25 Economics books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
• Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole by Tiffany Aliche
• Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• Consumed: On Colonialism, Climate Change, Consumerism, and the Need for Collective Change by Aja Barber
• The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans—And How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown
• 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
• Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
• Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk by Satyajit Das
• The Reconciliation Manifesto: Recovering the Land, Rebuilding the Economy by Grand Chief Ronald Derrickson and Arthur Manuel
• Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
• Build the Damn Thing: How to Start a Successful Business If You’re Not a Rich White Guy by Kathryn Finney
• Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas
• Indigenomics: Taking a Seat at the Economic Table by Carol Anne Hilton
• The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex edited by Incite! Women of Colour Against Violence
• Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives by Shalene Wuttunee Jobin
• How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged by Kimberly Jones
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
• Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard
• Can’t We Just Print More Money? Economics in Ten Simple Questions by Rupal Patel
• The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America by Shawn D. Rochester
• Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy by Kohei Saito
• The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddist Economics for the 21st Century by Sulak Sivaraksa
• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
• The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today by Linda Yueh
• Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus