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THE TOP 100 BEST LEADERSHIP BOOKS!

"The most important books every leader should start reading now!"

Yet another book list!

Welcome to the Global Leadership Society's prestigious Top 100 Best Leadership Books of all time! But hold on a second—why yet another list? The answer is simple: the existing selections don't quite hit the mark for us!

Many lists vacillate between airport "bestseller" collections, offering popular titles devoid of credible academic backing, stacks of academic textbooks too esoteric for real-world practitioners, or simply highly subjective recommendations based on idiosyncratic preferences. The trouble lies in the ambiguity surrounding the criteria used for selection: Who precisely are the books intended for? What exactly is the understanding of leadership? What development model is implied? Who stands behind the list, and what's their purpose? The absence of clarity results in compilations that are both incoherent and fail to explore the depth and range necessary for genuine leadership development. Our mission is to bridge this gap. 

This task is undeniably complex. It also means that our selection won't be a one-size-fits-all:

  1. Who is our list for: Our list is crafted for seasoned leaders embarking on a journey beyond conventions. These are individuals who have skimmed the shelves of airport books, absorbed the (limited) wisdom of popular TED talks, yet find themselves still hungry for more. It's tailored for those who have achieved success in their careers but crave for deeper understanding and impact, and designed to support those who are aspiring to leave a positive legacy by becoming the very best leaders they can be. For this audience, deeper transformation is the goal, and time is a precious commodity.
  2. What is our understanding of leadership: Leadership for us is not merely about individual development and far from one-dimensional; it requires individuals in leadership roles to spark and contribute to a systemic process of collective development that bridges diverse stakeholders, different levels of inquiry, and numerous disciplines. Therefore, in order to be effective, good leaders must grasp a wide spectrum of knowledge, spanning management, economics, psychology, philosophy, history, political science, and beyond. (For more details see our model below.)
  3. What is our purpose: Our ambition extends beyond providing just another list of popular books. We aspire to support a transformative journey for a new breed of leaders—individuals poised to mould organizations that can steer us towards a brighter future of work. Our carefully chosen books are meant to accompany, enlighten, cradle, and guide them to acquire the competences required, and thus develop greater wisdom. 
The outcome is a highly distinctive collection. We refrain from ranking books, and completeness is not our primary goal. Instead, our intention is to present a carefully curated selection of the finest books that empower leaders to develop specific competencies and progress to the next level within a coherent leadership development model. For each book on our list, there will be a range of suitable alternatives; our objective is to include only those that best match our stringent selection criteria, ensuring the minimum number of books to cover all necessary competencies. In essence, while other lists revolve around good books, our list revolves around good leaders!

We wish you joy on a unique and insightful journey through the best in leadership literature, handpicked by ourselves and many peers!

Selection Process

Amidst our pre-selection phase, we're thrilled to unveil an initial book list, curated with insights from our community members and inspired by our ongoing 'Leaders for Humanity' interview series.

Our commitment is to refine this selection throughout 2024, officially introducing one category each quarter. Subsequent updates will continuously enhance the list in lock step with our "good leadership foundation course."

We're actively seeking fresh ideas and suggestions! Drop us an email at info@leadershipsociety.world with your preferred titles, briefly indicating the category your book belongs to, the specific competencies it aids leaders in acquiring, and how it excels against our selection criteria. Your input is invaluable—we'd love to hear from you!

Selection Criteria for books in each category:


Credible

Based on credibility of the author as well as academic research or well-rounded theories. Determine if the propositions and principles discussed in the book are derived in a transparent and logical manner; evaluate whether the book was appreciated and discussed seriously by other (critical) thinkers.

Insightful

How effectively does the book provoke critical thinking, encourage liminal perspective-taking, and facilitate a structured evaluation of the world? Consider if it challenges traditional thinking and offers new and deeper insights or frameworks.

