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

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

that machine learning experts will maintain the same degree of leverage over AI, or that they will continue to receive the same share of the generated wealth, in the long run. Just as the benefits of public research are often privately appropriated, knowledge production generates externalities more generally. This includes research on

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

by Ernest Scheyder  · 30 Jan 2024  · 355pp  · 133,726 words

degraded as to render even the mines of Potosí not worth the working.”10 The grass, truly, is always greener. The silver did not produce generational wealth for Bolivians; much of that went to Spain’s empire, and the country has come to suffer what’s commonly known as the natural resource

The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth

by Nicolas Niarchos  · 20 Jan 2026  · 654pp  · 170,150 words

’ medical costs. KCC brought technology and leadership skills to its employees, Donkin said, training up a new generation of Congolese who would be able to generate wealth for their country. The plethora of Congolese employees—engineers and technicians, drivers and managers—seemed to confirm that, even though a November report by Rights

The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

by Tim Wu  · 4 Nov 2025  · 246pp  · 65,143 words

power—a catalytic power—that platforms harness. Stated more formally, the most basic function of the platform is to enable mutually beneficial transactions—and thereby generate wealth or the satisfaction of human wants and needs. Platforms do so by solving not just one but several barriers that otherwise prevent transactions from occurring

Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman  · 8 Jul 2024  · 207pp  · 65,156 words

this problem, drawing in too many people who are looking not to build but to cash in. Initial coin offerings (ICOs) have allowed founders to generate wealth without necessarily delivering on the impactful innovations they promised, often leaving the less savvy investor holding the bag. The sector has been rife with pump

Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside - Finding Home in an English Country Garden

by Marchelle Farrell  · 2 Aug 2023  · 217pp  · 76,056 words

they reassured me that, as their only child, so was mine. This was why they had done it: to create an inheritance. To build material generational wealth. Now they could afford to supplement the meagre living allowance of the academic scholarship that had allowed me to come to England; they wanted me

The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity

by Micah Goodman  · 10 Nov 2020  · 234pp  · 67,917 words

metaphor: “The wealth we have only saved since yesterday means poverty today and the impossibility of enriching ourselves tomorrow. . . . Let me hope that I may generate wealth myself, and do not make me a mere watchman of my ancestral estate.” See “Feelings of the Heart,” 91 [Hebrew]. Elsewhere, he wrote that instead

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

by Eric Klinenberg  · 1 Jan 2012  · 291pp  · 88,879 words

, “There is no such thing as society”), nor did he share their conviction that liberating individuals from the state was the most effective way to generate wealth and advance the common good. But he wasn’t entirely pessimistic, either. Durkheim argued that the modern division of labor would bind citizens organically. After

Game Over Press Start to Continue

by David Sheff and Andy Eddy  · 1 Jan 1993  · 500pp  · 156,079 words

Japan are measured not in square feet or meters but in tatami mats—the book-thick, rectangular sections of sweet-smelling, woven straw. In past generations, wealth was measured by the number of mats (each smaller than a twin bed) in a family’s home. The average home has eight or ten

Layered Money: From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies

by Nik Bhatia  · 18 Jan 2021

the quintessential money. This anointment was responsible for a tremendous advance in the globalization of human civilization, as precious metals provided improved ways to preserve generational wealth and facilitate trade between complete strangers in different corners of the planet. Selecting what was to be used as money wasn’t always easy. Shells

Architects of Intelligence

by Martin Ford  · 16 Nov 2018  · 586pp  · 186,548 words

Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 21 Mar 2013  · 323pp  · 95,939 words

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

by James Bridle  · 6 Apr 2022  · 502pp  · 132,062 words

Born in Flames

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

Where We Want to Live

by Ryan Gravel  · 2 Feb 2016  · 259pp  · 76,797 words

The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America's Food Business

by Christopher Leonard  · 18 Feb 2014  · 444pp  · 128,701 words

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

by John McMillan  · 1 Jan 2002  · 350pp  · 103,988 words

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

by James Bridle  · 18 Jun 2018  · 301pp  · 85,263 words

Warren Buffett Accounting Book: Reading Financial Statements for Value Investing (Warren Buffett's 3 Favorite Books)

by Stig Brodersen and Preston Pysh  · 30 Apr 2014  · 261pp  · 63,473 words

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World

by Alan Rusbridger  · 26 Nov 2020  · 371pp  · 109,320 words

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

by Zeke Faux  · 11 Sep 2023  · 385pp  · 106,848 words

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

by Oliver Burkeman  · 9 Aug 2021  · 206pp  · 68,757 words

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

by Anne Helen Petersen  · 14 Jan 2021  · 297pp  · 88,890 words

Work Optional: Retire Early the Non-Penny-Pinching Way

by Tanja Hester  · 12 Feb 2019  · 231pp  · 76,283 words

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter  · 18 Feb 2020  · 504pp  · 129,087 words

Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

by Jeff Speck  · 13 Nov 2012  · 342pp  · 86,256 words

This Chair Rocks: A Manifiesto Against Ageism

by Ashton Applewhite  · 10 Feb 2016  · 312pp  · 84,421 words

Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking

by E. Gabriella Coleman  · 25 Nov 2012  · 398pp  · 107,788 words

You Are Not a Gadget

by Jaron Lanier  · 12 Jan 2010  · 224pp  · 64,156 words

Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy

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

Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby  · 22 Nov 2013  · 165pp  · 45,397 words

The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley  · 10 Jun 2013

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future

by Cory Doctorow  · 15 Sep 2008  · 189pp  · 57,632 words

It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism in an Age of Fear

by Gregg Easterbrook  · 20 Feb 2018  · 424pp  · 119,679 words

Your Computer Is on Fire

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

Artificial Whiteness

by Yarden Katz

Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV

by Peter Biskind  · 6 Nov 2023  · 543pp  · 143,084 words

Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

by John Markoff  · 22 Mar 2022  · 573pp  · 142,376 words

Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America

by Conor Dougherty  · 18 Feb 2020  · 331pp  · 95,582 words

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann  · 1 Dec 2015  · 1,213pp  · 376,284 words

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History

by Alex von Tunzelmann  · 7 Jul 2021  · 337pp  · 87,236 words

A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History

by Diana B. Henriques  · 18 Sep 2017  · 526pp  · 144,019 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

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

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

Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist

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

Creating Unequal Futures?: Rethinking Poverty, Inequality and Disadvantage

by Ruth Fincher and Peter Saunders  · 1 Jul 2001  · 267pp  · 79,905 words

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

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

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

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

Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There

by David Brooks  · 1 Jan 2000  · 142pp  · 18,753 words

The Great Railroad Revolution

by Christian Wolmar  · 9 Jun 2014  · 523pp  · 159,884 words

Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline

by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson  · 5 Feb 2019  · 280pp  · 83,299 words

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

by Steven Pinker  · 24 Sep 2012  · 1,351pp  · 385,579 words

Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

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

The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Privacy and Freedom?

by David Brin  · 1 Jan 1998  · 205pp  · 18,208 words

The New Class Conflict

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

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

by Francis Fukuyama  · 29 Sep 2014  · 828pp  · 232,188 words

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

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

Jihad vs. McWorld: Terrorism's Challenge to Democracy

by Benjamin Barber  · 20 Apr 2010  · 454pp  · 139,350 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

The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future

by Joseph C. Sternberg  · 13 May 2019  · 336pp  · 95,773 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

Chokepoint Capitalism

by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow  · 26 Sep 2022  · 396pp  · 113,613 words

First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents

by Gary Ginsberg  · 14 Sep 2021  · 418pp  · 134,401 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

Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made

by Gaia Vince  · 19 Oct 2014  · 505pp  · 147,916 words

Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century

by Mark Walker  · 29 Nov 2015

100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family And

by Sonia Arrison  · 22 Aug 2011  · 381pp  · 78,467 words

Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

by Phoebe Robinson  · 14 Oct 2021  · 265pp  · 93,354 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

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch  · 16 Sep 1991  · 669pp  · 226,737 words

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

by Fiona Hill  · 4 Oct 2021  · 569pp  · 165,510 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

Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity

by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne  · 4 Feb 2013

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

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

The Nanny State Made Me: A Story of Britain and How to Save It

by Stuart Maconie  · 5 Mar 2020  · 300pp  · 106,520 words

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

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

Greece

by Korina Miller  · 1 Mar 2010

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

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

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

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

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

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

Stocks for the Long Run, 4th Edition: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy J. Siegel  · 18 Dec 2007

5 Day Weekend: Freedom to Make Your Life and Work Rich With Purpose

by Nik Halik and Garrett B. Gunderson  · 5 Mar 2018  · 290pp  · 72,046 words

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

by Nick Bostrom  · 3 Jun 2014  · 574pp  · 164,509 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

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 26 Dec 2007  · 334pp  · 98,950 words

The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities

by John J. Mearsheimer  · 24 Sep 2018  · 443pp  · 125,510 words

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

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

The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class

by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett  · 14 May 2017  · 550pp  · 89,316 words

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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

Capital Without Borders

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

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 14 May 2014  · 372pp  · 92,477 words

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

by Eric Posner and E. Weyl  · 14 May 2018  · 463pp  · 105,197 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

Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

by Shawn Lawrence Otto  · 10 Oct 2011  · 692pp  · 127,032 words

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

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

Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth

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

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

The Industries of the Future

by Alec Ross  · 2 Feb 2016  · 364pp  · 99,897 words

Stocks for the Long Run 5/E: the Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies

by Jeremy Siegel  · 7 Jan 2014  · 517pp  · 139,477 words

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy

by Philip Coggan  · 6 Feb 2020  · 524pp  · 155,947 words

The Sport and Prey of Capitalists

by Linda McQuaig  · 30 Aug 2019  · 263pp  · 79,016 words

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

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

Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class

by Owen Jones  · 14 Jul 2011  · 317pp  · 101,475 words

Money: The Unauthorized Biography

by Felix Martin  · 5 Jun 2013  · 357pp  · 110,017 words

The Social Life of Money

by Nigel Dodd  · 14 May 2014  · 700pp  · 201,953 words

The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today

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

Big Data and the Welfare State: How the Information Revolution Threatens Social Solidarity

by Torben Iversen and Philipp Rehm  · 18 May 2022

Brexit, No Exit: Why in the End Britain Won't Leave Europe

by Denis MacShane  · 14 Jul 2017  · 308pp  · 99,298 words

Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice

by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi  · 16 Oct 2017  · 1,544pp  · 391,691 words

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

by Jamie Susskind  · 3 Sep 2018  · 533pp

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

Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back

by Guy Shrubsole  · 1 May 2019  · 505pp  · 133,661 words

Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream

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

Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown

by Detlev S. Schlichter  · 21 Sep 2011  · 310pp  · 90,817 words

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

by James Meek  · 5 Mar 2019  · 232pp  · 76,830 words

The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

by Spencer Jakab  · 1 Feb 2022  · 420pp  · 94,064 words

The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

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

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

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

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman  · 17 Jul 2023  · 329pp  · 99,504 words

Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis

by Kevin Mellyn  · 30 Sep 2009  · 225pp  · 11,355 words

Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed With Early Achievement

by Rich Karlgaard  · 15 Apr 2019  · 321pp  · 92,828 words

The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness

by Morgan Housel  · 7 Sep 2020  · 209pp  · 53,175 words

How to Kick Ass on Wall Street

by Andy Kessler  · 4 Jun 2012  · 77pp  · 18,414 words

The Challenge for Africa

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

The Gated City (Kindle Single)

by Ryan Avent  · 30 Aug 2011  · 112pp  · 30,160 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

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

by Fred Pearce  · 28 May 2012  · 379pp  · 114,807 words

Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 4 Jul 2007  · 347pp  · 99,317 words

America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom

by Meghan McCain and Michael Black  · 31 May 2012  · 367pp  · 117,340 words

The Trouble With Billionaires

by Linda McQuaig  · 1 May 2013  · 261pp  · 81,802 words

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

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

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

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

Capitalism in America: A History

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

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

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

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

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 1 Jun 2009  · 422pp  · 131,666 words

Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity

by Kwasi Kwarteng, Priti Patel, Dominic Raab, Chris Skidmore and Elizabeth Truss  · 12 Sep 2012

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

by Ta-Nehisi Coates  · 2 Oct 2017  · 349pp  · 114,914 words

The Centrist Manifesto

by Charles Wheelan  · 18 Apr 2013  · 104pp  · 30,990 words

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

by Richard H. Thaler  · 10 May 2015  · 500pp  · 145,005 words

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus  · 25 Sep 2017  · 278pp  · 74,880 words

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

by Annalee Newitz  · 2 Feb 2021  · 290pp  · 82,220 words

Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis

by Beth Macy  · 15 Aug 2022  · 389pp  · 111,372 words

The New Snobbery

by David Skelton  · 28 Jun 2021  · 226pp  · 58,341 words

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth

by Chris Smaje  · 14 Aug 2020  · 375pp  · 105,586 words

The Rare Metals War

by Guillaume Pitron  · 15 Feb 2020  · 249pp  · 66,492 words

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

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

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire

by Tim Schwab  · 13 Nov 2023  · 618pp  · 179,407 words

Adam Smith: Father of Economics

by Jesse Norman  · 30 Jun 2018

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

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

Bad Company

by Megan Greenwell  · 18 Apr 2025  · 385pp  · 103,818 words

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

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

23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

by Ha-Joon Chang  · 1 Jan 2010  · 365pp  · 88,125 words

The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 14 Sep 2017  · 520pp  · 153,517 words

Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed  · 22 Jan 2009  · 708pp  · 196,859 words

Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis

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

The City

by Tony Norfield  · 352pp  · 98,561 words

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

by Fareed Zakaria  · 5 Oct 2020  · 289pp  · 86,165 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

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

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

The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism

by Noam Chomsky  · 24 Oct 2014

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

by Carlota Pérez  · 1 Jan 2002

Inequality and the 1%

by Danny Dorling  · 6 Oct 2014  · 317pp  · 71,776 words

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

by Edward E. Baptist  · 24 Oct 2016

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

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

Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time

by James Suzman  · 2 Sep 2020  · 909pp  · 130,170 words

Snakes and Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth

by Selina Todd  · 11 Feb 2021  · 598pp  · 150,801 words

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

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

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

by Anthony Sattin  · 25 May 2022  · 412pp  · 121,164 words

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

by Premilla Nadasen  · 10 Oct 2023  · 288pp  · 82,972 words

Narcotopia

by Patrick Winn  · 30 Jan 2024  · 425pp  · 131,864 words

Making It in America: The Almost Impossible Quest to Manufacture in the U.S.A. (And How It Got That Way)

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