creative destruction

The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 7 Apr 2026  · 342pp  · 129,097 words

more flexible and inclusive but not compromised out of existence. Information capitalism needs to be prevented from running amok but without killing the spirit of creative destruction. Everything needs to be calmed down. Walter Lippmann began his book A Preface to Morals (1929) with a quote from Aristophanes: ‘Whirl is King, having

…

of England, losses are nationalized while gains are privatized. Tech entrepreneurs have proved particularly adept at rent extraction despite being widely hailed as examples of creative destruction at its most ruthless. In the old days – the early 2000s – founders got rich by holding onto their (usually A-class) shares and working to

…

’s problem of overindulged appetites is commonplace. We have long assumed that modernity brings longer life – indeed, that longer life is proof that all that creative destruction is worth it. That has not been the case in the US since 2014. In 2021, life expectancy fell to 76.1 years – the lowest

…

There are good reasons why governments have been nervous about over-regulating business since the malaise of the 1970s. The essence of capitalism is creative destruction; the agents of creative destruction are trouble-causing entrepreneurs. Countries that have recognized this fact such as the US have roared ahead. Those who have ignored it have

…

world’s seven biggest advanced economies, including Japan and Germany. Today it accounts for 58 per cent.35 We must be careful not to destroy creative destruction in the name of order. Europe’s stagnation suggests that there is still more to do with the 1980s liberal agenda of lifting the burdens

…

anarchy and anomie, solutions to problems of and 58–9 Axis of Autocracy and 174 Bolsheviks and 88 civilized society and 316 corporations see corporations creative destruction xxiii, 206, 245, 260 crony capitalism xii dark side of, leaders of liberalism concern about 201–2 debate, freedom of and 214–16 globalization and

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson  · 20 Mar 2012  · 547pp  · 172,226 words

examples, they show how institutional developments, sometimes based on very accidental circumstances, have had enormous consequences. The openness of a society, its willingness to permit creative destruction, and the rule of law appear to be decisive for economic development.” —Kenneth J. Arrow, Nobel laureate in economics, 1972 “The authors convincingly show

…

than two thousand years of political and economic history. Imagine that they weave their ideas into a coherent theoretical framework based on limiting extraction, promoting creative destruction, and creating strong political institutions that share power, and you begin to see the contribution of this brilliant and engagingly written book.” —Scott E.

…

opposition to economic growth has its own, unfortunately coherent, logic. Economic growth and technological change are accompanied by what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction. They replace the old with the new. New sectors attract resources away from old ones. New firms take business away from established ones. New technologies

…

income was from landholdings or from trading privileges they enjoyed thanks to monopolies granted and entry barriers imposed by monarchs. Consistent with the idea of creative destruction, the spread of industries, factories, and towns took resources away from the land, reduced land rents, and increased the wages that landowners had to

…

just a process of more and better machines, and more and better educated people, but also a transformative and destabilizing process associated with widespread creative destruction. Growth thus moves forward only if not blocked by the economic losers who anticipate that their economic privileges will be lost and by the political

…

somewhat, even if not completely, inclusive economic institutions. Many societies with extractive political institutions will shy away from inclusive economic institutions because of fear of creative destruction. But the degree to which the elite manage to monopolize power varies across societies. In some, the position of the elite could be sufficiently secure

…

develop military technologies and even pull ahead of the United States in the space and nuclear race for a short while. But this growth without creative destruction and without broad-based technological innovation was not sustainable and came to an abrupt end. In addition, the arrangements that support economic growth under

…

oceans just at the wrong time, when Ming emperors decided in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries that increased long-distance trade and the creative destruction that it might bring would be likely to threaten their rule. In India, institutional drift worked differently and led to the development of a

…

either because of infighting over the spoils of extraction, leading to the collapse of the regime, or because the inherent lack of innovation and creative destruction under extractive institutions puts a limit on sustained growth. How the Soviets ran hard into these limits will be discussed in greater detail in the

…

getting locally autonomous groups under control. But absolutism persisted until the First World War, and reform efforts were thwarted by the usual fear of creative destruction and the anxiety among elite groups that they would lose economically or politically. While Ottoman reformers talked of introducing private property rights to land in

…

, a commodity coveted worldwide. The production of sugar based on gangs of slaves was certainly not “efficient,” and there was no technological change or creative destruction in these societies, but this did not prevent them from achieving some amount of growth under extractive institutions. The situation was similar in the Soviet

…

not to have changed. Building and artistic techniques became much more sophisticated over time, but in total there was little innovation. There was no creative destruction. But there were other forms of destruction as the wealth that the extractive institutions created for the k’uhul ajaw and the Maya elite led

…

different in nature from growth created under inclusive institutions, however. Most important, it is not sustainable. By their very nature, extractive institutions do not foster creative destruction and generate at best only a limited amount of technological progress. The growth they engender thus lasts for only so long. The Soviet experience gives

…

toward fully inclusive institutions looked unstoppable. But there was a tension in all this. Economic growth supported by the inclusive Venetian institutions was accompanied by creative destruction. Each new wave of enterprising young men who became rich via the commenda or other similar economic institutions tended to reduce the profits and economic

…

was based on relatively high agricultural productivity, significant tribute from the provinces, and long-distance trade, but it was not underpinned by technological progress or creative destruction. The Romans inherited some basic technologies, iron tools and weapons, literacy, plow agriculture, and building techniques. Early on in the Republic, they created others:

…

used existing technology, though the Romans perfected it. There could be some economic growth without innovation, relying on existing technology, but it was growth without creative destruction. And it did not last. As property rights became more insecure and the economic rights of citizens followed the decline of their political rights, economic

…

is good news, until the government decides that it is not interested in technological development—an all-too-common occurrence due to the fear of creative destruction. The great Roman writer Pliny the Elder relates the following story. During the reign of the emperor Tiberius, a man invented unbreakable glass and

…

they will often resist and try to stop such innovations. Thus society needs newcomers to introduce the most radical innovations, and these newcomers and the creative destruction they wreak must often overcome several sources of resistance, including that from powerful rulers and elites. Prior to seventeenth-century England, extractive institutions were the

…

, as shown in the last two chapters, especially when they’ve contained inclusive elements, as in Venice and Rome. But they did not permit creative destruction. The growth they generated was not sustained, and came to an end because of the absence of new innovations, because of political infighting generated by

…

by Dionysius Papin, a French physicist and inventor. The story of Papin’s invention is another example of how, under extractive institutions, the threat of creative destruction impeded technological change. Papin developed a design for a “steam digester” in 1679, and in 1690 he extended this into a piston engine. In

…

to cotton, as Foster did. Newcomers were needed to develop and use the new technologies. The rapid expansion of cotton decimated the wool industry—creative destruction in action. Creative destruction redistributes not simply income and wealth, but also political power, as William Lee learned when he found the authorities so unreceptive to his invention

…

moved policy in the direction favored by these newly represented interests; in 1846 they managed to get the hated Corn Laws repealed, demonstrating again that creative destruction meant a redistribution not just of income, but also of political power. And naturally, changes in the distribution of political power in time would

…

further redistribution of income. It was the inclusive nature of English institutions that allowed this process to take place. Those who suffered from and feared creative destruction were no longer able to stop it. WHY IN ENGLAND? The Industrial Revolution started and made its biggest strides in England because of her

…

the same urges as any other person. They wanted to block others from entering their businesses and competing against them and feared the process of creative destruction that might put them out of business, as they had previously bankrupted others. But after 1688 this became harder to accomplish. In 1775 Richard

…

can master literacy. This threatened to undermine the existing status quo, where knowledge was controlled by elites. The Ottoman sultans and religious establishment feared the creative destruction that would result. Their solution was to forbid printing. THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION created a critical juncture that affected almost every country. Some nations, such as

…

particularly pernicious form of Russian serfdom. Absolutism was not the only type of political institution preventing industrialization. Though absolutist regimes were not pluralistic and feared creative destruction, many had centralized states, or at least states that were centralized enough to impose bans on innovations such as the printing press. Even today,

…

weak, political centralization are two different barriers to the spread of industry. But they are also connected; both are kept in place by fear of creative destruction and because the process of political centralization often creates a tendency toward absolutism. Resistance to political centralization is motivated by reasons similar to resistance to

…

the scheme went nowhere because Emperor Francis again simply said no. The opposition to industry and steam railways stemmed from Francis’s concern about the creative destruction that accompanied the development of a modern economy. His main priorities were ensuring the stability of the extractive institutions over which he ruled and

…

corrupted and eventually turn into a class as miserable as they are dangerous for their masters. Just as with Francis I, Nicholas feared that the creative destruction unleashed by a modern industrial economy would undermine the political status quo in Russia. Urged on by Nicholas, Kankrin took specific steps to slow

…

usual logic of extractive institutions. As most rulers presiding over extractive institutions, the absolutist emperors of China opposed change, sought stability, and in essence feared creative destruction. This is best illustrated by the history of international trade. As we have seen, the discovery of the Americas and the way international trade was

…

trading relations worthless or even worse. The reasoning of the Ming and Qing states for opposing international trade is by now familiar: the fear of creative destruction. The leaders’ primary aim was political stability. International trade was potentially destabilizing as merchants were enriched and emboldened, as they were in England during

…

other absolutist regimes—for example, in Austria-Hungary, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and China, though in these cases the rulers, because of fear of creative destruction, not only neglected to encourage economic progress but also took explicit steps to block the spread of industry and the introduction of new technologies that

…

playing field: Thomas Edison’s 1880 patent for the lightbulb Records of the Patent and Trademark Office; Record Group 241; National Archives Economic losers from creative destruction: machine-breaking Luddites in early-nineteenth-century Britain Mary Evans Picture Library/Tom Morgan Consequences of a complete lack of political centralization in Somalia REUTERS

…

people of Western European countries, while black South Africans were scarcely richer than those in the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. This economic growth without creative destruction, from which only the whites benefited, continued as long as revenues from gold and diamonds increased. By the 1970s, however, the economy had stopped

…

of economic growth. Australia and the United States could industrialize and grow rapidly because their relatively inclusive institutions would not block new technologies, innovation, or creative destruction. Not so in most of the other European colonies. Their dynamics would be quite the opposite of those in Australia and the United States. Lack

…

monarchs and by aristocracies whose major source of income was from their landholdings or from trading privileges they enjoyed thanks to prohibitive entry barriers. The creative destruction that would be wrought by the process of industrialization would erode the leaders’ trading profits and take resources and labor away from their lands.

…

its responsibility was for the development of infrastructure, such as ports and roads, but as in Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Sierra Leone, this often threatened creative destruction and could have destabilized the system. Therefore, the development of infrastructure, rather than being implemented, was often resisted. For example, the development of a port

…

more inclusive political institutions following the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution. The first was new merchants and businessmen wishing to unleash the power of creative destruction from which they themselves would benefit; these new men were among the key members of the revolutionary coalitions and did not wish to see

…

in the middle of a boom in the world prices of these commodities. Like all such experiences of growth under extractive institutions, it involved no creative destruction and no innovation. And it was not sustainable. Around the time of the First World War, mounting political instability and armed revolts induced the

…

that growth under extractive institutions will not be sustained, for two key reasons. First, sustained economic growth requires innovation, and innovation cannot be decoupled from creative destruction, which replaces the old with the new in the economic realm and also destabilizes established power relations in politics. Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear

…

institutions. Despite the recent emphasis in China on innovation and technology, Chinese growth is based on the adoption of existing technologies and rapid investment, not creative destruction. An important aspect of this is that property rights are not entirely secure in China. Every now and then, just like Dai, some entrepreneurs

…

heavy industry. Such growth was feasible partly because there was a lot of catching up to be done. Growth under extractive institutions is easier when creative destruction is not a necessity. Chinese economic institutions are certainly more inclusive than those in the Soviet Union, but China’s political institutions are still

…

about the case on the New York Times and Financial Times Web sites. Because of the party’s control over economic institutions, the extent of creative destruction is heavily curtailed, and it will remain so until there is radical reform in political institutions. Just as in the Soviet Union, the Chinese

…

political institutions in China, though likely to continue for a while yet, will not translate into sustained growth, supported by truly inclusive economic institutions and creative destruction. Second, contrary to the claims of modernization theory, we should not count on authoritarian growth leading to democracy or inclusive political institutions. China, Russia,

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardback) - Common

by Alan Greenspan  · 14 Jun 2007

individual businesses. That was my value-added, and we prospered. Working with heavy industry gave me a profound appreciation of the central dynamic of capitalism. "Creative destruction" is an idea that was articulated by the Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. Like many powerful ideas, his is simple: A market economy will

…

status as the icon of American business, and the glamour had shifted to high-growth companies like IBM. What Schumpeter called "the perennial gale of creative destruction" was starting to hit Big Steel. Though my work at Townsend-Greenspan was in demand, I was careful not to expand too fast. I focused

…

the benefits took years to unfold—rail freight rates, for example, hardly budged at first. Yet deregulation set the stage for an enormous wave of creative destruction in the 1980s: the breakup of AT&T and other 72 More ebooks visit: http://www.ccebook.cn ccebook-orginal english ebooks This file was

