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Britain's Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation

by Brendan Simms  · 27 Apr 2016  · 380pp  · 116,919 words

could not compensate for serious structural economic deficiencies which had accumulated since the end of the Second World War and were greatly aggravated by the oil shock: the surge in fuel prices caused by political instability in the Middle East. Throughout 1976, the country was convulsed by economic problems, which culminated in

The Warhol Economy

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

beginnings of cultural commodification and celebrity in the fashion world.29 The 1970s Through the Early 1980s: Postmodernism, Punk, and the Downtown Scene Deindustrialization, the oil shocks of the 1970s, and New York’s economic recession left the city in deep social and economic decline, with massive unemployment, fiscal crisis, and depressed

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

close the budget deficits of the Vietnam War and the Federal Reserve tightened interest rates to fight inflation. The decline in profitability continued with the Oil Shock of 1973 which led to a severe recession and the large increase in interest rates during the 1970s. Because interest is tax deductible, high interest

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

, American workers all enjoyed brisk wage growth. The rising tide of productivity increased everyone’s incomes, regardless of their educational levels. Then came the massive oil shock and recession of the 1970s, which reversed the gains for all groups. However, after that, we began to see a growing spread of incomes. By

Half In, Half Out: Prime Ministers on Europe

by Andrew Adonis  · 20 Jun 2018  · 235pp  · 73,873 words

President of France Giscard d’Estaing, both Anglophiles and English speakers, and desperate to avoid the collapse of the EEC in the midst of the ‘oil shock’ economic turbulence of the mid-1970s, obliged with the deals that Wilson and Callaghan sought on better access and lower consumer prices for Commonwealth meat

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

by William Thorndike  · 14 Sep 2012  · 330pp  · 59,335 words

II period that looks most like today’s extended economic malaise: the brutal 1974–1982 period. That period featured a toxic combination of an external oil shock, disastrous fiscal and monetary policy, and the worst domestic political scandal in the nation’s history. This cocktail of negative news produced an eight-year

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

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

States into three phases: 1963 to 1972, when real wages rose robustly and evenly among all education groups; 1973 to 1979, when—following the first oil shock—real earnings stagnated for everyone; and finally the era of rising wage inequality from 1980 onward, when wages rose robustly among the most educated and

Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play

by Morgan Ramsay and Peter Molyneux  · 28 Jul 2011  · 500pp  · 146,240 words

sold those games through a Florida company called Adventure International, and it wasn’t long before the revenue matched my other sources of income. The oil shocks of the 70s had dried up the housing market, and I was bored with practicing law, so I was looking for an alternative. Gary: I

Competition Demystified

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

faster. All the airlines were left with seats to spare, just as they had more debt to service to finance their new planes. The first oil shock of 1973–74 raised their operating expenses, as did inflation in the labor market. A weak economy dampened demands for seats. The situation was so

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

bowl in hand, to the IMF.3 Britain was an extreme case, but no part of the West looked healthy. This was the era of oil shocks and dystopian films such as Death Wish (1974) and Taxi Driver (1976). For America, the Vietnam War ended in humiliation. Richard Nixon tried a variety

Trend Commandments: Trading for Exceptional Returns

by Michael W. Covel  · 14 Jun 2011

Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth

by Nick Maggiulli  · 15 May 2022  · 287pp  · 62,824 words

Financial Independence

by John J. Vento  · 31 Mar 2013  · 368pp  · 145,841 words

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

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

The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy

by Paolo Gerbaudo  · 19 Jul 2018  · 302pp  · 84,881 words

Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

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

Dealers of Lightning

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

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams  · 1 Oct 2015  · 357pp  · 95,986 words

Hard Times: The Divisive Toll of the Economic Slump

by Tom Clark and Anthony Heath  · 23 Jun 2014  · 401pp  · 112,784 words

The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution

by T. R. Reid  · 18 Dec 2007  · 293pp  · 91,110 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

