RESOURCES
Reading List
Essential resources for understanding how we can build a new economy that benefits everyone and the planet.
The following books have shaped our thinking about business, economics, sustainability, and social change. We share them as a starting point for deeper exploration.
Beyond Shareholder Primacy
"Beyond Shareholder Primacy, Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future"
"One-Legged Stool, How Shareholder Primacy Has Broken Business"
"The Power of And, Responsible Business Without Trade-offs"
"Reimaging Capitalism (In World on Fire)"
"All In, the Future of Business Leadership"
Sustainability & Climate
"Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul"
"Net Positive"
"The Big Pivot, Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World"
"The World We Made, Alex McKay's Story From 2050"
Systems Thinking & Transformation
"Catalyzing Transformation, Making System Change Happen"
"Systems Thinking for Social Change, A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results"
"Global Mind Change, the Promise of the 21st Century"
Business Strategy & Leadership
"Capitalism at the Crossroads, Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World"
"The Six New Rules of Business, Creating Real Value in a Changing World"
"Management as a Calling, Leading Business, Serving Society"
"Deeply Responsible Business, a Global History of Values-Driven Leadership"
"Enlightened Capitalists, Cautionary Tale of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good"
"Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, Practices to Build a Better World"
Wealth, Inequality & Economic Justice
"Wealth Supremacy, How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises"
"The Profiteers, How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs"
"The Price of Inequality, How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future"
"People, Power, And Profits, Progressive Capitalism in the Age of Discontent"
"Economics in America, An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality"
Economic Theory & Measurement
"Measuring What Counts, the Global Movement for Well-Being"
"Value(s), Building a Better World for All"
"The Value of Everything, Making and Taking in the Global Economy"
"The Progress Illusion, Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics"
Finance & Money
"The Price of Time, the Real Story of Interest"
"The Reckoning, Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations"
"The Ascent of Money, A Financial History of the World"
"The Myth of the Rational Market, a History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street"
"Managed by the Markets, How Finance Re-shaped America"
"The Vanishing American Corporation, Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy"
Growth & Degrowth
"Less is More, How Degrowth Will Save the World"
"Post Growth, Life After Capitalism"
"Prosperity Without Growth, Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow"
"The End of Growth, Adapting to Our New Economic Reality"
Economic History & Policy
"Concrete Economics, the Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy"
"The Entrepreneurial State, Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths"
"Mission Economy, A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism"
"Bad Samaritans, the Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism"
"For the Common Good"
Business Education & Management
"Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market, Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism"
"The Engaged Scholar, Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today's World"
"Shut Down Business School, What's Wrong with Management Education"
"Rethinking the MBA, Business Education at a Crossroads"
"From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, the Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession"
Neoliberalism & Market Ideology
"The Big Myth, How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market"
"The Invisible Doctrine, the Secret History of Neoliberalism"
"Democracy in Chains"
"The Road From Mont Pelerin, the Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective"
"The Great Persuasion, Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression"
"Invisible Hands, The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal"
"Evil Geniuses, the Unmaking of America, A Recent History"
"Capitalism and Freedom"
"The Road to Serfdom"
"The Man Who Broke Capitalism, How Jack Welch Grifted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America- and How to undo His Legacy"
American History & Philosophy
"The Market as God"
"Nature's God, the Heretical Origins of the American Republic"
"Adam Smith's America, How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism"
"American Gospel, God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation"
"The Pursuit of Happiness, How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America"
"First Principles, What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country"
Note: This reading list is a living document. We welcome suggestions for additional resources that align with our mission of building an economy where business, people, and the planet thrive together.