Book Recommendations

Ha-Joon Chang: Economics - The User's Guide. 2014. Available on Amazon as paperback, ebook, or audio file.

Harvey, David. 2014. Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism. 1 edition. Oxford University Press. Also available as an ebook. 

Lewis, M. (2014). Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (1 edition.). W. W. Norton & Company.

Mathews, G., Ribeiro, G. L., Vega, C. A., & more, & 0. (2012). Globalization from Below: The World’s Other Economy. London ; New York: Routledge.

Meillassoux, C. (1991). The anthropology of slavery: the womb of iron and gold. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the Twenty-First Century. (A. Goldhammer, Trans.) (First Edition edition.). Belknap Press.

Rifkin, J. (2014). Zero marginal cost society: the rise of the collaborative commons and the end of capitalism.

Freudenberg, Nicholas. 2014.Lethal But Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health. Oxford University Press.

Alperovitz, Gar, and James Gustave Speth. 2011. America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy. Boston, MA: Democracy Collaborative Press/Dollars and Sense.

Wallerstein, I. M. (2004). World-systems analysis: an introduction. Durham, NC [u.a.: Duke Univ. Press. He explains why global exploitative structures ("empires") exist for centuries. 

Wallerstein, I. M., & Wallerstein, I. (2013). Does capitalism have a future?

Fulcher, J. (2003). Capitalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. This book is an excellent and very short introduction to the concept of "capitalism" and its history.  

Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow (1st ed.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This is an excellent book that examines the way people make choices. It is very useful for daily life, as well as for economics, and explains systematic errors in human decision making. 

Bowie, Norman E, and Schneider. 2011. Business Ethics for Dummies. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.  In spite of the title, this book is for graduate and undergraduate classes, and it offers a very well-written and well-informed presentation of the relevant topics. Since it is also much cheaper than most other readers in the field of business ethics, I recommend it highly.  

Drucker, P. F. (2008). The essential Drucker: the best of sixty years of Peter Drucker’s essential writings on management. New York: Harper Collins. He is a famous management consultant, and has influenced generations of managers and leaders. 

Grint, K. (2010). Leadership: a very short introduction. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. I like this book, because it is short and gives a good overview of types of leadership, with examples. 

Smith, Hedrick. 2012. Who Stole the American Dream?Random House. Examines the breakdown of the American middle class.