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🏚️ Welfare State Erosion

A sobering account of how austerity, globalization, and shifting ideologies have chipped away at the social contracts forged in the twentieth century.
The Human Cost of Welfare
by Phil Harvey • 2016
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
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20
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
The Human Cost of Welfare Summary
The Human Cost of Welfare 91%
Welfare was built to end poverty. Its rules punish work, marriage, and saving instead.
by Phil Harvey 2016
4.45
20 ratings
🏛️ Welfare Reform📉 Anti-Poverty Policy💼 Work Incentives
The Submerged State
by Suzanne Mettler • 2011
Half of Americans who use government programs say they never have. That gap is no accident.
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267
🕶️ Hidden Welfare State💸 Tax Expenditures⬆️💰 Upward Redistribution
The Submerged State Summary
The Submerged State 90%
Half of Americans who use government programs say they never have. That gap is no accident.
by Suzanne Mettler 2011
3.88
267 ratings
🕶️ Hidden Welfare State💸 Tax Expenditures⬆️💰 Upward Redistribution
The Divided Welfare State
by Jacob S. Hacker • 2002
America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.
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🏛️ Welfare State🔄 Path Dependence🏢 Private Welfare
The Divided Welfare State Summary
The Divided Welfare State 90%
America didn't skip the welfare state. It hid it in tax breaks and employer benefits.
by Jacob S. Hacker 2002
3.70
60 ratings
🏛️ Welfare State🔄 Path Dependence🏢 Private Welfare
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
by Gøsta Esping-Andersen • 1989
Three welfare-state logics, not one spectrum; three distinct futures for work, class, and conflict.
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🏛️ Welfare States📋 Social Policy🏭 Post-Industrial Work
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism Summary
The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism 90%
Three welfare-state logics, not one spectrum; three distinct futures for work, class, and conflict.
by Gøsta Esping-Andersen 1989
3.93
352 ratings
🏛️ Welfare States📋 Social Policy🏭 Post-Industrial Work
Fragmented Democracy
by Jamila Michener • 2018
Your zip code decides your Medicaid benefits. It also decides whether you bother with politics.
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🏛️ American Federalism🏥 Health Policy⚖️ Political Inequality
Fragmented Democracy Summary
Fragmented Democracy 90%
Your zip code decides your Medicaid benefits. It also decides whether you bother with politics.
by Jamila Michener 2018
4.23
120 ratings
🏛️ American Federalism🏥 Health Policy⚖️ Political Inequality
The Privatization of Everything
by Donald Cohen • 2021
The $2,315 COVID test wasn't a glitch. It was privatization, and it has remade American life.
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728
🏛️ Privatization Critique📊 Political Economy🏢 Corporate Power
The Privatization of Everything Summary
The Privatization of Everything 90%
The $2,315 COVID test wasn't a glitch. It was privatization, and it has remade American life.
by Donald Cohen 2021
4.39
728 ratings
🏛️ Privatization Critique📊 Political Economy🏢 Corporate Power
Shattered Nation
by Danny Dorling • 2023
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
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🗺️ Regional Inequality📉 Austerity Politics🏠 Housing Crisis
Shattered Nation Summary
Shattered Nation 90%
Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.
by Danny Dorling 2023
3.97
119 ratings
🗺️ Regional Inequality📉 Austerity Politics🏠 Housing Crisis
In Our Hands
by Charles Murray • 2006
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
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🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society
In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands 90%
Eliminate every welfare program. Send every adult one check. It costs less and ends poverty.
by Charles Murray 2006
3.74
290 ratings
🏦 Universal Basic Income📋 Welfare Reform🏘️ Civil Society
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse
by Michael B. Katz • 1986
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
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📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse Summary
In the Shadow of the Poorhouse 89%
American welfare was designed to deter, not to help. The poorhouse closed; the logic stayed.
by Michael B. Katz 1986
3.74
138 ratings
📜 Welfare History🏚️ Poverty Studies🔗 Structural Inequality
From Welfare to Workfare
by Jennifer Mittelstadt • 2005
Reformers taught poor mothers to work to save welfare; they built the case for workfare instead.
