Table of Contents

• Books (6)
• Readings (4)
• Audio/Video (6)
• Related Topics (4)

Books (6)

The Drama of the Commons (2002) – National Research Counsel

Material World: A Global Family Portrait (1994) – Peter Menzel

Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials (2017) – Malcolm Harris

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (2006) – Marc Levinson

Stumbling on Happiness (2006) – Daniel Gilbert

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (2021) – Elizabeth Kolbert

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Readings (4)

The Introduction to A History of the World (2017) – Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore

Bill Gates tweeted out a chart and sparked a huge debate about global poverty (2019) – Dylan Matthews

He Handles Gold and Silver (2016)

As a quadriplegic film professor I’ve been asked if I find The Upside offensive: Well, do I? (2019) – Jason Dorwart

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Audio/Video (6)

Featured:

• Are Bosses Dictators? (2019) – Elizabeth Anderson and Ezra Klein

  Ezra Klein interviews professor Elizabeth Anderson about her ideas on workplace governance and on inequality and power in social organizations more broadly.

  1h 29m

  Online
• Abandoned Ships (2021) – Alex Atack

  … as the number of cargo ships has increased, so has a problem: workers stuck on ships that have been completely abandoned by the owners, leaving them stranded out at sea without basic supplies like food.

  28 min

  Online

See also:

The Hidden Costs of Cheap Meat (2022) – Leah Garcés and Ezra Klein

Critical Ecology (2022) – Suzanne Pierre and Alie Ward

Buried by the Wall Street Crash (2019) – Tim Harford

Mine! (2021) – Roman Mars, Michael Heller, and Jim Salzman

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Related Topics (4)

Supertopic

• Society

Subtopics (3)

• Buddhist Economics
• Capitalism
• Labor