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The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy

by Tyler Cowen  · 25 May 2010  · 254pp  · 72,929 words

.” —Samuel R. Sommers, assistant professor of psychology, Tufts University ALSO BY TYLER COWEN Discover Your Inner Economist THE AGE OF THE INFOVORE SUCCEEDING IN THE INFORMATION ECONOMY Tyler Cowen Previously published as Create Your Own Economy A PLUME BOOK PLUME Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street

Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead

by Kenneth Rogoff  · 27 Feb 2025  · 330pp  · 127,791 words

36 Italy 31 Spain 24 Portugal 24 France 14 Germany 13 Finland 10 Denmark 9 Sweden 6 Source: Francesco Pappada and Kenneth Rogoff, “Rethinking the Informal Economy and the Hugo Effect,” Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming). In general, the underground economy derives mainly from tax and regulatory evasion, but also

. Edgar Feige, “How Big Is the Irregular Economy?,” Challenge 22, no. 5 (November/December 1979): 5–13. 17. Francesco Pappada and Kenneth Rogoff, “Rethinking the Informal Economy and the Hugo Effect,” Journal of the European Economic Association (forthcoming). 18. One might well ask why Europe does not crack down more on tax

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

soldiers who had not been paid. “You have guns,” he told them. “You don’t need a salary.” As the State Department report surmised, “The informal economy, while dynamic and increasingly active in providing essential public services, consists essentially of subsistence activities, and cannot arrest the country’s overall economic and social

have guns”: “Congo’s War Was Bloody. It May Be About to Start Again,” Economist, February 15, 2018. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “The informal economy”: U.S. Embassy Kinshasa, FY1997 Country Commercial Guide: Zaire. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT he had legalized small-scale: Raphael Deberdt, Baseline Study of

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

of hours renovating their landlords’ homes. The users, en masse, were handing over human attention, predictive data, and whatever they might happen to build. “The information economy that we are currently building doesn’t really embrace capitalism,” wrote technologist Jaron Lanier, “but rather a new form of feudalism.”[3] The users of

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

by Quinn Slobodian  · 4 Apr 2023  · 360pp  · 107,124 words

the Singapore model only raises the question of which Singapore one means. Is it a welfare dictatorship? A laissez-faire wonderland? A node in the information economy? A triumph of state-led industrialization? A sustainable utopia of public housing and green space? A paranoid surveillance state? All of the above? The micronation

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

by Yochai Benkler  · 14 May 2006  · 678pp  · 216,204 words

the taking. They are constitutive [pg 130] components of both formal and informal mechanisms for deciding on collective action. Societies that embed the emerging networked information economy in an institutional ecology that accommodates nonmarket production, both individual and cooperative, will improve the freedom of their constituents along all these dimensions. 254 The

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

by Richard Beck  · 2 Sep 2024  · 715pp  · 212,449 words

the vast majority of informal work concentrated in countries other than the United States. In Arab states, 69 percent of workers are stuck in the informal economy.[25] Perhaps you can see where I’m going with this. While terrorism has existed for centuries—with John Brown as America’s first celebrity

22 Ibid., 6. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 23 Ibid., 178. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE 24 International Labour Office, United Nations, Women and Men in the Informal Economy: A Statistical Picture, 3rd ed. (Geneva: ILO, 2018), www.ilo.org/​wcmsp5/​groups/​public/​---dgreports/​---dcomm/​documents/​publication/​wcms_626831.pdf. BACK TO NOTE REFERENCE

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider  · 15 Dec 2024  · 346pp  · 84,111 words

for Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, a global network dedicated to improving the working conditions of the working poor—especially women—in the informal economy. WRITTEN BY THE BEAUTIFUL SOLUTIONS TEAM The work of recyclers and waste pickers is vital to reducing the ecological impact of cities. In parts of

