Sunday, June 23, 2024

Suggested Reading: Reasons Why One Would Vote for Democrats...

Suggested reading:


On the Wealth of Nations (the Original, “Wealth of Nations,” Tome Explained and Analyzed with Wit, Wisdom and Brevity), by PJ O'Rourke, Grove Press, 2007.


Free Fall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton and Company, 2010.


Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, by Thomas Sewell, Basic Books, 2011.


The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, by Thomas Frank, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., Inc., 2008.


Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy From Trump's Revenge, by Miles Taylor, Simon and Schuster, 2024.


Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.


The New New Deal: the Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, by Michael Grunwald, Simon and Schuster, 2012.


Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.


The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.


Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most destructive Industry on Earth, by Rachel Maddow, Crown Publishing, 2019.


The History of the Standard Oil Co., Two Volumes, by Ida M. Tarbell, Cosimo Classics Publishing, 2010; originally published in 1904.


A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of (Private) Financial Crises, by Richard Vague, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.


All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the (Private) Financial Crisis, by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, Portfolio/Penguin, 2010.


Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street From Itself, by Sheila Bair, Free Press, 2012.


How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Things That One Might Not Realize Are Working Till They Fail), by Deb Chachra, Riverhead Books, 2023.


Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet (Your Wallet Does Better During a Democratic Administration), by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb, Advantage Media Group, 2012.





 

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