…

right), the great British moral philosopher who articulated fundamental notions of life, liberty, and property, and Joseph Schumpeter, the twentieth-century economist whose concept of creative destruction gets to the heart of the role of technological change in a modern capitalist society. TOP LEFT: Hulton Archive/Getty Images; TOP RIGHT: Bettman/Corbis

…

1957 Chevrolets on the streets of Havana, it embodied a key difference between a centrally planned society and a capitalist one: here there was no creative destruction, no impetus to build better tools. No wonder centrally planned economic systems have great difficulty in raising standards of living and creating wealth. Production and

…

. T he fast-paced high-tech boom is what finally gave broad currency to Schumpeter's idea of creative destruction. It became a dot-com buzz phrase—indeed, once you accelerate to Internet speed, creative destruction is hard to overlook. In Silicon Valley, companies were continually remaking themselves and new businesses were constantly flaring

…

the stage for the Internet's seemingly sudden and rapid emergence. Business now had an enormous capacity to gather and disseminate information. This accelerated the creative-destruction process as capital shifted from stagnant or mediocre companies and industries to those at the cutting edge. Silicon Valley venture capital firms with names like

…

times that of GM's. In fact, the General Motors pension fund owned Google shares—a textbook example of capital shifting as a result of creative destruction. Why should information technology have such a vast transforming effect? Much of corporate activity is directed at reducing uncertainty. For most of the twentieth century

…

my youth, technology began in a major way to upend white-collar occupations. Suddenly millions of Americans found themselves exposed to the dark side of creative destruction. Secretarial and clerical functions got absorbed into computer software, as did drafting jobs in architecture and in automotive and industrial design. Job insecurity, historically a

…

of why you can't just decide monetary policy based on an econometric model. As Joseph Schumpeter might have pointed out, models are subject to creative destruction too. E ven rising productivity could not explain the looniness of stock prices. On October 14, 1996, the Dow Jones Industrial Average vaulted past 6

…

left Interlaken she had jokingly declared our trip so far "the least romantic honeymoon in history." And then we arrived in Venice. As necessary as creative destruction is for material standards of living to improve, it's no coincidence that some of the world's most cherished places are those that have

…

right. But the conversation helped crystallize something that had been in the back of my mind for months. Venice, I realized, is the antithesis of creative destruction. It exists to conserve and appreciate a past, not create a future. But that, I realized, is exactly the point. The city caters to a

…

are on the rise—as well as nostalgia for a slower and simpler time. Nothing is more stressful for people than the perennial gale of creative destruction. Silicon Valley is without question an exciting place to work, but its allure as a honeymoon destination has, I would guess, thus far gone largely

…

incidents in China suggest how politically destabilizing that can be. In the endeavor to modernize, many provincial and local Chinese authorities in their version of creative destruction periodically confiscate peasants' land for development. Riots have been widespread. Granting clear legal ownership rights to peasants for the land they till would go a

…

its reception repays special attention. It also serves to pave the way for my next chapter, which addresses the great "problem" inherent in capitalism: that creative destruction is often, and by a great many, viewed simply as destruction. The history of Smith's ideas is the history of attitudes toward the social

…

off for it. So were my clients, and I suspect so were my competitors as well. Down deep that is probably the message of capitalism: "creative destruction"—the scrapping of old technologies and old ways of doing things for the new—is the only way to increase productivity and therefore the only

…

, less fundamental suppressants of competitive behavior as well. Most politically prominent is the inclination of many societies to protect "national treasures" from the winds of creative destruction, or worse, foreign ownership. That is a dangerous restraint on international competition and another issue that differentiates one culture from another. In 2006, for example

…

it with a more modern, efficient office building. However, no matter what one's depth of feeling is on such issues, to the extent that creative destruction is restrained to preserve icons, some improvement in material standards of living is forgone. Of course, there are other disturbing and counterproductive examples of government

…

constraining web of new government regulations on previously unfettered competition, much of which remains in place to this day Some of the rougher edges of creative destruction were legislated away. Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, which formalized many of the ad hoc initiatives of the 1930s. It committed the U

…

, but before globalization took hold, governments were able to construct social safety nets and engage in other policies to shelter citizens from the gale of creative destruction. In the United States, major expansions of Social Security, unemployment insurance, worker-safety legislation, and, of course, Medicare headed a much longer list. Most industrialized

…

ccebook.cn form the internet, the author keeps the copyright. T H E AGE OF T U R B U L E N C E creative destruction, advocates of markets convinced their populations of capitalism's benefits, thereby gaining electoral dominance. Because of deeply different cultures, however, each nation practiced its own

…

in late-nineteenth-century economic cartelization that was fostered in part by the needs of the military. In the decades immediately following World War II, creative destruction in Europe was largely "creative." Most of the "destruction" of what would have been obsolescent facilities after the war had been done by the bombing

…

fading. West Germany had largely worked through the backlog of reconstruction demand that so buoyed its economy. Demand was easing off and economic growth slowed. Creative destruction—the need for painful economic changes and redeployment of economic resources—largely dormant since the war, reemerged. Much of the economic infrastructure that had been

…

industrial powers. Its immigration laws generally discourage anyone of other than Japanese origin, and it encourages conformity. It is a very civil society, which eschews creative destruction. The Japanese frown upon the large turnover of jobs and the frequent discharging of workers associated with the elimination or evolution of obsolescent companies. Nonetheless

…

(SOEs) has made significant progress, and other SOEs are undergoing major restructuring. As a consequence, employment in these organizations has fallen sharply, an indication that creative destruction is moving at a reasonably good clip. 304 More ebooks visit: http://www.ccebook.cn ccebook-orginal english ebooks This file was collected by ccebook

…

, the extension of capitalism to world markets, like capitalism itself, is the object of intense criticism from those who see only the destructive side of creative destruction. Yet all credible evidence indicates that the benefits of globalization far exceed its costs, even beyond the realm of economics. For example, economist Barry Eichengreen

…

[and] .. . democracies are more likely to remove capital controls." Accordingly, we should focus on addressing and assuaging the fears induced by the dark side of creative destruction rather than imposing limits on the economic edifice on which worldwide prosperity depends. Innovation is as important to our global financial marketplace as it is

…

women between ages twenty-five and fifty-four were employed or seeking jobs. (Today the number is more than 75 percent.) But as competition spurred creative destruction, the pace of job turnover quickened and the visions of a lifetime with a single employer faded. interestingly, despite the marked increase in income concentration

…

management occurs outside the boardroom. I do not wish to cast aspersions on the corporate takeover. On the contrary, it is a key facilitator of creative destruction, and doubtless the most effective remaining means by which shareholder voices can mold a corporation. But while change in management is often necessary, you cannot

…

allocation of a nation's resources are distorted, the markets will be less effective in fostering rising standards of living. Capitalism expands wealth primarily through creative destruction—the process by which the cash flow from obsolescent, low-return capital coupled with new savings is invested in high-return, cutting-edge technologies. But

…

management. Shareholders who seek anonymity can be protected by listing in street names.* Mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are a vital part of competition and creative destruction. The emergence of private equity funds appears to be a market response to the unwillingness of pension funds and other large institutional investors to engage

…

shareholder capital from corporations with less promising investment opportunities for investment in companies with cutting-edge technologies is an important example of the financing of creative destruction. 472 More ebooks visit: http://www.ccebook.cn ccebook-orginal english ebooks This file was collected by ccebook.cn form the internet, the author keeps

…

of induced obsolescence, have had to reinvent large segments of their businesses every couple of years. Confronted with the angst of the baneful side of creative destruction, virtually all of the developed world and an ever-increasing part of the developing world have elected to accept a lesser degree of material well

…

, 226, 276, 292, 294-310, 3 1 1 , 334n, 389, 503 AG's visits to, 294-97, 299, 301 banks in, 298, 302, 307, 308 creative destruction in, 254, 304 currency of, 302-3, 306 current account surplus of, 351 energy and, 446, 459, 460 foreign direct investment in, 12-13, 296

…

, 249-50,279,446-47,494 AG as chairman of, 63-76, 373 description of, 64 counterparty surveillance, 3 7 0 - 7 1 , 373, 489 creative destruction, 4 8 - 5 1 , 127, 174, 282, 285, 401,504 buffers against, 279, 280 in China, 254, 304 corporate governance and, 432, 436 deregulation and

…

Mae, 241, 242 farm bill, 234 fear, 17-18, 183, 191, 306, 347, 366, 369, 397, 440, 461,468,486,488 in Congress, 70 of creative destruction, 260, 376 stock-market crashes and, 4 6 5 - 6 6 terrorism and, 3, 469 Federal Bulldozer, The (Anderson), 57 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 116

…

-33 central planning in, 62 central planning vs., 12, 123, 125, 127-28, 129, 131-34, 139, 141 conflicted attitudes toward, 261, 268-72 creative destruction and, see creative destruction Fed's orientation toward, 373 French vs. American views of, 273 Riture of, 464-506 historical continuity in, 464-65 institutional foundations of, 139

Strategy: A History

by Lawrence Freedman  · 31 Oct 2013  · 1,073pp  · 314,528 words

4, 2001: “The books of various gurus have singled out the company as paragon of good management, for LEADING THE REVOLUTION (Gary Hamel, 2000), practising CREATIVE DESTRUCTION (Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan, 2001), devising STRATEGY THROUGH SIMPLE RULES (Kathy Eisenhardt and Donald Sull, 2001), winning the WAR FOR TALENT (Ed Michaels, 1998

Innovation and Its Enemies

by Calestous Juma  · 20 Mar 2017

.T4 (ebook) | DDC 338/.064—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015043807 To my son Eric Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Gales of Creative Destruction 2. Brewing Trouble: Coffee 3. Stop the Presses: Printing the Koran 4. Smear Campaigns: Margarine 5. Gaining Traction: Farm Mechanization 6. Charged Arguments: Electricity 7

…

new technologies offer a rich source of heuristics that can help us to gain deeper understanding of the dynamics of sociocultural evolution. 1 Gales of Creative Destruction People are very open-minded about new things—as long as they’re exactly like the old ones. CHARLES KETTERING The new millennium brought a

…

upon the imagination of its leaders, as upon the nature of the technological item itself.”15 Schumpeter, Innovation, and Social Transformation The preceding discussion illustrates “creative destruction,” a term coined by Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Schumpeter believed that capitalism is a system that must

…

new, such as the gun replacing archery and the mobile phone replacing the landline. To fully grasp the implications and scope of the process of creative destruction, we need to return to Schumpeter’s original thinking, as laid out in his 1911 book The Theory of Economic Development, about innovation as “creative

…

of an industrial sector.16 The term can be applied to any of the five areas of innovation identified by Schumpeter. As elaborated by Swedberg, creative destruction and the associated resistance to innovation can be identified in any of those five areas and any additional ones that expand the categories of new

…

why segments of society fear change; at the same time the concept can help individuals embrace innovation. The concept of creative destruction as articulated by Schumpeter gained currency largely because it has universal appeal.18 It manifests itself in a variety of forms across cultures and it

…

“process of industrial mutation … that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.”22 Schumpeter challenged the idea of economic equilibrium using non-Darwinian evolutionary thinking.23 He focuses on transformations arising

…

resisted the change and have had to be educated up by elaborate psychotechnics of advertising.”26 One of the key features of the concept of creative destruction is technological discontinuity. A popular derivative of the thinking is the concept of “disruptive innovation.”27 As noted by Christensen in his original formulation of

…

to the Christensen formulation. All references to innovation in this book, unless stated otherwise, will be assumed to be transformational in the sense of Schumpeterian “creative destruction.” There is a classical outlook that simply defines institutions as the glue that keeps society together. This static view ignores the role that institutions play

…

adoption of seemingly inferior but nascent technologies with steep but rewarding learning curves ahead of them. This is the essential feature of technological succession and creative destruction.106 Economic comparisons between emerging and incumbent technologies are therefore not very helpful because they often fail to account for the potential for improvement in

…

. Conclusions This chapter has sought to articulate a view of both technological success and challenges to innovation that builds on Schumpeter’s seminal concept of creative destruction. The kinds of technological transitions needed to address today’s global grand challenges will inherently build on rapid momentum generated by exponential growth in scientific

…

religious authorities who transmitted it orally. In this respect, books carried with them the germ of subversion. The “Ottoman sultans and religious establishment feared the creative destruction that would result. Their solution was to forbid them.”63 The Ottoman Empire eventually saw the wide adoption of the printing press. In 1802 the

…

Schumpeterian confrontation as the defenders of entrenched methods appealed to popular sentiments and tried to capture legal and political institutions to forestall the process of creative destruction.”2 Sensing that they were swimming against the tide, however, they sought accommodation and coexistence. This chapter examines how the champions of the two sources

…

the music industry. For a Song Schumpeter put considerable emphasis on the economic gains arising from innovation. He also understood, however, that the process of “creative destruction” caused considerable misery for those affected. He visualized large sections of society being crushed by the wheels of novelty.1 One of the biggest fears

…

labor organizations to ban certain technologies. Throughout the last century, the music industry developed under a wide range of technological successions. Its Schumpeterian “gales of creative destruction” were in most cases the source of new economic opportunities. But the waves of technological innovation also came with welfare costs. Previous chapters illustrated how

…

from the debate around technological innovation and music production is the importance of understanding responses from organized labor. In many cases what appears as positive “creative destruction” to one group is viewed by others as “destructive creation” without obvious benefits to society. Managing such technological transitions therefore requires a better understanding of

