Books like Elsewhere, U.S.A.

#1

Renaissance Nation How the Pope’s Children Rewrote the Rules for Ireland

David McWilliams

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#2

Pity the Billionaire The Unlikely Comeback of the American Right

Thomas Frank

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#3

The Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#4

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Political Economy • Economic History

#5

The New Urban Crisis How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

Richard Florida

Themes: Economic Conditions • Economic History • 21st Century

#6

This House Has Fallen Nigeria in Crisis

Karl Maier

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • 21st Century

#7

Riding the Rails Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

Errol Lincoln Uys

Themes: Economic Conditions • Economic History • Social History

#8

Palo Alto A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

Malcolm Harris

Themes: Economic Conditions • Economic History • Social History

#9

The Road to Poverty The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia

Dwight B. Billings

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#10

Financial Fiasco How America’s Infatuation with Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis

Johan Norberg

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#11

Kleptopia How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World

Tom Burgis

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#12

An Empire of Wealth The Epic History of American Economic Power

John Steele Gordon

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#13

ECONned: How Unenlightened Self Interest Undermined Democracy and Corrupted Capitalism

Yves Smith

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#14

The Great Degeneration How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

Niall Ferguson

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#15

The Lean Years A History of the American Worker, 1920-1933

Irving Bernstein

Themes: Economic Conditions • Economic History • Social History

#16

A Destiny of Choice? New Directions in American Consumer History

David Blanke

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Economic History • 21st Century

#17

Arab Detroit 9/11 Life in the Terror Decade

Nabeel Abraham

Themes: Economic Conditions • 21st Century • Social History

#18

The Thomas Sowell Reader

Thomas Sowell

Themes: Political Economy • Economic History • 21st Century

#19

Destination Europe The Political and Economic Growth of a Continent

Kjell M. Torbiörn

Themes: Forecasting • Political Economy • Economic Conditions

#20

What If Things Were Made in America Again How Consumers Can Rebuild the Middle Class by Buying Things Made in American Communities

James A. Stuber

Themes: Consumer Behavior • Political Economy • Economic Conditions

#21

Enclosed Conservation, Cattle, and Commerce Among the Q’eqchi’ Maya Lowlanders

Liza Grandia

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Economic History

#22

Hillbilly Elegy A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J. D. Vance

Themes: Political Economy • Economic Conditions • Sociology

#23

The Consolations of Economics Good News in the Wake of the Financial Crisis

Gerard Lyons

Themes: Forecasting • Political Economy • Economic Conditions

#24

How the West was Lost Fifty Years of Economic Folly – and the Stark Choices Ahead

Dambisa Moyo

Themes: Forecasting • Political Economy • Economic Conditions