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The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy  · 15 Jan 2025  · 209pp  · 63,332 words

the importance of public opinion. Both the power and the limitations of consumer demand as a lever for change are reflected in what is called corporate social responsibility (CSR). CSR is a blanket term for the consideration of social, environmental, or ethical goals as part of a company’s objectives. For the most

agents, 103–6 consumer welfare standard, 104, 109 container farms, 100, 101 contract theory, 126–28 controlled experiments, 181 convolutional neural nets, 51 copyright, 108 corporate social responsibility (CSR), 107 counterfactuals and counterfactual explanation, 181–85, 183 Crawford, Kate, 6 creative commons, 86 Creator, The (film), 3 cross-validation, 11 data: as basis

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing

by Hu Anyan  · 240pp  · 83,473 words

of human resources and very advantageous labor-management dynamics. The low-level administrators in the company—whose domain was reality and not the utopia of corporate social responsibility its claims suggested—used the company’s enviable position to enforce more thorough appraisals. The result was, Director L and Manager Z’s sense of

The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business

by Richard Brooks  · 2 Jan 2014  · 301pp  · 88,082 words

claim in the way of good works was: ‘We put in a bit of money ourselves to finance the odd children’s outing.’ The polished ‘corporate social responsibility’ PR machines used by today’s tax avoiders were some years off. Wheezes like this were too hot to handle even for Andersens, a firm

across nine states in India and impact more than 700,000 households.’ Like many others, Shell was happy to fill my inbox with claims of corporate social responsibility, but not hard facts and figures about tax arrangements. And I couldn’t help feeling that, by paying no corporate tax but doing some good

Behind the cloud: the untold story of how Salesforce.com went from idea to billion-dollar company--and revolutionized an industry

by Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler  · 19 Nov 2009  · 307pp  · 17,123 words

Levi Strauss & Co. There was much to learn from the experiences of these companies, and it was our intention to unearth the best practices in corporate social responsibility. Play #66: Make Your Foundation Part of Your Business Model The insight we gained from other companies was tremendous. eBay, for example, had endowed its

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

by Tim Koller, McKinsey, Company Inc., Marc Goedhart, David Wessels, Barbara Schwimmer and Franziska Manoury  · 16 Aug 2015  · 892pp  · 91,000 words

—and that investing for sustainable growth also builds stronger economies, higher living standards, and more opportunities for individuals. Our research shows, for example, that many corporate social-responsibility initiatives also create shareholder value, and that managers should seek out such opportunities.5 For example, IBM’s free Webbased resources on business management not

Investing Amid Low Expected Returns: Making the Most When Markets Offer the Least

by Antti Ilmanen  · 24 Feb 2022

various people may interpret very differently. Even the umbrella term is debated, as ESG is almost interchangeably called responsible or sustainable or impact investing, or corporate social responsibility. Possible approaches range from excluding sinful companies to actively engaging with the same companies to change their behavior. In most cases, investments are evaluated not

Poorly Made in China: An Insider's Account of the Tactics Behind China's Production Game

by Paul Midler  · 18 Mar 2009  · 254pp  · 14,795 words

. He had set up a karaoke lounge at the factory, he said, where workers could spend their evenings. He peppered his language with buzzwords like “corporate social responsibility” and said that he had initiated a profit-sharing plan. When we went onto the factory floor later, I buttonholed a few workers and asked

Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy

by Iain Martin  · 11 Sep 2013  · 387pp  · 119,244 words

most exercised when it came to footling matters. Following the death of her father, Lord Younger, Joanna Davidson joined the Royal Bank as head of corporate social responsibility. She confided in family and friends about how difficult she found it working for Goodwin, with his temper and tendency to meddle. When she took

Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens

by Nicholas Shaxson  · 11 Apr 2011  · 429pp  · 120,332 words

for illicit loot, as among the world’s “cleanest” jurisdictions, then we seem to have lost our way. Tax is the missing element in the corporate social responsibility debate. Modern company directors face a dilemma. To whom are they answerable—to shareholders only or to a wider set of stakeholders? There are no