…

whom the critics associate with new technologies. Demonizing innovation is often associated with campaigns to romanticize past products and practices. Indeed, the Schumpeterian process of creative destruction entails the sweeping away of the new. These efforts use nostalgia to amplify a communal sense of loss, often captured by the cliché, “the good

…

Case Studies from China,” Journal of Engineering and Technology Management 28, nos. 1–2 (2011): 93–108. 7. See, for example, Eric J. Topol, The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care (New York: Basic Books, 2013). 8. Nicholas G. Carr, The Glass Cage: Automation and

…

: Edward Elgar, 2007), 188–203. 18. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 82. 19. Hugo Reinert and Erik S. Reinert, “Creative Destruction in Economics: Nietzsche, Sombart and Schumpeter,” in Friedrich Nietzsche: Economy and Society, ed. Jürgen G. Backhaus and Wolfgang Drechsler (Boston: Kluwer, 2005), 55–85. 20

…

. Haley, Subsidies to Chinese Industry: State Capitalism, Business Strategy, and Trade Policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Chapter 8 1. Christian Schubert, “How to Evaluate Creative Destruction: Reconstructing Schumpeter’s Appproach,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 37, no. 2 (2013): 227–250. 2. David Morton, Off the Record: The Technology and Culture of

…

Innovation: The Case of the US Recording Industry,” Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 23, no. 5 (2011): 473–487. 48. Stan J. Liebowitz, “File Sharing: Creative Destruction or Just Plain Destruction?,” Journal of Law and Economics 49, no. 1 (2006): 1–28. 49. Mark Coleman, Playback: From the Victrola to MP3, 100

…

, Freedom to Innovate: Biotechnology in Africa’s Development (Addis Ababa: African Union and New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 2007). 23. Mariana Mazzucato, “Financing Innovation: Creative Destruction vs. Destructive Creation,” Industrial and Corporate Change, 22, no. 4 (2013): 851–867. 24. Joseph A. Schumpeter, “The Creative Response to Economic History,” Journal of

…

Novelty Always a Good Thing? Towards an Evolutionary Welfare Economics,” Journal of Evolutionary Economics 22, no. 3 (2012): 586–619; Christian Schunbert, “How to Evaluate Creative Destruction: Reconstructing Schumpeter’s Appproach,” Cambridge Journal of Economics 37, no. 2 (2013); 227–250. 38. Mariana Mazzucato, “Financial Innovation: Destruction vs. Destructive Creation,” Industrial and

…

), 269–270 Centrifugal cream separator, 98 Cerf, Vinton, 3 CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons), 197 Chain broadcasting, 208 Challenges to innovation. See Barriers to innovation Change fear of, creative destruction and, 16–17 social institutions and adaption to, 20 The Character of a Coffee House, by an Eye and Ear Witness (pamphlet), 58 Charles II

…

on, 291 Coşgel, Metin M., 88–89 Cosmetics, antifreeze protein in, 275 Cotton industry, 234, 242, 246, 253, 291–292 Cottonseed oil, in margarine, 114 Creative destruction, 11–43. See also Disruptive innovation conclusions on, 42–43 creative construction, 16 impact of, 203 intellectual responses, 31–32 overview, 8, 11 Schumpeter, social

…

Crops. See Transgenic crops; specific types of crops Crosby, Howard, 166 Cullen, William, 179 Culture. See also Resistance to innovation coffee consumption and, 46–47 creative destruction and, 17 cultural evolution (transformation), 4, 42–43, 140–141 cultural identities, innovation and concern over, 7 cultural inertia, 315 democratic governance of, 287 existing

…

, 173, 340n1. See also Edison, Thomas Disease-resistant wheat cultivars, 228 Disgust, technological innovation and, 24, 93 Disruptive innovation, 17–18, 169, 301. See also Creative destruction Distrust communication and, 312 of gas industry, 147–148 of ice industry, 185 of institutions, 5, 8 Doctrines, established, vs. technological innovation, 26 Domestic fat

…

and entrepreneurship, 1, 16, 26, 29, 39, 77, 80, 142, 145, 168, 199, 258, 261, 269, 275, 277, 282–283, 286, 290, 293, 296, 312 creative destruction by, 16–17, 19, 39 entrepreneurial leaders, need for, 282–283, 286 as source of innovation, 1, 258, 296–297 technological discontinuities and, 145 Environment

…

and technological innovation AquAdvantage salmon, 257–279. See also AquAdvantage salmon barriers to, 33–34, 36–37 coffee, 44–67. See also Coffee creative destruction, 11–43. See also Creative destruction cycles, 12 electricity, 144–173. See also Electricity farm mechanization, 121–143. See also Farm mechanization improved support for, 280–316. See also

…

in ice cooling, 177 Sandoz company, 232–233 Schools, computers in, 41 Schultz, Theodore William, 95, 116 Schumpeter, Joseph on consumers’ tastes, changes in, 45 creative destruction, concept of, 16–17, 19, 39, 42, 47, 121, 129, 139, 280, 309 economic development, application of complex systems thinking to, 27 on economic gains

Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy

by Robert A. Sirico  · 20 May 2012  · 267pp  · 70,250 words

Aid That Doesn’t The Moral Appeal of Good Work A Theology of Enterprise Suggestions for Further Reading CHAPTER 4 - Why the “Creative Destruction” of Capitalism Is More Creative than Destructive Creative Destruction, Creative Flourishing Globalization, Christianity, and Culture Globalization and Coercive Destruction Globalization and Culture Suggestions for Further Reading CHAPTER 5 - Why Greed

…

, 2009). PovertyCure website (www.povertycure.org). Robert Sirico, The Entrepreneurial Vocation (Acton Institute, 2001). CHAPTER 4 Why the “Creative Destruction” of Capitalism Is More Creative than Destructive Q: It’s easy to talk about “creative destruction” when it’s not your job, your family, or your town being destroyed. Unemployment ruins lives. Shouldn’t

…

my depth. What he was saying made sense to me on a technical level, but all my intuitions cried out against it. It looked horrible. Creative Destruction, Creative Flourishing I relate this story as an illustration of the fact that sometimes what appears to be beaten back and damaged is really healthy

…

and preparing for new growth. This is the case with what economists call creative destruction—the phenomenon whereby old skills, companies, and sometimes entire industries are eclipsed as new methods and businesses take their place

…

. Creative destruction is seen in layoffs, downsizing, the obsolescence of firms, and, sometimes, serious injury to the communities that depend on them. It looks horrible, and, especially

…

though every ditch digger is going to lose his job when bulldozers come on line. Let’s not forget the creative and progressive part of creative destruction. Technological advance does not destroy ditch diggers, even the ones who lose their jobs. It places them behind the controls of bulldozers or in factories

…

a false nostalgia blind us to the good of human progress. If we were to eliminate the positive results of even a hundred years of creative destruction—eliminate them overnight—the result would be the swift death of literally billions of human beings, since the resources available to civilization a hundred years

…

to live in an alternate reality, and if we are to preserve it we need to recognize that it is only when the process of creative destruction is allowed that new jobs, new skills, new ways of leveraging human energy can spring up and create the opportunities that previous generations never even

…

going to help us. What is needed, rather, is an economically informed perspective. We need to look more closely at all the factors contributing to creative destruction, and consider both the positives and negatives of a creative market economy. That involves not only attending to the people thrown out of work as

…

industries and technologies change but also thinking about what would happen to the people if there were no creative destruction. Once we realize that we have to attend to all of the long-range consequences, then we can start coming at the problems generated by

…

creative destruction from the most productive angle. The challenge for all who are concerned with promoting a free and virtuous society is to minimize the damage done

…

like the holly bush that is never pruned. Of course, workers and other economic players who are caught in the midst of this drama of creative destruction aren’t landscape plants; they are human persons and members of families. Every job is filled by a human being of inestimable inherent dignity and

…

effect on their co-workers or the consumers of their products. There is something fundamentally alarming about that. To resist the creative destruction inherent in a dynamic economy is only to replace creative destruction with a slow destruction without creativity. This isn’t theory. It’s the present reality in the United States. For

…

, and setbacks is a recipe for decline. Globalization, Christianity, and Culture It is impossible to talk about creative destruction without talking about the increasingly interconnected global economy. The global economy is where we see creative destruction writ large, and in recent years many Americans have had to come face to face with the destructive

…

Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir Brooks, Arthur bureaucracy business, environment for global business morality of poverty and profits and small business “Business as Mission,” C capital capitalism “creative destruction” and global capitalism greed and Caritas in Veritate Catholicism Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good Center for Faith and Public Life Centesimus Annus central

…

competition Congress consumerism consumption Constitution, The Consumer Reports contraception contracts Copernicus Cornwall Declaration on Environmental Stewardship cost-benefit analysis Council for Environmental Stewardship Cox, Harvey “creative destruction,” Cronyism CT scans D Dalrymple, Theodore de Soto, Hernando de Sales, Francis de Tocqueville, Alexis “Dead, The,” Decalogue Declaration of Independence, the Department of Health

Open: The Story of Human Progress

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Sep 2020  · 505pp  · 138,917 words

a new controversy over trade, which is threatening to rip globalization apart and create new geopolitical tensions. The benefits from trade come to us through creative destruction. We benefit from trading with a hunter because we stop our own hunting and instead specialize in producing arrows. The US benefits from importing shoes

…

country’s foreign trade by ten percentage points is associated with an increase in productivity between 1.4 and 9.6 per cent.58 This creative destruction is, of course, also what condemns free trade in the eyes of many people. Competition from imports hurts particular sectors, and results in the dislocation

…

to impose ‘order and stability’, and stifle dissent and innovation that threatened the established order. They were just not very good at it. Attacks on creative destruction that sound like they are straight out of the Ming or Qing handbook proliferated in Europe. Queen Elizabeth denied William Lee a patent for his

…

, but the result was that they destroyed their own industrial base and chased the industry out to Yorkshire. And parliament consistently refused to legislate against creative destruction. A resolution by the Justices of the Peace in Preston reflects the attitude of the authorities: ‘if a total stop were put by the legislature

…

his Facebook page, ‘in my next life I want to be a trade myth: I’ll never again die.’20 As I’ve made clear, creative destruction also creates losers – the word ‘destruction’ is a giveaway. But for open Western countries the benefits of international trade outweigh the cost by roughly twenty

…

economy during the post-war era. These are the profits that innovators and entrepreneurs make above the normal return on investments when they engage in creative destruction – introducing new goods, technologies and methods into the economy, such as computers that replace hand calculations and barcodes that replace manual sorting. Nordhaus’ conclusion is

…

competed away. Other companies imitate or innovate around the Schumpeterian companies, and soon others come up with superior goods and services.25 Not only is creative destruction not a zero-sum game. It creates massive amounts of wealth, and the best thing is that all of us who took no part in

…

that Congress enact a law that cyclists must buy a hat, otherwise the industry would be destroyed.20 My favourite example of the fear of creative destruction is that infamous disturber of the peace, the umbrella. It came late to Europe, adopted from the Chinese, and at first was mostly carried by

…

just as open to social change as liberals were.12 In a way, this sounds like a caricature of comfortable globalist elites, feeling invulnerable to creative destruction and yet lecturing the more unfortunate about how they must welcome technological change and cultural transformation. It’s the proverbial liberal who does not have

…

, 354, 379 Cheddar Man, 74 Cobden–Chevalier Treaty (1860), 53–4 coffee houses, 166 colonies, 84, 191, 194, 200 Corn Laws repeal (1846), 53, 191 creative destruction in, 179 crime in, 119, 120 Dutch War (1672–4), 101 English Civil War (1642–1651), 148, 183, 184, 201 Glorious Revolution (1688), 101, 185

…

, 54, 56, 215, 302–5, 314–18 Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels), 33 compensatory control, 322–3 competition, 60 benefit–cost ratio and, 62 creative destruction and, 57, 190 Great Depression and, 54 guilds and, 190 immigration and, 117 Rust Belt and, 64, 65–6 competitive advantage, 28–9 computers, 302

…

, 312 corruption, 317, 345, 381 COVID-19 pandemic (2019–20), 3, 4, 10–12, 162–3, 312 cowboys, 73 Cowen, Tyler, 257 Coxe, Tench, 103 creative destruction, 57, 179, 182, 190, 270, 339 automation, 63, 312–13 nostalgia and, 296–9, 313 Schumpeterian profits, 273–4 Crete, 89 crime, 110, 119–20

…

, 10, 27, 80 ancient world, 32, 42, 44, 46 authoritarianism and, 318 bureaucratic inertia and, 318–21 canon and, 195 cities and, 40, 53, 79 creative destruction, 57, 179, 182, 190 cultural evolution, 28 immigration and 81–4 patent systems, 189–90 population and, 27, 51, 53 Schumpeterian profits, 273–5 resistance

Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

by Deirdre N. McCloskey  · 15 Nov 2011  · 1,205pp  · 308,891 words

often more penetrating than his contemporary Max Weber—noted in 1908 that “usually, the poisonous, divisive, destructive effects of competition are stressed” (though it is creative destruction): But, in addition . . . competition compels the wooer who has a co-wooer, . . . to go out to the wooed, come close to him, establish ties with

