Economics Reading List

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Brown, Sherrod. Myths of Free Trade: Why American Trade Policy Has Failed. New York: The New Press, 2004.

Buchanan, Patrick. The Great Betrayal: How American Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy. Boston: Little Brown, and Co., 1998.

Chang, Ha-Joon. Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective. Anthem Press, 2002.

Faux, Jeff. The Global Class War. John Wiley & Sons, 2006

Fingleton, Eamonn. Unsustainable: How Economic Dogma is Destroying American Propserity

List, Friedrich. The National System of Political Economy. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1885.

Shutt, Harry. The Trouble With Capitalism: An Enquiry into the Causes of Global Economic Failure. Zed Books, 1998

-----. The Myth of Free Trade: Patterns of Protectionism Since 1945. The Economist Books, 1985.

Tonelson, Alan. The Race to the Bottom. Westview Press, 2000.

Hira, Ron and Ron, Anil
Outsourcing America: What's Behind Our National Crisis And How We Can Reclaim American Jobs

Prestowitz, Clyde
Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East New York : BasicBooks, 2005

Though I have not read both books they were recommended by Paul Craig Roberts. I especially like the title of the second book because it draws attention to the fact that economic activity doesn't operate in a vacuum but has serious consequences for the distribution of power.

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Ravi Batra's The Myth of Free Trade is useful protectionist boilerplate. Pat Buchanan used his arguments in one of his presidential campaigns. I'm far from agreeing with everything Batra says, but his arguments serve as a pointed countermeasure to neoliberalism.

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