Inspiring

How effectively is the book written, and to what extent does it motivate readers to embark on a courageous quest for deeper development? Consider reader reviews and recommendations and appreciate the writing style and accessibility of the book.

Actionable

How effective is the book in providing guidance for practical changes to oneself, others, and the organization? Scrutinize its capacity to offer actionable insights, checking for elements such as case studies, tools, or tips that enhance its practicality and applicability.

Developing Good Leadership

WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?!

Any credible selection of leadership books must commence with an appropriate definition of the inherently ambiguous concept of leadership. Following the Global Leadership Society's provisional definition, leadership we delineate leadership as a "systemic process of generative collective learning and action to create a Good Society - catalyzed by Good Leaders."

This definition propels us beyond individualistic perspectives, emphasizing collective organizational capacities to act interdependently for the greater good of people, society, and the planet. Good Leadership necessitates a "nodal" co-elevation of stakeholders, society, and the ecosystem, fostering communal inspiration and the cultivation of virtues, moral identity, and character to facilitate collective and ecological flourishing. 

The role of “Good Leaders” thus extends beyond conventional notions. They are tasked with embodying, protecting, evolving, inspiring, and serving as role models for the "good" that the organization stands for. Good leaders operate both "in the system" as they cultivate individual and team excellence and "on the system" as they intentionally shape organizational practices and institutions to safeguard and enable the organization's good purpose. 

How is Leadership Developed? (Draft)

The second crucial consideration for selecting leadership books involves a perspective on leadership development. This not only involves assessing which  leadership competencies are essential for leaders' growth, but also requires examining how any form of written knowledge could meaningfully contribute to increasing their proficiency Recognizing that books probably play a modest role in the broader challenge of leadership formation, our approach is grounded in two specific assumptions:

Firstly, concerning content, our leadership development model pivots around the concept of "practical wisdom." This encompasses the capacity of leaders to make and enact sound decisions in the face of uncertainty and potential value conflicts. In our model, individual leaders' wisdom is "scaled" into the organization. In practical terms, this implies that effective organizational leaders must concurrently cultivate competencies falling into four interrelated categories of knowledge:

Personal and Relational Leadership

A robust grasp of diverse psychological leadership development approaches serves as the foundation. Guided by this understanding, leaders actively nurture personal growth and heightened relational awareness and sensitivity within themselves, their teams, and the broader community. Notably, leaders strive to expand their and their organisation's circle of care continually.

Ethical Leadership

Fostering a perceptive and critical comprehension of reality, moral, and political development. The goal is to enhance the collective capacity within oneself and the organization to independently make informed judgments and take responsible decisions. This process involves thoughtful consideration of all stakeholders while striving for justice and the common good.

Organisational Leadership

Cultivating a thorough and discerning understanding of organizational behavior, change dynamics, and innovative management approaches. The objective is to drive the evolution of organizational policies, structures, and character, thereby enhancing the organization's capacity to co-elevate and collaboratively generate solutions for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Ecosystemic Leadership

Cultivating an expansive and diverse understanding of business within larger systems, fostering the ability to harness capabilities beyond the organisation and envision and experiment with innovative solutions that not only benefit customers but also contribute to a just and sustainable economy.

Secondly, concerning didactics, we firmly believe that books should not merely be credible; they should also illuminate new perspectives, ignite inspiration, and provide actionable guidance, thereby making a tangible and meaningful impact. This is reflected in our specific selection criteria above.


YOUR SUGGESTIONS WANTED!

Do you have other inspiring leadership books? Email us or post on LinkedIn @goodleadershipsociety - briefly indicating the category your book belongs to, the specific competencies it aids leaders in acquiring, and how it excels against our selection criteria.