Recicladores de Bogotá. asociacionrecicladoresbogota.org ARTICLE “Bogotá Recycler Nohra Padilla Praised on World Stage” by Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing. (2013) wiego.org/informal-economy/workerstories/bogota-recycler-nohra-padilla-praised-world-stage WEBSITE Global Alliance of Waste Pickers. globalrec.org STORY ENERGIEWENDE Energiewende demonstration at the main railway station

require credit history, monthly fees, lengthy forms, and identity screenings. These can be barriers to low-income communities, immigrants, or people who work in the informal economy. Tandas offer a flexible, transparent, and simple banking alternative to many community members who don’t have access to formal financial services. GUIDED BY NIKKI

economy rooted in community, rather than in individualism, and in relationships rather than transactions. LEARN MORE ARTICLE “Tandas And The Informal Economy of Mexico” by Fundary. (2018) medium.com/@fundary/tandas-and-the-informal-economy-of-mexico-4f3c80c1c7ce WEBSITE Mission Asset Fund. missionassetfund.org/about VIDEO “SUSU - How to Start & Use It Correctly” by

The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity

by Peter Schwartz, Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt  · 18 Oct 2000  · 353pp  · 355 words

Economy, like software and financial packages. On the one hand, we're waiting for new methods to be devised to properly measure productivity in an information economy. On the other, as with any fundamentally new technology, it takes decades for a workforce to reorganize its work to get the most productivity out

Culture works: the political economy of culture

by Richard Maxwell  · 15 Jan 2001  · 268pp  · 112,708 words

Future,” Financial Times, December 11, 1996, 1. 47. Quoted in C. Bruck, “The Big Hitter,” New Yorker, December 8, 1997, 826. 48. Forefronting the new informational economy is a species of economically and culturally imposing global media corporations such as Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, Sony, Seagram, Bertelsmann, Granada, and News Corporation. These

Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends

by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas  · 19 Jan 2010  · 492pp  · 70,082 words

The End of Work

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 28 Dec 1994  · 372pp  · 152 words

The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 31 Mar 2014  · 565pp  · 151,129 words

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

by Jamie Susskind  · 3 Sep 2018  · 533pp

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 9 Sep 2024  · 566pp  · 169,013 words

Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy

by George Gilder  · 16 Jul 2018  · 332pp  · 93,672 words

Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life

by Adam Greenfield  · 29 May 2017  · 410pp  · 119,823 words

The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil  · 14 Jul 2005  · 761pp  · 231,902 words

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

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

Against Intellectual Monopoly

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

Social Life of Information

by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid  · 2 Feb 2000  · 791pp  · 85,159 words

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

by Pieter Hintjens  · 11 Mar 2013  · 349pp  · 114,038 words

The Social Life of Money

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

Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care

by Jonathan Bush and Stephen Baker  · 14 May 2014  · 238pp  · 68,914 words

Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The

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

The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

by Eswar S. Prasad  · 27 Sep 2021  · 661pp  · 185,701 words

What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures

by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson  · 17 Sep 2024  · 588pp  · 160,825 words

In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India

by Edward Luce  · 23 Aug 2006  · 403pp  · 132,736 words

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

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

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

Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets

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

The Rise of the Network Society

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

Who Owns the Future?

by Jaron Lanier  · 6 May 2013  · 510pp  · 120,048 words

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

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

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

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

City: Urbanism and Its End

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

The Future Is Asian

by Parag Khanna  · 5 Feb 2019  · 496pp  · 131,938 words

Hacking Capitalism

by Söderberg, Johan; Söderberg, Johan;

Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation

by Tom McGrath  · 3 Jun 2024  · 326pp  · 103,034 words

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

by Fred Turner  · 31 Aug 2006  · 339pp  · 57,031 words

Hustle and Gig: Struggling and Surviving in the Sharing Economy

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

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits

by Richard Davies  · 4 Sep 2019  · 412pp  · 128,042 words

Off the Books

by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

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 Future of Money

by Bernard Lietaer  · 28 Apr 2013

The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

by Daniel Yergin  · 14 May 2011  · 1,373pp  · 300,577 words

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

by Andrew Keen  · 1 Mar 2018  · 308pp  · 85,880 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 Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and Dennis L. Meadows  · 15 Apr 2004  · 357pp  · 100,718 words

The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism

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

Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri  · 9 Mar 2000  · 1,015pp  · 170,908 words

