Winter 2021 Corporations & Democracy Reading List

Recommended Books and Articles Related to the December 7-9, 2020 Conference on Corporations and Democracy:

• Admati, Anat R. and Martin Hellwig, The Bankers New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It, Princeton University Press (2013)
• Bartlett, Jamie, The People Vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It), Dutton Press (2018)
• Brockovich, Erin, Superman’s Not Coming: Our National Water Crisis and What We the People Can Do About It, Penguin Random House (2020)
• Bullough, Oliver, Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World, St. Martin’s Press(2019)
• Burgis, Tom,  Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World, Harper (2020)
• Chayes, Sarah, On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake, Knopf (2020)
• Connaughton, Jeff, The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins, Prospecta Press (2012)
• Christophers, Brett, Who Owns the Economy and Who Pays for It?, Verso (2020)
• Daley, David, Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy, NortonLiveright (2016)
• Dalrymple, William, The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire, Bloomsbury Publishing (2019)
• Davis, Gerald, Managed by the Markets: How Finance Re-Shaped America, Oxford University Press (2011)
• Davis, Kevin E., Between Impunity and Imperialism: The Regulation of Transnational Bribery, Oxford University Press (2019)
• Davis, Kevin E., Between Impunity and Imperialism: The Regulation of Transnational Bribery, Oxford University Press (2019)
• Dayen, David, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power, The New Press (2020)
• Drutman, Lee, The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate, Oxford University Press (2015)
• Eisinger, Jesse, The Chickenshit Club: Why the Justice Department Fails to Prosecute Executives, Simon & Schuster (2017)
• Freed, Bruce et al. Conflicted Consequences, Center for Political Accountability (2020)
• Garrett, Brandon, Too Big to Jail, How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations, Belknap Press (2016)
• Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, Simon & Schuster (2010)
• Hacker, Jacob S., Let them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality, Liveright (2020)
• Henderson, Rebecca, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Public Affairs (2020)
• Hertel-Fernandez, Alexander, State Capture: How Conservative Activists, Big Business, and Wealthy Donors Reshaped the American States — And the Nation, Oxford University Press (2019)
• Lamoreaux Naomi R and William J. Novak (editors), Corporations and American Democracy, Harvard University Press (2017)
• Lessig, Lawrence, Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress — and a Plan to Stop It, Twelve Publishing (2011)
• Mayer, Jane, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Anchor (2017)
• Mizruchi, Mark, The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite, Harvard University Press (2013)
• Persily, Nathaniel and Joshua A. Tucker (Editors), Social Media and Democracy, Cambridge University Press (open access) (2020)
• Philippon, Thomas, The Great Reversal: How America Gave up on Free Markets, Belknap (2019)
• Ramanna, Karthik, Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy, University of Chicago Press (2015)
• Ripken, Susanna Kim, Corporate Personhood, Cambridge University Press (2019)
• Shaxson, Nicholas, Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men Who Stole the World, St. Martin’s Griffin (2011)
• Shaxson, Nicholas, The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer, Bodley Head (2018)
• Stoller, Matthew, Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, Simon & Schuster (2019)
• Taub, Jennifer, Big Dirty Money: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime, Viking (2020)
• Winkler, Adam, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, Norton Liveright (2018)
• Wu, Tim, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads, Vintage (2016)
• Wu, Tim, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, Columbia Global Reports (2018)
• Wylie, Bob, Bandit Capitalism: Carillion and the Corruption of the British State, Birlinn (2020)
• Zingales, Luigi et al., Milton Friedman 50 Years Later, a Reevaluation, ProMarket (2020) 
• Zuboff, Shoshana, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, PublicAffairs (2019)