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📋 Welfare Policy🏛️ Postwar America🔄 Unintended Consequences
From Welfare to Workfare Summary
From Welfare to Workfare 89%
Reformers taught poor mothers to work to save welfare; they built the case for workfare instead.
by Jennifer Mittelstadt 2005
3.91
11 ratings
📋 Welfare Policy🏛️ Postwar America🔄 Unintended Consequences
Life at the Bottom
by Theodore Dalrymple • 2001
Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.
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🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Welfare State Critique🎭 Victimhood Culture
Life at the Bottom Summary
Life at the Bottom 89%
Poverty didn't wreck the underclass. A set of ideas did—and intellectuals handed them down.
by Theodore Dalrymple 2001
4.23
4k+ ratings
🏙️ Urban Poverty🏛️ Welfare State Critique🎭 Victimhood Culture
The Great Risk Shift
by Jacob S. Hacker • 2006
Income swings five times more than in the 1970s; the safety net was dismantled on purpose.
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📉 Financial Fragility🛡️ Safety Net Erosion💼 Job Insecurity
The Great Risk Shift Summary
The Great Risk Shift 89%
Income swings five times more than in the 1970s; the safety net was dismantled on purpose.
by Jacob S. Hacker 2006
3.81
274 ratings
📉 Financial Fragility🛡️ Safety Net Erosion💼 Job Insecurity
All You Can Eat
by Joel Berg • 2008
America has the food to feed everyone. Why 35 million still go hungry.
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🍽️ Food Insecurity📋 Welfare Policy🔗 Systemic Poverty
All You Can Eat Summary
All You Can Eat 89%
America has the food to feed everyone. Why 35 million still go hungry.
by Joel Berg 2008
3.88
137 ratings
🍽️ Food Insecurity📋 Welfare Policy🔗 Systemic Poverty
What We Owe Each Other
by Minouche Shafik • 2021
The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.
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🏛️ Social Policy📉 Economic Inequality👷 Labor Markets
What We Owe Each Other Summary
What We Owe Each Other 89%
The safety net is fraying from childhood to old age. A single plan to rewire it.
by Minouche Shafik 2021
3.85
1k+ ratings
🏛️ Social Policy📉 Economic Inequality👷 Labor Markets
Respect in a World of Inequality
by Richard Sennett • 2003
Invisibility is inequality's deepest cut; the systems meant to heal it often cut deeper.
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🗽 Social Inequality🏆 Meritocracy Critique🏛️ Welfare State
Respect in a World of Inequality Summary
Respect in a World of Inequality 89%
Invisibility is inequality's deepest cut; the systems meant to heal it often cut deeper.
by Richard Sennett 2003
3.69
244 ratings
🗽 Social Inequality🏆 Meritocracy Critique🏛️ Welfare State
Our Culture, What's Left of It
by Theodore Dalrymple • 2005
Abandoning moral judgment doesn't liberate the strong; it abandons the weak. A prison doctor's case.
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🇬🇧 British Decline📰 Cultural Criticism⚖️ Moral Relativism
Our Culture, What's Left of It Summary
Our Culture, What's Left of It 89%
Abandoning moral judgment doesn't liberate the strong; it abandons the weak. A prison doctor's case.
by Theodore Dalrymple 2005
4.14
2k+ ratings
🇬🇧 British Decline📰 Cultural Criticism⚖️ Moral Relativism
The Great Divide
by Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2015
Inequality isn't fate; it's a policy choice, and the architects designed it for themselves.
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💸 Income Inequality🏛 Political Economy💰 Money In Politics
The Great Divide Summary
The Great Divide 89%
Inequality isn't fate; it's a policy choice, and the architects designed it for themselves.
