Each candidate is influenced by the ideas of others.  I think it is fair to let the voters know a few of the ideas that have influenced me.

Books & Articles

• Wealth and Democracy by Kevin Phillips
• Winner Take All Politics by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson
• The Right to Vote by Alexander Keyssar
• The Story of American Freedom by Eric Foner
• How Markets Fail by John Cassidy
• Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
• Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by Joseph Stiglitz
• Collapse by Jared Diamond
• Justice by Michael Sandel

Think Tanks

• The Roosevelt Institute
• Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
• Edge.org

Blogs

• The Baseline Scenario
• Rortybomb
• Ezra Klein
• Dan Ariely