…

, to so speak, for the table of contents): We were poor but now are rich. Why? Answer: The change in attitude toward the bourgeoisie and creative destruction. But why did they change? Answer: The egalitarian accidents of 1517–1789. But why were they important? Answer: Because earlier times were fiercely antibourgeois, being

…

worry about the young (“From the young . . . the change is coming. . . . Then it’s the end of Solness the master builder”) is worry about the creative destruction of entry, characteristic of a liberated economy, which the bourgeoisie advocates but then routinely seeks state protection from.14 In Austen the admiration for prudence

…

laws about to be implemented, the ignorant and jealous people did not, in the economy, have the upper hand. Such protecting of existing interests from creative destruction was anciently usual. William Lee’s stocking frame had been denied a patent by Queen Elizabeth and then again by James I on the grounds

…

of Congress deals among people makes the people better off. The second S, Schumpeter, with his “Austrian” emphasis on betterment, had got it right on creative destruction, such as Henry Ford’s destroying the exclusively high-class car industry or Charlie Parker’s destroying swing jazz or Pablo Picasso destroying Postimpressionism. Schumpeter

…

by Ian Watt, who noted in Robinson Crusoe “the dynamic tendency of capitalism.”3 The European novel later became news about the middling sort practicing creative destruction—the bettering merchants and craftsmen and yeoman farmers—a class that had earlier been thought unworthy of attention. As Coetzee put it recently in his

…

the middleman, the boss, the banker—vile things—if it gets beyond cheap talk, and it often does, can stop cold all discovery, betterment, and creative destruction. Smith and Schumpeter are stymied. Stupidity comes to reign. It needs to be contradicted, and in Britain in the eighteenth century it was. 33 As

…

of the merchant republic so irritating to aristocratic England.) What is admired in the play is honorable hierarchy and its stability, not the bourgeois upheavals, creative destruction, and wave of gadgets to be commended in the eighteenth century and especially in the nineteenth. Bevington observes that Dekker’s Eyre “is not ‘middle

…

, accepting the position with good grace. The money transactions in the play have nothing to do with ordinary business, much less with the financing of creative destruction. They reinforce status differentials, as a tip or a bribe given to lesser folk. Income is taken to be bullion in the style of mercantilists

…

possessing Armstrongian wealth by God’s grace and giving it out to suitable objects of largess, especially to attractive boys. It is not achieved by creative destruction. With few exceptions (such as Smiles), the theorists of betterment, or the ministers criticizing it, or the writers of 110 novels for boys, didn’t

…

voluntary rules which in the field of morals makes gradual evolution and spontaneous growth possible, which allows further modifications and betterments.7 Betterments require disobedience, creative destruction, an overturning or remaking or redirecting of what already exists, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates challenging Big Blue, autos replacing horses—not a bigger centralized

…

.1 God, and history, moves in mysterious ways. One of the half-millennium turns was the Reform of the Western church. The great turnings of creative destruction depend not on institutions, which serve routinely as drags on progress—another chronic flaw in neo-institutionalist theorizing—but on individual souls coming to move

…

government of the day, as spectacularly in French history—in contrast with the struggle against governments in the Radical Reformation. The governments did not want creative destruction if the destruction had any chance of disturbing their powers. And so Christ stopped at Eboli, and did not continue to Lucania. All Christian churches

…

of the law about cold-beer sales that had artificially favored liquor stores. Such new interests in the past few centuries have bred toleration for creative destruction, and for unpredictable lives, and for most children having much more than their grandparents. For this reason it is unlikely that India will return to

…

rhetorical concept, from those who advocated creation to those who opposed destruction. Ideas and rhetoric in northwestern Europe had begun to change in favor of creative destruction. * One can admire, appropriately, the entrepreneurial vigor of heroic figures, as in 1958, for example, the Austrian sociologist and anthropologist Helmut Schoeck did: “We tend

…

race on the eve of the migrations out of Africa. The social hostility to the man of business and the rulers’ hostility to hierarchy-disturbing creative destruction was suppressing betterment. The ancient problem was, as Schoeck put it, “social controls . . . imposed in the name and interest of ‘the whole society.’” Andrew Coulson

…

“betterments” are boondoggles for well-connected chaps, or monuments for the already rich. They are Baconian research projects of doubtful worth, destructive creation rather than creative destruction. That is what is wrong with Thorstein Veblen’s notion that engineers, not the price system, should rule. Engineers are full of bad ideas too

…

betterment out of existence in the first act, to “protect jobs” on the railways, or to “guard public safety,” they would have done so, and creative destruction would have been smothered in the cradle. Swift persuaded a minor railway running between Chicago and Detroit, the Grand Trunk, to take on his new

…

of national income—usually below about 15 percent if you do not mix up routine payment of interest with the rewards to minor or major creative destruction. But its signaling function is worth the price. The shift of attention caused by the varying profits on capital invested in oil wells or furniture

…

you all rich. (Up his sleeve, to himself, according to Marxian lore: Ha, ha, suckers!) Workers, the left says, mistakenly accept a false claim of creative destruction. Wake up, you workers! Arise, you prisoners of starvation! But suppose the Bourgeois Deal is sound. Then the falsity in consciousness is attributable not to

…

30 or 100. And they did. The descendants of the horribly poor of the 1930s, for instance, are doing much better than their ancestors. Radically creative destruction piled up ideas, such as the railways creatively destroying walking and the stagecoaches, or electricity creatively destroying kerosene lighting and the hand-washing of clothes

…

an unusually violent one.) But restoring relations is an egalitarian ideal, characteristic of societies suspicious of the Bourgeois Deal and suspicious of the forward-looking creative destruction it implements. In the actual case, the cost of the restoration fell on the wrong parties, “wrong” considering the rule of liability that would do

…

the nineteenth century writers like Macaulay or Manzoni read and understood the new political economy, and acknowledged the force of cooperation, entry, arbitrage, scarcity, and creative destruction. But later intellectuals construed economics as the faculty of reason, arrayed against the freedom they so loved, a misunderstanding encouraged by the talk among classical

…

(Greek: “homecoming-ache”). Not that there is nothing in the past we might regret losing and ache to come home to. After all, “gales of creative destruction” (to use the vivid if alarming phrase describing trade-tested betterment that Schumpeter popularized from a 1913 book by Sombart) involves destruction. Modern wireless telephones

…

is, can be doubted, item by item. The old Kentucky home we ache for was miserable, unless you were the slave owner. And if the creative destruction producing its irritating novelties is tested commercially we can at least be assured that on balance the mass of the people prefer it, in their

…

the bullock carts and horse-drawn mail coaches often cursed the railways.” Yet “for every citizen who cursed ten cheered.”3 That’s the point: creative destruction is good for the society as a whole, viewed democratically. Sympathetically considered, the right and left unhappiness with the rich modern world can be viewed

…

profits of conventional taxis, of banks with credit cards, of hotels, and of copyright holders of TV programs.5 The regulators did not ask whether creative destruction was better for the mass of people, or whether as regulators they were, sometimes unintentionally, carrying water for monopolies of taxis, credit cards, hotels, and

…

, 62; youth unemployment, 63 Cowper, William, 158, 645 Cox, Michael W.: recent betterment, 37 Craig, A. M.: censorship in East, 684n8 Crayen, Dorothee: numeracy, 316 creative destruction: destructive creation, 522; Franklin on, 154; Great Enrichment and, 583; interests in, 465; opposition to, 477; opposition to, Johnson on, 153; in retail, 60, 619

…

, 11 Gann, David, 685n23, 55 García Garrosa, Maria Jesus, 675n10 Gardiner, Luke, 447 Gardner, Roy, 652n22 Gary, Indiana: pollution, 68 Gaskell, Mrs., 592 Gates, Bill: creative destruction, 362 Gaus, Gerald: hierarchy and agriculture, 19; hunter-gatherers, 19, 636–637 Gay, John: The Beggar’s Opera, 311 Gay, Paul du. See du Gay

…

, xxxiii, 63; Smith on preserving, 464; sweatshop, 572; and sweet talk, 491, 496. See also job protection; Reich, Robert; technological unemployment; wage slavery Jobs, Steve: creative destruction, 362 Johansson, Sheila, 517 Johns Hopkins: on Harvard College, 679n15 Johnson, Noel: acknowledged, xxxviii Johnson, Samuel, 87, 151, chap. 17; quotes Addison, 673n15 John XXII

…

, 400. See also Scottish equality License Raj of India, 414, 501, 624–625; end of, 501 Lieber, Franz: habits of the heart, 361 Lienhard, John: creative destruction, 362; patent on railway, 668n8 Liggio, Leonard: acknowledged, xxxviii Lilburne, John: quoted by Brailsford, 677n4 Lillo, George, chap. 28, 267; bourgeois dignity, 268, 592; bourgeois

…

Papin, Denis, 174 Papua New Guinea: justice in, 583–585 Pareto improving. See win-win Park, Robert: alienation in big cities, 396 Parker, Charlie “Bird”: creative destruction, 205; Larkin on, 334 Parker, Geoffrey: Chinese and Japanese military, 397; poor relief in Low Countries, 342 Parker, R. A. C.: German army’s quality

…

pessimism, 61 Phillips, Susan M.: SEC regulations, 665n9 Phillipson, Nicholas: quotes Molesworth, 676n11 photography: and anti-capitalism, 595 physiocrats, 206 Piaget, Jean, 652n23 Picasso, Pablo: creative destruction, 205 Piers Ploughman: and individualism, 669n10 Piketty, Thomas: on capital, xiii; ethical claims by rich, xxix; ethics, 48; inheritance, 48, 49; politics, 582; relative poverty

…

editions of The London Merchant, 675n10 Schumpeter, Joseph Alois: and Austrian economics, 646; capitalist achievement, 37; causes of betterment, 105; contrast with Smithian growth, 205; creative destruction, 618; critique of Smith, 207; cultural contradictions of capitalism, 540; dueling, 224; entry of new men, 40–41; ideology, 514; materialism, 643; for Smith and

…

, xxvii. See also Weber, Max Sokoloff, Kenneth. See Engerman-Sokoloff hypothesis on Latin America Solman, Paul: acknowledged, xxxviii Sombart, Werner: Arabic numerals, 316; calculation, 271; creative destruction, 618; German sociological Romanticism, 676n19; prudence, 273 Somers, Margaret, 551; Polanyist, 551; state provision, 551 Song dynasty: Goldstone on, 98; and Great Enrichment, 435; industrial

…

Shoemaker’s Holiday, 309. See also mercantilism; win-win Ziliak, Stephen: statistical significance, 675n10 Zimbabwe, 74, 290, 625 Zola, Émile, 42; Caillebotte, 590; consumerism, 609; creative destruction, 60; entry of the department store, 59–60; Germinal, 42, 591; The Ladies’ Paradise, 59 zoning and building codes, 51, 144, 605, 625, 641; Italian

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole

by Benjamin R. Barber  · 1 Jan 2007  · 498pp  · 145,708 words

not only democracy but capitalism itself. Much will depend on our capacity to make sense out of infantilization and relate it to the not-so-creative destruction of consumerism’s survival logic. The idea of an “infantilist ethos” is as provocative and controversial as the idea of what Weber called the “Protestant

…

about the virtues of hybridization as he goes, will slither on in search of new prey. Cultural exchange may be a form of Schumpeter’s “creative destruction,” but over time dialectic is trumped by power, and destruction merely destroys, leaving behind an ever more homogenized, monocultural marketplace. Creolization does not create very

…

lend themselves both to leveling and resistance against authority. Can it be then that the new technologies are proof of the force Joseph Schumpeter called creative destruction: the capacity of capitalism to cure is own maladies through tumultuous developments it has itself produced? Perhaps. Yet it is important to recognize that democratic

…

business, confronting monopolies, and dealing with corporate crime all point to a renewal of popular sovereignty rather than to marketplace solutions based on innovation or creative destruction.30 Consumer advocate Ralph Nader also turns to government for enforcement of the consumer standards he continues to promote. Breaking the vicious cycle from within

…

Consumption, p. 182. Also see Ulf Hannerz, Cultural Complexity: Studies in the Social Organization of Meaning (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992). 10. Tyler Cowen, Creative Destruction: How Globalization Is Changing the World’s Cultures (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 22. Cowen’s title is drawn from classical economist

…

as it evolves. For a detailed critique of Cowen, see my review “Brave New McWorld,” Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 2, 2003. 11. Cowen, Creative Destruction, p. 44. 12. Constance Classen, “Sugar Cane, Coca-Cola and Hypermarkets: Consumption and Surrealism in the Argentine Northwest,” in Howes, ed., Cross-Cultural Consumption, p

…

expansive. Tyler Cowen offers a similarly straightforward celebration of consumerism, especially in its putative capacity to sustain serious culture, in the book that preceded his Creative Destruction discussed earlier, a book appropriately titled In Praise of Commercial Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998). 56. Johnson, Everything Bad Is Good for You

…

the 1960s advertising industry as innovators and rebels against traditional business culture. Capitalism here seems to work at curing itself of its maladies through that creative destruction about which Joseph Schumpeter writes. 28. In the case of Howard Dean’s campaign, however, it did attempt to explore and exploit citizen-to-citizen

