Public Policy


To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World
The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism
Value(s): Building a Better World for All
Growth: A Reckoning
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
What Went Wrong with Capitalism
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy
The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure
California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: (A New World Order)
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Abundance
Gulag: A History
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing
Utopia
To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
The Science of Evil by Simon Baron-CohenAgainst Empathy by Paul Bloom
Empathy and It's Shortcomings
2 books — 1 voter
I Do What I Do by Rajan Raghuram GIn Service of the Republic by Vijay KelkarThe Course of My Life by C.D. DeshmukhWho Moved My Interest Rate by Duvvuri SubbaraoOverdraft by Urjit Patel
Reserve Bank of India
6 books — 2 voters

Basic Economics by Thomas SowellFree to Choose by Milton FriedmanAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithGeneral Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard KeynesFreefall by Joseph E. Stiglitz
Introduction to Economics
22 books — 17 voters
Clausewitz by Michael Eliot HowardThe Quest for a Moral Compass by Kenan MalikHow India Became Democratic by Ornit ShaniThe Transformative Constitution by Gautam  BhatiaChoices by Shivshankar Menon
GCPP Recommendations
16 books — 1 voter

Diseño de Políticas Públicas by Julio Franco CorzoDiseño de Políticas Públicas by Julio Franco CorzoMovilidad 3.0 by Jaime Ferrer AldanaInnovación Pública by Bogart Montiel ReynaLas Naciones contra el Crimen Organizado by MAURICIO SALDAÑA RODRÍGUEZ
Public Policy in Spanish
5 books — 3 voters
The Carbon Almanac by The Carbon Almanac NetworkDarwin Comes to Town by Menno SchilthuizenWalkable City by Jeff SpeckSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonBuzz, Sting, Bite by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Urbanism/Sustainable City Reads
66 books — 11 voters


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