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 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 Tragedy of Great Power Politics

by John J. Mearsheimer  · 1 Jan 2001  · 637pp  · 199,158 words

The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite

by Michael Lind  · 20 Feb 2020

Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

by Douglas Coupland  · 15 Mar 1991  · 169pp  · 55,866 words

A Fine Mess

by T. R. Reid  · 13 Mar 2017  · 363pp  · 92,422 words

Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

by Varun Sivaram  · 2 Mar 2018  · 469pp  · 132,438 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

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss  · 1 Jan 2007  · 426pp  · 105,423 words

Unhappy Union: How the Euro Crisis - and Europe - Can Be Fixed

by John Peet, Anton La Guardia and The Economist  · 15 Feb 2014  · 267pp  · 74,296 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

Twilight of Abundance: Why the 21st Century Will Be Nasty, Brutish, and Short

by David Archibald  · 24 Mar 2014  · 217pp  · 61,407 words

Barometer of Fear: An Insider's Account of Rogue Trading and the Greatest Banking Scandal in History

by Alexis Stenfors  · 14 May 2017  · 312pp  · 93,836 words

The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals Its Secrets

by Michael Blastland  · 3 Apr 2019  · 290pp  · 82,871 words

How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid

by Franck Frommer  · 6 Oct 2010  · 255pp  · 68,829 words

The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire

by Keach Hagey  · 25 Jun 2018  · 499pp  · 131,113 words

The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism

by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski  · 5 Mar 2019  · 202pp  · 62,901 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

The Curse of Cash

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

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

by Branko Milanovic  · 10 Apr 2016  · 312pp  · 91,835 words

The Origins of the Urban Crisis

by Sugrue, Thomas J.

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry

by Helaine Olen  · 27 Dec 2012  · 375pp  · 105,067 words

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

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

The Elements of Power: Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

by David S. Abraham  · 27 Oct 2015  · 386pp  · 91,913 words

Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community

by Diana Leafe Christian  · 14 Jun 2007

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

by Bill Gates  · 16 Feb 2021  · 314pp  · 75,678 words

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber  · 1 Jan 2010  · 725pp  · 221,514 words

Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future

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

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

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

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

by Samuel I. Schwartz  · 17 Aug 2015  · 340pp  · 92,904 words

Ten Technologies to Save the Planet: Energy Options for a Low-Carbon Future

by Chris Goodall  · 1 Jan 2010  · 297pp  · 95,518 words

The End of Traffic and the Future of Transport: Second Edition

by David Levinson and Kevin Krizek  · 17 Aug 2015  · 257pp  · 64,285 words

100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-To-1 and How to Find Them

by Christopher W Mayer  · 21 May 2018

The Library: A Fragile History

by Arthur Der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree  · 14 Oct 2021  · 457pp  · 173,326 words

The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters

by Diane Coyle  · 21 Feb 2011  · 523pp  · 111,615 words

Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

by Didier Sornette  · 18 Nov 2002  · 442pp  · 39,064 words

The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead

by David Callahan  · 1 Jan 2004  · 452pp  · 110,488 words

Two Nations, Indivisible: A History of Inequality in America: A History of Inequality in America

by Jamie Bronstein  · 29 Oct 2016  · 332pp  · 89,668 words

New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

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

The Rise of the Network Society

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

Poverty for Profit

by Anne Kim  · 384pp  · 112,825 words

Investing to Save the Planet: How Your Money Can Make a Difference

by Alice Ross  · 19 Nov 2020  · 197pp  · 53,831 words

Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All

by Costas Lapavitsas  · 14 Aug 2013  · 554pp  · 158,687 words

America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism

by Anatol Lieven  · 3 May 2010

Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class

by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker  · 14 Sep 2010  · 602pp  · 120,848 words

The Edifice Complex: How the Rich and Powerful--And Their Architects--Shape the World

by Deyan Sudjic  · 27 Nov 2006  · 441pp  · 135,176 words

Badvertising

by Andrew Simms  · 314pp  · 81,529 words

How to Own the World: A Plain English Guide to Thinking Globally and Investing Wisely

by Andrew Craig  · 6 Sep 2015  · 305pp  · 98,072 words

The Secret World of Oil

by Ken Silverstein  · 30 Apr 2014  · 233pp  · 73,772 words

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

by Warren E. Buffett and Lawrence A. Cunningham  · 2 Jan 1997  · 219pp  · 15,438 words

Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity

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

Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

by David G. Blanchflower  · 12 Apr 2021  · 566pp  · 160,453 words

Owning the Sun

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

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

by Morgan Housel  · 7 Nov 2023  · 210pp  · 53,743 words

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

by Adam Higginbotham  · 14 May 2024  · 523pp  · 204,889 words

Globalists

by Quinn Slobodian  · 16 Mar 2018  · 451pp  · 142,662 words

The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It

by Timothy Noah  · 23 Apr 2012  · 309pp  · 91,581 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

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

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

The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds

by Maneet Ahuja, Myron Scholes and Mohamed El-Erian  · 29 May 2012  · 302pp  · 86,614 words

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

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

Money Free and Unfree

by George A. Selgin  · 14 Jun 2017  · 454pp  · 134,482 words

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order

by Parag Khanna  · 4 Mar 2008  · 537pp  · 158,544 words

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

by Francis Fukuyama  · 1 Jan 2006

Some Remarks

by Neal Stephenson  · 6 Aug 2012  · 335pp  · 107,779 words

When the Money Runs Out: The End of Western Affluence

by Stephen D. King  · 17 Jun 2013  · 324pp  · 90,253 words

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson  · 28 Sep 2001

Principles: Life and Work

by Ray Dalio  · 18 Sep 2017  · 516pp  · 157,437 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

Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy

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

Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer

by Duncan J. Watts  · 28 Mar 2011  · 327pp  · 103,336 words

Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History

by Milton Friedman  · 1 Jan 1992  · 275pp  · 82,640 words

Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990

by Kristina Spohr and David Reynolds  · 24 Aug 2016  · 627pp  · 127,613 words

Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy

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

Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal  · 20 Jan 2011  · 470pp  · 128,328 words

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

by Marc Levinson  · 1 Jan 2006  · 477pp  · 135,607 words

Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

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

The Locavore's Dilemma

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

Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns

by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton  · 3 Feb 2002  · 353pp  · 148,895 words

Panderer to Power

by Frederick Sheehan  · 21 Oct 2009  · 435pp  · 127,403 words

A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation

by Richard Bookstaber  · 5 Apr 2007  · 289pp  · 113,211 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

Red Plenty

by Francis Spufford  · 1 Jan 2007  · 544pp  · 168,076 words

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

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

The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times

by Giovanni Arrighi  · 15 Mar 2010  · 7,371pp  · 186,208 words

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

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

Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda

by John Mueller  · 1 Nov 2009  · 465pp  · 124,074 words

Free to Choose: A Personal Statement

by Milton Friedman and Rose D. Friedman  · 2 Jan 1980  · 376pp  · 118,542 words

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

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

The Oil Factor: Protect Yourself-and Profit-from the Coming Energy Crisis

by Stephen Leeb and Donna Leeb  · 12 Feb 2004  · 222pp  · 70,559 words

The Oil Age Is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050

by Matt Savinar  · 2 Jan 2004  · 127pp  · 51,083 words

Living in a Material World: The Commodity Connection

by Kevin Morrison  · 15 Jul 2008  · 311pp  · 17,232 words

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

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

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

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

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

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

The Art of Corporate Success: The Story of Schlumberger

by Ken Auletta  · 28 Sep 2015  · 161pp  · 52,058 words

Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

by Matthew C. Klein  · 18 May 2020  · 339pp  · 95,270 words

Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming

by Mckenzie Funk  · 22 Jan 2014  · 337pp  · 101,281 words

How the World Ran Out of Everything

by Peter S. Goodman  · 11 Jun 2024  · 528pp  · 127,605 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