CATEGORY 1: PERSONAL AND RELATIONAL LEADERSHIP

Top 100 Best Leadership Books - Candidates Updated Q4 2023


Community Recommendations

The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

suggested by Gina Temple

Inviting Leadership: Invitation-Based Change™ in the New World of Work

subbested by Rijon Erickson

Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity

suggested by Pascal Nonnen

The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

suggested by Tim Mooney

On Becoming a Leader

suggested by Mark McAleer

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

suggested by Tjessica Stegena

Golf is Not a Game of Perfect

suggested by Tim Roberts-Ferguson

Dialogue: The Art Of Thinking Together

suggested by Tim Roberts-Ferguson

The Undefended Self: Living the Pathwork

suggested by Alain Guiette

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success

suggested by Dr. Blanka Bellak

The Essential Rumi

suggested by Dr. Blanka Bellak

I Write What I Like

suggested by Natashia Variava

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

suggested by Natashia Variava

A Promised Land

suggested by Natashia Variava

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

suggested by Natashia Variava

Flex: The Art and Science of Leadership in a Changing World

suggested by Rebekka Fricke

Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way

suggested by Anna Lyczak-Czpukojcn

The Art of Power

suggested by Anna Lyczak-Czpukojc

Leder DNA: I Blodet På 25 Topledere

suggested by Anna Lyczak-Czpukojcn

Radical Candor: How to Get What You Want by Saying What You Mean

suggested by Anna Lyczak-Czpukojcn

What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

REAL: The Inside-Out Guide to Being Yourself

suggested by Roger Martin

Invisible Power: Insight Principles at Work: Everyone's Hidden Inner Capacity

suggested by Roger Martin

The Zen Leader: 10 Ways to Go From Barely Managing to Leading Fearlessly

suggested by Stefano Olmeti

Who Do We Choose to Be?

suggested by Stefano Olmeti

Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make Them Great

suggested by Mark Westcomb

Learning for Action: A Short Definitive Account of Soft Systems Methodology, and its use for Practitioners, Teachers and Students

suggested by Mark Westcomb

The Purpose Effect: Building Meaning In Yourself, Your role, and Your Organization

suggested by Rose Kattackal

Open to Think: Slow Down, Think Creatively and Make Better Decisions

suggested by Rose Kattackal

Lead. Care. Win.: How to Become a Leader Who Matters

suggested by Rose Kattackal

Our Secret Potential: A new approach to performance, purpose and well-being in the 21st century

suggested by Tessa Richter

Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason

suggested by Sascha Brossmann

Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

suggested by Natashia Variava

Work-Life Bloom: How to Nurture a Team that Flourishes

suggested by Rose Kattackal

Shared Decision-Making in the Corporate Arena: A Journey into Organizational Cultures of Autonomy and Responsibility

suggested by Lorraine Margherita

Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

suggested by Natalia Blagoeva

Leading with Wisdom: Spiritual-based Leadership in Business

suggested by Natalia Blagoeva

The Bhagavad Gita: According to Paramhansa Yogananda

suggested by Lara Bezerra

Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

suggested by Lara Bzerra

Meditations

suggested by Lara Bezerra

What Poetry Brings to Business

suggested by Wilf Marshall

Ursprung und Gegenwart

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

Eros, Kosmos, Logos

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

Die Logik des Misslingens: Strategisches Denken in komplexen Situationen

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

1984

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

Freedom from the Known

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

Money and the Meaning of Life

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

I'm Ok, You're Ok

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

Rethinking Leadership: A New Look at Old Questions

suggested by Iva Vurdelja

Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work

suggested by Ian Perry

CEO Excellence

suggested by Ricardo Abdoel

The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

suggested by Markus Richter

Dare to Lead

suggested by Katja Rieger

Die Kunst sich selbst auszuhalten

suggested by Hans Rusinek

Momo

suggested by Hans Rusinek

The Leadership Society Team Recommendations

Leading Beyond the Ego: How to Become a Transpersonal Leader

John Knights
Servant Leadership

Servant Leadership

by Robert K. Greenleaf
Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership

Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership

by Bill Torbert

Understanding Organizations

by Charles Handy

Sensemaking in Organizations

by Karl E. Weick

Flourish: A New Understanding Of Happiness And Well-Being - And How To Achieve Them

by Martin E. P. Seligman

Positivity: Groundbreaking Research To Release Your Inner Optimist And Thrive

by Barbara Fredrickson

Adaptive Intelligence

by Robert J. Sternberg

Spiral Dynamics (SD) is a model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organizations, and societies. It was initially developed by Don Edward Beck and Christopher Cowan based on the emergent cyclical theory of Clare W. Graves

by Don Edward Beck and Christopher Cowan

Arguing that mature masculinity is not abusive or domineering, Moore and Gillette provide a Jungian introduction to the psychological foundations of a mature, authentic, and revitalized masculinity.

by Moore, Robert, Gillette, Douglas

This practical guide offers an approach to organizational change based on the possibility of a more desirable future, experience with the whole system, and activities that signal ""something different is happening this time."

by David L. Cooperrider, Diana Whitney

Theories of Development: Concepts and Applications

by William Crain

Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning

by James W. Fowler

Emotion in Organizations

by Stephen Fineman (Editor)

From Dependency to Autonomy: Studies in Organization and Change

by Eric J. Miller

Socioanalytic Methods: Discovering the Hidden in Organisations and Social Systems

by Susan Long

The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People and Organizations

by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

Moral Development and Reality: Beyond the Theories of Kohlberg, Hoffman, and Haidt

by John C. Gibbs

How Coaching Works: The Essential Guide to the History and Practice of Effective Coaching

by Joseph O'connor

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

by Zander, Rosamund Stone, Zander, Benjamin

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity

by David Allen

Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last

by Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Leadership: A Critical Text

by Simon Western

The Evolving Self: Problem and Process in Human Development

by Robert Kegan

Systemic Coaching and Constellations

by John Whittington

Executive Coaching: Systems-Psychodynamic Perspective

by Halina Brunning

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life

by James Hollis

The Different Drum

by M. Scott Peck

Virtues and Virtue Education in Theory and in Practice

by Catherine A. Darnell and Kristján Kristjánsson

The Path: A New Way to Think About Everything

by Professor Michael Puett, Christine Gross-Loh

The Good Society and the Inner World: Psychoanalysis, Politics and Culture

by Michael Rustin

Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

by Gregory Bateson

Coherence: The Science of Exceptional Leadership and Performance

by Alan Watkins

Awakening Compassion at Work

by Monica Worline, Jane E. Dutton

The Expanding Circle

by Peter Singer

Applying Wisdom to Contemporary World Problems

by Robert J. Sternberg (Editor), Howard C. Nusbaum (Editor), Judith Glück (Editor)

Servant Leadership

by Robert K. Greenleaf

Trust: Reason, Routine, Reflexivity

by Guido Mollering

Invisible Women

by Caroline Criado Perez

Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)

by Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson


CATEGORY 2: ethical LEADERSHIP

Top 100 Best Leadership Books - Candidates Updated Q4 2023


Community Recommendations

The Fundamentals of Ethics

suggested by Goeff Hamilton

The Emergence of Leadership: Linking Self-Organization and Ethics

suggested by Mike Cardus

Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

suggested by Jacqui Brassey

The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action

suggested by Mark McAleer

The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results

suggested by Jesper Bubandt Toft

Versuch über die Form des Glücks: Studien zur Ethik

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

Die Psychologie der Moralentwicklung

suggested by Robert Josef Stadler

Radical Hope

suggested by Guido Palazzo

Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience

suggested by Guido Palazzo

Intellectual Humility

suggested by Simon Cassin

The Leadership Society Team Recommendations

Meaningful Work

by Andrea Veltman

Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers

by Robert Jackall

A leader in transpersonal psychology presents the first truly integrative model of spiritual consciousness and Western developmental psychology

by Ken Wilber

The Corrosion of Character – The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

by Richard Sennett

Democracy And Education

by John Dewey

Humanism of the Other

by Emmanuel Levinas

Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues

by Irene McMullin

Critical Systems Thinking and the Management of Complexity

by Michael C. Jackson

Psychology as Religion: The Cult of Self-Worship

by Paul C. Vitz

Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice

by Martha Nussbaum

The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?

