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  • George Farkas The best books on how sociologists and economists understand American poverty and inequality Book cover of Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market Book cover of Labor's Love Lost: The Rise and Fall of the Working-Class Family in America Book cover of Heaven's Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy Book cover of Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality, Schools, and Children's Life Chances Book cover of Coming of Age in the Other America
  • Maurizio Pugno The best books to understand human development in advanced economies Book cover of Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach Book cover of Giving Kids a Fair Chance Book cover of The Joyless Economy: The Psychology of Human Satisfaction Book cover of What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets Book cover of Happiness for All? Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream
  • Ron Elsdon The best books about purpose and leadership in organizations and in community Book cover of In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies Book cover of Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead Book cover of The Living Company: Habits for Survival in a Turbulent Business Environment Book cover of The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? Book cover of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  • Dag Detter The best books on how we as societies can thrive in the challenges ahead Book cover of Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose Book cover of How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence Book cover of The Reckoning Book cover of The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World Book cover of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
  • Liz Alterman The best memoirs that use humor to balance difficult circumstances Book cover of Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (As Told to Me) Story Book cover of A Heart That Works Book cover of You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility Book cover of Running with Scissors: A Memoir Book cover of Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things
  • Kim O'Hara The best books where abuse survivors speak candidly about their secret lives before recovery Book cover of Binge and Sprint: From Endless Cake to Recovery Book cover of Fuchsia Parade: One Woman's Quest for Sex, Love and Redemption Book cover of Inside Out: A Memoir Book cover of The Last Black Unicorn Book cover of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • Destiny O. Birdsong The best novellas written by Black people about Black people Book cover of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man Book cover of Passing Book cover of Crick Crack, Monkey Book cover of Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Triptych Book cover of Leaving Atlanta
  • D. Sánchez-Ancochea The best books to understand inequality as one of our most significant challenges Book cover of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Book cover of The Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality Book cover of Americanah Book cover of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students Book cover of Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class
  • Catherine Astl The best books about Smoky Mountain history: from moonshine to marriage, from traditions to love Book cover of Bryson City Tales: Stories of a Doctor's First Year of Practice in the Smoky Mountains Book cover of Cades Cove: The Life and Death of a Southern Appalachian Community Book cover of Demon Copperhead Book cover of Mountain Home: A Pictorial History of Great Smoky Mountains National Park Book cover of Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
  • Benjamin Reiss The best books to make you rethink 19th-century America Book cover of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake Book cover of American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation Book cover of Of One Blood Book cover of Sheppard Lee: Written by Himself Book cover of Margaret Fuller: A New American Life
  • Karen A. Cerulo The best books for understanding how social inequality impacts hopes and dreams, not simply opportunities Book cover of Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America Book cover of Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood Book cover of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Book cover of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation Book cover of A Raisin in the Sun
  • Keith Harrison-Broninski The best books on how community can save society Book cover of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Book cover of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Book cover of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States Book cover of ...and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year Book cover of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • Yuha Jung The best books that encourage readers to question the status quo Book cover of Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood Book cover of Overcoming Overtourism: Creating Revived Originals Book cover of Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory: The Dharma of Natural Systems Book cover of The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living Book cover of Governing the Commons
  • Paul Collier The best books on how to renew our divided societies Book cover of The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Book cover of The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Book cover of The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? Book cover of Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers Book cover of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
  • Sam Pizzigati The best books on why we need a world without billionaires Book cover of The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger Book cover of Beyond Growth: The Economics of Sustainable Development Book cover of The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need Book cover of Securing the Fruits of Labor: The American Concept of Wealth Distribution, 1765-1900 Book cover of Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
  • Hannah Murray The best early US novels you’ve not heard of Book cover of Wieland Book cover of Sheppard Lee: Written by Himself Book cover of Our Nig Book cover of The Garies and Their Friends Book cover of Pierre
  • Carl Nordgren The best books for appreciating your natural creatively entrepreneurial genius Book cover of How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day Book cover of Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity Book cover of How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery Book cover of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement Book cover of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
  • Tace Hedrick The best books to understand the writing and marketing of chica lit Book cover of The Dirty Girls Social Club Book cover of Dirty Blonde and Half-Cuban Book cover of Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People Book cover of Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature Book cover of Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class
  • Kimberly Clausing The best books on big economic policy debates Book cover of What's Luck Got to Do with It? How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream Book cover of The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets Book cover of Taxes in America: What Everyone Needs to Know Book cover of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success Book cover of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
  • Robert Plomin The best books about genetics and psychology Book cover of The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature Book cover of The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World Book cover of Bewilderment Book cover of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness Book cover of Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science
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