Capitalism in America: A History

by Adrian Wooldridge and Alan Greenspan  · 15 Oct 2018  · 585pp  · 151,239 words

history of GDP, both nominal and real, for the early years of the republic (see appendix).6 We draw on that work throughout this book. CREATIVE DESTRUCTION Creative destruction is the principal driving force of economic progress, the “perennial gale” that uproots businesses—and lives—but that, in the process, creates a more productive

…

capitalist concern has got to live in.” Yet for all his genius, Schumpeter didn’t go beyond brilliant metaphors to produce a coherent theory of creative destruction: modern economists have therefore tried to flesh out his ideas and turn metaphors into concepts that acknowledge political realities, which is to say, the world

…

. It was a time in which the federal government focused overwhelmingly on protecting property rights and enforcing contracts rather than on “taming” the process of creative destruction. Thanks to relentless innovation the unit cost (a proxy for output per hour) of Bessemer steel fell sharply, reducing its wholesale price from 1867 to

…

similar cascade of improvements in almost every area of life produced a doubling of living standards in a generation. The most obvious way to drive creative destruction is to produce more powerful machines. A striking number of the machines that have revolutionized productivity look like improvised contraptions. Cyrus McCormick’s threshing machine

…

percentage points a year to real GDP growth. That added 10.6 percent to the level of real GDP in 1899. An additional aspect of creative destruction is the reduction in transportation costs. Cold-rolled steel sheet is worth more on a car located in a car dealership than rolling off a

…

ever closer together within an integrated circuit in order to produce ever-greater amounts of computing capacity. THE CUNNING OF HISTORY In the real world, creative destruction seldom works with the smooth logic of Moore’s law. It can take a long time for a new technology to change an economy: the

…

could ring up payments by 30 percent and reduced labor requirements of cashiers and baggers by 10 to 15 percent. THE DOWNSIDE OF CREATIVE DESTRUCTION The destructive side of creative destruction comes in two distinct forms: the destruction of physical assets as they become surplus to requirements, and the displacement of workers as old

…

jobs are abandoned. To this should be added the problem of uncertainty. The “gale of creative destruction” blows away old certainties along with old forms of doing things: nobody knows which assets will prove to be productive in the future and which

…

bubbles that can pop, sometimes with dangerous consequences. Partly because people are frightened of change and partly because change produces losers as well as winners, creative destruction is usually greeted by what Max Weber called “a flood of mistrust, sometimes of hatred, above all of moral indignation.”16 The most obvious form

…

, and managerial capitalism by a more entrepreneurial capitalism. Resistance can come from business titans as well as labor barons. One of the great paradoxes of creative destruction is that people who profit from it one moment can turn against it the next: worried that their factories will become obsolete or their competitors

…

by electric shocks or set cities on fire.17 ENTER THE POLITICIANS America has been better at both the creative and the destructive side of creative destruction than most other countries: it has been better at founding businesses and taking those businesses to scale, but it has also been better at

…

greatest entrepreneurs, including Charles Goodyear, R. H. Macy, and H. J. Heinz, suffered from repeated business failures before finally making it. America’s appetite for creative destruction has many roots. The fact that America is such a big country meant that people were willing to pull up stakes and move on: from

…

least it avoided stagnation. The country’s political system has powerfully reinforced these geographical and cultural advantages. The biggest potential constraint on creative destruction is political resistance. The losers of creative destruction tend to be concentrated while the winners tend to be dispersed. Organizing concentrated people is much easier than organizing dispersed ones. The

…

have taken a more mature approach, admitting that creation and destruction are bound together, but claiming to be able to boost the creative side of creative destruction while eliminating the destructive side through a combination of demand management and wise intervention. The result has usually been disappointing: stagnation, inflation, or some other

…

on the idea that government was the problem rather than the solution. But can America continue to preserve its comparative advantage in the art of creative destruction? That is looking less certain. The rate of company creation is now at its lowest point since the 1980s. More than three-quarters of

…

value of hierarchy and authority and encouraged people to rely on their own judgment. For all their differences, these two traditions were both friendly toward creative destruction: they taught Americans to challenge the established order in pursuit of personal betterment and to question received wisdom in pursuit of rational understanding. Shortage of

…

was more than five times the amount invested in canals.40 The railway boom proceeded in a very American way. There was a lot of creative destruction: railways quickly killed canals because rails could carry fifty times as much freight and didn’t freeze over in winter. There was a lot of

…

” and “brings the noisy world into the midst of our slumberous peace.”45 The third revolution was an information revolution. Central to the process of creative destruction is knowledge of what combination of what resources yields maximum gains in living standards. Information-starved Americans recognized the importance of the old adage that

…

was the only one who was born to the purple, and he massively increased the power of his bank. One of the striking things about creative destruction is that it can affect members of the same family in very different ways: the very force that made Andrew Carnegie the world’s richest

…

improvement in living standards for all. These men were entrepreneurial geniuses who succeeded in turning the United States into one of the purest laboratories of creative destruction the world has seen: men who grasped that something big but formless was in the air and gave that something form and direction, men who

…

that tested America’s belief in equality of opportunity. America’s new plutocrats were increasingly keen on flaunting their wealth as Schumpeter’s spirit of creative destruction gave rise to Thorstein Veblen’s disease of conspicuous consumption. They were also increasingly keen on adopting European airs and graces. They competed to get

…

that boasted 175,000 square feet and 250 rooms, as well as farms, a village, a church, and agricultural laborers. RISING DISCONTENT The storm of creative destruction that swept across the country in the aftermath of the Civil War whipped up great concentrations of anger as well as wealth. The anger began

…

them on price. They were also the mail-order stores that by the late 1920s were forced to open physical stores, often in the suburbs. Creative destruction brought an inevitable political reaction: the losers banded together and eventually persuaded the Federal Trade Commission to pass retail price maintenance. HENRY FORD VERSUS ALFRED

…

ideal King-beaver.” Yet even Hoover’s abilities were soon to be tested beyond breaking point. The United States had enjoyed the bright side of creative destruction with three decades of barely punctuated economic growth culminating in seven years of unprecedented prosperity. It was about to experience the dark side. Seven THE

…

depression of 1893. But it was still possible in those days of small government and fatalistic politics for the government to stand pat and let creative destruction take its course. By the 1930s, people expected the government to “do something” but didn’t know what that “something” should be. The federal

…

retarded re-employment.” FDR responded to the complaints with a series of adjustments that had the perverse effect of making the contraption ever more complicated. Creative destruction was nowhere to be seen. The Supreme Court did FDR an unexpected (and certainly unacknowledged) favor by ruling that much of the NRA was unconstitutional

…

Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975 and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. And America had not lost its talent for creative destruction, even during the decade of malaise. America’s pharmaceutical industry escaped the general decline in management quality: Pfizer continued to invest heavily in R&D

…

be recombined with talent in imaginative new ways. Jack Welch became the most celebrated chief executive of the era because of his willingness to apply creative destruction to one of America’s most storied companies. He began his two-decade reign (1981–2001) with unflinching corporate brutality in pursuit of his belief

…

, left Fairchild and recruited Andy Grove to join them. More than anywhere else in America, Silicon Valley was a living embodiment of the principle of creative destruction as old companies died and new ones emerged, allowing capital, ideas, and people to be reallocated. From the mid-1970s onward, the IT revolution went

…

America’s declining dynamism. Twelve AMERICA’S FADING DYNAMISM THIS BOOK HAS REPEATEDLY shown that America’s greatest comparative advantage has been its talent for creative destruction. America was colonized by pioneers and forged by adventurers who were willing to take unusual risks in pursuit of a better life. Arjo Klamer once

…

—a barrier that offers stability and pricing power. Yet this highly productive America exists alongside a much more stagnant country. Look at any measure of creative destruction, from geographical mobility to company creation to tolerance of disruption, and you see that it is headed downward. The United States is becoming indistinguishable from

…

other mature slow-growth economies such as Europe and Japan in its handling of creative destruction: a “citadel society,” in Klamer’s phrase, in which large parts of the citadel are falling into disrepair. The Census Bureau reports that geographical mobility

…

teeth. Short? American life expectancy is more than twice what it was at the birth of the republic. THE PROBLEM WITH CREATIVE DESTRUCTION The central mechanism of this progress has been creative destruction: the restless force that disequilibrates every equilibrium and discombobulates every combobulation. History would be simple (if a little boring) if progress

…

competition. “All failed companies are the same,” Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, explains in Zero to One (2014), “they failed to escape competition.”6 Creative destruction cannot operate without generating unease: the fiercer the gale, the greater the unease. Settled patterns of life are uprooted. Old industries are destroyed. Hostility to

…

creative destruction is usually loudest on the left. You can see it in protests against Walmart opening stores, factory owners closing factories, bioengineers engineering new products. But

…

obvious than the benefits. The benefits tend to be diffuse and long-term while the costs are concentrated and up front. The biggest winners of creative destruction are the poor and marginal. Joseph Schumpeter got to the heart of the matter: “Queen Elizabeth [I] owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not

…

unemployed silk workers put out of business by the silk-making factories than the millions of silk stockings. This leads to the second problem: that creative destruction can become self-negating. By producing prosperity, capitalism creates its own gravediggers in the form of a comfortable class of intellectuals and politicians

…

easier for the victims of “destruction” to band together and demand reform than it is for the victors to band together. The “perennial gale” of creative destruction thus encounters a “perennial gale” of political opposition. People link arms to protect threatened jobs and save dying industries. They denounce capitalists for their ruthless

…

greed. The result is stagnation: in trying to tame creative destruction, for example by preserving jobs or keeping factories open, they end up killing it. Entitlements crowd out productive investments. Regulations make it impossible to create

…

new companies. By trying to have your cake and eat it, you end up with less cake. The third problem is that creative destruction can sometimes be all destruction and no creation. This most frequently happens in the world of money. It’s impossible to have a successful capitalist

…

the like allocate society’s savings to the perceived most productive industries and the most productive firms within those industries. At its best, finance is creative destruction in its purest form: capital is more fleet-footed and ruthless than any other factor of production. At its worst, finance is pure destruction. Financial

…

best borrowers. Credit dries up. Companies collapse. People are laid off. Again the process is self-reinforcing: panic creates contraction; contraction creates further panic. FROM CREATIVE DESTRUCTION TO MASS PROSPERITY The best place to study the first problem—the fact that costs are more visible than benefits—is in the transition from

…

from the end of the Civil War to America’s entry into the First World War because it was the country’s greatest era of creative destruction. Railways replaced horses and carts for long-distance transport. Steel replaced iron and wood. Skyscrapers reached to the heavens. The years just before the

…

up all this discontent into successful political movements. The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution introduced an income tax for the first time. Yet all this creative destruction nevertheless laid the foundation for the greatest improvement in living standards in history. Technological innovations reduced the cost of inputs into the economy (particularly oil

…

, 246 Council of Economic Advisers, 275, 302–3 Countrywide Financial, 378 cowboys, 113, 116 Cowen, Tyler, 4 Cox, Michael, 431 Crain, Nicole and Mark, 413 creative destruction, 12, 14–21, 209, 324, 389, 390 downside of, 21–23 to mass prosperity, 426–32 political resistance and, 24–26 problems with, 420–26

Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms

by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee  · 23 May 2016  · 383pp  · 81,118 words

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire

by Bruce Nussbaum  · 5 Mar 2013  · 385pp  · 101,761 words

Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis

by Anatole Kaletsky  · 22 Jun 2010  · 484pp  · 136,735 words

Leading From the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer  · 14 Apr 2013  · 351pp  · 93,982 words

Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne  · 20 Jan 2014  · 287pp  · 80,180 words

The Internet Is Not the Answer

by Andrew Keen  · 5 Jan 2015  · 361pp  · 81,068 words

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 15 Jan 2019  · 918pp  · 257,605 words

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm  · 10 May 2010  · 491pp  · 131,769 words

Good Profit: How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies

by Charles de Ganahl Koch  · 14 Sep 2015  · 261pp  · 74,471 words

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right

by Jennifer Burns  · 18 Oct 2009  · 495pp  · 144,101 words

The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism

by David Harvey  · 1 Jan 2010  · 369pp  · 94,588 words

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

by David Harvey  · 3 Apr 2014  · 464pp  · 116,945 words

Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

by George Gilder  · 30 Apr 1981  · 590pp  · 153,208 words

Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

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

Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism

by Stephen Graham  · 30 Oct 2009  · 717pp  · 150,288 words

Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age

by W. Bernard Carlson  · 11 May 2013  · 733pp  · 184,118 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

Does Capitalism Have a Future?

by Immanuel Wallerstein, Randall Collins, Michael Mann, Georgi Derluguian, Craig Calhoun, Stephen Hoye and Audible Studios  · 15 Nov 2013  · 238pp  · 73,121 words

Your Computer Is on Fire

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

Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)

by Charles Wheelan  · 18 Apr 2010  · 386pp  · 122,595 words

The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

by William Easterly  · 4 Mar 2014  · 483pp  · 134,377 words

Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk

by Satyajit Das  · 14 Oct 2011  · 741pp  · 179,454 words

European Spring: Why Our Economies and Politics Are in a Mess - and How to Put Them Right

by Philippe Legrain  · 22 Apr 2014  · 497pp  · 150,205 words

City: Urbanism and Its End

by Douglas W. Rae  · 15 Jan 2003  · 537pp  · 200,923 words

The Rise of the Network Society

by Manuel Castells  · 31 Aug 1996  · 843pp  · 223,858 words

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History

by Kurt Andersen  · 14 Sep 2020  · 486pp  · 150,849 words

The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

by Edward E. Baptist  · 24 Oct 2016

Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation

by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber  · 29 Oct 2024  · 292pp  · 106,826 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