by Michael J. Sandel

Global Ethics and Global Common Goods

by Patrick Riordan

Creating Capabilities

by Martha Nussbaum

Organisational Learning

by Roderick Smith

Virtuous Emotions

by Kristján Kristjánsson

Justice as Fairness: A Restatement

by John Rawls

Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?

by Michael J Sandel

Virtue Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction

by Liezl van Zyl

Virtue Rediscovered: Deontology, Consequentialism, and Virtue Ethics in the Contemporary Moral Landscape

by Nathan Wood

After Virtue

by Alasdair MacIntyre

Handbook of Virtue Ethics in Business and Management

by Alejo José G. Sison et al.

A Better Way to Think about Business

by Robert C. Solomon

Integrative Economic Ethics: Foundations of a Civilized Market Economy

by Peter Ulrich

Virtue at Work: Ethics for Individuals, Managers, and Organizations

by Geoff Moore

The Human Condition

by Hannah Arendt, Margaret Canovan, Danielle Allen

This book presents a method that might be called an Aristotelian common-sense approach to ethical decision making.

by Ronald Duska, Norman E. Bowie (Editor), Patricia H. Werhane (Editor)

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree.

by Amartya Sen

Stakeholder Theory: The State of the Art

by R. Edward Freeman

The Morality Of Happiness

by Julia Annas

Beyond Civility: The Competing Obligations of Citizenship

by William Keith, Robert Danisch

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics

by Allen Thompson

The Wretched of the Earth

by Frantz Fanon

Credo

by William Sloane Coffin

The Social Contract

by Jean-Jaques Rousseau

A Theory of Justice: Revised Edition

by J Rawls

The Republic

by Plato

Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live with Themselves

by Albert Bandura

Power: A Radical View

by Steven Lukes

Frameworks of Power

by Stewart R Clegg


CATEGORY 3: organisational LEADERSHIP

Top 100 Best Leadership Books - Candidates Updated Q4 2023


Community Recommendations

Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection

suggested by Christine Baker

Social Power and the CEO: Leadership and Trust in a Sustainable Free Enterprise System

suggested by Christine Baker

Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity

suggested by Mike Cardus

The Outward Mindset: How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations

suggested by Tjessica Stegena

Exploration in Management

suggested by David Rasmusson

Critical Leadership Theory: Integrating Transdisciplinary Perspectives

suggested by Jennifer Akins

Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest

suggested by Adam Thompson

Systems Leadership: Creating Positive Organisations

suggested by Hilton Barnett

Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations

suggested by Esther Patrick

The Power of Invisible Leadership: How a Compelling Common Purpose Inspires Exceptional Leadership

suggested by Anna Lyczak-Czpukojc

Moments of Truth

suggested by Anna Lyczak-Czpukojc

Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation

suggested by Anna Lyczak-Czpukojc

Leadership in Organizations

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

The Leadership Shadow: How to Recognize and Avoid Derailment, Hubris and Overdrive

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

Humble Leadership, Second Edition: The Power of Relationships, Openness, and Trust

