profit maximization
description: process to determine the highest profits for a firm
296 results
Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing
by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd and Laurie Macfarlane · 28 Feb 2017 · 346pp · 90,371 words
.11 Holding other factors equal, as Clark suggests above, an additional unit of capital, land or labour will provide proportionately less profit. In each case, profit maximisation will occur where the marginal cost of the factor equals its marginal return (or ‘marginal revenue product’, to use the economics jargon) (Sloman and Wride
Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
by Diane Coyle · 11 Oct 2021 · 305pp · 75,697 words
2020). Earlier, I argued that to become more realistic or evidence-based, economics would have to incorporate other motivations apart from utility- or income- or profit-maximisation. Taking identity and social norms into account would perhaps have changed the advice economists gave about performance-related pay or contracting out in the public
What's Wrong With Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed
by Robert Skidelsky · 3 Mar 2020 · 290pp · 76,216 words
-old relationships for the sake of profit’.9 Schumpeter, like Marx, understood that technological progress is endogenous: it is impelled by the logic of competitive, profit-maximising capitalism. Cyclical theories are a long-run type of equilibrium theory. The capitalist economy experiences waves of innovation, each one of which eventually exhausts itself
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
: an economy requiring limitless growth, and a society that, in his words: ‘secures its collective reproduction as an unintended side-effect of individually rational, competitive profit maximization’ that puts its productive capital into the hands of a minority, thereby largely abdicating political responsibility for human welfare. In Streeck’s view, capitalism probably
Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation
by Grace Blakeley · 9 Sep 2019 · 263pp · 80,594 words
mean an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production (the main factors used in the production process) with the aim of profit maximisation, the enforcement of private property rights by the state, and the allocation of resources through the market mechanism. The system may create inequality, unemployment, frequent
On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways
by Christian Wolmar · 29 May 2005
in 2006/7 as in 1995/6, with a bit of extra expenditure during the intervening years. In the absence of any other guiding purpose, profit maximisation became the holy grail. Gerald Corbett, who replaced Edmonds as chief executive in the autumn of 1997, was swept up by that agenda. Corbett was
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
by Jason Hickel · 3 May 2017 · 332pp · 106,197 words
the TTIP, for instance, is not to reduce trade tariffs, as these are already at minimal levels, but rather to reduce any ‘barriers’ to corporate profit maximisation: labour laws, digital privacy laws, environmental protections, food safety standards and financial regulations. The TTIP could make it illegal for governments to stop commercial banks
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words
tasks to a plant in another country) and inshore (shift between plants within a country), and to switch between outsourcing and insourcing whenever advantageous. A profit-maximising manager or an engineer might see this switchability as desirable. But consider the implications for the workers subject to it. Most never had control over
Them And Us: Politics, Greed And Inequality - Why We Need A Fair Society
by Will Hutton · 30 Sep 2010 · 543pp · 147,357 words
2007, ‘as long as the music is playing you have to get up and dance’. To the bankers, Ponzi finance had become a wholly rational profit-maximising strategy and it could not be resisted. The situation was exacerbated by central bankers – in particular Alan Greenspan – insisting that it was very hard to
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
by Dieter Helm · 2 Sep 2020 · 304pp · 90,084 words
elegant theory of markets. It turns out to be an argument by assumption. Assume that there is a perfect set of property rights, perfect information, profit-maximising firms and utility-maximising individuals, no monopolies and no market power. Assume all this and the market will arrive at a perfectly competitive equilibrium allocation
Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
by Michael Jacobs and Mariana Mazzucato · 31 Jul 2016 · 370pp · 102,823 words
Public Places, Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design
by Matthew Carmona, Tim Heath, Steve Tiesdell and Taner Oc · 15 Feb 2010 · 1,233pp · 239,800 words
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2014 · 464pp · 116,945 words
Modernising Money: Why Our Monetary System Is Broken and How It Can Be Fixed
by Andrew Jackson (economist) and Ben Dyson (economist) · 15 Nov 2012 · 363pp · 107,817 words
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
by Brett Chistophers · 25 Apr 2023 · 404pp · 106,233 words
The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)
by Maximilian Kasy · 15 Jan 2025 · 209pp · 63,332 words
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
by Dieter Helm · 7 Mar 2019 · 348pp · 102,438 words
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
by Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan · 8 Aug 2020 · 438pp · 84,256 words
Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres
by Jamie Woodcock · 20 Nov 2016
Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence
by Jacob Turner · 29 Oct 2018 · 688pp · 147,571 words
Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy
by Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake · 4 Apr 2022 · 338pp · 85,566 words
