The Authoritarian Challenge

Sources 2022.

Abramsky, Sasha. The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives, 2013.

Abramsky, Sasha. Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream. 2017.

Achen, Christopher H., and Larry M. Bartels. Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. 2017.

Gar Alperovitz, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy. (2005) John Wiley and Sons

Alperovitz, Gar, What Then Must We Do ? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. 2013.

Barofsky, Neil, Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street. ( 2012)

Baker, Dean. Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, (2009)

Barlett, Donald L., and Steele, James B., The Betrayal of the American Dream. (2012).

Bernstein, Jake, Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite, 2017.

Black, William, The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.

Bivens, Josh, Failure by Design, The Story Behind America’s Broken Economy. 2011.

Block, Fred L., Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion. 2018. Univ. of California Press

Campbell, Duane. Choosing Democracy: a practical guide to multicultural education. (2010)

Center for Popular Economics, Economics for the 99%. July 2014.

Chayes, Sarah. Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. 2015.

Chossudovsky, Michel, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order. 2003.

Dalio, Ray, Principles. Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed.

Eden, Kathryn J. and H. Luke Schaefer. $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. 2015,

Edelman, Peter, So Rich, So Poor. Why it’s so hard to End Poverty in America. 2012.

Eisinger, Jesse, The Chickenshit Club: Why The Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives. 2017.

Engler, Mark. How to Rule the World: The coming battle over the Global Economy. (2008)

Ferguson, Charles H. , Predator Nation; Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America. 2012. The background for Inside Job.

Ford, Martin. The Rise of the Robots. Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future. 2015.

Frank, Thomas, Pity the Billionaire: The Hard Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right. Metropolitan Books. (2012.)

Friedman, Thomas & Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to be US : How American Fell Behind in the World and How We Can Come Back. 2011.

Fox, Justin. The Myth of the Rational Market: a History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street. (2009)

Faux, Jeff. The Global Class War: How America’s Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future- and What It Will Take to Win It Back. ( 2006)

Fukuyama, Francis. Identity: The Demand and the Politics of Resentment. 2018.

Johnson, David Kay, It is Even Worse Than You Think. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, 2018.

Johnson, Simon and James Kwak, 13 Bankers : The Wall Street Takeover and the next Financial Meltdown. 2010.

Galbraith, John K. The Predator State. 2008.

Giridharadas, Anand, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. 2019.

Green, Joshua. Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency. 2017.

Greenhouse, Steven. Beaten Down, Worked Up. The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor. 2019.

Harding, Luke. Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win. 2017.

Harvey, David. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. 2005.

Harvey, David. The Enigma of Capital and the Crisis of Capitalism. (2010)

Hedges, Chris, & Sacco, Joe, Days of Destruction: Days of Revolt. (2012)

Henry, James. The Price of Off Shore Revisited. Tax Justice Network. July 2012.

Ibarra, Armando et al, The Latino Question, Politics, Labouring Classes, and the Next Left (2019)

Iglesias, Pablo, Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of Democracy in Europe. 2015.

Klein, Naomi, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs The Climate , 2014.

Klein, Naomi, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need. 2017.

Krugman, Paul. The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008. (2009)

Krugman, Paul, End this Depression Now. 2012.

Kuttner, Robert. A Presidency in Peril: The Inside Story of Obama’s Promise, Wall Street’s Power, and the struggle to control our economic future. 2010.

Levison, Andrew, The White Working Class Today: Who They Are, How They Think, and How Progressives Can Regain Their Support. 2013.

Levitsky, Steven and Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die. 2018

Lewis, Michael, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. 2010.

Lewis, Michael, The Fifth Risk, 2018.

López, Ian Haney, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class. 2014.

López, Ian Haney, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America, 2019

López, Ian Haney, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America. 2019.

Madrick, Jeff, Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World, 2014.

McChesney, Robert W. , Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy. (2013)

Mayer, Jane. Dark Money : The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right. ( 2016).

Mendoza, Kerry-Anne, The Demolition of the Welfare State and the Rise of the Zombie Economy. 2015.

Miner, Barbara, Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City. (2013.)

National Commission on the Causes of the Financial Crisis. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report. 2011.

Ornstein, Norman. One Nation After Trump. (2017)

Piketty, Thomas, Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century. 2014.

Prins, Nomi. It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses and Backroom Deals from Washington to Wall Street. (2009)

Prins, Nomi. Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World, 2018.

Prins, Nomi, “The Financial Crises and Covid”

https://tomdispatch.com/war-of-the-financial-worlds/

Poo, Ai-jen, The Age of Dignity. Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, 2014.

Reich, Robert, Saving Capitalism for the Many, Not for the Few. 2014.

Rodrix, Dani, The Globalization Paradox; Democracy and the Future of the World Economy. 2011.

Ryan, Paul., The Way Forward: Renewing the American Ideal. 2014.

Saez, Emanuel, U.C. Berkeley. “Striking it Richer: The Evolution of Top Incomes in the U.S.” https://eml.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2017.pdf

Sawicky, Max, How to Make Joe Biden’s Budget Can Build Back Better. Part 1.

https://cepr.net/report/how-joe-bidens-budget-can-build-back-better-part-i-send-money-now/ 2021.

Schweickart, David, After Capitalism, 2002.

Smith, Hedrick, Who Stole the American Dream?, 2017. http://reclaimtheamericandream.org

Smith, Yves, Econed: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism. 2010.

Snyder, Timothy , On Tyranny : Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. 2017.

Snyder, Timothy, “The American Abyss” A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next? 2021. Snyder, Timothy https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html?

Stiglitz. Joseph. Free Fall, America, Free markets, and the Shrinking World Economy. (2010)

Taibbi, Matt. Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America, Spiegel & Grau , 2010.

Thier, Hadas, A People’s Guide to Capitalism. 2020.

Varoufakis, Vanis, And the Weak Suffer

White House Council of Economic Advisors, What is the Opportunity Costs of Socialism? Oct. 24, 2018,

Wolin, Sheldon. Democracy Incorporated : Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. 2010.

Zucman, Gabriel. The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

Some on line resources on the economy,

Baseline Scenario. http://baselinescenario.com

Chicago Political Economy Group. www.cpegonline.org

Economic Policy Institute. www.epi.org

United for a Fair Economy. www.faireconomy.org