Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom
10 best books like Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom (Doug Henwood): Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American 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, The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer, Men and Feminism: Seal Studies, Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America, 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...
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 | 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 | Shira Tarrant |
| ISBN | 1580052584 |
There's no denying that men's involvement and interest in feminism is key to its continuing relevance and importance. Addressing the question of why men should care about feminism in the first place, Men and Feminism lays the foundation for a larger discussion about feminism as a human issue, not simply...
| 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 | Bethany Moreton |
| ISBN | 0674033221 |
In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America’s devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas...
| Author | Susan Faludi |
| ISBN | 0805086927 |
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash--an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11
In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country's psychological response to the...
| 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,...