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015
3.82
1k+ ratings
💸 Income Inequality🏛 Political Economy💰 Money In Politics
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman • 2007
Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.
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📊 Income Inequality🏛️ Political Economy🗳️ Racial Politics
The Conscience of a Liberal Summary
The Conscience of a Liberal 89%
Extreme inequality didn't just happen: a political movement used race to dismantle the middle class.
by Paul Krugman 2007
3.97
6k+ ratings
📊 Income Inequality🏛️ Political Economy🗳️ Racial Politics
Improving Poor People
by Michael B. Katz • 1995
Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.
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12
📉 Poverty Policy🏛️ Welfare State🎯 Blaming The Victim
Improving Poor People Summary
Improving Poor People 89%
Why America keeps trying to fix the poor instead of poverty, and what history reveals.
by Michael B. Katz 1995
3.83
12 ratings
📉 Poverty Policy🏛️ Welfare State🎯 Blaming The Victim
The Color of Welfare
by Jill Quadagno • 1994
Racial backlash, not liberal ideals, unraveled the American welfare state, program by program.
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🏛️ American Welfare State⚖️ Racial Inequality🌪️ White Backlash
The Color of Welfare Summary
The Color of Welfare 89%
Racial backlash, not liberal ideals, unraveled the American welfare state, program by program.
by Jill Quadagno 1994
4.16
90 ratings
🏛️ American Welfare State⚖️ Racial Inequality🌪️ White Backlash
Liquid Times
by Zygmunt Bauman • 2007
The stable world of careers, communities, and safety nets is gone, replaced by a permanent churn.
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🧠 Social Theory🏭 Late Capitalism⚠️ Precarity
Liquid Times Summary
Liquid Times 89%
The stable world of careers, communities, and safety nets is gone, replaced by a permanent churn.
by Zygmunt Bauman 2007
3.87
2k+ ratings
🧠 Social Theory🏭 Late Capitalism⚠️ Precarity
The Great U-turn
by Barry Bluestone • 1988
After 1973, the American Dream reversed. The cause: deliberate choices by firms and the state.
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15
🏭 Deindustrialization⚖️ Income Inequality💰 Financialization
The Great U-turn Summary
The Great U-turn 89%
After 1973, the American Dream reversed. The cause: deliberate choices by firms and the state.
by Barry Bluestone 1988
3.40
15 ratings
🏭 Deindustrialization⚖️ Income Inequality💰 Financialization
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
by Alan Wolfe • 1989
Markets and states each fail at moral obligation. The answer hides where neither governs.
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13
🏛️ Civil Society⚖️ Moral Economy🤝 Communitarianism
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation Summary
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation 89%
Markets and states each fail at moral obligation. The answer hides where neither governs.
by Alan Wolfe 1989
4.08
13 ratings
🏛️ Civil Society⚖️ Moral Economy🤝 Communitarianism
All That Is Solid
by Danny Dorling • 2014
Britain has a third more bedrooms than people. The housing disaster is engineered, not inevitable.
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🏘️ Housing Policy💰 Wealth Inequality📈 Financialization
All That Is Solid Summary
All That Is Solid 89%
Britain has a third more bedrooms than people. The housing disaster is engineered, not inevitable.
by Danny Dorling 2014
3.55
144 ratings
🏘️ Housing Policy💰 Wealth Inequality📈 Financialization
Regulating the Poor
by Frances Fox Piven • 1971
Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.
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🏛️ Welfare State🔧 Work And Welfare🎛️ Social Control
Regulating the Poor Summary
Regulating the Poor 88%
Welfare has one rhythm: expand during riots, contract during calm, always to enforce cheap labor.
by Frances Fox Piven 1971
4.24
321 ratings
🏛️ Welfare State🔧 Work And Welfare🎛️ Social Control
Why Liberalism Failed
by Patrick J. Deneen • 2018
Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.
