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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

911 call from a neighbor who found an out-of-sorts Downey asleep in her eleven-year-old child’s bed. Amid his self-inflicted race to the bottom, Downey couldn’t make movies because the costs involved were too steep. Movies are expensive to make and difficult to finance even for the top

Money: 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

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

. But this is not enough, for it is also necessary to speculate on what others think each person is thinking. The result is an infinite race to the bottom. No equilibrium price can come about through this infinite game of mirrors that reflect one another to infinity. The most effective way to break open

Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things

by Alasdair Gilchrist  · 27 Jun 2016

to match or do better. Worse, if the price was the differentiator, the competitor could lower their prices, which results in what is termed a race to the bottom. Selling Light, Not Light Bulbs What the customer ultimately wants the goods for is to provide a service (provide air transportation in the previous example

Dirty Secrets How Tax Havens Destroy the Economy

by Richard Murphy  · 14 Sep 2017  · 241pp  · 63,981 words

abuse initiatives, like the OECD’s, are going to deliver when the same governments that promoted them are also major participants in the corporation tax race to the bottom. The benefits that tax havens have supplied to the world’s major corporations seem set to continue for the time being, unless some radical changes

independent participants in the process. They all lobby to promote their clients’ needs, and in the process are active participants in the regulatory and economic race to the bottom that tax havens facilitate. As a result, it is almost impossible to see tax havens and these large accountancy firms as independent of one another

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

Congress. The whole origination market relaxed its standards to compete with Freddie and Fannie. Driven by Freddie and Fannie, the private originators created a competitive race to the bottom as the bubble continued (funded by the Federal Reserve) and it appeared that no matter how low the standards, home loans would not default. Of

How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities

by John Cassidy  · 10 Nov 2009  · 545pp  · 137,789 words

transactions and the high potential fees earned by the winning agency. Originators of structured securities typically chose the agency with the lowest standards, engendering a race to the bottom in terms of rating quality. While the methods used to rate structured securities have rightly come under fire, in my opinion, the business model prevented

The Age of AI: And Our Human Future

by Henry A Kissinger, Eric Schmidt and Daniel Huttenlocher  · 2 Nov 2021  · 194pp  · 57,434 words

be made by humans alone. In some cases, it will be dictated by AI itself; in others, by auxiliary forces. Humanity may engage in a race to the bottom. As AI automates processes, permits humans to probe vast bodies of data, and organizes and reorganizes the physical and social worlds, advantages may go to

The Joy of Tax

by Richard Murphy  · 30 Sep 2015  · 233pp  · 71,775 words

to tax might be persuaded to use it to promote a form of competition that is, at the very least, unhealthy and even counterproductive. A race to the bottom in tax that can (and may be intended to) deny government the right to withdraw revenues from the economy, can mean that the scale of

The Currency Cold War: Cash and Cryptography, Hash Rates and Hegemony

by David G. W. Birch  · 14 Apr 2020  · 247pp  · 60,543 words

out of foreign currencies with every quarter-point cut or hike in US interest rates. This fosters exchange rate mismatches that fuel risks of a race-to-the-bottom currency war akin to that of the 1930s. In the age of Donald Trump, these tensions have grown more acute as the United States has

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy

by Francis Fukuyama  · 20 Mar 2007  · 214pp  · 57,614 words

effort to promote reform but as an American attempt to impose its American Exceptionalism own antistatist values on the rest of the world in a "race to the bottom." Much of the drive to Americanize the global economy came out of the private sector and the challenge posed by newly competitive U.S. companies

A Swamp Full of Dollars: Pipelines and Paramilitaries at Nigeria's Oil Frontier

by Michael Peel  · 1 Jan 2009  · 241pp  · 83,523 words

The Fourth Industrial Revolution

by Klaus Schwab  · 11 Jan 2016  · 179pp  · 43,441 words

Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How

by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang  · 10 Mar 2020  · 257pp  · 76,785 words

Alternatives to Capitalism

by Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright  · 167pp  · 50,652 words