Water: A Biography

by Giulio Boccaletti  · 13 Sep 2021  · 485pp  · 133,655 words

Energy: A Human History

by Richard Rhodes  · 28 May 2018  · 653pp  · 155,847 words

The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

by James Howard Kunstler  · 31 May 1993

Player One

by Douglas Coupland  · 30 Jun 2011

Winds of Change

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

Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms

by Russell Napier  · 18 Jan 2016  · 358pp  · 119,272 words

Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources

by Geoff Hiscock  · 23 Apr 2012  · 363pp  · 101,082 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 Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy

by Peter Temin  · 17 Mar 2017  · 273pp  · 87,159 words

Global Governance and Financial Crises

by Meghnad Desai and Yahia Said  · 12 Nov 2003

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles

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

The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone

by Brian Merchant  · 19 Jun 2017  · 416pp  · 129,308 words

The Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham

by Joe Carlen  · 14 Apr 2012  · 398pp  · 111,333 words

EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts

by Ashoka Mody  · 7 May 2018

A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression

by Richard A. Posner  · 30 Apr 2009  · 305pp  · 69,216 words

Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment

by Lucas Chancel  · 15 Jan 2020  · 191pp  · 51,242 words

Hedge Fund Market Wizards

by Jack D. Schwager  · 24 Apr 2012  · 272pp  · 19,172 words

It's Our Turn to Eat

by Michela Wrong  · 9 Apr 2009  · 403pp  · 125,659 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

Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists

by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus  · 10 Mar 2009  · 454pp  · 107,163 words

Born in Flames

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

Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

by Paul Krugman  · 28 Jan 2020  · 446pp  · 117,660 words

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

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

Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies

by Judith Stein  · 30 Apr 2010  · 497pp  · 143,175 words

The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

by David S. Landes  · 14 Sep 1999  · 1,060pp  · 265,296 words

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization

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

The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

by Russell Gold  · 7 Apr 2014  · 423pp  · 118,002 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

Business Lessons From a Radical Industrialist

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

Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

by Dani Rodrik  · 12 Oct 2015  · 226pp  · 59,080 words

Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in a Global Market

by Steven Drobny  · 31 Mar 2006  · 385pp  · 128,358 words

Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and Its Effect on Our Lives

by Catherine Lutz and Anne Lutz Fernandez  · 5 Jan 2010  · 269pp  · 104,430 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

Rethinking Islamism: The Ideology of the New Terror

by Meghnad Desai  · 25 Apr 2008

The New Economics: A Bigger Picture

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

Rogue States

by Noam Chomsky  · 9 Jul 2015

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

Drowning in Oil: BP & the Reckless Pursuit of Profit

by Loren C. Steffy  · 5 Nov 2010  · 305pp  · 79,356 words

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt  · 3 Sep 2007  · 801pp  · 229,742 words

Other People's Money: Masters of the Universe or Servants of the People?

by John Kay  · 2 Sep 2015  · 478pp  · 126,416 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 Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All

by Martin Sandbu  · 15 Jun 2020  · 322pp  · 84,580 words

Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?

by Brett Christophers  · 17 Nov 2020  · 614pp  · 168,545 words

A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next

by Tom Standage  · 16 Aug 2021  · 290pp  · 85,847 words

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

by Arlie Russell Hochschild  · 5 Sep 2016  · 435pp  · 120,574 words

Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

by Michel Aglietta  · 23 Oct 2018  · 665pp  · 146,542 words

The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

by Jake Bittle  · 21 Feb 2023  · 296pp  · 118,126 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

The Post-American World: Release 2.0

by Fareed Zakaria  · 1 Jan 2008  · 344pp  · 93,858 words

Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom

by Doug Henwood  · 30 Aug 1998  · 586pp  · 159,901 words

Hard Landing

by Thomas Petzinger and Thomas Petzinger Jr.  · 1 Jan 1995  · 726pp  · 210,048 words

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

by George Packer  · 4 Mar 2014  · 559pp  · 169,094 words

A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption

by Steven Hiatt; John Perkins  · 1 Jan 2006  · 497pp  · 123,718 words

The Plundered Planet: Why We Must--And How We Can--Manage Nature for Global Prosperity

by Paul Collier  · 10 May 2010  · 288pp  · 76,343 words

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