What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis  · 15 Feb 2009  · 299pp  · 91,839 words

If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

by Benjamin R. Barber  · 5 Nov 2013  · 501pp  · 145,943 words

The New Ruthless Economy: Work & Power in the Digital Age

by Simon Head  · 14 Aug 2003  · 242pp  · 245 words

Imagining India

by Nandan Nilekani  · 25 Nov 2008  · 777pp  · 186,993 words

How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)

by Benjamin Peters  · 2 Jun 2016  · 518pp  · 107,836 words

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

by Jacob Silverman  · 17 Mar 2015  · 527pp  · 147,690 words

Stealth of Nations

by Robert Neuwirth  · 18 Oct 2011  · 340pp  · 91,387 words

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

by Jeremy Rifkin  · 27 Sep 2011  · 443pp  · 112,800 words

The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals

by Michael Pollan  · 15 Dec 2006  · 467pp  · 503 words

Democratizing innovation

by Eric von Hippel  · 1 Apr 2005  · 220pp  · 73,451 words

The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy

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

Capitalism in America: A History

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

Piracy : The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates

by Adrian Johns  · 5 Jan 2010  · 636pp  · 202,284 words

Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty

by Bradley K. Martin  · 14 Oct 2004  · 1,509pp  · 416,377 words

Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations

by Nandan Nilekani  · 4 Feb 2016  · 332pp  · 100,601 words

Blindside: How to Anticipate Forcing Events and Wild Cards in Global Politics

by Francis Fukuyama  · 27 Aug 2007

The Internet Is Not the Answer

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

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

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

Collaborative Futures

by Mike Linksvayer, Michael Mandiberg and Mushon Zer-Aviv  · 24 Aug 2010  · 188pp  · 9,226 words

The New Harvest: Agricultural Innovation in Africa

by Calestous Juma  · 27 May 2017

The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

by Frank Pasquale  · 17 Nov 2014  · 320pp  · 87,853 words

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

by Robert W. McChesney  · 5 Mar 2013  · 476pp  · 125,219 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 Scandal of Money

by George Gilder  · 23 Feb 2016  · 209pp  · 53,236 words

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey  · 27 Jan 2015  · 457pp  · 128,838 words

When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor

by William Julius Wilson  · 1 Jan 1996  · 399pp  · 116,828 words

The Upside of Inequality

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

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

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

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 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

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin  · 23 Dec 2008  · 1,445pp  · 469,426 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

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

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

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together

by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin  · 21 Jun 2023  · 248pp  · 73,689 words

The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

by David C. Korten  · 1 Jan 2001

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

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

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

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

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

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

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

Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything

by Martin Ford  · 13 Sep 2021  · 288pp  · 86,995 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

Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

by Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Francis de Véricourt  · 10 May 2021  · 291pp  · 80,068 words

The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

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

Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

by Harsha Walia  · 9 Feb 2021

Undoing Border Imperialism

by Harsha Walia  · 12 Nov 2013  · 258pp  · 69,706 words

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty  · 10 Mar 2014  · 935pp  · 267,358 words

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig  · 14 Jul 2019  · 2,466pp  · 668,761 words

The Meritocracy Myth

by Stephen J. McNamee  · 17 Jul 2013  · 440pp  · 108,137 words

Arrival City

by Doug Saunders  · 22 Mar 2011  · 366pp  · 117,875 words

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato  · 16 Dec 2008

Making Globalization Work

by Joseph E. Stiglitz  · 16 Sep 2006

The Retreat of Western Liberalism

by Edward Luce  · 20 Apr 2017  · 223pp  · 58,732 words

How to Fix Copyright

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

Lonely Planet Mexico

by John Noble, Kate Armstrong, Greg Benchwick, Nate Cavalieri, Gregor Clark, John Hecht, Beth Kohn, Emily Matchar, Freda Moon and Ellee Thalheimer  · 2 Jan 1992