Prosperity Without Growth: Foundations for the Economy of Tomorrow
by Tim Jackson · 8 Dec 2016 · 573pp · 115,489 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
Vassal State
by Angus Hanton · 25 Mar 2024 · 277pp · 81,718 words
Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture
by Justin McGuirk · 15 Feb 2014 · 246pp · 76,561 words
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
by Rory Sutherland · 6 May 2019 · 401pp · 93,256 words
Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets
by John Plender · 27 Jul 2015 · 355pp · 92,571 words
The Fair Trade Scandal: Marketing Poverty to Benefit the Rich
by Ndongo Sylla · 21 Jan 2014 · 193pp · 63,618 words
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
by Paul Kingsnorth · 23 Sep 2025 · 388pp · 110,920 words
Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy
by Pistono, Federico · 14 Oct 2012 · 245pp · 64,288 words
The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything
by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran · 14 Jul 2021 · 326pp · 91,532 words
Down the Tube: The Battle for London's Underground
by Christian Wolmar · 1 Jan 2002 · 723pp · 98,951 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
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
Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew Up the British Economy
by Iain Martin · 11 Sep 2013 · 387pp · 119,244 words
The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism
by Grace Blakeley · 14 Oct 2020 · 82pp · 24,150 words
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man
by Jonathan Conlin · 3 Jan 2019 · 604pp · 165,488 words
Home: Why Public Housing Is the Answer
by Eoin Ó Broin · 5 May 2019 · 301pp · 77,626 words
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich · 7 Sep 2020 · 796pp · 223,275 words
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by Joseph Henrich · 27 Oct 2015 · 631pp · 177,227 words
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
by Stuart Russell · 7 Oct 2019 · 416pp · 112,268 words
Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think
by Alan Grafen; Mark Ridley · 1 Jan 2006 · 286pp · 90,530 words
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 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
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
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · 7 Apr 2008 · 304pp · 22,886 words
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
by Rod Hill and Anthony Myatt · 15 Mar 2010
A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide
by Ha-Joon Chang · 26 May 2014 · 385pp · 111,807 words
Value of Everything: An Antidote to Chaos The
by Mariana Mazzucato · 25 Apr 2018 · 457pp · 125,329 words
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
by Raghuram Rajan · 26 Feb 2019 · 596pp · 163,682 words
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
by Jesse Norman · 30 Jun 2018
Virtual Competition
by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke · 30 Nov 2016
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
by William Davies · 11 May 2015 · 317pp · 87,566 words
The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory
by Kariappa Bheemaiah · 26 Feb 2017 · 492pp · 118,882 words
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by Andrew W. Lo · 3 Apr 2017 · 733pp · 179,391 words
Let them eat junk: how capitalism creates hunger and obesity
by Robert Albritton · 31 Mar 2009 · 273pp · 93,419 words
Trust: The Social Virtue and the Creation of Prosperity
by Francis Fukuyama · 1 Jan 1995 · 585pp · 165,304 words
Principles of Corporate Finance
by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen · 15 Feb 2014
Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words
Willful: How We Choose What We Do
by Richard Robb · 12 Nov 2019 · 202pp · 58,823 words
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
by John Brockman · 19 Feb 2019 · 339pp · 94,769 words
Licence to be Bad
by Jonathan Aldred · 5 Jun 2019 · 453pp · 111,010 words
Spite: The Upside of Your Dark Side
by Simon McCarthy-Jones · 12 Apr 2021
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words
The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
by Nick Romeo · 15 Jan 2024 · 343pp · 103,376 words
Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey Toward Equity
by Claudia Goldin · 11 Oct 2021 · 445pp · 122,877 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
How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite
by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter · 30 Jun 2007
Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World
by James D. Miller · 14 Jun 2012 · 377pp · 97,144 words
Mastering Private Equity
by Zeisberger, Claudia,Prahl, Michael,White, Bowen, Michael Prahl and Bowen White · 15 Jun 2017
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson · 27 Apr 2020 · 330pp · 99,044 words
Money Free and Unfree
by George A. Selgin · 14 Jun 2017 · 454pp · 134,482 words
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee · 14 Sep 2018 · 307pp · 88,180 words
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by Adam Winkler · 27 Feb 2018 · 581pp · 162,518 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
Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State
by Paul Tucker · 21 Apr 2018 · 920pp · 233,102 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
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by Steve Keen · 21 Sep 2011 · 823pp · 220,581 words
Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide
by Martin S. Fridson and Fernando Alvarez · 31 May 2011
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler · 10 May 2015 · 500pp · 145,005 words
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles · 30 May 2022 · 318pp · 91,957 words
Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics
by Robert Skidelsky · 13 Nov 2018
Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life
by Alan B. Krueger · 3 Jun 2019
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World
by Max Fisher · 5 Sep 2022 · 439pp · 131,081 words
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
by John Abramson · 15 Dec 2022 · 362pp · 97,473 words
23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang · 1 Jan 2010 · 365pp · 88,125 words
Alternatives to Capitalism
by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright · 167pp · 50,652 words
Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
by Peter L. Bernstein · 19 Jun 2005 · 425pp · 122,223 words
Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
by Scott Davis, Carter Copeland and Rob Wertheimer · 13 Jul 2020 · 372pp · 101,678 words
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles Wheelan · 18 Apr 2010 · 386pp · 122,595 words
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
by Bryan Caplan · 16 Jan 2018 · 636pp · 140,406 words
The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
by Lawrence Lessig · 14 Jul 2001 · 494pp · 142,285 words
The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg · 3 Feb 1997 · 582pp · 160,693 words
Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
by Peter Barnes · 29 Sep 2006 · 207pp · 52,716 words
Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History
by Stephen D. King · 22 May 2017 · 354pp · 92,470 words
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb · 16 Apr 2018 · 345pp · 75,660 words
Philanthrocapitalism
by Matthew Bishop, Michael Green and Bill Clinton · 29 Sep 2008 · 401pp · 115,959 words
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink · 1 Jan 2008 · 204pp · 54,395 words
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by James C. Scott · 8 Feb 1999 · 607pp · 185,487 words
Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson · 23 Oct 2011 · 915pp · 232,883 words
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine · 6 Jul 2008 · 607pp · 133,452 words
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
by Elinor Ostrom · 29 Nov 1990
The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities
by Mancur Olson
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It
by Ian Goldin and Mike Mariathasan · 15 Mar 2014 · 414pp · 101,285 words
Finance and the Good Society
by Robert J. Shiller · 1 Jan 2012 · 288pp · 16,556 words
The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism
by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias · 19 Aug 2019 · 458pp · 116,832 words
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest
by Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster · 16 Aug 2021 · 542pp · 145,022 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
Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
by Ben Tarnoff · 13 Jun 2022 · 234pp · 67,589 words
Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy
by Diane Coyle · 14 Jan 2020 · 384pp · 108,414 words
Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
by J. Doyne Farmer · 24 Apr 2024 · 406pp · 114,438 words
The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
by Michael Huemer · 29 Oct 2012 · 577pp · 149,554 words
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by Simon Johnson and James Kwak · 29 Mar 2010 · 430pp · 109,064 words
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson · 15 May 2023 · 619pp · 177,548 words
The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be
by Moises Naim · 5 Mar 2013 · 474pp · 120,801 words
The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure: Why Pure Capitalism Is the World Economy's Only Hope
by John A. Allison · 20 Sep 2012 · 348pp · 99,383 words
Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Louis Hyman · 3 Jan 2011
Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
by Doug Henwood · 30 Aug 1998 · 586pp · 159,901 words
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by Paul Roberts · 1 Sep 2014 · 324pp · 92,805 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
Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis
by Anatole Kaletsky · 22 Jun 2010 · 484pp · 136,735 words
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
by Vito Tanzi · 28 Dec 2017
Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice
by Molly Scott Cato · 16 Dec 2008
Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together
by Bruce Schneier · 14 Feb 2012 · 503pp · 131,064 words
Advances in Financial Machine Learning
by Marcos Lopez de Prado · 2 Feb 2018 · 571pp · 105,054 words
Making Globalization Work
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 16 Sep 2006
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
The Sum of Small Things: A Theory of the Aspirational Class
by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett · 14 May 2017 · 550pp · 89,316 words
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 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 Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life
by Steven E. Landsburg · 1 May 2012
Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
by Deirdre N. McCloskey · 15 Nov 2011 · 1,205pp · 308,891 words
Ours to Hack and to Own: The Rise of Platform Cooperativism, a New Vision for the Future of Work and a Fairer Internet
by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider · 14 Aug 2017 · 237pp · 67,154 words
The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Times
by Giovanni Arrighi · 15 Mar 2010 · 7,371pp · 186,208 words
Statistical Arbitrage: Algorithmic Trading Insights and Techniques
by Andrew Pole · 14 Sep 2007 · 257pp · 13,443 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
Confronting Capitalism: How the World Works and How to Change It
by Vivek Chibber · 30 Aug 2022 · 128pp · 41,187 words
Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
by Tyler Cowen · 8 Apr 2019 · 297pp · 84,009 words
Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business