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism

by Richard D. Wolff  · 1 Oct 2012  · 165pp  · 48,594 words

You Are What You Read

by Jodie Jackson  · 3 Apr 2019  · 145pp  · 41,453 words

Lectures on Urban Economics

by Jan K. Brueckner  · 14 May 2011

Shortchanged: Life and Debt in the Fringe Economy

by Howard Karger  · 9 Sep 2005  · 299pp  · 83,854 words

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?

by Ian Bremmer  · 12 May 2010  · 247pp  · 68,918 words

Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation

by Grace Blakeley  · 9 Sep 2019  · 263pp  · 80,594 words

Effective Programming: More Than Writing Code

by Jeff Atwood  · 3 Jul 2012  · 270pp  · 64,235 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

Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

by Jeff Flake  · 31 Jul 2017  · 138pp  · 43,748 words

The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

by Brett Christophers  · 12 Mar 2024  · 557pp  · 154,324 words

The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money

by Frederik Obermaier  · 17 Jun 2016  · 372pp  · 109,536 words

Gigged: The End of the Job and the Future of Work

by Sarah Kessler  · 11 Jun 2018  · 246pp  · 68,392 words

The Great Fragmentation: And Why the Future of All Business Is Small

by Steve Sammartino  · 25 Jun 2014  · 247pp  · 81,135 words

Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City

by Anna Minton  · 24 Jun 2009  · 309pp  · 96,434 words

The Future of the Brain: Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists

by Gary Marcus and Jeremy Freeman  · 1 Nov 2014  · 336pp  · 93,672 words

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

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

One Billion Americans: The Case for Thinking Bigger

by Matthew Yglesias  · 14 Sep 2020

13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown

by Simon Johnson and James Kwak  · 29 Mar 2010  · 430pp  · 109,064 words

China's Superbank

by Henry Sanderson and Michael Forsythe  · 26 Sep 2012

This Land: The Struggle for the Left

by Owen Jones  · 23 Sep 2020  · 387pp  · 123,237 words

Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life

by Donald Goldsmith  · 9 Sep 2018  · 265pp  · 76,875 words

SEDATED: How Modern Capitalism Created Our Mental Health Crisis

by James. Davies  · 15 Nov 2021  · 307pp  · 88,085 words

The Big Fix: How Companies Capture Markets and Harm Canadians

by Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar  · 14 Oct 2024  · 175pp  · 46,192 words

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

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

Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

by Paul Mason  · 29 Jul 2015  · 378pp  · 110,518 words

A Brief History of Neoliberalism

by David Harvey  · 2 Jan 1995  · 318pp  · 85,824 words

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 29 Aug 2018  · 389pp  · 119,487 words

Neutrino Hunters: The Thrilling Chase for a Ghostly Particle to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

by Ray Jayawardhana  · 10 Dec 2013  · 203pp  · 63,257 words

Unleashed

by Anne Morriss and Frances Frei  · 1 Jun 2020  · 394pp  · 57,287 words

Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party

by David Kogan  · 17 Apr 2019  · 458pp  · 136,405 words

Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All

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

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

by Rebecca MacKinnon  · 31 Jan 2012  · 390pp  · 96,624 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

Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

by Aaron Dignan  · 1 Feb 2019  · 309pp  · 81,975 words

If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares  · 15 Sep 2025  · 215pp  · 64,699 words

Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service

by Michael Lewis  · 18 Mar 2025  · 186pp  · 61,027 words

Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman  · 17 Jul 2023  · 329pp  · 99,504 words

Lonely Planet Nicaragua (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton and Greg Benchwick  · 30 Jun 2013

