Supplementary Books
See also our Heterodox Economics
section; Economy Connection's pdf reading
list for high school students (or anyone else looking for
easy-to-read economics books); the URPE Resources sections on URPE Resource Pages and Economic Justice Resources; and
classroom books from Dollars and Sense.
Documents listed as "PDF format" need Acrobat Reader or some
similar program that can read pdf format.
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AFRICAN AMERICAN ECONOMICS
African Americans in the U.S. Economy (2005) edited by Cecilia A. Conrad, John Whitehead, Patrick Mason, and James Stewart
African Americans, Labor and Society: Organizing for a New Agenda (2001) edited by Patrick Mason
Being Black, Living in the Red: Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America (1999) Dalton Conley
Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (1997) Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide (2006) Meizhu Lui, Barbara Robles Betsy Leondar-Wright, Rose Brewer, and Rebecca Adamson, with United for a Fair Economy
The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality (2004) Thomas M. Shapiro
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America (2000) Manning Marable
Leading Issues in Black Political Economy (2002) edited by Thomas D. Boston
The Political Economy of Hope and Fear: Capitalism and the Black Condition in America (1999) Marcellus Andrews
Readings in Black Political Economy (1999) edited by John Whitehead and Cobie Kwasi Harris
Wealth Accumulation & Communities of Color in the United States: Current Issues (2006) edited by Jessica Gordon Nembhard and Ngina Chiteji
FEMINIST ECONOMICS
Feminist Economics Today (2003) Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson (eds.)
The Socialist Feminist Project. A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics (2002) Nancy Holmstrom (editor)
GLOBALIZATION, NEOLIBERALISM, FREE TRADE, INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISM, THE ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Applying Cost-benefit Analysis to Past Decisions: Was Protecting the Environment Ever a Good Idea? (pdf file) (2004) Frank Ackerman, Lisa Heinzerling and Rachel Massey
The Amoral Elephant. Globalization and Struggles for Justice in the Twenty-First Century (2001) William K. Tabb
Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico (2003) Timothy A. Wise, Hilda Salazar and Laura Carlsen (eds.) (there is a Spanish translation)
Ecology Against Capitalism (2003) John Bellamy Foster
Flimsy Firewalls: The Continuing Triumph of Efficiency over Safety and Regulating Mad Cow Risks (2004) Thomas McGarity and Frank Ackerman
Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA and Beyond (2004) Kevin Gallagher
Naming the System. Inequality and Work in the Global Economy (2003) Micheal D.Yates
Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (2003) James K. Boyce, Barry G. Shelly (eds.)
The Raw Deal: How Myths and Misinformation About the Deficit, Inflation, and Wealth Impoverish America (2004) Ellen Frank
Reclaiming Development (pdf file) (2004) Ha-Joon Chang and Ilene Grabel
Unequal Partners. A Primer on Globalization (2002) William K. Tabb
POLITICAL ECONOMY
The ABCs of Policial Economy. A Modern Approach (2003) Robin Hahnel
Anti-Capitalism. A Marxist Introduction (2003) Alfredo Saad-Filho (editor)
How Society Makes Itself: The Evolution of Political and Economic Institutions (2007) Howard J. Sherman
Radical Political Economy: A Concise Introduction (2003) Charles A. Barone
Value and the World Economy Today: Production, Finance and Globalization (2003) Richard Westra and Alan Zeuge (eds.)
THE US ECONOMY
Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity (2003) Robert Pollin
