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Capitalism Books

Books selected for readers looking for capitalism books.

28 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 470+ tracked lists·3 crossover shelves·67% reader overlap with Comparative Books

1. Capitalism and Its Critics
John Cassidy
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
2. Crack-up Capitalism
Quinn Slobodian
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
3. Life After Capitalism
George Gilder
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
4. Capitalism, Alone
Branko Milanovic, Branko Milanović
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
5. Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
6. A People's Guide to Capitalism
Hadas Thier
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
7. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff, PublicAffairs
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Tech Industry
8. Gangsters of Capitalism
Jonathan M Katz
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
9. The Asset Class
Hettie O'Brien, Hettie O'Brien
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Private Equity
10. Palo Alto
Malcolm Harris, Patrick Harrison
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Western U.S. History
11. Red Capitalism
Carl Walter, Fraser Howie
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Comparative Economics
12. Bad Company
Megan Greenwell, Dan Bittner
Included for strong business alignment with this capitalism list.
Shelf signal: Private Equity
13. Capital in the Twenty-first Century
Thomas Piketty, Arthur Goldhammer
Included for strong economics alignment with this capitalism list.
Shelf signal: Capitalism & Markets
14. Conspiracist Manifesto
Anonymous, Robert Hurley
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Radical Politics
15. Why Don't the Poor Rise Up?
Ajamu Nangwaya, Michael Truscello
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Radical Politics
16. Blackshirts and Reds
Michael Parenti
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Fascism & Totalitarianism
17. Stuck
Ari Fliakos, Yoni Appelbaum
Included for strong civil rights alignment with this capitalism list.
Shelf signal: Urban Life
18. These Are the Plunderers
Gretchen Morgenson, Joshua Rosner
Included for strong american alignment with this capitalism list.
Shelf signal: Private Equity
19. Socialism . . . Seriously
Danny Katch, Dara Rosenberg
Strong fit for this capitalism list in the radical politics lane.
Shelf signal: Radical Politics
20. The Problem of Twelve
John Coates
Included for strong management alignment with this capitalism list.
Shelf signal: Private Equity
21. City of Gold
Jim Krane
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Arabian Peninsula History
22. Plunder
Brendan Ballou
Included for strong america alignment with this capitalism list.
Shelf signal: Private Equity
23. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels, Michèle Barrett
Fits this list for its focus on capitalism.
Shelf signal: Social Theory
24. To Overthrow the World
Sean McMeekin
Included for strong social alignment with this capitalism list.
Shelf signal: Cold War History