Reviews are listed alphabetically by author's last name.
"Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception" By George Akerlof and Robert Shiller Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member
“Poor White” by Sherwood Anderson Reviewed here by Rev Dr. Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Member
“The Origin of Wealth” by Eric Beinhocker reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.

"Buddhist Economics: An Enlightened Approach to the Dismal Science" By Claire Brown, Ph.D. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member
“Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age”, “How the US Financial System has Gone Wrong and How to Rebuild It” by Ellen Brown. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Second Machine Age" By Erik Brynjlofsson and Andrew McAfee reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations" by Amy Chua (2018) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Critical Race Theory and Education: A Marxist Response" by Mike Cole (2009) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Green New Deal and Beyond" by Stan Cox (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"This is an Uprising!" by Mark and Paul Engler reviewed here by Terry Lowman, UUJEC co-chair.
"They’re Bankrupting Us!” And 20 Other Myths about Unions" by Bill Fletcher Jr Reviewed here by Rachel Bennett Steury UUJEC Administrator.
"Listen Liberal" by Thomas Frank, The Ruin of the Democratic Party by Meritocracy and Technocracy reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Mongrel Firebugs and Men of Property: Capitalism and Class Conflict in American History", 2019 by Steve Fraser and reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Crisis in US Health Care: Corporate Power vs. The Common Good" by John Geyman, M.D. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
Combined Review of "Dark Age America" by John Michael Greer, and "Ages of Discord" by Peter Turchin. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America – and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann. Reviewed here by Rev. Dr. Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Member.
"Explaining Post Modernism: skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Faulcault" by Stephen Hicks 2011. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhard, UUJEC board member.
"The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer, 1951 Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, long time UUJEC board member.
Wages of Rebellion: The Moral imperative of Revolt by Chris Hedges. Reviewed here by Rev. Dr. Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Member.
"The Bubble and Beyond" by Michael Hudson reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Degrowth" By Giorgos Kallis (2018) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, longtime UUJEC board member.
“Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis?” by Steve Keen. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"How To Be an Antiracist" by Ibram Kendi (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
“The True Flag” by Stephen Kinzer Reviewed here by Terry Lowman UUJEC Co-Chair.
"Dark Age Ahead" by Jane Jacob reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
“Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got It Right – and How We Can, Too” by George Lakey. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"Toward a Living Revolution: A Five-Stage Framework for Creating Radical Social Change” by George Lakey. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"These Truths" by Jean Lapore reviewed here by Rev Judith Deutsch.
"Runaway Inequality" by Les Leopold, reviewed here by Kit Marlowe, UUJEC Secretary.
"Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World" by Rabbi Michael Lerner (2019). Calls for a New Politics of Respect and Generosity, Rejecting Leftist Blaming and Elitisma reviewed here by Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
“A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from Woke Religion” by James Lindsay, Sept 9, 2020 reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
"Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America" by Ian Lopez (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC board member.
"The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure" By Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt (2018) Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Don’t Label Me" How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Cultural Wars by Irshad Manji (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
“Debt or Democracy – Public Money for Sustainability and Social Justice” - By Mary Mellor. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
“Global Inequality – A New Approach for the Age of Globalization” by Branko Milanovic reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Racial Contract" (1997) by Charles Mills reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Revisiting the Empowerment Controversy: Black Power and Unitarian Universalism by Mark Morrison-Reed reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things" 2018 by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore reviewed here by Terry Lowman, UUJEC co-chair.
"Confessions of An Eco-Sinner" by Fred Pearce reviewed here by Rachel Bennett Streury
"Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody" by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay (2020) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System By T.R. Reid. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care" by T.R. Reid Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
“The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less” By John Robbins Reviewed here by Rachel Bennett Steury UUJEC Administrator.
“Beyond $15, The story of the Seatac living wage battle” by Jonathan Rosenblum. Reviewed here by Terry Lowman UUJEC Co-Chair.
"A Renegade History of the United States" 2010 by Thaddeus Russell reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society" Second edition, 1998 by Arthur Schlesinger reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
A Self-Confessed White Supremacy Culture: The Emergence of an Illiberal Left in Unitarian Universalism by Anne Schneider (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"The Public Option: How to Expand Freedom, Increase Opportunity, and Promote Equality" by Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne Alstott (2019) and reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, board member...This excellent little survey of “public options” shows exactly how much the US has suffered from the ideology of neoliberal economics.
"People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent" by Joseph Stiglitz (2019) reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
“How Will Capitalism End? Essays on a Failing System” By Wolfgang Streeck. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"Hate Inc." by Matt Taibbi reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet” By Nina Teicholz. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"In the Know" by Russell Warne (2020) Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart, UUJEC Board Member.
"The Corporate Criminal: Why corporations must be abolished" by Steve Tombs and David Whyte. Reviewed here by Rich Florentino UUJEC Board Member.
“Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth” by Peter Turchin. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member.
"Beyond the Messy Truth" by Van Jones, the 2008 Ware Lecturer at GA. Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Less Medicine, More Health" written by Dr. H. Gilbert Welch Reviewed here by Terry Lowman UUJEC Co-Chair
"White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America" by Joan Williams 2020, reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart.
"Captured: The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy" by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Melanie Wachtell Stinett Reviewed here by Lucy Hitchcock, UUJEC Board Administrator
"The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Market" By Paul Wilmott and David Orrell Reviewed by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member, published in the SIAM News
“Modern Money Theory: A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems”, Second Edition, by L. Randall Wray.
Reviewed here by Dr. Dick Burkhart UUJEC Board Member