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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 116,165 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 4.44 — 47,268 ratings — published 2017
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as policy)
avg rating 3.90 — 48,976 ratings — published 2025
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as policy)
avg rating 4.52 — 118,977 ratings — published 2010
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 65,050 ratings — published 2012
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 95,809 ratings — published 2008
Poverty, by America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 64,767 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 — 43,891 ratings — published 2014
Capital in the Twenty First Century (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 35,018 ratings — published 2013
A Practical Guide For Policy Analysis: The Eightfold Path To More Effective Problem Solving (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,000 ratings — published 2000
Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,242 ratings — published 1988
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,133 ratings — published 1998
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 4.37 — 2,898 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 — 7,780 ratings — published 2009
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 267,134 ratings — published 2014
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,376 ratings — published 1961
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as policy)
avg rating 4.33 — 175,510 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 — 14,996 ratings — published 2019
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,530 ratings — published 2018
The End of Policing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 12,514 ratings — published 2017
Why We're Polarized (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as policy)
avg rating 4.21 — 20,236 ratings — published 2020
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,778 ratings — published 2011
The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as policy)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,458 ratings — published 2011
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.39 — 43,994 ratings — published 2022
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,783 ratings — published 2018
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,897 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 — 67,593 ratings — published 2012
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,360 ratings — published 2006
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,671,534 ratings — published 1945
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 40,003 ratings — published 2005
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 — 22,015 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 — 10,037 ratings — published 2020
One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,534 ratings — published 2020
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,405 ratings — published 2018
Fascism: A Warning (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 21,561 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 — 2,861 ratings — published 2018
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 3.84 — 390,077 ratings — published 1532
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 — 8,371 ratings — published 2017
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as policy)
avg rating 4.01 — 904,244 ratings — published 2005
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.29 — 113,789 ratings — published 2017
Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Service (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 15,286 ratings — published 2025
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.34 — 20,114 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,942 ratings — published 2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.49 — 222,210 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 — 4,104 ratings — published 2013
The Road to Serfdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.15 — 26,391 ratings — published 1944
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as policy)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,085 ratings — published 2007
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,529 ratings — published 2023
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.31 — 281,500 ratings — published 2020
How to Be an Antiracist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as policy)
avg rating 4.36 — 120,270 ratings — published 2019
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
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[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
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“A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied.
But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
