We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 13 Apr 2026 · 225pp · 76,418 words
of the story—the steep cost of abundance at scale. Drawn from long-term datasets such as Our World in Data, these charts trace the negative feedback loops of modern progress. As carbon emissions rise with industrial output, ecosystems absorb the cost. Diets built on sugar and convenience have replaced hunger with metabolic
The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
by Lanius, Ruth A.; Vermetten, Eric; Pain, Clare · 11 Jan 2011
of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in adults [35]. The expression of FKBP5 is induced by glucorticoids and is part of a GR-mediated negative feedback loop impacting HPA axis activity. Some of the SNPs associated with PTSD severity in those with a history of childhood abuse in this study had previously
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2010 · 386pp · 122,595 words
my views are a matter of public record (for the small number of people who paid attention to them). The economy was caught in dangerous negative feedback loops—foreclosures were causing banking problems which were causing layoffs which were causing foreclosures, and so on. I was fond of saying, “A bad stimulus is
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
important for the small- and medium-sized enterprises that remain the backbone of the European economy, especially in the crisis countries. The crunch created a negative feedback loop. In reality, small-company productivity increases over time through learning-by-doing and building trust with clients. Revenues flow back into research and development and
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scheme will prevent an outflow of funds from the banking systems of countries affected by negative shocks. Common deposit insurance will also help break the negative feedback loop between banks and sovereigns by reducing the incentives to pull money out of crisis-prone countries. Germany and some other countries worry that common deposit
Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity and the Truth About Dieting
by Giles Yeo · 3 Jun 2019 · 351pp · 112,079 words
from the Greek word ‘leptos’, meaning thin. At the time, most people in the field, myself included, just thought that leptin functioned in a classical ‘negative feedback loop’, meaning if you ate too much you would get fat, which would raise leptin levels, and leptin would then signal to your brain to get
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
debt would trigger a financial crisis that would reduce the supply of credit, deepening the economic downturn. The process would repeat in a series of negative feedback loops. Complex instruments allowing risky loans to be repackaged into higher quality securities—a form of financial magic—compounded the problem. As the value of these
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high levels. Given that recent economic growth has been debt-fueled, reduction in credit growth slows economic activity, making the borrowings unsustainable, feeding a deadly negative-feedback loop. As the global economy stagnated, weak countries were targeted by bond vigilantes, making it difficult to finance and forcing up their financing costs. Nations were
Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
by Maya Goodfellow · 5 Nov 2019 · 273pp · 83,802 words
different people and their experiences are muddied; the sheer complexity of it all is lost. Anti-asylum language feeds anti-immigrant narratives in an ongoing negative feedback loop, and regardless of their legal status, everyone who is seen as an ‘illegitimate’ outsider becomes a threat to the nation. Particular people are deemed undesirable
Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals
by David Aronson · 1 Nov 2006
Feedback Output Feedback Loop FIGURE 7.9 Feedback: output becomes input. External Input System Output Multiply by < 0 Negative Feedback Loop External Input System Output Multiply by > 0 Positive Feedback Loop FIGURE 7.10 Positive and negative feedback loops. 368 METHODOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, STATISTICAL FOUNDATIONS Negative feedback has the effect of dampening system behavior, driving the
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feedback.81 Arbitrage provides negative feedback. Prices that are too high or too low Negative Feedback System Positive Feedback System FIGURE 7.11 Positive and negative feedback loops: dampening versus amplifying. Theories of Nonrandom Price Motion 369 trigger arbitrage trading that pushes prices back toward rational levels. Positive feedback occurs when investor decisions
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
from making use of people’s goodwill and altruism. In the bounded device networks of an authoritarian regime, crowd-sourcing initiatives are likely to create negative feedback loops and big data efforts are likely to generate misinformation about the actual conditions of public life. With this pernicious structural flaw, how much faith should
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane · 28 Feb 2017 · 346pp · 90,371 words
supply and affordability on the one hand, and maintaining the asset wealth of homeowners on the other. Keohane and Broughton (2013) describe this as a negative feedback loop between homeownership and house prices, leading to a ‘low-supply equilibrium’ (see Figure 4.4). The evolution of taxation policy follows a similar trajectory: as
Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman · 1 Jun 2020 · 578pp · 131,346 words
MegaThreats: Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini · 17 Oct 2022 · 328pp · 96,678 words
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health
by Daniel Lieberman · 2 Sep 2020 · 687pp · 165,457 words
Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths
by Steven M. Gorelick · 9 Dec 2009 · 257pp · 94,168 words
The Hunger Code: How to Reset Your Body's Fat Thermostat by Breaking the Ultra-Processed Food Habit
by Jason Fung · 3 Mar 2026 · 284pp · 76,656 words
Food Allergy: Adverse Reactions to Foods and Food Additives
by Dean D. Metcalfe · 15 Dec 2008 · 623pp · 448,848 words
The new village green: living light, living local, living large
by Stephen Morris · 1 Sep 2007 · 289pp · 112,697 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
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease
by Gary Taubes · 25 Sep 2007 · 936pp · 252,313 words
Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines and Wired Markets
by David J. Leinweber · 31 Dec 2008 · 402pp · 110,972 words
How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
