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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as policy)
avg rating 4.47 — 117,848 ratings — published 2016
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as policy)
avg rating 4.43 — 48,232 ratings — published 2017
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as policy)
avg rating 3.88 — 54,425 ratings — published 2025
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as policy)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,631 ratings — published 2012
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,581 ratings — published 2008
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,107 ratings — published 2010
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 66,638 ratings — published 2023
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 44,507 ratings — published 2014
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as policy)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,006 ratings — published 2000
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,251 ratings — published 1988
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,340 ratings — published 1998
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.06 — 35,294 ratings — published 2013
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,753 ratings — published 1961
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,989 ratings — published 2023
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,827 ratings — published 2009
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 270,872 ratings — published 2014
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 180,295 ratings — published 2019
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems (ebook)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,150 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.10 — 48,840 ratings — published 2018
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,671 ratings — published 2017
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,566 ratings — published 2020
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,514 ratings — published 2011
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 34,679 ratings — published 2018
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,080 ratings — published 2011
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.38 — 46,118 ratings — published 2022
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 398,251 ratings — published 1513
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,083 ratings — published 2012
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,840 ratings — published 2012
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,085 ratings — published 2006
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,776,959 ratings — published 1945
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.14 — 26,718 ratings — published 1944
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,300 ratings — published 2005
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 16,682 ratings — published 2025
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.62 — 22,386 ratings — published 2021
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 10,163 ratings — published 2020
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,545 ratings — published 2020
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,459 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,772 ratings — published 2018
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,886 ratings — published 2018
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,504 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 909,478 ratings — published 2005
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,440 ratings — published 2017
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.34 — 20,239 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,115 ratings — published 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 225,694 ratings — published 2014
Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,126 ratings — published 2013
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,995 ratings — published 2007
Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,522 ratings — published 2025
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,791 ratings — published 2023
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,725 ratings — published 2020
“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”
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“We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift.”
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