Filthy Lucre
by Joseph Heath | 
Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods Jr. |
The New Industrial State
by John Kenneth Galbraith | 
The Price of Civilization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | 
The Economics of Innocent Fraud
by John Kenneth Galbraith | 
The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
by David Ricardo | 
Principles of economics
by Alfred Marshall |
The Return of Depression Economics
by Paul Krugman |
The Age of Diminished Expectations
by Paul Krugman |
The Armchair Economist
by Steven E. Landsburg | 
Economics
by Ha-Joon Chang | 
Doughnut Economics
by Kate Raworth | 
The Nature of Economies
by Jane Jacobs | 
Basic Economics
by Thomas Sowell | 
Common Wealth
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | 
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
by Abhijit V. Banerjee | 
Principles of Economics
by Carl Menger | 
Good Economics for Hard Times
by Abhijit V. Banerjee | 
And the Money Kept Rolling In
by Paul Blustein |
Making Economic Sense
by Murray N. Rothbard |
Economics and the Public Purpose is a 1973 book by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith. Galbraith advocates a "new socialism" as the solution, nationalising military production & public services such as health care. He also advocates introducing disciplined wage, salary, profit & price controls on the economy to reduce inequality & restrain the power of giant corporations. Socialisation of the "unduly weak industries & unduly strong ones" together with planning for the remainder would allow the public interest to be accorded its rightful preference over private interests. He adds that this can only be achieved when there is a new belief system that rejects the orthodoxy of economics in the past. The new socialism needs to be achieved thru gradual democratic political change.