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🏛️ Political Philosophy🤝 Communitarianism🧩 Individualism Critique
Why Liberalism Failed Summary
Why Liberalism Failed 88%
Liberalism didn't fail despite its successes. Its successes broke it.
by Patrick J. Deneen 2018
3.84
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Philosophy🤝 Communitarianism🧩 Individualism Critique
The Two Percent Solution
by Matt Miller • 2003
America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.
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🏛️ Domestic Policy🏥 Healthcare Reform📚 Education Reform
The Two Percent Solution Summary
The Two Percent Solution 88%
America's biggest domestic problems cost two percent of GDP to fix. That's the whole argument.
by Matt Miller 2003
3.98
89 ratings
🏛️ Domestic Policy🏥 Healthcare Reform📚 Education Reform
Hell to Pay
by Michael Lind • 2023
Stagnant wages aren't fate. They were engineered by a decades-long campaign to crush worker power.
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🧑‍🔧 Labor Economics🏛️ Political Economy💸 Wage Inequality
Hell to Pay Summary
Hell to Pay 88%
Stagnant wages aren't fate. They were engineered by a decades-long campaign to crush worker power.
by Michael Lind 2023
3.93
80 ratings
🧑‍🔧 Labor Economics🏛️ Political Economy💸 Wage Inequality
The Listening Society
by Hanzi Freinacht • 2017
Political systems ignore how minds grow. A blueprint for a state that develops its citizens.
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🏛️ Political Philosophy📖 Social Theory🪜 Adult Development
The Listening Society Summary
The Listening Society 88%
Political systems ignore how minds grow. A blueprint for a state that develops its citizens.
by Hanzi Freinacht 2017
4.49
402 ratings
🏛️ Political Philosophy📖 Social Theory🪜 Adult Development
The New Vichy Syndrome
by Theodore Dalrymple • 2010
Europeans were never richer or healthier. The rot is in the soul, not the balance sheet.
3.89
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🏚️ European Decline⛪ Secularization🌐 Cultural Relativism
The New Vichy Syndrome Summary
The New Vichy Syndrome 88%
Europeans were never richer or healthier. The rot is in the soul, not the balance sheet.
by Theodore Dalrymple 2010
3.89
238 ratings
🏚️ European Decline⛪ Secularization🌐 Cultural Relativism
Chavs
by Owen Jones • 2011
The British working class wasn't only abandoned. It was mocked so the abandonment felt deserved.
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11k+
🇬🇧 British Class Politics🏷️ Class Prejudice🏭 Deindustrialization
Chavs Summary
Chavs 88%
The British working class wasn't only abandoned. It was mocked so the abandonment felt deserved.
by Owen Jones 2011
4.08
11k+ ratings
🇬🇧 British Class Politics🏷️ Class Prejudice🏭 Deindustrialization
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
by Daniel Bell • 1976
Capitalism demands discipline at work and hedonism at leisure. The contradiction is catching up.
3.83
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📊 Political Economy🎭 Cultural Criticism🛍️ Consumer Culture
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism Summary
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism 88%
Capitalism demands discipline at work and hedonism at leisure. The contradiction is catching up.
by Daniel Bell 1976
3.83
301 ratings
📊 Political Economy🎭 Cultural Criticism🛍️ Consumer Culture
In Mistrust We Trust
by Ivan Krastev • 2013
More rights, more information, less collective power: the paradox at the heart of modern democracy.
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🏛️ Post-Democracy🎓 Meritocracy Critique📱 Digital Activism
In Mistrust We Trust Summary
In Mistrust We Trust 88%
More rights, more information, less collective power: the paradox at the heart of modern democracy.
by Ivan Krastev 2013
3.96
73 ratings
🏛️ Post-Democracy🎓 Meritocracy Critique📱 Digital Activism
Shifting the Color Line
by Robert C. Lieberman • 1998
New Deal welfare was a racial sorting machine, not by intent but by institutional design.
