The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
10 best books like The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer (Dean Baker): Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism, Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism, Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History), Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom, The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy Of American Empire, Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else
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...
| Author | Yves Smith |
| ISBN | 0230620515 |
Why are we in such a financial mess today? There are lots of proximate causes: over-leverage, global imbalances, bad financial technology that lead to widespread underestimation of risk.
But these are all symptoms. Until we isolate and tackle fundamental causes, we will fail to extirpate the...
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 | Thomas Frank |
| ISBN | 0385495048 |
In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.
Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic...
| Author | Alfred W. Crosby |
| ISBN | 0521546184 |
People of European descent form the bulk of the population in most of the temperate zones of the world--North America, Australia and New Zealand. The military successes of European imperialism are easy to explain because in many cases they were achieved by using firearms against spears. Alfred Crosby,...
| Author | John W. Dean |
| ISBN | 0670018201 |
Dean writes here about “the often ignored processes of the federal government.” (p xv) This is a book that is rich in analysis, information that was new to me, references to other writers in the covered fields.
It was interesting to learn of Nixon’s involvement with Supreme Court politics....
| 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...
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else
| Author | David Cay Johnston |
| ISBN | 1591840694 |
The best tax policies money can buy. 2003 book. Many of the worst don't-tax-the-rich laws were enacted under Clinton.
The notes are absurd. They're pointers to newspaper articles! Even if you could find one, it wouldn't have source notes. Johnston repeatedly tells us of malicious tax laws,...
