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Research & Reading Lists

Curated academic and practitioner literature supporting our work.

Beyond Shareholder Primacy

  • "Beyond Shareholder Primacy, Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future" by Stuart L. Hart
  • "One-Legged Stool, How Shareholder Primacy Has Broken Business" by Ed Chambliss
  • "The Power of And, Responsible Business Without Trade-offs" by R. Edward Freeman, Kirsten E. Martin, Bidhan L. Parmar
  • "Reimaging Capitalism (In World on Fire)" by Rebecca Henderson
  • "All In, the Future of Business Leadership" by David Grayson, Chris Coulter, and Mark Lee

Sustainability & Climate

  • "Terrible Beauty: Reckoning with Climate Complicity and Rediscovering Our Soul" by Auden Schendler
  • "Net Positive" by Paul Polman and Andrew Winston
  • "The Big Pivot, Radically Practical Strategies for a Hotter, Scarcer, and More Open World" by Andrew Winston
  • "The World We Made, Alex McKay's Story From 2050" by Jonathon Porritt

Systems Thinking & Transformation

  • "Catalyzing Transformation, Making System Change Happen" by Sandra Waddock
  • "Systems Thinking for Social Change, A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results" by David Peter Stroh
  • "Global Mind Change, the Promise of the 21st Century" by Willis Harman

Business Strategy & Leadership

  • "Capitalism at the Crossroads, Next Generation Business Strategies for a Post-Crisis World" by Stuart L. Hart
  • "The Six New Rules of Business, Creating Real Value in a Changing World" by Judy Samuelson
  • "Management as a Calling, Leading Business, Serving Society" by Andrew Hoffman
  • "Deeply Responsible Business, a Global History of Values-Driven Leadership" by Geoffrey Jones
  • "Enlightened Capitalists, Cautionary Tale of Business Pioneers Who Tried to Do Well by Doing Good" by James O'Toole
  • "Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, Practices to Build a Better World" by Jacqueline Novogratz

Wealth, Inequality & Economic Justice

  • "Wealth Supremacy, How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises" by Marjorie Kelly
  • "The Profiteers, How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs" by Christopher Marquis
  • "The Price of Inequality, How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future" by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  • "People, Power, And Profits, Progressive Capitalism in the Age of Discontent" by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  • "Economics in America, An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality" by Angus Deaton

Economic Theory & Measurement

  • "Measuring What Counts, the Global Movement for Well-Being" by Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Martine Durand
  • "Value(s), Building a Better World for All" by Mark Carney
  • "The Value of Everything, Making and Taking in the Global Economy" by Mariana Mazzucato
  • "The Progress Illusion, Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics" by Jon D. Erickson

Finance & Money

  • "The Price of Time, the Real Story of Interest" by Edward Chancellor
  • "The Reckoning, Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations" by Jacob Soll
  • "The Ascent of Money, A Financial History of the World" by Niall Ferguson
  • "The Myth of the Rational Market, a History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street" by Justin Fox
  • "Managed by the Markets, How Finance Re-shaped America" by Gerald F. Davis
  • "The Vanishing American Corporation, Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy" by Gerald F. Davis

Growth & Degrowth

  • "Less is More, How Degrowth Will Save the World" by Jason Hickel
  • "Post Growth, Life After Capitalism" by Tim Jackson
  • "Prosperity Without Growth, Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow" by Tim Jackson
  • "The End of Growth, Adapting to Our New Economic Reality" by Richard Heinberg

Economic History & Policy

  • "Concrete Economics, the Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy" by Stephen S. Cohen, J. Bradford DeLong
  • "The Entrepreneurial State, Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths" by Mariana Mazzucato
  • "Mission Economy, A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism" by Mariana Mazzucato
  • "Bad Samaritans, the Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism" by Ha-Joon Chang
  • "For the Common Good" by Christine Harman

Business Education & Management

  • "Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market, Correcting the Systemic Failures of Shareholder Capitalism" by Andrew J. Hoffman
  • "The Engaged Scholar, Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today's World" by Andrew J. Hoffman
  • "Shut Down Business School, What's Wrong with Management Education" by Martin Parker
  • "Rethinking the MBA, Business Education at a Crossroads" by Srikani M. Dafar, David A. Garvin, Patrick G. Cullen
  • "From Higher Aims to Hired Hands, the Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession" by Rakesh Khurana

Neoliberalism & Market Ideology

  • "The Big Myth, How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market" by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
  • "The Invisible Doctrine, the Secret History of Neoliberalism" by Peter Hutchison and George Monbiot
  • "Democracy in Chains" by Nancy MacLean
  • "The Road From Mont Pelerin, the Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective" by Philip Mirowski, Dieter Plehwe
  • "The Great Persuasion, Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression" by Angus Burgin
  • "Invisible Hands, The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal" by Kim Phillips-Fein
  • "Evil Geniuses, the Unmaking of America, A Recent History" by Kurt Andersen
  • "Capitalism and Freedom" by Milton Friedman
  • "The Road to Serfdom" by F.A. Hayek
  • "The Man Who Broke Capitalism, How Jack Welch Grifted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America- and How to undo His Legacy" by David Gelles

American History & Philosophy

  • "The Market as God" by Harvey Cox
  • "Nature's God, the Heretical Origins of the American Republic" by Matthew Stewart
  • "Adam Smith's America, How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism" by Glory M. Liu
  • "American Gospel, God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation" by Jon Meacham
  • "The Pursuit of Happiness, How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America" by Jeffrey Rosen
  • "First Principles, What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country" by Thomas E. Ricks