This would be an ideal book for anyone to read in the spirit of this thesis.

'The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail' https://image.nostr.build/f0f7d3890dd027e6393fd639a947a33e2068c191543a5f8ebdcd7940d089ce3f.jpg
Book by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt. 

 Also When Money Does, Broken Money, Why Nations Fail, Wealth of Nations, Hidden Repression, Cheryl Payer's The Debt Trap. The list is long.