More Readings on Capitalism

Steve recently put up a helpful list of "Readings on Capitalism."  Since I am agnostic when it comes to the assertion that capitalism is the least worst system possible, and because I believe that even if we all agreed on that point we'd still have much to debate about as to the details, I asked Frank Pasquale and Kent Greenfield for a quick list of books identifying some of the shortcomings of capitalism.  Here it is:

• 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism (Pasquale: "Ha-Joon Chang's LSE and RSA podcasts are on iTunes; highly recommended")

• The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too

• The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order

• The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know about Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America

• Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich

• The Spectre at the Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession

• New Capitalism

• The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression

• Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us

• Business as Usual: The Roots of the Global Financial Meltdown (Possible Futures)

• Wall Street at War: The Secret Struggle for the Global Economy (Pasquale: "particularly valuable as a testament to the ways in which finance capital has undermined productive enterprise")

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