How Will Capitalism End?

by Wolfgang Streeck  · 8 Nov 2016  · 424pp  · 115,035 words

Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

by Michael Bhaskar  · 2 Nov 2021

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

by Tim Wu  · 2 Nov 2010  · 418pp  · 128,965 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

Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society

by Will Hutton  · 30 Sep 2010  · 543pp  · 147,357 words

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 1 Mar 2016  · 366pp  · 94,209 words

Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do

by Matthew Syed  · 3 Nov 2015  · 410pp  · 114,005 words

What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

by Linda Yueh  · 4 Jun 2018  · 453pp  · 117,893 words

The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today

by Linda Yueh  · 15 Mar 2018  · 374pp  · 113,126 words

Explore Everything

by Bradley Garrett  · 7 Oct 2013  · 273pp  · 76,786 words

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor  · 15 Aug 2022  · 829pp  · 187,394 words

Animal Spirits: The American Pursuit of Vitality From Camp Meeting to Wall Street

by Jackson Lears

The Asian Financial Crisis 1995–98: Birth of the Age of Debt

by Russell Napier  · 19 Jul 2021  · 511pp  · 151,359 words

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

by Michiko Kakutani  · 20 Feb 2024  · 262pp  · 69,328 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

A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

by Joel Mokyr  · 8 Jan 2016  · 687pp  · 189,243 words

More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places (Updated and Expanded)

by Michael J. Mauboussin  · 1 Jan 2006  · 348pp  · 83,490 words

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

by William R. Easterly  · 1 Aug 2002  · 355pp  · 63 words

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine

by Peter Lunenfeld  · 31 Mar 2011  · 239pp  · 56,531 words

That Used to Be Us

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

The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age

by Roger Bootle  · 4 Sep 2019  · 374pp  · 111,284 words

Hacking Politics: How Geeks, Progressives, the Tea Party, Gamers, Anarchists and Suits Teamed Up to Defeat SOPA and Save the Internet

by David Moon, Patrick Ruffini, David Segal, Aaron Swartz, Lawrence Lessig, Cory Doctorow, Zoe Lofgren, Jamie Laurie, Ron Paul, Mike Masnick, Kim Dotcom, Tiffiniy Cheng, Alexis Ohanian, Nicole Powers and Josh Levy  · 30 Apr 2013  · 452pp  · 134,502 words

The Road to Ruin: The Global Elites' Secret Plan for the Next Financial Crisis

by James Rickards  · 15 Nov 2016  · 354pp  · 105,322 words

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making

by David Rothkopf  · 18 Mar 2008  · 535pp  · 158,863 words

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

by Carlota Pérez  · 1 Jan 2002

Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities

by Alain Bertaud  · 9 Nov 2018  · 769pp  · 169,096 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

Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

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

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney  · 5 Mar 2013  · 476pp  · 125,219 words

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

by Richard Sennett  · 9 Apr 2018

Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives

by Danny Dorling and Kirsten McClure  · 18 May 2020  · 459pp  · 138,689 words

Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow

by Tim Jackson  · 8 Dec 2016  · 573pp  · 115,489 words

Vanishing New York

by Jeremiah Moss  · 19 May 2017  · 479pp  · 140,421 words

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson  · 26 Jun 2017  · 472pp  · 117,093 words

Rationality: From AI to Zombies

by Eliezer Yudkowsky  · 11 Mar 2015  · 1,737pp  · 491,616 words

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future

by Jeff Booth  · 14 Jan 2020  · 180pp  · 55,805 words

The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism

by Ruth Kinna  · 31 Jul 2019  · 405pp  · 103,723 words

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

by Mariana Mazzucato  · 1 Jan 2011  · 382pp  · 92,138 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

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

by Geoffrey Parker  · 29 Apr 2013  · 1,773pp  · 486,685 words

The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine Is in Your Hands

by Eric Topol  · 6 Jan 2015  · 588pp  · 131,025 words

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

by David Sax  · 8 Nov 2016  · 360pp  · 101,038 words

Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine  · 6 Jul 2008  · 607pp  · 133,452 words

Vertical: The City From Satellites to Bunkers

by Stephen Graham  · 8 Nov 2016  · 519pp  · 136,708 words

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

by David Harvey  · 3 Apr 2012  · 206pp  · 9,776 words

The Paypal Wars: Battles With Ebay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth

by Eric M. Jackson  · 15 Jan 2004  · 398pp  · 108,889 words

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

by Adam Grant  · 2 Feb 2016  · 410pp  · 101,260 words

The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life When Robots Rule the Earth

by Robin Hanson  · 31 Mar 2016  · 589pp  · 147,053 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

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

by Leo Hollis  · 31 Mar 2013  · 385pp  · 118,314 words

Age of Anger: A History of the Present

by Pankaj Mishra  · 26 Jan 2017  · 410pp  · 106,931 words

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism

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

The Warhol Economy

by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett  · 15 Jan 2020  · 320pp  · 90,115 words

The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World

by Adrian Wooldridge  · 2 Jun 2021  · 693pp  · 169,849 words

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver  · 12 Aug 2024  · 848pp  · 227,015 words

Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

by J. Bradford Delong  · 6 Apr 2020  · 593pp  · 183,240 words

Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

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

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

by Robert J. Gordon  · 12 Jan 2016  · 1,104pp  · 302,176 words

For the Win

by Cory Doctorow  · 11 May 2010  · 624pp  · 180,416 words

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation

by Carl Benedikt Frey  · 17 Jun 2019  · 626pp  · 167,836 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

The Dark Net

by Jamie Bartlett  · 20 Aug 2014  · 267pp  · 82,580 words

The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes

by Phillip Brown, Hugh Lauder and David Ashton  · 3 Nov 2010  · 209pp  · 80,086 words

Civilization: The West and the Rest

by Niall Ferguson  · 28 Feb 2011  · 790pp  · 150,875 words

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

by Joyce Appleby  · 22 Dec 2009  · 540pp  · 168,921 words

Free Ride

by Robert Levine  · 25 Oct 2011  · 465pp  · 109,653 words

The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy

by Diane Coyle  · 29 Oct 1998  · 49,604 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

The New Geography of Jobs

by Enrico Moretti  · 21 May 2012  · 403pp  · 87,035 words

Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech

by Geoffrey Cain  · 15 Mar 2020  · 540pp  · 119,731 words

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

by Martin Gurri  · 13 Nov 2018  · 379pp  · 99,340 words

The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas

by Janek Wasserman  · 23 Sep 2019  · 470pp  · 130,269 words

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman  · 4 Sep 2023  · 444pp  · 117,770 words

Growth: A Reckoning

by Daniel Susskind  · 16 Apr 2024  · 358pp  · 109,930 words

Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America

by Erik Baker  · 13 Jan 2025  · 362pp  · 132,186 words

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

by John Fabian Witt  · 14 Oct 2025  · 735pp  · 279,360 words

Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook  · 28 Mar 2016  · 345pp  · 92,849 words

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

by Steven Pinker  · 13 Feb 2018  · 1,034pp  · 241,773 words

The Great Reset: How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work

by Richard Florida  · 22 Apr 2010  · 265pp  · 74,941 words

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

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

Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  · 27 Nov 2012  · 651pp  · 180,162 words

Broken Markets: A User's Guide to the Post-Finance Economy

by Kevin Mellyn  · 18 Jun 2012  · 183pp  · 17,571 words

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth

by Juliet B. Schor  · 12 May 2010  · 309pp  · 78,361 words

The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.

by William D. Cohan  · 25 Dec 2015  · 1,009pp  · 329,520 words

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov  · 15 Nov 2013  · 606pp  · 157,120 words

Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today's Business While Creating the Future

by Scott D. Anthony and Mark W. Johnson  · 27 Mar 2017  · 293pp  · 78,439 words

The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism

by Matt Mason

The Capitalist Manifesto

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Jun 2023  · 295pp  · 87,204 words

Wasps: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy

by Michael Knox Beran  · 2 Aug 2021  · 800pp  · 240,175 words

The Day the World Stops Shopping

by J. B. MacKinnon  · 14 May 2021  · 368pp  · 109,432 words

The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

by Brink Lindsey  · 12 Oct 2017  · 288pp  · 64,771 words

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

by Ruchir Sharma  · 8 Apr 2012  · 411pp  · 114,717 words

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

by Chrystia Freeland  · 11 Oct 2012  · 481pp  · 120,693 words

Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America

by Giles Slade  · 14 Apr 2006  · 384pp  · 89,250 words

Uncharted: How to Map the Future

by Margaret Heffernan  · 20 Feb 2020  · 335pp  · 97,468 words

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 12 Nov 2019  · 470pp  · 148,730 words

How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky  · 18 Jun 2012  · 279pp  · 87,910 words

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

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

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

by David Brooks  · 8 Mar 2011  · 487pp  · 151,810 words

Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

by Ellen Ruppel Shell  · 2 Jul 2009  · 387pp  · 110,820 words

The Techno-Human Condition

by Braden R. Allenby and Daniel R. Sarewitz  · 15 Feb 2011

Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets

by John Plender  · 27 Jul 2015  · 355pp  · 92,571 words

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper  · 20 Nov 2018  · 417pp  · 97,577 words

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

Owning the Earth: The Transforming History of Land Ownership

by Andro Linklater  · 12 Nov 2013  · 603pp  · 182,826 words

The Cultural Logic of Computation

by David Golumbia  · 31 Mar 2009  · 268pp  · 109,447 words

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

by Neil Gibb  · 15 Feb 2018  · 217pp  · 63,287 words

Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

by Jill Abramson  · 5 Feb 2019  · 788pp  · 223,004 words

Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980

by Rick Perlstein  · 17 Aug 2020

Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb  · 16 Apr 2018  · 345pp  · 75,660 words

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

by Ian Bremmer  · 12 May 2010  · 247pp  · 68,918 words

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

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

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization

by Harold James  · 15 Jan 2023  · 469pp  · 137,880 words

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era

by Gary Gerstle  · 14 Oct 2022  · 655pp  · 156,367 words

The Big Score

by Michael S. Malone  · 20 Jul 2021

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 End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be

by Moises Naim  · 5 Mar 2013  · 474pp  · 120,801 words

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 Nature of Technology

by W. Brian Arthur  · 6 Aug 2009  · 297pp  · 77,362 words

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee  · 20 Jan 2014  · 339pp  · 88,732 words

How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism

by Eric Hobsbawm  · 5 Sep 2011  · 621pp  · 157,263 words

How to Fix Copyright

by William Patry  · 3 Jan 2012  · 336pp  · 90,749 words

Dealers of Lightning

by Michael A. Hiltzik  · 27 Apr 2000  · 559pp  · 157,112 words

Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

by Chris Hedges  · 12 Jul 2009  · 373pp  · 80,248 words

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Sugrue, Thomas J.

The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

by Derek S. Hoff  · 30 May 2012

How Did We Get Into This Mess?: Politics, Equality, Nature

by George Monbiot  · 14 Apr 2016  · 334pp  · 82,041 words

Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy

by Alexandrea J. Ravenelle  · 12 Mar 2019  · 349pp  · 98,309 words

Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead

by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman  · 22 Sep 2016

Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist

by Michael Shermer  · 8 Apr 2020  · 677pp  · 121,255 words

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism

by Anne Case and Angus Deaton  · 17 Mar 2020  · 421pp  · 110,272 words

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

by Daniel Susskind  · 14 Jan 2020  · 419pp  · 109,241 words

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State

by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg  · 3 Feb 1997  · 582pp  · 160,693 words

The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

by Robert Kanigel  · 25 Apr 2016

Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy

by Sudhir Venkatesh  · 11 Sep 2013  · 318pp  · 92,257 words

The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath

by Nicco Mele  · 14 Apr 2013  · 270pp  · 79,992 words

Hawaii

by Jeff Campbell  · 4 Nov 2009

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton  · 15 Mar 2013  · 374pp  · 114,660 words

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty

by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson  · 23 Sep 2019  · 809pp  · 237,921 words

Escape From Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

by Walter Scheidel  · 14 Oct 2019  · 1,014pp  · 237,531 words

Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web

by Cole Stryker  · 14 Jun 2011  · 226pp  · 71,540 words

Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve Is Bad for America

by Danielle Dimartino Booth  · 14 Feb 2017  · 479pp  · 113,510 words

The Locavore's Dilemma

by Pierre Desrochers and Hiroko Shimizu  · 29 May 2012  · 329pp  · 85,471 words

Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America

by Henry Petroski  · 2 Jan 1995

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

by Arthur Herman  · 27 Nov 2001  · 510pp  · 163,449 words

Designing Social Interfaces

by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone  · 30 Sep 2009  · 518pp  · 49,555 words

Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government

by Robert Higgs and Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.  · 15 Jan 1987

