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Here’s a list of books, films and documentaries that have inspired us at Citizen Capitalism. |
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BOOKS WE LIKE |
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need A Green Revolution and How it Can Renew America, Thomas L. Friedman, Douglas & McIntyre Publishers Inc. |  |
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism, Joyce Appleby, W.W. Norton & Company |
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Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and The End of Globalization, Jeff Rubin, Random House Canada |  |
Good Business: Steve Hilton and Giles Gibbons, TEXERE Publishing Limited |
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Corporate Karma: How Business Can Move Forward by Giving Back, Peggie Pelosi, Orenda Publishing |  |
How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything… in Business (and in Life), Dov Seidman, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism: Ha-Joon Chang, Bloomsbury Press |  |
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World, Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Portfolio Penguin Canada |
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Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow, Chip Conley, Jossey-Bass |  |
The Economics of Integrity: Anna Bernasek, HarperCollins Publishers |
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What Consumers Really Want: Authenticity: James H. Gilmore B. Joseph Pine II, Harvard Business School Press |  |
The Responsibility Revolution: How The Next Generation of Businesses Will Win, Jeffrey Hollender and Bill Breen, Jossey-Bass |
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Saving the World at Work: What Companies and Individuals Can Do to Go Beyond Making a Profit to Making a Difference, Tim Sanders, The Doubleday Publishing Group |  |
Shackleton’s Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great American Explorer, Margot Morrell and Stephanie Capparell, Penguin Group |
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Why We Buy: The Science of Shopping, Paco Underhill, Simon & Schuster, Inc. |  |
The Flight of the Creative Class: The New Global Competition for Talent, Richard Florida, HarperCollins Publishers |
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Living It Up: Our Love Affair With Luxury, James B. Twitchell, Columbia University Press New York |  |
American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change on The United States, Michael Adams, Penguin Group |
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Consumer Republic: Using Brands to Get What You Want, Make Corporations Behave, and Maybe Even Save the World, Bruce Philp, McClelland & Stewart |  |
The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business, Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review Press |
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Strategy for Sustainability: Adam Werbach, Harvard Business School Press |  |
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, Dev Patnaik, FT Press |
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Firms of Endearment: How World-class Companies Profit From Passion and Purpose, Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe & Jagdish N. Sheth | 
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Local Motion: The Art of Civic Engagement in Toronto, Dave Meslin, Coach House Books |
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Slow Death By Rubber Duck: How The Toxic Chemistry Of Everyday Life Affects Our Health, Rick Smith & Bruce Lourie, Knopf Canada | ||
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DOCUMENTARIES WE LIKE |
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The Corporation, Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott & Joel Bakan, Big Picture Media Corporation |
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FLOW: For Love of Water, Irena Salina, Oscilloscope Laboratories |
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End of the Line, Rupert Murray, Docurama Films |
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Waiting for Superman, Davis Guggenheim, Paramount Vantage & Participant Media |
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