2015

• Abram de Swaan. THE KILLING COMPARTMENTS. The Mentality of Mass Murder. 2014, Yale University Press, 234 x 156mm, 288 Pages

2006

• Abram de Swaan, (ed.),  with M. Van der Linden: Mutualist Microfinance. Informal Savings Funds from the Global Periphery to the Core?. Amsterdam: Aksant, 2006, 217 pp.

2004

• (ed.) with E. de Gier & M. Oyens: Dutch welfare reforms in an expanding Europe. the neighbours’ view. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 2004, 217 pp.

2002

• The world language system; A political sociology and political economy of language. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002; 350 pp.

1996

• Human societies. An introduction. English / transl. from Dutch by Beverley Jackson. Cambridge: Polity, 2001. Non-fiction, gebonden. Original title: De mensenmaatschappij. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1996

1994

• (ed.) Social Policy Beyond Borders; The Social Question in Transnational Perspective. Amsterdam: Amsterdam U.P., 1994.

1990

• The Management of Normality; Critical Essays in Health and Welfare. London/New York: Routledge, 1990.

1988

• In Care of the State; Health care, education and welfare in Europe and the USA in the Modern Era. New York/Cambridge: Oxford U.P./Polity Press; 1988.

1973

• Coalition Theories and Cabinet Formations; A Study of Formal Theories of Coaliton Formation Applied to Nine European Parliaments after 1918 (With a preface by Anatol Rapaport). Amsterdam, New York, San Francisco: Elsevier/Jossey Bass, 1973.