Alfie Kohn, The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life (New York: BasicBooks, 1990).
Michael Argyle, The Psychology of Happiness (London: Methuen, 1987).
Relevant here is Paul L. Wachtel, The Poverty of Affluence: A Psychological Portrait of the American Way of Life (Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1989).
Walter LaFeber, Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism (New York: Norton, 1999).
Principled libertarians support unrestricted immigration.
Stephen Marglin, “What do bosses do? The origins and functions of hierarchy in capitalist production,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 1974, pp. 60-112.
Community-based systems should be distinguished from private charities. The key distinction concerns who controls the provision.
Ralph Miliband, The State in Capitalist Society (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969). A specific example of the way state-led transformation discourages popular initiative is given by Ed Brown, “Nicaragua: Sandinistas, social transformation and the continuing search for a popular economic programme,” Geoforum, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1996, pp. 275-295.
Martin P. Davidson, The Consumerist Manifesto: Advertising in Postmodern Times (London: Routledge, 1992).
On status and economics, see Robert H. Frank, Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).
Sylvia Walby, Patriarchy at Work: Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations in Employment (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986).
Cynthia Cockburn, Machinery of Dominance: Women, Men and Technical Know- How (London: Pluto Press, 1985).
On the state and the military, see Ekkehart Krippendorff, Staat und Krieg: Die Historische Logik Politischer Unvernunft (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1985), as reviewed by Johan Galtung, “The state, the military and war,” Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 26, No. 1, 1989, pp. 101-105; Bruce D. Porter, War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics (New York: Free Press, 1994); Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990- 1992 (Cambridge MA: Blackwell, 1992).
