profit motive
description: the intent to achieve monetary gain in a project, transaction, or material endeavor
469 results
Machine: A White Space Novel
by Elizabeth Bear · 5 Oct 2020 · 537pp · 146,610 words
to maximize their own well-being. People fortunately regulated by electrochemical intervention, so they weren’t complete sociopathic assholes driven by absolutely nothing but the profit motive. I felt my exo—my real exo, not this alien that somehow thought it was my exo—reaching to tune my GABA up and lower
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
by Liz Pelly · 7 Jan 2025 · 293pp · 104,461 words
solved by more venture capital. There needs to be a political counterweight, but music needs alternatives, too. Rethinking the future of music also requires rethinking profit motives and power structures, and challenging a system where a small handful of entertainment and technology firms own so much of music. It requires investigating alternative
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
by John Green · 18 Mar 2025 · 158pp · 49,742 words
as economic incentives have shifted, we’ve been able to develop powerful new medications to treat TB, including bedaquiline and delamanid. But there is limited profit motive.[*2] The underinvestment in new classes of drugs to fight bacterial illnesses is the central cause of growing antibiotic resistance.[*3] It’s easy to
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me: Marco. Marco. Marco. Skip Notes *1 Drug-Resistant TB, MultiDrug-Resistant TB, and eXtensively Drug-Resistant TB, respectively. *2 Then again, there is limited profit motive in a lot of things we do reasonably well—from space travel to Wikipedia editing. *3 I am living evidence of the benefit of developing
Policing the Open Road
by Sarah A. Seo
(and are) necessary to sand off the hard edges of modern state power so it can win acceptance by the population.” Nicholas Parrillo, Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780–1940 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 4, 39–40, 278, 282. 47. Neal Dow Becker, Road
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
by Michael Dobbs · 3 Sep 2008 · 631pp · 171,391 words
lamented comrade Stalin," to exterminate such "capitalist octopuses" if he ever got the chance. In Che's ideal world, there was no place for the profit motive or any kind of monetary relations in the economy. Che's saving grace was his restless idealism. Of all the Cuban leaders, it was he
The Creative Curve: How to Develop the Right Idea, at the Right Time
by Allen Gannett · 11 Jun 2018 · 247pp · 69,593 words
of talented people competing and collaborating, combining and recombining, forming and reforming with one another. Out of that very Darwinian process, out of that Darwinian profit motive, you begin to get great successes.” For these spillovers to happen, face-to-face relationships are also critical. It’s not enough for people to
Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher · 1 Jul 2009
the most important part of any survey: why should the person want to participate at all? For this type of research survey, there is no profit motive to participate, unlike online forums such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, in which users complete tasks in their spare time for a few dollars or
Fallen Astronauts: Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
by Colin Burgess and Kate Doolan · 14 Apr 2003 · 521pp · 125,749 words
. It is the product of a group of people with enough self-reliance and confidence to undertake a tremendous task without government aid and without profit motive, only for the good of the community. One of these people I'm speaking of is Betty Ulrich, the librarian. Ted Freeman accepted his challenge
Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters With Reality and Virtual Reality
by Jaron Lanier · 21 Nov 2017 · 480pp · 123,979 words
wax rhapsodic about it in my lectures. The first time in history that millions of people had cooperated to do something not because of coercion, profit motive, or any influence other than the sense that the project was worthy. Well, actually in retrospect, there was and remains an excess of vanity as
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil
by M Scott Peck · 1 Jan 1983 · 329pp · 103,159 words
a matter of my prerogative. I must be responsive to the stockholders, you know. On their account I cannot help but be directed by the profit motive.” Who is it, then, that determines the corporation’s behavior? The small investor who does not even begin to understand the operations involved? The mutual
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a large role in Vietnam, and continues to be a primary creator of the grotesqueness of the arms race, is submitted to nothing but the profit motive. This is no submission at all. It is pure self-interest. I am not an enemy of capitalism per se. I believe it is possible
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for the profit motive to be operative and at the same time submitted to higher values of truth and love. Difficult, but possible. If we cannot somehow engineer this
The Virtue of Nationalism
by Yoram Hazony · 3 Sep 2018 · 333pp · 86,628 words
Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story
by Rachel Clarke · 14 Sep 2017 · 255pp · 80,190 words
The Strange Order of Things: The Biological Roots of Culture
by Antonio Damasio · 6 Feb 2018 · 289pp · 87,292 words
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van Der Kolk M. D. · 7 Sep 2015 · 600pp · 174,620 words
Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy
by Jennifer Carlson · 2 May 2023 · 279pp · 100,877 words
The Jasons: The Secret History of Science's Postwar Elite
by Ann Finkbeiner · 26 Mar 2007
Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War
by Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff · 8 Jul 2024 · 272pp · 103,638 words
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter
by Steven Johnson · 5 Apr 2006 · 250pp · 9,029 words
Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent
by Robert F. Barsky · 2 Feb 1997
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky · 28 Feb 2008 · 313pp · 95,077 words
To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death
by Mark O'Connell · 28 Feb 2017 · 252pp · 79,452 words
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler · 14 May 2006 · 678pp · 216,204 words
What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way
by Nick Cohen · 15 Jul 2015 · 414pp · 121,243 words
The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social
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Free as in Freedom
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Thinking Without a Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
