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Alesina, Alberto, Edward Glaeser, Fighting Poverty in the US and Europe: A World of Difference (The Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture Series), Oxford University Press, 2006

 

Atkinson, Anthony B., Inequality: What Can Be Done?, Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Atkinson, Anthony B., Measuring Poverty around the World, Princeton University Press; Illustrated edition, 2019

 

Auletta, Ken, The Underclass, Random House, 1982

 

Baradaran, Mehrsa, How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy, Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Barlett, Donald L., James B Steele, The Betrayal of the American Dream, PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Bartels, Larry M., Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age, Princeton University Press, 2010 

 

Blanchard, Olivier, Dani Rodrik, Combating Inequality: Rethinking Government's Role, The MIT Press, 2023

 

Chang, Grace, Ai-jen Poo, Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy, Haymarket Books; Second edition, 2016

 

Corbett, Steve, Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the Poor . . . and Yourself, Moody Publishers, 2014

 

Deaton, Angus, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Deaton, Angus, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Desmond, Matthew, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Crown; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Driscoll, John, Morris Pearl, Pay the People!: Why Fair Pay is Good for Business and Great for America, The New Press, 2024

 

Dunning, Claire, Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State (Historical Studies of Urban America), University of Chicago Press, 2022

 

Elliott, Andrea, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2022

 

Freeman, Amanda, Lisa Dodson, Getting Me Cheap: How Low-Wage Work Traps Women and Girls in Poverty, The New Press, 2022

 

Freeman, John (Editor), Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation, Penguin Books; Illustrated edition, 2017

 

Goldstone, Lawrence, Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903, Independently published, 2020

 

Gosselin, Peter, High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families, Basic Books; First Trade Paper Edition, 2009

 

Goyal, Nikhil, Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty, Metropolitan, 2024

 

Griffin, Michael, Jennie Weiss Block, In the Company of the Poor: Conversations Between Dr. Paul Farmer and Father Gustavo Gustierrez, Orbis Books, 2013

 

Harris, Alexes, A Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanctions as Punishment for the Poor (American Sociological Association's Rose Series), Russell Sage Foundation, 2016

 

Hatcher, Daniel L., The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America's Most Vulnerable Citizens (Families, Law, and Society, 11), NYU Press; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Haugen, Gary A., Victor Boutros, The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Healy, Thomas, Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia, Metropolitan, 2022

 

Hedges, Chris, Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Bold Type Books, 2014

 

Hickel, Jason, The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets, W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

 

Hicks, Mar, William Aspray, Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (History of Computing), MIT Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Jacobs, Rabbi Jill, Simon Greer, There Shall Be No Needy: Pursuing Social Justice through Jewish Law and Tradition, Jewish Lights, 2010

 

Kalleberg, Arne L., Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies, Polity, 2018

 

Katz, Michael B., The Undeserving Poor: America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised, Oxford University Press; 2nd edition, 2013

 

Keister, Lisa A., Darby E. Southgate, Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender, Cambridge University Press, 2012

 

Kiyosaki, Robert T., Why the Rich Are Getting Richer, Tom Wheelwright Plata Publishing, 2017

 

Klein, Matthew C., Michael Pettis, Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace, Yale University Press, 2021

 

Kwak, James, Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2018

 

Lareau, Annette, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd Edition with an Update a Decade Later, University of California Press; Second Edition, With an Update a Decade Later edition, 2011

 

Leopold, Les, Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice, 3rd Edition, The Labor Institute Press, 2018

 

Leopold, Les, Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do About It, Chelsea Green Publishing, 2024

 

Lindert, Peter H., Jeffrey G. Williamson, Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World), Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Ludwig, Gene, The Vanishing American Dream: A Frank Look at the Economic Realities Facing Middle- and Lower-Income Americans, Disruption Books, 2020

 

Madland, David, Hollowed Out: Why the Economy Doesn't Work without a Strong Middle Class, University of California Press, 2015

 

Mallach, Alan, The Divided City: Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America, Island Press; Illustrated edition, 2018