New York 2140

by Kim Stanley Robinson  · 14 Mar 2017  · 693pp  · 204,042 words

In Defense of Global Capitalism

by Johan Norberg  · 1 Jan 2001  · 233pp  · 75,712 words

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

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

Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again

by Eric Topol  · 1 Jan 2019  · 424pp  · 114,905 words

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

by David Christian  · 21 May 2018  · 334pp  · 100,201 words

Winds of Change

by Peter Hennessy  · 27 Aug 2019  · 891pp  · 220,950 words

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

by Andrew Keen  · 1 Mar 2018  · 308pp  · 85,880 words

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

by John Cassidy  · 12 May 2025  · 774pp  · 238,244 words

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore  · 16 Oct 2017  · 335pp  · 89,924 words

Free culture: how big media uses technology and the law to lock down culture and control creativity

by Lawrence Lessig  · 15 Nov 2004  · 297pp  · 103,910 words

The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change

by Bharat Anand  · 17 Oct 2016  · 554pp  · 149,489 words

Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 1995  · 585pp  · 165,304 words

Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality

by Jaron Lanier  · 21 Nov 2017  · 480pp  · 123,979 words

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

by Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind  · 24 Aug 2015  · 742pp  · 137,937 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

Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

by Erik Brynjolfsson  · 23 Jan 2012  · 72pp  · 21,361 words

Green Tyranny: Exposing the Totalitarian Roots of the Climate Industrial Complex

by Rupert Darwall  · 2 Oct 2017  · 451pp  · 115,720 words

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford  · 4 May 2015  · 484pp  · 104,873 words

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson  · 13 Nov 2007  · 471pp  · 124,585 words

Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

by Kate Raworth  · 22 Mar 2017  · 403pp  · 111,119 words

The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

by Matt Ridley  · 395pp  · 116,675 words

Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World

by Ian Bremmer  · 30 Apr 2012  · 234pp  · 63,149 words

Who Needs the Fed?: What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us About Money, Credit, and Why We Should Abolish America's Central Bank

by John Tamny  · 30 Apr 2016  · 268pp  · 74,724 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 Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

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

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

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

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

by Safi Bahcall  · 19 Mar 2019  · 393pp  · 115,217 words

The Autonomous Revolution: Reclaiming the Future We’ve Sold to Machines

by William Davidow and Michael Malone  · 18 Feb 2020  · 304pp  · 80,143 words

Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

by William Quinn and John D. Turner  · 5 Aug 2020  · 297pp  · 108,353 words

For Profit: A History of Corporations

by William Magnuson  · 8 Nov 2022  · 356pp  · 116,083 words

MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

by Nouriel Roubini  · 17 Oct 2022  · 328pp  · 96,678 words

Born in Flames

by Bench Ansfield  · 15 Aug 2025  · 366pp  · 138,787 words

SuperFreakonomics

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner  · 19 Oct 2009  · 302pp  · 83,116 words

The Firm

by Duff McDonald  · 1 Jun 2014  · 654pp  · 120,154 words

The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification

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

The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth

by Michael Spitzer  · 31 Mar 2021  · 632pp  · 163,143 words

Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

by Anthony M. Townsend  · 15 Jun 2020  · 362pp  · 97,288 words

Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe

by Gillian Tett  · 11 May 2009  · 311pp  · 99,699 words

The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future

by Levi Tillemann  · 20 Jan 2015  · 431pp  · 107,868 words

Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?

by Steve Keen  · 21 Sep 2011  · 823pp  · 220,581 words

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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

Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself

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

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

by Franklin Foer  · 31 Aug 2017  · 281pp  · 71,242 words

Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success

by Dietrich Vollrath  · 6 Jan 2020  · 295pp  · 90,821 words

The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated

by Gautam Baid  · 1 Jun 2020  · 1,239pp  · 163,625 words

Work in the Future The Automation Revolution-Palgrave MacMillan (2019)

by Robert Skidelsky Nan Craig  · 15 Mar 2020

Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World

by J. Doyne Farmer  · 24 Apr 2024  · 406pp  · 114,438 words

A New History of the Future in 100 Objects: A Fiction

by Adrian Hon  · 5 Oct 2020  · 340pp  · 101,675 words

99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It

by Mark Thomas  · 7 Aug 2019  · 286pp  · 79,305 words

After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back

by Juliet Schor, William Attwood-Charles and Mehmet Cansoy  · 15 Mar 2020  · 296pp  · 83,254 words

Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure

by Tim Harford  · 1 Jun 2011  · 459pp  · 103,153 words

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business

by Bob Lutz  · 31 May 2011  · 249pp  · 73,731 words

The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa

by Calestous Juma  · 27 May 2017

Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown

by Philip Mirowski  · 24 Jun 2013  · 662pp  · 180,546 words

Miracle Cure

by William Rosen  · 14 Apr 2017  · 515pp  · 117,501 words

The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

by Jeff Goodell  · 23 Oct 2017  · 292pp  · 92,588 words

Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The

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

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

by William Davies  · 26 Feb 2019  · 349pp  · 98,868 words

The Future Is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 28 Jan 2020  · 501pp  · 114,888 words

Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress--And How to Bring It Back

by Marc J Dunkelman  · 17 Feb 2025  · 454pp  · 134,799 words

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

by David Harvey  · 2 Jan 1995  · 318pp  · 85,824 words

Peers Inc: How People and Platforms Are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism

by Robin Chase  · 14 May 2015  · 330pp  · 91,805 words

The Future of Technology

by Tom Standage  · 31 Aug 2005

Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town

by Beth Macy  · 14 Jul 2014  · 473pp  · 140,480 words

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

by Matthew B. Crawford  · 29 Mar 2015  · 351pp  · 100,791 words

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

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth  · 24 Apr 2013  · 576pp  · 105,655 words

Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism

by Kevin Phillips  · 31 Mar 2008  · 422pp  · 113,830 words

No Ordinary Disruption: The Four Global Forces Breaking All the Trends

by Richard Dobbs and James Manyika  · 12 May 2015  · 389pp  · 87,758 words

Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy

by Chris Hayes  · 11 Jun 2012  · 285pp  · 86,174 words

Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will

by Geoff Colvin  · 3 Aug 2015  · 271pp  · 77,448 words

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

by Saifedean Ammous  · 23 Mar 2018  · 571pp  · 106,255 words

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

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

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

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

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin  · 31 Aug 2014  · 362pp  · 83,464 words

What's Wrong With Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed

by Robert Skidelsky  · 3 Mar 2020  · 290pp  · 76,216 words

Dead Companies Walking

by Scott Fearon  · 10 Nov 2014  · 232pp  · 71,965 words

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

by Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan  · 20 Dec 2010  · 482pp  · 117,962 words

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age

by Robert Wachter  · 7 Apr 2015  · 309pp  · 114,984 words

The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America

by Victor Davis Hanson  · 15 Nov 2021  · 458pp  · 132,912 words

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

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

Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions

by Paul Mason  · 30 Sep 2013  · 357pp  · 99,684 words

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley  · 17 May 2010  · 462pp  · 150,129 words

Why Wall Street Matters

by William D. Cohan  · 27 Feb 2017  · 113pp  · 37,885 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

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

by Paul Collier  · 4 Dec 2018  · 310pp  · 85,995 words

Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav  · 3 Nov 2020  · 175pp  · 45,815 words

Sleeping Giant: How the New Working Class Will Transform America

by Tamara Draut  · 4 Apr 2016  · 255pp  · 75,172 words

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown  · 12 Apr 2010  · 319pp  · 89,477 words

Aftershocks: Pandemic Politics and the End of the Old International Order

by Colin Kahl and Thomas Wright  · 23 Aug 2021  · 652pp  · 172,428 words

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

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

Gambling Man

by Lionel Barber  · 3 Oct 2024  · 424pp  · 123,730 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

Liberalism at Large: The World According to the Economist

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

A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 May 2014  · 385pp  · 111,807 words

Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age

by Virginia Eubanks  · 1 Feb 2011  · 289pp  · 99,936 words

Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One

by Meghnad Desai  · 15 Feb 2015  · 270pp  · 73,485 words

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner  · 11 May 2014  · 593pp  · 189,857 words

The Global Minotaur

by Yanis Varoufakis and Paul Mason  · 4 Jul 2015  · 394pp  · 85,734 words

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

by James Crabtree  · 2 Jul 2018  · 442pp  · 130,526 words

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman  · 4 Nov 2014  · 457pp  · 126,996 words

Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

by Michael Pollan  · 22 Apr 2013  · 476pp  · 148,895 words

10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less

by Garett Jones  · 4 Feb 2020  · 303pp  · 75,192 words

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

by Steven Radelet  · 10 Nov 2015  · 437pp  · 115,594 words

The Glass Half-Empty: Debunking the Myth of Progress in the Twenty-First Century

by Rodrigo Aguilera  · 10 Mar 2020  · 356pp  · 106,161 words

Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley

by Cary McClelland  · 8 Oct 2018  · 225pp  · 70,241 words

The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 15 Apr 2025  · 321pp  · 112,477 words

The Crux

by Richard Rumelt  · 27 Apr 2022  · 363pp  · 109,834 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

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

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

Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims  · 13 Sep 2021  · 385pp  · 112,842 words

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations

by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom  · 4 Oct 2006  · 218pp  · 44,364 words

Servant Economy: Where America's Elite Is Sending the Middle Class

by Jeff Faux  · 16 May 2012  · 364pp  · 99,613 words

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks.

by Steven Johnson  · 18 Oct 2006  · 304pp  · 88,773 words

The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

by William Rosen  · 31 May 2010  · 420pp  · 124,202 words

Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream

by R. Christopher Whalen  · 7 Dec 2010  · 488pp  · 144,145 words

Why We Can't Afford the Rich

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

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

by Sven Beckert  · 2 Dec 2014  · 1,000pp  · 247,974 words

The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era

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

The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History Since 1900

by David Edgerton  · 7 Dec 2006  · 353pp  · 91,211 words

The Power Elite

by C. Wright Mills and Alan Wolfe  · 1 Jan 1956  · 568pp  · 174,089 words

Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life

by Alan B. Krueger  · 3 Jun 2019

China's Disruptors: How Alibaba, Xiaomi, Tencent, and Other Companies Are Changing the Rules of Business

by Edward Tse  · 13 Jul 2015  · 233pp  · 64,702 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 Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want

by Diane Mulcahy  · 8 Nov 2016  · 229pp  · 61,482 words

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

by Joel Kotkin  · 11 May 2020  · 393pp  · 91,257 words

The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

by Oded Galor  · 22 Mar 2022  · 426pp  · 83,128 words

The Broken Ladder

by Keith Payne  · 8 May 2017

Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy

by Diane Coyle  · 14 Jan 2020  · 384pp  · 108,414 words

Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 7 Nov 2017  · 346pp  · 89,180 words

Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time

by Clark Blaise  · 27 Oct 2000  · 240pp  · 75,304 words

Too big to fail: the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington fought to save the financial system from crisis--and themselves

by Andrew Ross Sorkin  · 15 Oct 2009  · 351pp  · 102,379 words

House of Debt: How They (And You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It From Happening Again

by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi  · 11 May 2014  · 249pp  · 66,383 words

The Lights in the Tunnel

by Martin Ford  · 28 May 2011  · 261pp  · 10,785 words

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

by Sasha Issenberg  · 1 Jan 2007  · 534pp  · 15,752 words

The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory

by Kariappa Bheemaiah  · 26 Feb 2017  · 492pp  · 118,882 words

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

by Joel Bakan  · 1 Jan 2003

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn  · 14 Jan 2020  · 307pp  · 96,543 words

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

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

Fed Up!: Success, Excess and Crisis Through the Eyes of a Hedge Fund Macro Trader

by Colin Lancaster  · 3 May 2021  · 245pp  · 75,397 words

Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War

by Branko Milanovic  · 9 Oct 2023

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

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

Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity

by Robert Albritton  · 31 Mar 2009  · 273pp  · 93,419 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

Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

by Wolfgang Streeck  · 1 Jan 2013  · 353pp  · 81,436 words

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

The Googlization of Everything:

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

All the Money in the World

by Peter W. Bernstein  · 17 Dec 2008  · 538pp  · 147,612 words

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf  · 24 Nov 2015  · 524pp  · 143,993 words

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril

by Satyajit Das  · 9 Feb 2016  · 327pp  · 90,542 words

To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise

by Bethany Moreton  · 15 May 2009  · 391pp  · 22,799 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

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

Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis

by Benjamin Kunkel  · 11 Mar 2014  · 142pp  · 45,733 words

The City: A Global History

by Joel Kotkin  · 1 Jan 2005

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

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

Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair and Matthew D. Laplante  · 9 Sep 2019

Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes

by Mark Skousen  · 22 Dec 2006  · 330pp  · 77,729 words

Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market

by Scott Patterson  · 11 Jun 2012  · 356pp  · 105,533 words

Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks (Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise)

by Andrew L. Russell  · 27 Apr 2014  · 675pp  · 141,667 words

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey  · 20 Jul 2015  · 417pp  · 109,367 words

Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Sep 2009  · 246pp  · 74,341 words

The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World

by Ruchir Sharma  · 5 Jun 2016  · 566pp  · 163,322 words

The Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World

by David Eagleman and Anthony Brandt  · 30 Sep 2017  · 345pp  · 84,847 words

How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say--And What It Really Means

by John Lanchester  · 5 Oct 2014  · 261pp  · 86,905 words

The Making of Global Capitalism

by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin  · 8 Oct 2012  · 823pp  · 206,070 words

