====== Abridgements ======

^  Title                                                             ^  Author                                    ^
| [[The Elusive Quest for Growth]]                                   | [[wp>William Easterly]]                    |
| [[The White Mans Burden|The White Man's Burden]]                   | [[wp>William Easterly]]                    |
| [[A Century of War]]                                               | [[wp>William Engdahl]]                     |
| [[Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth]]                     | [[wp>James Forder]]                        |
| [[The Affluent Society]]                                           | [[wp>John Kenneth Galbraith]]              |
| [[The Anatomy of Power]]                                           | [[wp>John Kenneth Galbraith]]              |
| [[The Nature of Mass Poverty]]                                     | [[wp>John Kenneth Galbraith]]              |
| [[The New Industrial State]]                                       | [[wp>John Kenneth Galbraith]]              |
| [[Dumbing Us Down]]: the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling | [[wp>John Taylor Gatto]]                   |
| [[The Partys Over|The Party's Over]]                               | [[wp>Richard Heinberg]]                    |
| [[PostCapitalism]]: A Guide to Our Future                          | [[wp>Paul Mason (journalist)|Paul Mason]]  |
| [[The Return of Depression Economics]]                             | [[wp>Paul Krugman]]                        |
| [[Who Runs This Place|Who Runs This Place?]]                       | [[wp>Anthony Sampson]]                     |
| [[Fair Trade for All]]                                             | [[wp>Joseph Stiglitz]] and Andrew Charlton |
| [[The Roaring Nineties]]                                           | [[wp>Joseph Stiglitz]]                     |


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