His book, ''Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power, and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream (''Cornell University Press) was described by ''Washington Post'' columnist E.J. Dionne as "a brilliant take on what ails our society and our politics," and by Arlie Hochschild, author of ''Strangers in Their Own Land'', as "a fascinating 'long look' at America.... Sobering, startling, important―a big-think book."
His latest book is ''The Making of a Pandemic: Social, Political, and Psychological Perspectives on Covid-19'' (Springer).