The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)

by Jamie Bartlett  · 4 Apr 2018  · 170pp  · 49,193 words

Competition Demystified

by Bruce C. Greenwald  · 31 Aug 2016  · 482pp  · 125,973 words

The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline

by Russell Jones  · 15 Jan 2023  · 463pp  · 140,499 words

Where Good Ideas Come from: The Natural History of Innovation

by Steven Johnson  · 5 Oct 2010  · 298pp  · 81,200 words

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class?and What We Can Do About It

by Richard Florida  · 9 May 2016  · 356pp  · 91,157 words

Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 2006

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin  · 12 Jul 2021  · 314pp  · 88,524 words

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

by Matthew Hindman  · 24 Sep 2018

The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

by Lisa Servon  · 10 Jan 2017  · 279pp  · 76,796 words

Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics

by Nicholas Wapshott  · 10 Oct 2011  · 494pp  · 132,975 words

Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World

by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler  · 3 Feb 2015  · 368pp  · 96,825 words

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century

by Ryan Avent  · 20 Sep 2016  · 323pp  · 90,868 words

The Upside of Inequality

by Edward Conard  · 1 Sep 2016  · 436pp  · 98,538 words

The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late

by Michael Ellsberg  · 15 Jan 2011  · 362pp  · 99,063 words

A Little History of Economics

by Niall Kishtainy  · 15 Jan 2017  · 272pp  · 83,798 words

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake  · 4 Apr 2022  · 338pp  · 85,566 words

War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

by Benjamin R. Teitelbaum  · 14 May 2020  · 307pp  · 88,745 words

Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party

by Samuel Earle  · 3 May 2023  · 245pp  · 88,158 words

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America

by Beth Macy  · 6 Oct 2025  · 373pp  · 97,653 words

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar  · 14 Oct 2024  · 175pp  · 46,192 words

The Origins of Efficiency

by Brian Potter  · 15 Feb 2025  · 474pp  · 134,246 words

Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment

by Noam Chomsky  · 15 Mar 2010  · 258pp  · 63,367 words

Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley

by Jacob Silverman  · 9 Oct 2025  · 312pp  · 103,645 words

Red-Blooded Risk: The Secret History of Wall Street

by Aaron Brown and Eric Kim  · 10 Oct 2011  · 483pp  · 141,836 words

Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry

by David Robertson and Bill Breen  · 24 Jun 2013  · 282pp  · 88,320 words

The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us

by Tim Sullivan  · 6 Jun 2016  · 252pp  · 73,131 words

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy

by Mervyn King  · 3 Mar 2016  · 464pp  · 139,088 words

Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World

by Branko Milanovic  · 23 Sep 2019

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

Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd

by Youngme Moon  · 5 Apr 2010  · 221pp  · 64,080 words

Instant City: Life and Death in Karachi

by Steve Inskeep  · 12 Oct 2011  · 364pp  · 102,225 words

Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era

by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith  · 17 Aug 2015  · 353pp  · 91,520 words

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott  · 1 Jun 2016  · 344pp  · 94,332 words

The Connected Company

by Dave Gray and Thomas Vander Wal  · 2 Dec 2014  · 372pp  · 89,876 words

Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy

by Jeremias Prassl  · 7 May 2018  · 491pp  · 77,650 words

Showstopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft

by G. Pascal Zachary  · 1 Apr 2014  · 384pp  · 109,125 words

Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

by Chris Burniske and Jack Tatar  · 19 Oct 2017  · 416pp  · 106,532 words

2034: A Novel of the Next World War

by Elliot Ackerman and James Admiral Stavridis  · 15 Mar 2021  · 297pp  · 89,292 words

The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . And Where We're Going

by George Friedman  · 25 Jan 2011  · 249pp  · 79,740 words

Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores

by Greg Palast  · 14 Nov 2011  · 493pp  · 132,290 words

When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants

by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner  · 4 May 2015  · 306pp  · 85,836 words

Curation Nation

by Rosenbaum, Steven  · 27 Jan 2011  · 286pp  · 82,065 words

Brazillionaires: The Godfathers of Modern Brazil

by Alex Cuadros  · 1 Jun 2016  · 433pp  · 125,031 words

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution

by Howard Rheingold  · 24 Dec 2011

Economists and the Powerful

by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas  · 30 Sep 2012  · 261pp  · 103,244 words

An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies

by Tyler Cowen  · 11 Apr 2012  · 364pp  · 102,528 words

The Cost of Inequality: Why Economic Equality Is Essential for Recovery

by Stewart Lansley  · 19 Jan 2012  · 223pp  · 10,010 words

Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education

by Mike Rose  · 17 Sep 2012  · 225pp  · 55,458 words

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge  · 27 Feb 2018  · 267pp  · 72,552 words

The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality

by Katharina Pistor  · 27 May 2019  · 316pp  · 117,228 words

The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations

by Jacob Soll  · 28 Apr 2014  · 382pp  · 105,166 words

The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece

by Ron Jeffries  · 14 Aug 2015  · 444pp  · 118,393 words

Capital Ideas Evolving

by Peter L. Bernstein  · 3 May 2007

How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite

by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter  · 30 Jun 2007

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider  · 10 Sep 2018  · 326pp  · 91,559 words

The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer

by Nicholas Shaxson  · 10 Oct 2018  · 482pp  · 149,351 words

The Wake-Up Call: Why the Pandemic Has Exposed the Weakness of the West, and How to Fix It

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 1 Sep 2020  · 134pp  · 41,085 words

Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

by Andrew W. Lo  · 3 Apr 2017  · 733pp  · 179,391 words

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

by David Callahan  · 1 Jan 2004  · 452pp  · 110,488 words

Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain

by Christian Wolmar  · 1 Mar 2009  · 493pp  · 145,326 words

Superminds: The Surprising Power of People and Computers Thinking Together

by Thomas W. Malone  · 14 May 2018  · 344pp  · 104,077 words

Covid-19: The Pandemic That Never Should Have Happened and How to Stop the Next One

by Debora MacKenzie  · 13 Jul 2020  · 266pp  · 80,273 words

The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All

by Mary Childs  · 15 Mar 2022  · 367pp  · 110,161 words

Meltdown: How Greed and Corruption Shattered Our Financial System and How We Can Recover

by Katrina Vanden Heuvel and William Greider  · 9 Jan 2009  · 278pp  · 82,069 words

With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough

by Peter Barnes  · 31 Jul 2014  · 151pp  · 38,153 words

Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market

by Nicholas Wapshott  · 2 Aug 2021  · 453pp  · 122,586 words

Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets

by David J. Leinweber  · 31 Dec 2008  · 402pp  · 110,972 words

Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age

by Michael Wolff  · 22 Jun 2015  · 172pp  · 46,104 words

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-To-5

by Taylor Pearson  · 27 Jun 2015  · 168pp  · 50,647 words

Firefighting

by Ben S. Bernanke, Timothy F. Geithner and Henry M. Paulson, Jr.  · 16 Apr 2019

Lift: Fitness Culture, From Naked Greeks and Acrobats to Jazzercise and Ninja Warriors

by Daniel Kunitz  · 4 Jul 2016  · 321pp  · 92,258 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction

by Mark Lilla  · 19 Oct 2015  · 113pp  · 36,039 words

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

by Paolo Gerbaudo  · 19 Jul 2018  · 302pp  · 84,881 words

Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity

by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss  · 12 Sep 2012

Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization

by Jeff Rubin  · 19 May 2009  · 258pp  · 83,303 words

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

by Pedro Domingos  · 21 Sep 2015  · 396pp  · 117,149 words

Pro Git

by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub  · 12 Nov 2014  · 549pp  · 134,988 words

India's Long Road

by Vijay Joshi  · 21 Feb 2017

Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Our World

by Greg Milner  · 4 May 2016  · 385pp  · 103,561 words

The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)

by Michael R. Strain  · 25 Feb 2020  · 98pp  · 27,609 words

Before Babylon, Beyond Bitcoin: From Money That We Understand to Money That Understands Us (Perspectives)

by David Birch  · 14 Jun 2017  · 275pp  · 84,980 words

As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Work, Health & Wealth

by Juan Enriquez  · 15 Feb 2001  · 239pp  · 45,926 words

Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane  · 28 Feb 2017  · 346pp  · 90,371 words

The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World

by Lawrence Lessig  · 14 Jul 2001  · 494pp  · 142,285 words

The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns

by John C. Bogle  · 1 Jan 2007  · 356pp  · 51,419 words

The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

by Tim Wu  · 14 Jun 2018  · 128pp  · 38,847 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 New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story

by Michael Lewis  · 29 Sep 1999  · 146pp  · 43,446 words

Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

by Jeff John Roberts  · 15 Dec 2020  · 226pp  · 65,516 words

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times

by Giovanni Arrighi  · 15 Mar 2010  · 7,371pp  · 186,208 words

Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

by Richard Florida  · 28 Jun 2009  · 325pp  · 73,035 words

Mastering Private Equity

by Zeisberger, Claudia,Prahl, Michael,White, Bowen, Michael Prahl and Bowen White  · 15 Jun 2017

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

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

Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

by Emanuel Derman  · 13 Oct 2011  · 240pp  · 60,660 words

Them and Us: How Immigrants and Locals Can Thrive Together

by Philippe Legrain  · 14 Oct 2020  · 521pp  · 110,286 words

Mastering Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies and Smart Contracts

by Lorne Lantz and Daniel Cawrey  · 8 Dec 2020  · 434pp  · 77,974 words

After Europe

by Ivan Krastev  · 7 May 2017  · 100pp  · 31,338 words

Crapshoot Investing: How Tech-Savvy Traders and Clueless Regulators Turned the Stock Market Into a Casino

by Jim McTague  · 1 Mar 2011  · 280pp  · 73,420 words

Democracy Incorporated

by Sheldon S. Wolin  · 7 Apr 2008  · 637pp  · 128,673 words

Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

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

Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-Like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You ... Know to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy

by William Poundstone  · 4 Jan 2012  · 260pp  · 77,007 words

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

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

The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity From Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs

by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips  · 23 Jun 2015  · 210pp  · 56,667 words

My Start-Up Life: What A

by Ben Casnocha and Marc Benioff  · 7 May 2007  · 207pp  · 63,071 words

More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next

by Andrew McAfee  · 30 Sep 2019  · 372pp  · 94,153 words

A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload

by Cal Newport  · 2 Mar 2021  · 350pp  · 90,898 words

Kicking Awaythe Ladder

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 4 Sep 2000  · 192pp

Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry

by Steven Rattner  · 19 Sep 2010  · 394pp  · 124,743 words

Den of Thieves

by James B. Stewart  · 14 Oct 1991  · 706pp  · 206,202 words

Stuffocation

by James Wallman  · 6 Dec 2013  · 296pp  · 82,501 words

Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It

by Brian Dumaine  · 11 May 2020  · 411pp  · 98,128 words

Shocks, Crises, and False Alarms: How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk

by Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak and Paul Swartz  · 8 Jul 2024  · 259pp  · 89,637 words

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – and How They Transformed the City

by Christian Wolmar  · 5 Nov 2020  · 352pp  · 98,424 words

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

by Matt Taibbi  · 15 Feb 2010  · 291pp  · 91,783 words

The Centrist Manifesto

by Charles Wheelan  · 18 Apr 2013  · 104pp  · 30,990 words

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats

by Maya Goodfellow  · 5 Nov 2019  · 273pp  · 83,802 words

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

by Gabriel Winant  · 23 Mar 2021  · 563pp  · 136,190 words

Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders

by Jason L. Riley  · 14 May 2008  · 196pp  · 53,627 words

Money: The Unauthorized Biography

by Felix Martin  · 5 Jun 2013  · 357pp  · 110,017 words

The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers (Wiley Finance)

by Feng Gu  · 26 Jun 2016

The Great Economists Ten Economists whose thinking changed the way we live-FT Publishing International (2014)

by Phil Thornton  · 7 May 2014

Money, Real Quick: The Story of M-PESA

by Tonny K. Omwansa, Nicholas P. Sullivan and The Guardian  · 28 Feb 2012  · 140pp  · 91,067 words

Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech

by Sally Smith Hughes

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

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

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

by Alex Rosenblat  · 22 Oct 2018  · 343pp  · 91,080 words

Deep Value

by Tobias E. Carlisle  · 19 Aug 2014

The Money Machine: How the City Works

by Philip Coggan  · 1 Jul 2009  · 253pp  · 79,214 words

Pro Git

by Scott Chacon  · 17 Aug 2009  · 282pp  · 79,176 words

The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism

by Grace Blakeley  · 14 Oct 2020  · 82pp  · 24,150 words

Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . And the Rise of a New Economy

by Daniel Gross  · 7 May 2012  · 391pp  · 97,018 words

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

by Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Judd Kahn, Paul D. Sonkin and Michael van Biema  · 26 Jan 2004  · 306pp  · 97,211 words

Global Governance and Financial Crises

by Meghnad Desai and Yahia Said  · 12 Nov 2003

The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments

by Pat Dorsey  · 1 Mar 2008  · 141pp  · 40,979 words

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross  · 19 Nov 2020  · 197pp  · 53,831 words