I You We Them

by Dan Gretton

said this evening, what is perceived as permanent never is. As for a new strategy, what would happen if we got rid of that cliché ‘corporate social responsibility’ and started to talk instead about the individual responsibility of those working in corporations? If we started to hold the individuals within Shell to account

and the executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his eight fellow Ogoni. He later played a key role in the birth of the so-called ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ movement in the late 1990s. For more than ten years I’ve wondered about how to do this. It’s taken a great deal of

most directly with issues surrounding corporate psychology and behaviour today. I believe that the development, since the late 1990s, of the so-called CSR movement (Corporate Social Responsibility) has actually had the disturbing effect of weakening moral and ethical frameworks within companies. Creating specific departments within companies which are supposed to deal with

why this action was possible for him, what could then be opened up in others, in similar situations today? Beyond the bandages of PR and ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’, beyond the gloss of annual reports. Suddenly detectable, even from the carpeted office in the City of London, the stench of the fumes in the

The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy

by David Gelles  · 30 May 2022  · 318pp  · 91,957 words

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

by Siddharth Kara  · 30 Jan 2023  · 302pp  · 96,609 words

Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World’s Network of Corruption

by Patrick Alley  · 17 Mar 2022  · 384pp  · 121,574 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

Tower of Basel: The Shadowy History of the Secret Bank That Runs the World

by Adam Lebor  · 28 May 2013  · 438pp  · 109,306 words

Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

by Robert N. Proctor  · 28 Feb 2012  · 1,199pp  · 332,563 words

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

by Patrick Radden Keefe  · 12 Apr 2021  · 712pp  · 212,334 words

Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy

by Howard Karger  · 9 Sep 2005  · 299pp  · 83,854 words

Rocket Billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the New Space Race

by Tim Fernholz  · 20 Mar 2018  · 328pp  · 96,141 words

How Boards Work: And How They Can Work Better in a Chaotic World

by Dambisa Moyo  · 3 May 2021  · 272pp  · 76,154 words

Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions

by Elizabeth Ghaffari  · 5 Dec 2011  · 493pp  · 139,845 words

The Golden Passport: Harvard Business School, the Limits of Capitalism, and the Moral Failure of the MBA Elite

by Duff McDonald  · 24 Apr 2017  · 827pp  · 239,762 words

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

by Rana Foroohar  · 16 May 2016  · 515pp  · 132,295 words

The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law

by Timothy Sandefur  · 16 Aug 2010  · 399pp  · 155,913 words

Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--And Those Fighting to Reverse It

by Steven Brill  · 28 May 2018  · 519pp  · 155,332 words

Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 4 Mar 2003  · 196pp  · 57,974 words

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth

by Tom Burgis  · 24 Mar 2015  · 413pp  · 119,379 words

Start It Up: Why Running Your Own Business Is Easier Than You Think

by Luke Johnson  · 31 Aug 2011  · 166pp  · 49,639 words

Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence

by Jacob Turner  · 29 Oct 2018  · 688pp  · 147,571 words

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan  · 1 Feb 2019  · 309pp  · 81,975 words

The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

by Raghuram Rajan  · 26 Feb 2019  · 596pp  · 163,682 words

The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived: Tom Watson Jr. And the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age

by Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman  · 14 Oct 2023  · 567pp  · 171,072 words

Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business

by Alan Murray  · 15 Dec 2022  · 263pp  · 77,786 words

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe  · 3 Oct 2022  · 689pp  · 134,457 words

Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

by John Abramson  · 15 Dec 2022  · 362pp  · 97,473 words

The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World

by Anu Bradford  · 14 Sep 2020  · 696pp  · 184,001 words

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel

by Tom Wainwright  · 23 Feb 2016  · 325pp  · 90,659 words

Smart Cities, Digital Nations

by Caspar Herzberg  · 13 Apr 2017

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green

by Henry Sanderson  · 12 Sep 2022  · 292pp  · 87,720 words

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

by Parag Khanna  · 18 Apr 2016  · 497pp  · 144,283 words

Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World

by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott  · 9 May 2016  · 515pp  · 126,820 words

