Political Order and Political Decay
From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

By: Francis Fukuyama

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374535629
Publication Date: October 13, 2015

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy.

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Practical wisdom
Practical Wisdom
The Right Way to Do the Right Thing

By: Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 9781594485435
Publication Date: November 1, 2011

Barry Schwartz is the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Paradox of Choice. A frequent lecturer at conferences (TED, Gel, etc) around the world, he is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College, specializing in Psychology and Economics.

Kenneth Sharpe is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College where he teaches political philosophy, ethics, and political economy. His most recent book is Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial.

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Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)

By: Elizabeth Anderson

Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691176515
Publication Date: May 23, 2017

Elizabeth Anderson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.

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Rationalism, Pluralism & Freedom

By: Jacob T. Levy

Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198717148
Publication Date: December 24, 2014

Jacob T. Levy is Tomlinson Professor of Political Theory and coordinator of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies at McGill University, and a member of the Montreal Groupe de Recherche Interuniversitaire en Philosophie Politique

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

By: Richard Florida

Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465079741
Publication Date: April 11, 2017

Richard Florida is a university professor in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, a distinguished visiting fellow at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, and the cofounder and editor at large of the Atlantic’s CityLab.

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The Origins of Political Order
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

By: Francis Fukuyama

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 9780374533229
Publication Date: March 27, 2012

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy.

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The Price of Inequality
How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393088694
Publication Date: June 19, 2012

Joseph E. Stiglitz, is a Nobel Prize–winning economist. He was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, and chief economist of the World Bank. He teaches at Columbia University and is chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute.

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The Rise of the Creative Class
(Updated Edition)

By: Richard Florida

Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 9781541617742
Publication Date: September 3, 2019

Richard Florida is a university professor in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, a distinguished visiting fellow at NYU’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, and the cofounder and editor at large of the Atlantic’s CityLab.

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The Social Conquest of Earth

By: Edward O. Wilson

Publisher: Liveright
ISBN: 0871404133
Publication Date: March 27, 2012

Edward O. Wilson is the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, a novel, and The Meaning of Human Existence, a finalist for the National Book Award. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University

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The System
Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

By: Robert B. Reich

Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780525659044
Publication Date: March 24, 2020

Robert B. Reich is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations and has written fifteen books.

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