Notable Books

Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism
Paul Starr
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Rawls
Samuel Freeman
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The Persistence of Poverty: Why the Economics of the Well-Off Can't Help the Poor
Charles Karelis
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Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology
Duncan Foley
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The United States Since 1980 (The World Since 1980)
by Dean Baker
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Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America
by Jonas Pontusson
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What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-Year Perspective
edited by James T. Bennett and Bruce E. Kaufman
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The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths About U.S. Social Policy
by Christopher Howard
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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Pollitics, His Economics by Richard Parker
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Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream by Janice Fine
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Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology by J. M. Balkin
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Poverty Traps edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff
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The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement by Jacob Hacker
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Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market by Katherine Newman
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When Welfare Disappears: The Case for Economic Human Rights by Kenneth J. Neubeck
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The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need it More than Ever by Cass Sunstein
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Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada by Dan Zuberi
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All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy by Jared Bernstein
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler
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The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer by Dean Baker
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Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream by Ruth Sidel
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Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
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Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences edited by James Lardner and David A. Smith
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Poverty and Inequality edited by David B. Grusky and Ravi Kanbur
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Black Males Left Behind edited by Ronald B. Mincy

Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead by Tamara Draut

Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of Democracy by Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson

Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas

The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M Friedman

The Ethics of Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah

Active Liberty by Stephen Breyer

The New Egalitarianism by Anthony Giddens and Patrick Diamond

Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Fight Over Taxing Inherited Wealth by MIchael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro

Class Matters by correspondents of the New York Times

Advances in Behavioral Economics edited by Collin F. Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin