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Economics
Constitution of Liberty
Friedrich Hayek
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, Volume 2)
F. A. Hayek · 2007
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick · 2013
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity
Charles Taylor · 1992
Escape from Freedom
Erich Fromm · 1994
The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber · 2013
The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
Kathi Weeks · 2021
To Read
Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au · 2022
Assembly
Natasha Brown · 2021
This visionary and unflinching novel is about a black woman who has spent her life carefully navigating cutthroat worlds of privilege in her career and relationships—until one day she is pulled up short by a life and death decision. Come of age in the credit crunch. Be civil in a hostile environment. Go to college, get an education, start a career. Do all the right things. Buy an apartment. Buy art. Buy a sort of happiness. But above all, keep your head down. Keep quiet. And keep going. The narrator of Assembly is a black British woman. She is preparing to attend a lavish garden party at her boyfriend’s family estate, set deep in the English countryside. At the same time, she is considering the carefully assembled pieces of herself. As the minutes tick down and the future beckons, she can’t escape the question: is it time to take it all apart? Assembly is a story about the stories we live within – those of race and class, safety and freedom, winners and losers.And it is about one woman daring to take control of her own story, even at the cost of her life. With a steely, unfaltering gaze, Natasha Brown dismantles the mythology of whiteness, lining up the debris in a neat row and walking away.
Seven Days in the Art World
Sarah Thornton · 2008