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🏛️ American Welfare State🕰️ New Deal Era⚖️ Institutional Racism
Shifting the Color Line Summary
Shifting the Color Line 88%
New Deal welfare was a racial sorting machine, not by intent but by institutional design.
by Robert C. Lieberman 1998
3.69
16 ratings
🏛️ American Welfare State🕰️ New Deal Era⚖️ Institutional Racism
America
by Chris Hedges • 2018
Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.
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🛒 Late Capitalism🇺🇸 American Decline💊 Opioid Crisis
America Summary
America 88%
Addiction, casinos, and the death of work: the symptoms of late capitalism's terminal stage.
by Chris Hedges 2018
4.23
3k+ ratings
🛒 Late Capitalism🇺🇸 American Decline💊 Opioid Crisis
The Skilled Communicator in Social Work
by Karen Healy • 2017
Poststructuralism doesn't end critical social work; it saves it from its own certainties.
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📚 Social Work Theory🏛 Critical Social Work🧩 Poststructural Theory
The Skilled Communicator in Social Work Summary
The Skilled Communicator in Social Work 88%
Poststructuralism doesn't end critical social work; it saves it from its own certainties.
by Karen Healy 2017
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4 ratings
📚 Social Work Theory🏛 Critical Social Work🧩 Poststructural Theory
Punishing the Poor
by Loïc Wacquant • 2004
Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.
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🏛️ Mass Incarceration💸 Neoliberal Critique🚫 Criminalizing Poverty
Punishing the Poor Summary
Punishing the Poor 88%
Welfare cuts and mass incarceration are two sides of the same neoliberal project, not opposites.
by Loïc Wacquant 2004
4.21
277 ratings
🏛️ Mass Incarceration💸 Neoliberal Critique🚫 Criminalizing Poverty
The Price of Civilization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2010
What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.
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🏛️ Political Economy📉 American Decline🗽 Civic Decline
The Price of Civilization Summary
The Price of Civilization 88%
What broke the American economy wasn't policy. It was a moral collapse at the top.
by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2010
3.84
2k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Economy📉 American Decline🗽 Civic Decline
Invisible Doctrine
by George Monbiot • 2024
Most people can't name the ideology governing our world. That's exactly how it stays powerful.
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🏛️ Neoliberalism📊 Political Economy💰 Rentier Capitalism
Invisible Doctrine Summary
Invisible Doctrine 88%
Most people can't name the ideology governing our world. That's exactly how it stays powerful.
by George Monbiot 2024
4.37
4k+ ratings
🏛️ Neoliberalism📊 Political Economy💰 Rentier Capitalism
The Servile State
by Hilaire Belloc • 1912
Capitalism's true successor is not a worker's state but a legally enforced servitude already here.
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🏛️ Political Economy📜 Economic History💰 Capitalism Critique
The Servile State Summary
The Servile State 88%
Capitalism's true successor is not a worker's state but a legally enforced servitude already here.
by Hilaire Belloc 1912
3.96
659 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy📜 Economic History💰 Capitalism Critique
The Trouble with Diversity
by Walter Benn Michaels • 2006
The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.
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🏛️ Class Politics💸 Economic Inequality🏷️ Identity Politics
The Trouble with Diversity Summary
The Trouble with Diversity 88%
The left traded class war for culture war, and the rich couldn't believe their luck.
by Walter Benn Michaels 2006
3.59
516 ratings
🏛️ Class Politics💸 Economic Inequality🏷️ Identity Politics
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
by Skocpol • 1992
Why America built a welfare state for soldiers and mothers, not workers, and never recovered.
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🏛️ Welfare State Origins📜 Historical Institutionalism🗽 American Political Development
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers Summary
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers 88%
Why America built a welfare state for soldiers and mothers, not workers, and never recovered.
by Skocpol 1992
3.79
107 ratings
🏛️ Welfare State Origins📜 Historical Institutionalism🗽 American Political Development
Edible Economics
by Ha-Joon Chang • 2022
Your dinner is a map of global economics: tariffs, subsidies, and the myths we still believe.
