)
- Nomi Prins, Other People's Money: The Corporate Mugging of America (paperback, 2004, New Press)
- John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us (2010, Princeton University Press)
- Raghuram Rajan, Fault Lines: How Hiden Fractures Threaten the World Economy (2010; paperback, 2011, Princeton University Press)
- Matt Ridley, The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (2010, Harper)
- Dani Rodrik, The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011, WW Norton)
- Jeffrey D Sachs, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005; paperback, 2006, Penguin)
- Robert J Samuelson, The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath: The Past and Future of American Affluence (2008, Random House)
- Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (1999, Knopf; paperback, 2000, Anchor)
- Robert Skidelsky, Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009, Public Affairs)
- Robert Skidelsky/Edward Skidelsky, How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life (2012, Other Press)
- Yves Smith, Econned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism (2010, Palgrave Macmillan)
- Joseph E Stiglitz/Andrew Charlton, Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development (2006, Oxford University Press)
- Joseph E Stiglitz, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy (2010, WW Norton)
- Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and Its Discontents (paperback, 2003, WW Norton)
- Joseph Stiglitz, The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade (2003, WW Norton)
- Steven Stoll, The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth (2008, Hill & Wang)
- Donald L Barlett/James B Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business -- and Bad Medicine (2004, Doubleday)
- Otis Webb Brawley/Paul Goldberg, Howe We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America (2012, St Martin's Press)
- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (paperback, 2008, Bloomsbury)
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Underming America (paperback, 2010, Picador)
- Ezekiel J Emanuel, Healthcare, Guaranteed: A Simple, Secure Solution for America (paperback, 2008, Public Affairs)
- Atul Gawande, Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance (paperback, 2008, Picador)
- Atul Gawande, Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Improving Science (2002, Picador)
- Jerome Groopman, How Doctors Think (2007; paperback, 2008, Mariner Books)
- Robert H LeBow, Health Care Meltdown: Confronting the Myths and Fixing Our Failing System (2003, Alan C. Hood)
- Phillip Longman, Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours (paperback, 2007, Polipoint Press)
- David Mechanic, The Truth About Health Care: Why Reform Is Not Working in America (2006, Rutgers University Press)
- Jill Quadagno, One Nation Uninsured: Why the US Has No National Health Insurance (2005, Oxford University Press)
- T.R. Reid, The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (2009, Penguin)
- Arnold S Relman, A Second Opinion: Rescuing America's Health Care (2007, Public Affairs)
- Julius B Richmond/Rashi Fein, The Health Care Mess: How We Got Into It and What It Will Take to Get Out (2005, Harvard University Press)
- Susan Sered/Rushika Fernandopulle, Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity (paperback, 2006, University of California Press)
- Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (1983; paperback, 1984, Basic Books)
- Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting With Jesus: Dispatches From America's Class War (2007, Crown; paperback, 2008, Three Rivers Press)
- Tamara Draut, Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead (2006, Doubleday)
- Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (paperback, 2002, Holt)
- Reg Theriault, The Unmaking of the American Working Class ()
- Barbara Ehrenreich, This Land Is Their Land: Reports From a Divided Nation (2008, Metropolitan Books)
- Robert Frank, Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich (2007; paperback, 2008, Three Rivers Press)
- Ichiro Kawachi/Bruce P Kennedy, The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health (paperback, 2006, New Press)
- Timothy Noah, The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It (2012, Bloomsbury Press)
- Juliet B Schor, Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth (2010, Penguin Press)
- Richard Wilkinson/Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2009, Bloomsbury Press)
- Richard Wilkinson, The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier (paperback, 2006, New Press)
- Robert Engelman, More: Population, Nature, and What Women Want (2008, Island Press)
- Marc Gerstein, Flirting With Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental (2008, Union Square Press)
- Michelle Goldberg, The Means of Reproduction: Sex, Power and the Future of the World (2009, Penguin Press)
- Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009, Viking)
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