by Alan Murray · 15 Dec 2022 · 263pp · 77,786 words
Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
by Jeff Gramm · 23 Feb 2016 · 384pp · 103,658 words
The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It
by Jonathan Zittrain · 27 May 2009 · 629pp · 142,393 words
Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
by David S. Evans and Richard Schmalensee · 23 May 2016 · 383pp · 81,118 words
Rage Inside the Machine: The Prejudice of Algorithms, and How to Stop the Internet Making Bigots of Us All
by Robert Elliott Smith · 26 Jun 2019 · 370pp · 107,983 words
Extreme Money: Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk
by Satyajit Das · 14 Oct 2011 · 741pp · 179,454 words
Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better
by Rob Reich · 20 Nov 2018 · 257pp · 75,685 words
China into Africa: trade, aid, and influence
by Robert I. Rotberg · 15 Nov 2008 · 651pp · 135,818 words
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet
by Jeffrey Sachs · 1 Jan 2008 · 421pp · 125,417 words
Unfinished Business
by Tamim Bayoumi · 405pp · 109,114 words
Bandit Algorithms for Website Optimization
by John Myles White · 10 Dec 2012 · 94pp · 22,435 words
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities
by John Cassidy · 10 Nov 2009 · 545pp · 137,789 words
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki · 1 Jan 2004 · 326pp · 106,053 words
A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent Into Depression
by Richard A. Posner · 30 Apr 2009 · 305pp · 69,216 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
Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment
by David F. Swensen · 8 Aug 2005 · 490pp · 117,629 words
Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
by Vivek Ramaswamy · 16 Aug 2021 · 344pp · 104,522 words
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less
by Richard Koch · 15 Dec 1999 · 296pp · 78,227 words
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
by Brett Christophers · 17 Nov 2020 · 614pp · 168,545 words
People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 22 Apr 2019 · 462pp · 129,022 words
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
by Frank Vogl · 14 Jul 2021 · 265pp · 80,510 words
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
The Enlightened Capitalists
by James O'Toole · 29 Dec 2018 · 716pp · 192,143 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 Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
by Brett Christophers · 12 Mar 2024 · 557pp · 154,324 words
Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World's Tallest Skyscrapers
by Jason M. Barr · 13 May 2024 · 292pp · 107,998 words
Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
by Nicholas Lemann · 9 Sep 2019 · 354pp · 118,970 words
How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present
by Thomas J. Dilorenzo · 9 Aug 2004 · 283pp · 81,163 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
The Problem With Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics, and Postwork Imaginaries
by Kathi Weeks · 8 Sep 2011 · 350pp · 110,764 words
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
by Dani Rodrik · 23 Dec 2010 · 356pp · 103,944 words
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism
by Joyce Appleby · 22 Dec 2009 · 540pp · 168,921 words
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett · 1 Jan 2009 · 309pp · 86,909 words
Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
by Peter Fleming · 14 Jun 2015 · 320pp · 86,372 words
Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine
by John Abramson · 20 Sep 2004 · 436pp · 123,488 words
The Rise of the Network Society
by Manuel Castells · 31 Aug 1996 · 843pp · 223,858 words
Masters of Mankind
by Noam Chomsky · 1 Sep 2014
Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises
by Timothy F. Geithner · 11 May 2014 · 593pp · 189,857 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 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
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
by Steve Coll · 30 Apr 2012 · 944pp · 243,883 words
Fully Grown: Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
by Dietrich Vollrath · 6 Jan 2020 · 295pp · 90,821 words
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 5 Oct 2015 · 424pp · 121,425 words
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab · 7 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
by Jason Sharman · 5 Feb 2019 · 265pp · 71,143 words
Subscribed: Why the Subscription Model Will Be Your Company's Future - and What to Do About It
by Tien Tzuo and Gabe Weisert · 4 Jun 2018 · 244pp · 66,977 words
Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
by Joe Karaganis · 3 May 2018 · 334pp · 123,463 words
The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation
by Carl Benedikt Frey · 17 Jun 2019 · 626pp · 167,836 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
This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 10 Jun 2012 · 580pp · 168,476 words
Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation
by Elandria Williams, Eli Feghali, Rachel Plattus and Nathan Schneider · 15 Dec 2024 · 346pp · 84,111 words
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by William N. Goetzmann · 11 Apr 2016 · 695pp · 194,693 words
After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away
by Doug Henwood · 9 May 2005 · 306pp · 78,893 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
Civilization: The West and the Rest
by Niall Ferguson · 28 Feb 2011 · 790pp · 150,875 words
India's Long Road
by Vijay Joshi · 21 Feb 2017
The Inequality Puzzle: European and US Leaders Discuss Rising Income Inequality
by Roland Berger, David Grusky, Tobias Raffel, Geoffrey Samuels and Chris Wimer · 29 Oct 2010 · 237pp · 72,716 words
After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
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