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🧠 Economic Myths🌐 Global Trade🏭 Industrial Policy
Edible Economics Summary
Edible Economics 88%
Your dinner is a map of global economics: tariffs, subsidies, and the myths we still believe.
by Ha-Joon Chang 2022
3.83
3k+ ratings
🧠 Economic Myths🌐 Global Trade🏭 Industrial Policy
The New Human Rights Movement
by Peter Joseph • 2017
The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.
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🏛️ Political Economy⚖️ Structural Inequality🔗 Systems Thinking
The New Human Rights Movement Summary
The New Human Rights Movement 88%
The economy is a well-oiled system of oppression. The case for rebuilding it, not fixing it.
by Peter Joseph 2017
4.33
625 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy⚖️ Structural Inequality🔗 Systems Thinking
From Poor Law to Welfare State
by Walter I. Trattner • 1974
How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.
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🏛️ Social Welfare History🇺🇸 American Social Policy⚖️ Poverty And Morality
From Poor Law to Welfare State Summary
From Poor Law to Welfare State 88%
How America turned helping the poor from an act of justice into a judgment on character.
by Walter I. Trattner 1974
3.69
318 ratings
🏛️ Social Welfare History🇺🇸 American Social Policy⚖️ Poverty And Morality
The Rise and Decline of Nations
by Mancur Olson • 1982
Not lazy workers or bad policy: stable societies choke on accumulated interest groups.
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🏛️ Public Choice🤝 Collective Action💰 Rent-Seeking
The Rise and Decline of Nations Summary
The Rise and Decline of Nations 88%
Not lazy workers or bad policy: stable societies choke on accumulated interest groups.
by Mancur Olson 1982
3.96
534 ratings
🏛️ Public Choice🤝 Collective Action💰 Rent-Seeking
A Brief History of Neoliberalism
by David Harvey • 2005
Free markets were sold as prosperity for all. They were a strategy to restore elite power.
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🏛️ Political Economy📉 Neoliberal Critique⚖️ Class Analysis
A Brief History of Neoliberalism Summary
A Brief History of Neoliberalism 88%
Free markets were sold as prosperity for all. They were a strategy to restore elite power.
by David Harvey 2005
4.13
7k+ ratings
🏛️ Political Economy📉 Neoliberal Critique⚖️ Class Analysis
The Power of Market Fundamentalism
by Fred L. Block • 2014
The self-regulating market was always a fiction. Enforcing it consumes the society that created it.
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🏛️ Political Economy📊 Economic Sociology🚫 Market Fundamentalism
The Power of Market Fundamentalism Summary
The Power of Market Fundamentalism 88%
The self-regulating market was always a fiction. Enforcing it consumes the society that created it.
by Fred L. Block 2014
4.34
67 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy📊 Economic Sociology🚫 Market Fundamentalism
Coming Apart
by Charles Murray • 2012
Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.
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🧱 Class Divide📉 Cultural Decline🤝 Social Capital
Coming Apart Summary
Coming Apart 88%
Post-1963, the working class unraveled while a new elite sealed itself away.
by Charles Murray 2012
3.81
6k+ ratings
🧱 Class Divide📉 Cultural Decline🤝 Social Capital
Them and Us
by Will Hutton • 2010
Fairness is not capitalism's enemy. It is the one condition on which capitalism actually works.
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🏛️ Political Economy🇬🇧 British Politics⚖️ Economic Fairness
Them and Us Summary
Them and Us 88%
Fairness is not capitalism's enemy. It is the one condition on which capitalism actually works.
by Will Hutton 2010
3.89
109 ratings
🏛️ Political Economy🇬🇧 British Politics⚖️ Economic Fairness
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