by Michael Geier · 6 Jan 2011 · 336pp · 163,867 words
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
by David France · 29 Nov 2016
Fix Your Gut: The Definitive Guide to Digestive Disorders
by John Brisson · 12 Apr 2014
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)
by Burton G. Malkiel · 5 Jan 2015 · 482pp · 121,672 words
How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
by Guy Raz · 14 Sep 2020 · 361pp · 107,461 words
The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline
by Russell Jones · 15 Jan 2023 · 463pp · 140,499 words
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo · 3 Apr 2017 · 733pp · 179,391 words
Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
by Duff McDonald · 5 Oct 2009 · 419pp · 130,627 words
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky · 1 May 2017 · 1,261pp · 294,715 words
Unfinished Business
by Tamim Bayoumi · 405pp · 109,114 words
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
by Burton G. Malkiel · 10 Jan 2011 · 416pp · 118,592 words
The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire
by Neil Irwin · 4 Apr 2013 · 597pp · 172,130 words
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less
by Richard Koch · 15 Dec 1999 · 296pp · 78,227 words
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by Steve Keen · 21 Sep 2011 · 823pp · 220,581 words
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
by John T. Cacioppo · 9 Aug 2009 · 327pp · 97,720 words
The Behavioral Investor
by Daniel Crosby · 15 Feb 2018 · 249pp · 77,342 words
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
by Matthew Walker · 2 Oct 2017 · 442pp · 127,300 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
Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
by Scott E. Page · 27 Nov 2018 · 543pp · 153,550 words
Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do
by Jeremy Bailenson · 30 Jan 2018 · 302pp · 90,215 words
The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
by Jonathan Rauch · 30 Apr 2018 · 277pp · 79,360 words
Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants
by Maurice E. Stucke and Ariel Ezrachi · 14 May 2020 · 511pp · 132,682 words
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 14 Sep 2017 · 520pp · 153,517 words
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
by Rob Copeland · 7 Nov 2023 · 412pp · 122,655 words
The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth · 14 Jan 2020 · 180pp · 55,805 words
99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It
by Mark Thomas · 7 Aug 2019 · 286pp · 79,305 words
Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding From Anywhere
by Tsedal Neeley · 14 Oct 2021 · 223pp · 60,936 words
Broken Markets: How High Frequency Trading and Predatory Practices on Wall Street Are Destroying Investor Confidence and Your Portfolio
by Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi · 21 May 2012 · 318pp · 87,570 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
Life's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
by Matthew Cobb · 6 Jul 2015 · 608pp · 150,324 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
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words
Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
by Nicholas A. Christakis · 26 Mar 2019
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the Universe
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Open for Business Harnessing the Power of Platform Ecosystems
by Lauren Turner Claire, Laure Claire Reillier and Benoit Reillier · 14 Oct 2017 · 240pp · 78,436 words
Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
by Tim Jackson · 8 Dec 2016 · 573pp · 115,489 words
Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity
by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. · 24 Sep 2019 · 242pp · 71,943 words
Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
by Camilla Pang · 12 Mar 2020 · 256pp · 67,563 words
You Are Not So Smart
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Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology Is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance
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Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life
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The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
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Life in the Universe: A Beginner's Guide
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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
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The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
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Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors
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A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
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The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)
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Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
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Braiding Sweetgrass
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Chaos Engineering: System Resiliency in Practice
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The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
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Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive
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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
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Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything
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Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
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Voyage
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Thinking in Systems: A Primer
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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The Internet Is Not the Answer
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Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System
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The Miracle Pill
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Little Failure: A Memoir
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Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future
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The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
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Carbon: The Book of Life
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