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

by Robert B. Reich  · 24 Mar 2020  · 154pp  · 47,880 words

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality

by Ronald Purser  · 8 Jul 2019  · 242pp  · 67,233 words

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism

by John Elkington  · 6 Apr 2020  · 384pp  · 93,754 words

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

by Rebecca Henderson  · 27 Apr 2020  · 330pp  · 99,044 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams  · 28 Sep 2010  · 552pp  · 168,518 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham  · 27 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

by Hubert Joly  · 14 Jun 2021  · 265pp  · 75,202 words

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink

by Michael Blanding  · 14 Jun 2010  · 385pp  · 133,839 words

Making Globalization Work

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 16 Sep 2006

What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy

by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale  · 23 May 2011  · 397pp  · 112,034 words

The Googlization of Everything:

by Siva Vaidhyanathan  · 1 Jan 2010  · 281pp  · 95,852 words

Ethics in Investment Banking

by John N. Reynolds and Edmund Newell  · 8 Nov 2011  · 193pp  · 11,060 words

The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid

by C. K. Prahalad  · 15 Jan 2005  · 423pp  · 149,033 words

We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

by Annelise Orleck  · 27 Feb 2018  · 382pp  · 107,150 words

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas  · 27 Aug 2018  · 296pp  · 98,018 words

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

by Rebecca MacKinnon  · 31 Jan 2012  · 390pp  · 96,624 words

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

Philanthrocapitalism

by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton  · 29 Sep 2008  · 401pp  · 115,959 words

WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World

by Craig Kielburger, Holly Branson, Marc Kielburger, Sir Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg  · 7 Mar 2018  · 335pp  · 96,002 words

Capital Without Borders

by Brooke Harrington  · 11 Sep 2016  · 358pp  · 104,664 words

The Inequality Puzzle: European and US Leaders Discuss Rising Income Inequality

by Roland Berger, David Grusky, Tobias Raffel, Geoffrey Samuels and Chris Wimer  · 29 Oct 2010  · 237pp  · 72,716 words

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

by Joel Bakan  · 1 Jan 2003

Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business

by John Mackey, Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George  · 7 Jan 2014  · 335pp  · 104,850 words

Rewriting the Rules of the European Economy: An Agenda for Growth and Shared Prosperity

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 28 Jan 2020  · 408pp  · 108,985 words

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks  · 24 Aug 2015  · 708pp  · 176,708 words

Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

by Michael Shellenberger  · 28 Jun 2020

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

by Steve Coll  · 30 Apr 2012  · 944pp  · 243,883 words

People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 22 Apr 2019  · 462pp  · 129,022 words

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World

by Paul Gilding  · 28 Mar 2011  · 337pp  · 103,273 words

Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital

by Kimberly Clausing  · 4 Mar 2019  · 555pp  · 80,635 words

Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

by Tyler Cowen  · 8 Apr 2019  · 297pp  · 84,009 words

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

by Natasha Dow Schüll  · 19 Aug 2012

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture

by Brian Dear  · 14 Jun 2017  · 708pp  · 223,211 words

The Clash of the Cultures

by John C. Bogle  · 30 Jun 2012  · 339pp  · 109,331 words

No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy

by Linsey McGoey  · 14 Apr 2015  · 324pp  · 93,606 words

The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

by Astra Taylor  · 4 Mar 2014  · 283pp  · 85,824 words

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  · 15 May 2023  · 619pp  · 177,548 words

The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security

by Deborah D. Avant  · 17 Oct 2010  · 872pp  · 135,196 words

Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

by Ronald Cohen  · 1 Jul 2020  · 276pp  · 59,165 words

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America

by David Callahan  · 9 Aug 2010

Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe

by Antony Loewenstein  · 1 Sep 2015  · 464pp  · 121,983 words

Green Philosophy: How to Think Seriously About the Planet

by Roger Scruton  · 30 Apr 2014  · 426pp  · 118,913 words

The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era

by Ellen Ruppel Shell  · 22 Oct 2018  · 402pp  · 126,835 words

Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies

by Geoffrey West  · 15 May 2017  · 578pp  · 168,350 words

Future Files: A Brief History of the Next 50 Years

by Richard Watson  · 1 Jan 2008

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato  · 16 Dec 2008

Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business

by Paul Jarvis  · 1 Jan 2019  · 258pp  · 74,942 words

That Used to Be Us

by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum  · 1 Sep 2011  · 441pp  · 136,954 words

Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 13 May 2013  · 317pp  · 98,745 words

Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons

by Peter Barnes  · 29 Sep 2006  · 207pp  · 52,716 words

Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself

by Peter Fleming  · 14 Jun 2015  · 320pp  · 86,372 words

Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World

by Michael Edwards  · 4 Jan 2010

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

by Kevin Dutton  · 15 Oct 2012  · 280pp  · 85,091 words

Culture and Prosperity: The Truth About Markets - Why Some Nations Are Rich but Most Remain Poor

by John Kay  · 24 May 2004  · 436pp  · 76 words

The Purpose Economy: How Your Desire for Impact, Personal Growth and Community Is Changing the World

by Aaron Hurst  · 31 Aug 2013  · 209pp  · 63,649 words

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff

by Fred Pearce  · 30 Sep 2009  · 407pp  · 121,458 words

Live and Let Spy: BRIXMIS - the Last Cold War Mission

by Steve Gibson  · 2 Mar 2012  · 377pp  · 121,996 words

Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The

by Mariana Mazzucato  · 25 Apr 2018  · 457pp  · 125,329 words

The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future

by Julia Hobsbawm  · 11 Apr 2022  · 172pp  · 50,777 words

The Enlightened Capitalists

by James O'Toole  · 29 Dec 2018  · 716pp  · 192,143 words

The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future

by Orly Lobel  · 17 Oct 2022  · 370pp  · 112,809 words

A People’s History of Computing in the United States

by Joy Lisi Rankin

This Is Service Design Doing: Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World: A Practitioners' Handbook

by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Edgar Hormess, Adam Lawrence and Jakob Schneider  · 12 Jan 2018  · 704pp  · 182,312 words

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

by Patrick McGee  · 13 May 2025  · 377pp  · 138,306 words

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

by Sofi Thanhauser  · 25 Jan 2022  · 592pp  · 133,460 words

Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness

by Frederic Laloux and Ken Wilber  · 9 Feb 2014  · 436pp  · 141,321 words

Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist

by Ray C. Anderson  · 28 Mar 2011  · 412pp  · 113,782 words

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey Sachs  · 1 Jan 2008  · 421pp  · 125,417 words

Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia

by Becky Hogge, Damien Morris and Christopher Scally  · 26 Jul 2011  · 171pp  · 54,334 words

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by Nadia Eghbal  · 139pp  · 35,022 words

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

by Sharon Zukin  · 1 Dec 2009  · 415pp  · 119,277 words

Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy

by Dani Rodrik  · 8 Oct 2017  · 322pp  · 87,181 words

Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

by Dan Lyons  · 22 Oct 2018  · 252pp  · 78,780 words

The Coffee Book: Anatomy of an Industry From Crop to the Last Drop

by Gregory Dicum and Nina Luttinger  · 1 Jan 1999  · 230pp  · 62,294 words

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

by Arun Sundararajan  · 12 May 2016  · 375pp  · 88,306 words

The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World

by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic  · 5 Jan 2010  · 411pp  · 108,119 words

A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice

by Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell  · 14 Oct 2014  · 501pp  · 134,867 words

Why We Can't Afford the Rich

by Andrew Sayer  · 6 Nov 2014  · 504pp  · 143,303 words

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood

by Rose George  · 22 Oct 2018  · 453pp  · 130,632 words

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope  · 17 Sep 2018  · 354pp  · 110,570 words

Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children

by John Wood  · 28 Aug 2006  · 310pp  · 91,151 words

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

by Thomas L. Friedman  · 22 Nov 2016  · 602pp  · 177,874 words

Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)

by Salim Ismail and Yuri van Geest  · 17 Oct 2014  · 292pp  · 85,151 words

Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas

by Natasha Dow Schüll  · 15 Jan 2012  · 632pp  · 166,729 words

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

by Adam Winkler  · 27 Feb 2018  · 581pp  · 162,518 words

Ecovillages: Lessons for Sustainable Community

by Karen T. Litfin  · 16 Dec 2013  · 322pp  · 89,523 words

Masters of Management: How the Business Gurus and Their Ideas Have Changed the World—for Better and for Worse

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 29 Nov 2011  · 460pp  · 131,579 words

Your Computer Is on Fire

by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip  · 9 Mar 2021  · 661pp  · 156,009 words

Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

by Vivek Ramaswamy  · 16 Aug 2021  · 344pp  · 104,522 words

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier  · 29 Mar 2017

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist

by Alex Zevin  · 12 Nov 2019  · 767pp  · 208,933 words

Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley From Building a New Global Underclass

by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri  · 6 May 2019  · 346pp  · 97,330 words

Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future

by Andrew Heintzman, Evan Solomon and Eric Schlosser  · 2 Feb 2009  · 323pp  · 89,795 words

The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 9 Sep 2019  · 327pp  · 84,627 words

Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne  · 9 Sep 2019  · 482pp  · 121,173 words

The Challenge for Africa

by Wangari Maathai  · 6 Apr 2009  · 288pp  · 90,349 words

How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present

by Thomas J. Dilorenzo  · 9 Aug 2004  · 283pp  · 81,163 words

Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World

by Timothy Ferriss  · 14 Jun 2017  · 579pp  · 183,063 words

Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up

by Philip N. Howard  · 27 Apr 2015  · 322pp  · 84,752 words

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

by Paul Roberts  · 1 Sep 2014  · 324pp  · 92,805 words

The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy

by Dani Rodrik  · 23 Dec 2010  · 356pp  · 103,944 words

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance

by Parag Khanna  · 11 Jan 2011  · 251pp  · 76,868 words

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture

by David Boyle and Andrew Simms  · 14 Jun 2009  · 207pp  · 86,639 words

What Went Wrong: How the 1% Hijacked the American Middle Class . . . And What Other Countries Got Right

by George R. Tyler  · 15 Jul 2013  · 772pp  · 203,182 words

The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard

by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel  · 3 Oct 2016  · 504pp  · 126,835 words

Branded Beauty

by Mark Tungate  · 11 Feb 2012  · 290pp  · 87,084 words

Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato  · 31 Jul 2016  · 370pp  · 102,823 words

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols  · 25 Sep 2017  · 391pp  · 71,600 words

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by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis  · 19 May 2021  · 516pp  · 116,875 words

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

by Peter Singer  · 1 Jan 2015  · 197pp  · 59,656 words

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee  · 14 Nov 2023  · 381pp  · 113,173 words

Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation

by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson  · 30 Dec 2011  · 98pp  · 25,753 words

Long Game: How Long-Term Thinker Shorthb

by Dorie Clark  · 14 Oct 2021  · 201pp  · 60,431 words

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen  · 13 Sep 2021

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason  · 29 Jul 2015  · 378pp  · 110,518 words

Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect

by David Goodhart  · 7 Sep 2020  · 463pp  · 115,103 words

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room

by David Weinberger  · 14 Jul 2011  · 369pp  · 80,355 words

AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order

by Kai-Fu Lee  · 14 Sep 2018  · 307pp  · 88,180 words

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture From a Journey of 71 Million Miles

by Astronaut Ron Garan and Muhammad Yunus  · 2 Feb 2015

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order

by Jason Sharman  · 5 Feb 2019  · 265pp  · 71,143 words

Reset

by Ronald J. Deibert  · 14 Aug 2020

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale  · 14 May 2020  · 1,172pp  · 114,305 words

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

by Nick Romeo  · 15 Jan 2024  · 343pp  · 103,376 words

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The Participation Revolution: How to Ride the Waves of Change in a Terrifyingly Turbulent World

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The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

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The World's First Railway System: Enterprise, Competition, and Regulation on the Railway Network in Victorian Britain

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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen

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The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich

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