Books on Business

Blackout

How the Electric Industry Exploits America

By Gordon L. Weil

Ever since Thomas Edison created the first electrical utility, the energy industry has cheated American customers with impunity. Blackout delves into the history of this increasingly monopolized--and corrupt--industry.

Appetite for Profit

How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back

By Michele Simon

This book exposes the hypocrisy of major food companies like Kraft, Coca-Cola, and McDonalds, that are staging massive PR campaigns to look like they are "part of the solution" while they simultaneously lobby against sound nutrition policies.

A Devil's Dictionary of Business

Monkey Business; High Finance and Low; Money, the Making, Losing, and Printing Thereof; Commerce; Trade; Clever Tricks; Tours de Force; Globalism and Globaloney; Industry; Invention; the Stock Market; Marvelous Explanations and Clarifications.

By Nicholas von Hoffman

Arranged alphabetically, from "Abacus" to "Zukor, Adolph," The Devil's Dictionary of Business is a sardonic and dizzying tour of the business world. It elucidates business from top to bottom, from the ancient world to the present.

Taking Back the Corporation

A Mad as Hell Guide

By Ralph Estes and Ralph Nader

Ralph Estes reveals what's wrong with big corporations, the harm they do to us all, and how this perversion of corporate purpose came to be. He then lays out a concrete program to take back the corporation and restore it to its original social and public purpose.

Selling Sickness

How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All into Patients

By Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels

As Wall Street knows, there's a lot of money to be made telling healthy people they're sick. Selling Sickness shows how the widening of the boundaries that define illness and the medicalization of everyday life are creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits for the world's largest drug companies.

Meltdown

How Greed and Corruption Shattered our Financial System and How We Can Recover

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

The Gods that Failed

How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future

By Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson

Halliburton's Army

How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

By Pratap Chatterjee

Watch Pratap Chatterjee discuss Halliburton's Army on Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman.

Halliburton's Army (paperback)

How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

By Pratap Chatterjee

"A sordid tale of politics and profiteering... A report that deserves many readers, about matters that deserve many indictments."
—Kirkus

The Great American Stickup

How Reagan Republicans and Clinton Democrats Enriched Wall Street While Mugging Main Street

By Robert Scheer

"One of the best reporters of our time."—Joan Didion

In The Great American Stickup, celebrated journalist Robert Scheer uncovers the hidden story behind one of the greatest financial crimes of our time: the Wall Street financial crash of 2008 and the consequent global recession. Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.

Check out Scheer's book tour!