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Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition

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Inside the Mind of a Voter: A New Approach to Electoral Psychology

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These are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

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The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

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The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

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What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

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Mark Sedgwick, "Key Thinkers of the Radical Right" (Oxford UP, 2019): The resurgence of the radical Right in America and Europe has drawn attention to the existence of political philosophers and writers whose names are only sometimes familiar and whose thought is generally unknown...

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Episode 103: Michael Sandel - The Tyranny of Merit: A conversation with Michael Sandel about his recent book The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Co...

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Shahrukh Khan, "Development Economics: A Critical Introduction" (Routledge, 2019): What sets this work apart is both the centrality it places on covering all of the diversity in the field of development economics. From neo-Marxists to neo-liberals and everything in between, the book honors and critiques the value of each approach to understanding development...

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