Beyond Economics

Featured

• Patriotic Millionaires
• NPR: Political Divide Widening
• Public and Private Sector Job Creation: Carter through Obama
• Jack Abromoff: The Lobbyist’s Playbook
• CEO and Hedge Fund Manger Compensation
• Bill Moyers interview with David Stockman on Taxes and Crony Capitalism (3/2012, 33 min)
• Faultlines – The Top 1% (25 min., 2011)
• Democracy for the Internet Era
• CNBC: Billions Behind Bars – The Prison Industrial Complex [43 min]
• GOP Opposes Obama Plan to Privatize TVA

Ethics

• EthicalSystems.org
• Who Cares Wins: Why good business is better business David Jones (December, 2011)

Activist Groups

• SumOfUs.org
• 350.org
• MoveOn.org

Books

• THE PRICE OF CIVILIZATION: Reawakening American Virtue and Prosperity Jeffery Sachs (2011) / On Amazon
• THAT USED TO BE US: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back Thomas Friedman (2011) / Amazon
• The Benefit and The Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take Bruce Bartlett (2012)
• Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent Edward Luce (2012)
• Who Cares Wins: Why good business is better business David Jones (December, 2011)
• Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government–and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead
  David Rothkopf (2012)
• Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
  Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson (2011) – Video interview with the authors by Bill Moyers
• The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too
  James Galbraith (2009)
• Capital Offense: How Washington’s Wise Men Turned America’s Future Over to Wall Street
  Michael Hirsh (2010)
• Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
  Charles Ferguson (2012)
• Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
  By Joseph Stiglitz (10/2010)
• It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism
  Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein (2012)

Articles

• Oligarchy and Democracy
  Jeffery Winters (The American Interest-Nov/Dec 2011)
• Occupy Wall Street Puts Nation on Notice
  Peter Morici (CNBC-11/21/11)
• NYT Opinion: Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?
  Thomas Friedman (10/29/2011)