Peter's Critical Reads
Regarding his picks, Peter writes: "How does economic stagnation lead to intolerance and reactionary rage? Why have both capitalism and government planning failed to spark economic growth? What is life actually like in 'the inner cities'? And what can we learn from a model of true resistance to racist authoritarianism?"
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In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of...
From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan's economic policy ("Every citizen should read it," said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.
In clear-cut prose,...