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

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

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy

by Tom Slee  · 18 Nov 2015  · 265pp  · 69,310 words

Power at Ground Zero: Politics, Money, and the Remaking of Lower Manhattan

by Lynne B. Sagalyn  · 8 Sep 2016  · 1,797pp  · 390,698 words

Meat: A Benign Extravagance

by Simon Fairlie  · 14 Jun 2010  · 614pp  · 176,458 words

The New Class Conflict

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

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

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

Cities Are Good for You: The Genius of the Metropolis

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

Basic Economics

by Thomas Sowell  · 1 Jan 2000  · 850pp  · 254,117 words

Nomad Citizenship: Free-Market Communism and the Slow-Motion General Strike

by Eugene W. Holland  · 1 Jan 2009  · 265pp  · 15,515 words

The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything

by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey  · 27 Feb 2018  · 348pp  · 97,277 words

Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

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

Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

by John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H Naylor and David Horsey  · 1 Jan 2001  · 378pp  · 102,966 words

Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America

by Shawn Lawrence Otto  · 10 Oct 2011  · 692pp  · 127,032 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 Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000

by John Steele Gordon  · 12 Oct 2009  · 519pp  · 148,131 words

Data-Ism: The Revolution Transforming Decision Making, Consumer Behavior, and Almost Everything Else

by Steve Lohr  · 10 Mar 2015  · 239pp  · 70,206 words

The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction

by Jamie Woodcock and Mark Graham  · 17 Jan 2020  · 207pp  · 59,298 words

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier  · 29 Mar 2017

Owning the Sun

by Alexander Zaitchik  · 7 Jan 2022  · 341pp  · 98,954 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

Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety

by Dalton Conley  · 27 Dec 2008  · 204pp  · 67,922 words

The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman  · 14 Oct 2019  · 232pp  · 70,361 words

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg  · 14 Feb 2023  · 651pp  · 162,060 words

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

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

The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties

by Christopher Caldwell  · 21 Jan 2020  · 450pp  · 113,173 words

World Cities and Nation States

by Greg Clark and Tim Moonen  · 19 Dec 2016

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

by Richard Sennett  · 9 Apr 2018

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

by Leslie Berlin  · 9 Jun 2005

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu  · 14 May 2016  · 515pp  · 143,055 words

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

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

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

by Tyler Cowen  · 11 Sep 2013  · 291pp  · 81,703 words

Cocaine Nation: How the White Trade Took Over the World

by Thomas Feiling  · 20 Jul 2010  · 376pp  · 121,254 words

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

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

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

by Stewart Brand  · 15 Mar 2009  · 422pp  · 113,525 words

Protocol: how control exists after decentralization

by Alexander R. Galloway  · 1 Apr 2004  · 287pp  · 86,919 words

Free Ride

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

Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

by Charles Eisenstein  · 11 Jul 2011  · 448pp  · 142,946 words

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal  · 21 Feb 2017  · 407pp  · 90,238 words

The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future

by Laurence C. Smith  · 22 Sep 2010  · 421pp  · 120,332 words

In Defense of Global Capitalism

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

The Curse of Cash

by Kenneth S Rogoff  · 29 Aug 2016  · 361pp  · 97,787 words

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

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

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

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

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

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

The Googlization of Everything:

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

Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy

by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght  · 20 Mar 2017

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

by Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson  · 7 Mar 2006  · 364pp  · 101,286 words

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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

Portfolios of the poor: how the world's poor live on $2 a day

by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch and Stuart Rutherford  · 15 Jan 2009  · 296pp  · 87,299 words

Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage, and Measure Information as an Asset for Competitive Advantage

by Douglas B. Laney  · 4 Sep 2017  · 374pp  · 94,508 words

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Sugrue, Thomas J.

The Growth Delusion: Wealth, Poverty, and the Well-Being of Nations

by David Pilling  · 30 Jan 2018  · 264pp  · 76,643 words

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

by Cal Newport  · 5 Jan 2016

Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day

by Craig Lambert  · 30 Apr 2015  · 229pp  · 72,431 words

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

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

The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us

by Joel Kotkin  · 11 Apr 2016  · 565pp  · 122,605 words

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

by Alan Cooper  · 24 Feb 2004  · 193pp  · 98,671 words

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