4.13 avg rating — 20,864 ratings

"This is a wonderful place to start for a basic primer on a socialistic view of how economies are structured. As the title suggests, this should be accessible to anyone that wishes to begin learning about left economics."

3.96 avg rating — 12,613 ratings

"Once you've digested Yanis Varoufakis, Ha-Joon Chang takes us from theory to practice. Using easy to grasp examples, he deconstructs the myths capitalism makes about itself."

4.21 avg rating — 39,641 ratings

"Not strictly a book about economics, Mark Fisher is a theorist of the ideological atmosphere of capitalism. However, the way he demonstrates the centrality of power, rather than rationality, to the capitalist system is vital component to understanding why making an economic challenge from the left is so difficult."

4.07 avg rating — 4,508 ratings

"It's impossible to have a serious discussion of proper socialist economics without having some appreciation of what the Soviet experiment did and did not achieve. Red Plenty is a highly accessible semi-fictional account of living inside the Soviet economic system that will prime the reader for more technical reading on the subject."

4.21 avg rating — 26,688 ratings

"This highly enjoyable and thoroughly argued history of debt will introduce the reader to a practical understanding of credit, debt and finance and also to the centrality of historical analysis to the socialist approach to economic thinking."

4.10 avg rating — 704 ratings

"Another highly accessible book that is essentially an economic and political history of British social democracy and its transition to neoliberalism. This book will help the reader make the transition to more involved policy focused texts."

3.68 avg rating — 2,685 ratings

"Worth reading side by side with Stolen, as it jumps off where Stolen leaves off. Instead of making a historical analysis of the economy, it makes a speculative analysis of near future possibilities."

4.32 avg rating — 445 ratings

"Returning back to historical socialist economics, this wonderful book on the the life and times of the GDR is both loving and critical in equal terms. Written by someone who lived it and understands completely the real strengths and failings of that 40 year experiment in making a direct transition from the ruins of fascism directly to utopia. "

3.68 avg rating — 424 ratings

"The dynamics of credit, debt and money creation have already been outlined in broad strokes in previous entries to this list. This short text gets into the nuts and bolts of the banking system, by one of the only authors who predicted its crash."

3.99 avg rating — 7,616 ratings

"A little break from high finance back to the Eastern Bloc, this time talking about the social benefits of a more egalitarian economic system."

4.07 avg rating — 3,662 ratings

"This is a very heavy duty discussion of the role of the public and private sector in modern wealth creation. Ideologically leaning towards social partnership rather than socialist transformation, it is none the less a welcome entrant in the starved field of social democratic theory in the 21st century."

3.89 avg rating — 2,119 ratings

"This book is why this list has contained so much on relative merits of historical socialist experiments. Reopening up the central argument of socialist economies, shut down for decades since the late 1970s - can rational planning based on human need ever become a better way than the market to organise an economy?"

3.92 avg rating — 1,401 ratings

"This short but insightful book is important because it addresses one of the unique features of our age. How we should understand and confront capitalism in the digital sphere. It essential argues that the big digital giants are not so different from the private monopolies that developed around utilities in the early part of the last century, and should be tackled as such."

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