Co-curated with care with our partners at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore
1) Down and Out in the New Economy: How People Find (Or Don't Find) Work Today by Ilana Gershon (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
2) The Pricing of Progress: Economic Indicators and the Capitalization of American Life by Eli Cook (Harvard University Press, 2017)
3) The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran (Belknap Press, 2017)
4) The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy by Peter Tremin (MIT Press, 2017)
5) Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It by Richard V. Reeves (Perseus, 2017)
6) Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
7) Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities by Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro (Princeton University Press, 2017)
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