Heilbroner Center Director Julia Ott provided The Nation magazine with a list of five recent university press books that are “fundamental to understanding our current crisis.”
A quick look at her list:

MAHOGANY
The Costs of Luxury
in Early America
by Jennifer L. Anderson

LAND OF THE FEE
Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class
by Devin Fergus

SLAVERY’S CAPITALISM
A New History of American Economic Development
Edited by Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman

BEAUTY SHOP POLITICS
African American
Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry
by Tiffany M. Gill

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE
Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
by Daniel Stedman Jones