Recommended Reading

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These are just books I either own or have read from the library that are relevant to the group subject. Please add to the list.

Political Economy. Explores how politics and economics fit together. The role of economics in society.
Theories of Political Economy

Introduction to Political Economy, 4th edition


Marx
The Social and Political Thought of Karl Marx (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)

The Limits to Capital


A book on economic democracy.
After Capitalism


Three by Robin Hahnel. He isn't socialist in the traditional sense. He uses neo-classical economic models for example. He is a socialist in the modern sense... a 'new' socialist. From the Chomsky wing of the left. Similar to economic democracy. (Parecon)collaborator.

Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy

The ABC's of Political Economy: A Modern Approach

Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation (Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century)

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1. No other suggestions? NT

[westerebus]

2. Systems of Survival

A dialogue on the moral foundations of commerce and politics. By Jane Jacobs. She also wrote The life and death of great american cities.

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3. Thanks. Added to my (Long) wish list.

[westerebus]

4. No problem.

You've added to mine also. There is always one more book I really, really, need. Keeps UPS busy.

[deutsey]

5. The Long Detour by James Weinstein

On Amazon.com:

From Publishers Weekly
Although long tainted by association with disloyalty and nutty sectarianism, socialism is actually as American as apple pie, according to this engaging apologia for the left. Weinstein, ex-Communist, founder of Socialist Review and publisher of In These Times, argues that socialists were once a prominent and positive force in American democracy: they energized the labor movement, won elective office and proposed reforms-the eight hour day, unemployment insurance, abolition of child labor, public ownership of utilities, progressive income taxes-that became the cornerstone of Progressive, New Deal and Great Society legislation. The left lost its way, Weinstein contends, after the Russian Revolution, when sterile debates about the Soviet Union, and Communists' subservience to Moscow, marginalized it from the American mainstream. Then, in the 1960s, the New Left squandered an opportunity to reenter mainstream politics by failing to articulate a broad social vision and embracing an outré lifestyle radicalism that alienated Middle America. Weinstein's clear prose, free of Leninist cant, examines a forgotten but vital aspect of American political history. Some of his criticisms of the left miss the mark (his complaint that "few New Leftists thought much about a different form of society" will surprise radical feminists and Deep Ecologists); and sometimes, as with his rehash of New Left factional infighting or his insistence that Soviet tyranny was "fundamentally incompatible" with Marx's ideas, he can't resist gnawing on old sectarian bones. Still, he makes a strong case for the importance of the left reclaiming its rightful place in American politics.
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6. ZNet Reading lists

I would recommend making your way through the ZNet Reading Lists. Dozens of well-chosen publications.