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

The Connecting Leader: Serving Concurrently as a Leader and a Follower

suggested by Mihaela Diaconu

Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

suggested by Stefano Olmeti

Leadership Without Easy Answers

suggested by Stefano Olmeti

Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

suggested by Mark Westcomb

No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

suggested by Mark Westcomb

The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups

suggested by Mark Westcomb

Messing about in Problems: An Informal Structured Approach to Their Identification and Management

suggested by Mark Westcomb

The Unconscious at Work: A Tavistock Approach to Making Sense of Organizational Life

suggested by Mark Westcomb

Flat Army: Creating a Connected and Engaged Organization

suggested by Rose Kattackal

Cynefin - Weaving Sense-Making into the Fabric of Our World

suggested by Dr. Blanka Bellak

The Quantum Leader: A Revolution in Business Thinking and Practice

suggested by Lara Bezerra

High Output Management

suggested by Ricardo Abdoel

The Essential Drucker

suggested by Ricardo Abdoel

The Fearless Organization

suggested by Katja Rieger

The Leadership Society Team Recommendations

Rediscovering Institutions

by James G. March, Johan P. Olsen

Collaborative Entrepreneurship: How Networked Firms Use Continuous Innovation to Create Economic Wealth

by Raymond E. Miles, Grant Miles, Charles C. Snow

Heart of Enterprise

by Stafford Beer

The Oxford Handbook of Positive Organizational Scholarship

Edited by Kim Cameron and Gretchen Spreitzer

Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

by Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini

Many Voices One Song

by Ted J Rau, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez

Reinventing Organizations

by Frederic Laloux

Holacracy: The Revolutionary Management System that Abolishes Hierarchy

by Brian J. Robertson

Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite

by Christian Stadler, Julia Hautz

Zero Distance: Management in the Quantum Age

by Danah Zohar

The Fractal Organization: Creating sustainable organizations with the Viable System Model

by Patrick Hoverstadt

Leading by Weak Signals: Using Small Data to Master Complexity:

by Peter Gomez, Mark Lambertz

In most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for--namely, covering their weaknesses, trying to look their best, and managing other people's impressions of them.

by Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey, Matthew L Miller, Andy Fleming, Deborah Helsing

Change: How to Make Big Things Happen

by Damon Centola

Critical Management Studies

by Mats Alvesson (Editor), Hugh Willmott (Editor)


CATEGORY 4: ecosystemic leadership

Top 100 Best Leadership Books - Candidates Updated Q4 2023


Community Recommendations

Leading from the Emerging Future

suggested by Lara Bezerra

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

suggested by Guido Palazzo

Values

suggested by Simon Cassin

The Leadership Society Team Recommendations

Civil Economy and Organisation

by Roberta Sferrazo

This book asks why it is that the things we value most – from the environment to frontline workers to keeping children well fed and educated – are so often neglected by the market.

by Mark Carney

The Future of the Commons

by Elinor Ostrom

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H Meadows

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth
Virtues, Morals and Markets: Why Moral Identity Matters

Virtues, Morals and Markets: Why Moral Identity Matters

by Rojhat Avsar

What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

by Michael J. Sandel

Cosmopolis

by Stephen Edelston Toulmin

The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism: and Other Writings

by Max Weber

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

by R. H. Tawney

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond

by Martin O'Neill (Editor), Thad Williamson (Editor)

Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach

by Margaret Archer

Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice

by Damon Golsorkhi (Editor), Linda Rouleau (Editor), David Seidl (Editor), Eero Vaara (Editor)

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics: Theorizing, Analyzing, and Transforming Capitalism

by Tae-Hee Jo (Editor)

Power And Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist And Capitalist Dictatorship

by Mancur Olson

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty

The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy

by Mariana Mazzucato

Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump

by Joseph Stiglitz

The Common Good

by Robert Reich

How to be an Anti-capitalist for the 21st Century

by Erik Olin Wright

The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

by Karl Polanyi

Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy

by Karl Marx

The Road to Serfdom

by F. A. Hayek

The Case for Socialism

by Alan Maass

The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy

by Anthony Giddens

How will Capitalism end?

by Wolfgang Streec

Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century

by George Sessions

Thinking in Systems

by Donella Meadows, Diana Wright (Editor)

Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home

by Pope Francis

Finance and Good Society

by Robert J. Shiller

The Social Structures of the Economy

by Pierre Bourdieu