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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“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

“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