 

Marquis, Christopher, The Profiteers: How Business Privatizes Profits and Socializes Costs, PublicAffairs, 2024

 

McMahon, Darrin M., Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea, Basic Books, 2023

 

Milanovic, Branko, Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Milanovic, Branko, Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2025

 

Molander, Per, The Anatomy of Inequality: Its Social and Economic Origins- and Solutions, Melville House; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Monroe, Cedar, Liz Theoharis, Trash: A Poor White Journey, Broadleaf Books, 2024

 

Munk, Nina, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, Anchor; Reprint edition, 2014


Nocera, Joe, Bethany McLean, The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind, Portfolio, 2023

 

Nussbaum, Martha C., Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Reprint edition, 2013

 

O'Brien, Paul, Resetting Our Future: Power Switch: How We Can Reverse Extreme Inequality (Resetting Our Future, 5) (Volume 5), Changemakers Books, 2020

 

O'Hara, Mary, The Shame Game: Overturning the Toxic Poverty Narrative, Policy Press, 2020

 

Orleck, Annelise, "We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages, Beacon Press; Illustrated edition, 2018

 

Payne, Keith, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Payne, Ph.D. Ruby K., Philip E. DeVol, Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities (Fifth Edition), aha! Process, 2021

 

Piketty, Thomas, Arthur Goldhammer, The Economics of Inequality, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Translation edition, 2015

 

Piketty, Thomas, Equality Is a Struggle: Bulletins from the Front Line, 2021-2025, Yale University Press, 2025

 

Piketty, Thomas, Steven Rendall, A Brief History of Equality, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2024

 

Piketty, Thomas, Willard Wood, Nature, Culture, and Inequality: A Comparative and Historical Perspective, Other Press, 2024

 

Pistor, Katharina, The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality, Princeton University Press, 2020

 

Prasad, Monica, The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty, Harvard University Press; Illustrated edition, 2012

 

Putnam, Robert D., Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, Simon & Schuster, 2015

 

Reich, Robert B., Aftershock (Inequality for All--Movie Tie-in Edition): The Next Economy and America's Future, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013

 

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, Maurice Cranston, A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics), Penguin Classics; Reprint edition, 1985

 

Sachs, Jeffrey, The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time, Penguin Books; Annotated edition, 2006

 

Sandel, Michael J., Tyranny of Merit, Picador Paper; Reprint edition, 2021 

 

Scheidel, Walter, The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World, 74), Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Schwalbe, Michael, Rigging the Game: How Inequality is Reproduced in Everyday Life, Oxford University Press; 2nd edition, 2014

 

Schwartz, Nelson D., The Velvet Rope Economy: How Inequality Became Big Business, Anchor, 2021

 

Sen, Amartya, Inequality Reexamined, Harvard University Press, 1995

 

Sen, Amartya, James E. Foster, On Economic Inequality (Radcliffe Lectures), Clarendon Press; Enlarged edition, 1997

 

Shapiro, Thomas M., Toxic Inequality: How America's Wealth Gap Destroys Mobility, Deepens the Racial Divide, and Threatens Our Future, Basic Books; Illustrated edition, 2017

 

Sherman, Jennifer, Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream, University of California Press, 2021

 

Stiglitz, Joseph E., The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them, W. W. Norton & Company, 2016

 

Stiglitz, Joseph E., The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future, W. W. Norton & Company, 2013

 

Stockman, Farah, American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears, Random House, 2021

 

Tyler, George R., What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . and What Other Countries Got Right, BenBella Books, 2013

 

Wartzman, Rick, The End of Loyalty: The Rise and Fall of Good Jobs in America, PublicAffairs; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Wilkinson, Richard, Kate Pickett, The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Well-Being, Penguin Press, 2019

 

Wilkinson, Richard, Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger, Bloomsbury Publishing; Revised, Updated ed. Edition, 2011

 

Wise, Tim, Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America (City Lights Open Media), City Lights Publishers, 2015

 





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