by Hannah Arendt · 6 Mar 2018 · 653pp · 218,559 words
The Future of Fusion Energy
by Jason Parisi and Justin Ball · 18 Dec 2018 · 404pp · 107,356 words
The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance
by Jim Whitehurst · 1 Jun 2015 · 247pp · 63,208 words
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand · 1 Jan 1943 · 1,108pp · 321,463 words
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
by Steven Pinker · 1 Jan 2002 · 901pp · 234,905 words
Nobody's Perfect: Writings From the New Yorker
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The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
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The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Work
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The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
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The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
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Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
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The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
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by Bradley K. Martin · 14 Oct 2004 · 1,509pp · 416,377 words
Ayn Rand and the World She Made
by Anne C. Heller · 27 Oct 2009 · 756pp · 228,797 words
A History of Zionism
by Walter Laqueur · 1 Jan 1972 · 965pp · 267,053 words
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Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI
by John Brockman · 19 Feb 2019 · 339pp · 94,769 words
The Evolution of God
by Robert Wright · 8 Jun 2009
Co-Intelligence: Living and Working With AI
by Ethan Mollick · 2 Apr 2024 · 189pp · 58,076 words
Collaborative Society
by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska · 18 Feb 2020 · 187pp · 50,083 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
Health and Safety: A Breakdown
by Emily Witt · 16 Sep 2024 · 242pp · 85,783 words
Underground
by Suelette Dreyfus · 1 Jan 2011 · 547pp · 160,071 words
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen · 13 Sep 2021
Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
by Jennifer Burns · 18 Oct 2009 · 495pp · 144,101 words
The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey
by Emmanuel Goldstein · 28 Jul 2008 · 889pp · 433,897 words
The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion
by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown · 12 Apr 2010 · 319pp · 89,477 words
Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
by Larry Harris · 2 Jan 2003 · 1,164pp · 309,327 words
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
by Charles Eisenstein · 11 Jul 2011 · 448pp · 142,946 words
Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
by Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez and Monique Tilford · 31 Aug 1992 · 426pp · 115,150 words
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
by Daniel J. Levitin · 18 Aug 2014 · 685pp · 203,949 words
Women Leaders at Work: Untold Tales of Women Achieving Their Ambitions
by Elizabeth Ghaffari · 5 Dec 2011 · 493pp · 139,845 words
When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
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Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
by Peter Marshall · 2 Jan 1992 · 1,327pp · 360,897 words
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
by Daniel H. Pink · 1 Jan 2008 · 204pp · 54,395 words
The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
by Arlie Russell Hochschild · 1 Nov 1983
The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
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The Refusal of Work: The Theory and Practice of Resistance to Work
by David Frayne · 15 Nov 2015 · 336pp · 83,903 words
Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs
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In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays
by Bertrand Russell · 1 Jan 1935 · 12pp · 5,028 words
It's Our Turn to Eat
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by Tim Jackson · 8 Dec 2016 · 573pp · 115,489 words
The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
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The Hacker and the State: Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
by Ben Buchanan · 25 Feb 2020 · 443pp · 116,832 words
Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth
by Stuart Ritchie · 20 Jul 2020
Licence to be Bad
by Jonathan Aldred · 5 Jun 2019 · 453pp · 111,010 words
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
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Free Money for All: A Basic Income Guarantee Solution for the Twenty-First Century
by Mark Walker · 29 Nov 2015
Howard Rheingold
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Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits
by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words
How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life
by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky · 18 Jun 2012 · 279pp · 87,910 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
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
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If Then: How Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
by Jill Lepore · 14 Sep 2020 · 467pp · 149,632 words
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition (Princeton Classic Editions)
by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern · 19 Mar 2007
The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
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The Meritocracy Myth
by Stephen J. McNamee · 17 Jul 2013 · 440pp · 108,137 words
Capitalism: the unknown ideal
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Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together
by Bruce Schneier · 14 Feb 2012 · 503pp · 131,064 words
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by Edward Luce · 23 Aug 2006 · 403pp · 132,736 words
The-General-Theory-of-Employment-Interest-and-Money
by John Maynard Keynes · 13 Jul 2018
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by Peter Warren Singer · 1 Jan 2003 · 482pp · 161,169 words
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
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Virus of the Mind
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by C. K. Prahalad · 15 Jan 2005 · 423pp · 149,033 words
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by J. K. Lasser · 5 Oct 2013 · 1,845pp · 567,850 words
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
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Ellul, Jacques-The Technological Society-Vintage Books (1964)
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