Reading

Short pieces

Kalecki, Michał. “Political Aspects of Full Employment.” Political Quarterly 14, no. 4 (1943): 322–330. PDF
Freeman, Jo. “The Tyranny of Structurelessness.” Berkeley Journal of Sociology 17 (1972): 151–165. Online
Barbrook, Richard, and Andy Cameron. “The Californian Ideology.” Mute 1, no. 3 (1995). Online · PDF (1996 version)
Reed, Adolph L., Jr. “The Trouble with Uplift.” The Baffler 41 (September 2018). Online
Reed, Adolph L., Jr. “Antiracism: A Neoliberal Alternative to a Left.” Dialectical Anthropology 42 (2018): 105–115.

Boyer, Robert. Regulation Theory: The State of the Art. Routledge, 2002.
Aglietta, Michel. A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience. Verso, 2000 (orig. 1979).
Gordon, David M., Richard Edwards, and Michael Reich. Segmented Work, Divided Workers: The Historical Transformation of Labor in the United States. Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Streeck, Wolfgang. Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. Verso, 2014.

Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. Norton, 1979.
Rieff, Philip. The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud. University of Chicago Press, 1966.
Illouz, Eva. Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism. Polity, 2007.
Zuboff, Shoshana. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. PublicAffairs, 2019.
Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Táíwò, Olúfẹ́mi O. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else). Haymarket Books, 2022.
Liu, Catherine. Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class. University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Michaels, Walter Benn. The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality. Metropolitan Books, 2006.
Karabel, Jerome. The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
deBoer, Freddie. How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement. Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Mazzucato, Mariana, and Rosie Collington. The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies. Penguin, 2023.
Osborne, David, and Ted Gaebler. Reinventing Government: How the Entrepreneurial Spirit Is Transforming the Public Sector. Addison-Wesley, 1992.
Transit Costs Project, NYU Marron Institute. transitcosts.com
Levy, Alon. Pedestrian Observations. pedestrianobservations.com

Karabel, The Chosen (above).
Chetty, Raj, David J. Deming, and John N. Friedman. “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges.” NBER Working Paper 31492, 2023; Quarterly Journal of Economics 141, no. 1 (2026): 51–145. NBER · PDF
Cascio, Sacerdote, Staiger, and Tine. NBER working paper on test-optional admissions and disadvantaged applicants at Dartmouth, 2024. nber.org