RESOURCES

 
 

START WITH THE BOOK

ORGANIZED MONEY is the best place to find sources for more information. Preorder today.

RESOURCES START ON PAGE 255

We tried to make it easy to dig deeper into the topics in ORGANIZED MONEY. A short resources section for non-technical readers is the best place to start.

Try THE INDEX

ORGANIZED MONEY includes a thorough index that will help you find the information you need. It starts on page 279.

The Notes in the book begin on page 261. You will not find every reference there, but you will find full references for the primary sources we rely on.

AND HERE ARE SOME OF OUR FAVORITES

On Financial Systems Literacy (how the financial systems works and who it works for), we suggest What They Do with Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It by Stephen Davis, Jon Lukomnik, and David Pitt-Watson.

To help you understand that the financial system is not failing only progressives, try conservative commentator Kevin Phillips’ Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism.

If reading ORGANIZED MONEY made you realize that there is no limit to your financial fascination, spend a month with the three lengthy volumes of A Financial History of the United States by Jerry W. Markham. Or read the compilation of economic classics, The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics with commentary by Michael Lewis, the popular financial writer. Or just read Lewis’s commentaries, which are far shorter and much more fun to read. You will learn a lot.

If you only want to take on one of the classics, read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, which is the foundation for capitalism in its true form (not the market fundamentalism we write about in the book). But if you want to really understand it, read Smith’s less-famous but no less important Theory of Moral Sentiments, which is the context not only for The Wealth of Nations but for all economics, finance, and politics.

For less technical but no less informative reading about economics and finance, however, try Lewis’s better-known popular works: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine and Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt.

Or read the book that is the authoritative short-read for professional economists, policy makers, and finance professionals who do not have time or patience for the classics, Robert L. Heilbroner’s The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.

 

GO DIGITAL

The great thing about money is that it’s everywhere. Even online.

Finding PERSPECTIVE

HERE ARE SOME ONLINE SITES WE LIKE

ORGANIZED MONEY is far-reaching and wide-ranging.

You can find an endless supply of digital resources about the financial system and links to other resources but a very limited supply of resources that bring a progressive perspective.

Here are some reliable, progressive experts on finance, economics, and a wide range of issues you can turn to when you want to go deep.

 

HAVE A DISCUSSION

Guides for organizing a discussion in your communities.

DISCUSSION GUIDES

ORGANIZED MONEY wants you and your community to understand how the financial system is—or is not—working for you. We are preparing discussion guides you can use to get the conversation going.

If you have a group that could use a special-topic discussion guide, please write us at info@organizedmoney.org.