One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
10 best books like One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy (Thomas Frank): Washington Square, Galápagos, The Portrait of a Lady, Deadeye Dick, Red Harvest, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, Bluebeard, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0451528719 |
The plot of Washington Square has the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-hearted young woman, the only child of a rich widower, is pursued by a charming but unscrupulous man who seeks the wealth she will presumably inherit. On this premise, Henry James constructed one of...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0385333870 |
Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0141439637 |
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond,...
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0385334176 |
Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany...
| Author | Dashiell Hammett |
| ISBN | 0752852612 |
I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
| Author | Kevin Phillips |
| ISBN | 0670019070 |
The bestselling author reveals how the U.S. financial sector has hijacked our economy and put America�s global future at risk
In American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned us of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the increasing cost of scarce oil. The current...
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
| Author | Joseph E. Stiglitz |
| ISBN | 0393075966 |
Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz explains the current financial crisis—and the coming global economic order.
The current global financial crisis carries a “made-in-America” label. In this forthright and incisive book, Nobel Laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz explains how America...
Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut...
Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
| Author | Naomi Klein |
| ISBN | 0312307993 |
Naomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.
Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in 2001, and declared...
Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
| Author | Brad "Scarface" Jordan |
| ISBN | 0062302647 |
One of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2015
From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in a new generation of rap dominance.
Scarface...
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
| Author | Eric Schlosser |
| ISBN | 0618446702 |
America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kid's nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his exacting eye on the underbelly of the American marketplace and...
| Author | John N. Gray |
| ISBN | 1565849876 |
While many Americans view the September 11th terrorist attack as the act of an anachronistic and dangerous sect, one that champions medieval and outmoded ideals, John Gray here argues that in fact the ideology of Al Qaeda is both Western and modern, a by-product of globalization’s transnational...
| Author | Henry James |
| ISBN | 0393977102 |
"The Author on His Craft" again reprints James s critical essay "The Art of Fiction" and related passages from his notebooks, including a new passage on "In the Cage." "Criticism" has been entirely updated and includes ten new essays by critics who during the last twenty-five years have helped to establish...
| Author | Dean Baker |
| ISBN | 1411693957 |
In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It's time for the rules to change. Sound...
| Author | Doug Henwood |
| ISBN | 0860916707 |
With compelling clarity, Henwood dissects the world's greatest financial center, laying open the Intricacies of how, and for whom, the market works. The Wall Street which emerges is not a pretty sight. Hidden from public view, the markets are poorly regulated, badly managed, chronically myopic...
| Author | Leo Panitch |
| ISBN | 1844677427 |
The all-encompassing embrace of world capitalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century was generally attributed to the superiority of competitive markets. Globalization had appeared to be the natural outcome of this unstoppable process. But today, with global markets roiling and increasingly...
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
| Author | Jane Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0679748164 |
In this slim and readable volume, Jacobs articulates the two moral systems humans have evolved over the centuries: that of traders (commerce), and that of guardians (government). Once stated, they seem so obvious, but failure to recognize the differences results in serious chaos. This book was a...
Doctor Strange: Don't Pay the Ferryman
| Author | Roger Stern |
| ISBN | 0785193251 |
Flames of the Faltine! Is it getting hot in here, or is it just Mephisto? When Doctor Strange joins Reed and Sue Richards in battle with the Lord of Lies, the enchanting sorceress Topaz is freed from hell. But half her soul remains in torment. Can Strange complete her - or will he fall prey first to a siren's...