Why Aren't They Shouting?: A Banker’s Tale of Change, Computers and Perpetual Crisis

by Kevin Rodgers  · 13 Jul 2016  · 318pp  · 99,524 words

Humans as a Service: The Promise and Perils of Work in the Gig Economy

by Jeremias Prassl  · 7 May 2018  · 491pp  · 77,650 words

Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions

by Michael Moss  · 2 Mar 2021  · 300pp  · 94,628 words

Global Financial Crisis

by Noah Berlatsky  · 19 Feb 2010

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

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism

by Arun Sundararajan  · 12 May 2016  · 375pp  · 88,306 words

Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants

by Bethany McLean  · 13 Sep 2015  · 160pp  · 6,876 words

Capital Without Borders

by Brooke Harrington  · 11 Sep 2016  · 358pp  · 104,664 words

Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It

by Robert B. Reich  · 3 Sep 2012  · 124pp  · 39,011 words

Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto

by Mark Helprin  · 19 Apr 2009  · 272pp  · 83,378 words

Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win

by Sachin Khajuria  · 13 Jun 2022  · 229pp  · 75,606 words

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge

by Ian Kumekawa  · 6 May 2025  · 422pp  · 112,638 words

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

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

Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs

by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen and Deron Triff  · 14 Oct 2021  · 309pp  · 96,168 words

The Money Tree: A Story About Finding the Fortune in Your Own Backyard

by Chris Guillebeau  · 6 Apr 2020  · 237pp  · 66,545 words

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

by Linsey McGoey  · 14 Sep 2019

The Euro and the Battle of Ideas

by Markus K. Brunnermeier, Harold James and Jean-Pierre Landau  · 3 Aug 2016  · 586pp  · 160,321 words

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri  · 1 Jan 2004  · 475pp  · 149,310 words

The Decline and Fall of IBM: End of an American Icon?

by Robert X. Cringely  · 1 Jun 2014  · 232pp  · 71,024 words

Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Gobal Crisis

by James Rickards  · 10 Nov 2011  · 381pp  · 101,559 words

Imagining India

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

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

Refuge: Transforming a Broken Refugee System

by Alexander Betts and Paul Collier  · 29 Mar 2017

How the World Ran Out of Everything

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

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

by Madhumita Murgia  · 20 Mar 2024  · 336pp  · 91,806 words

Fewer, Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects

by Glenn Adamson  · 6 Aug 2018  · 220pp  · 64,234 words

The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

by Toby Ord  · 24 Mar 2020  · 513pp  · 152,381 words

The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans

by Mark Lynas  · 3 Oct 2011  · 369pp  · 98,776 words

Unfinished Business

by Tamim Bayoumi  · 405pp  · 109,114 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

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

by Roger McNamee  · 1 Jan 2019  · 382pp  · 105,819 words

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport  · 5 Feb 2019  · 279pp  · 71,542 words

Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice

by Molly Scott Cato  · 16 Dec 2008

India's Long Road

by Vijay Joshi  · 21 Feb 2017

The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers (Wiley Finance)

by Feng Gu  · 26 Jun 2016

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

by David Harvey  · 3 Apr 2012  · 206pp  · 9,776 words

Cockpit Confidential: Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel: Questions, Answers, and Reflections

by Patrick Smith  · 6 May 2013  · 309pp  · 100,573 words

Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup

by Andrew Zimbalist  · 13 Jan 2015  · 222pp  · 60,207 words

Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea

by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge  · 4 Mar 2003  · 196pp  · 57,974 words

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

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

The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter

by David Sax  · 8 Nov 2016  · 360pp  · 101,038 words

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper  · 20 Nov 2018  · 417pp  · 97,577 words

American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup

by F. H. Buckley  · 14 Jan 2020

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

Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future

by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe  · 6 Dec 2016  · 254pp  · 76,064 words

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab  · 7 Jan 2021  · 460pp  · 107,454 words

Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals

by Oliver Bullough  · 10 Mar 2022  · 257pp  · 80,698 words

How the World Works

by Noam Chomsky, Arthur Naiman and David Barsamian  · 13 Sep 2011  · 489pp  · 111,305 words

Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination

by Mark Bergen  · 5 Sep 2022  · 642pp  · 141,888 words

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy

by Nick Romeo  · 15 Jan 2024  · 343pp  · 103,376 words

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

by Jonathan Rauch  · 21 Jun 2021  · 446pp  · 109,157 words

Lonely Planet Colombia (Travel Guide)

by Lonely Planet, Alex Egerton, Tom Masters and Kevin Raub  · 30 Jun 2015

Riding for Deliveroo: Resistance in the New Economy

by Callum Cant  · 11 Nov 2019  · 196pp  · 55,862 words

Makers

by Chris Anderson  · 1 Oct 2012  · 238pp  · 73,824 words

The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business

by Richard Brooks  · 2 Jan 2014  · 301pp  · 88,082 words

Amazon: How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer Will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce

by Natalie Berg and Miya Knights  · 28 Jan 2019  · 404pp  · 95,163 words

Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox for Liberation

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

Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response

by Tony Connelly  · 4 Oct 2017  · 356pp  · 112,271 words

Free Ride

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

Undoing Border Imperialism

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

Leadership by Algorithm: Who Leads and Who Follows in the AI Era?

by David de Cremer  · 25 May 2020  · 241pp  · 70,307 words

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou  · 15 Feb 2015  · 400pp  · 88,647 words

Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Our World

by Greg Milner  · 4 May 2016  · 385pp  · 103,561 words

What's Next?: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy

by David Hale and Lyric Hughes Hale  · 23 May 2011  · 397pp  · 112,034 words

What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy

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

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider  · 10 Sep 2018  · 326pp  · 91,559 words

The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World

by Brad Stone  · 30 Jan 2017  · 373pp  · 112,822 words

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

by Joel Bakan  · 1 Jan 2003

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

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

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire

by Bruce Nussbaum  · 5 Mar 2013  · 385pp  · 101,761 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

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution

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

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

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

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

by Secret Barrister  · 1 Jul 2018  · 372pp  · 116,005 words

Corbyn

by Richard Seymour

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions

by Jason Hickel  · 3 May 2017  · 332pp  · 106,197 words

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

by Jamie Raskin  · 4 Jan 2022  · 450pp  · 144,939 words

Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

by James Meek  · 5 Mar 2019  · 232pp  · 76,830 words

Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got Sick

by J. David McSwane  · 11 Apr 2022  · 368pp  · 102,379 words

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China

by Desmond Shum  · 6 Sep 2021  · 277pp  · 85,191 words

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

by Elizabeth L. Cline  · 13 Jun 2012  · 256pp  · 76,433 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 Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

by Hubert Joly  · 14 Jun 2021  · 265pp  · 75,202 words

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

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

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

by Fred Pearce  · 28 May 2012  · 379pp  · 114,807 words

A Fine Mess

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

The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law

by Timothy Sandefur  · 16 Aug 2010  · 399pp  · 155,913 words

"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky  · 23 Apr 2018  · 219pp  · 62,816 words

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality

by Bhaskar Sunkara  · 1 Feb 2019  · 324pp  · 86,056 words

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner  · 11 May 2014  · 593pp  · 189,857 words

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

by Bruce Schneier  · 2 Mar 2015  · 598pp  · 134,339 words

Grouped: How Small Groups of Friends Are the Key to Influence on the Social Web

by Paul Adams  · 1 Nov 2011  · 123pp  · 32,382 words

Eat People: And Other Unapologetic Rules for Game-Changing Entrepreneurs

by Andy Kessler  · 1 Feb 2011  · 272pp  · 64,626 words

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco  · 7 Apr 2014  · 326pp  · 88,905 words

Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism

by Richard Brooks  · 23 Apr 2018  · 398pp  · 105,917 words

Licence to be Bad

by Jonathan Aldred  · 5 Jun 2019  · 453pp  · 111,010 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

They Don't Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy

by Lawrence Lessig  · 5 Nov 2019  · 404pp  · 115,108 words

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm  · 10 May 2010  · 491pp  · 131,769 words

The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors

by Spencer Jakab  · 1 Feb 2022  · 420pp  · 94,064 words

Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats

by Maya Goodfellow  · 5 Nov 2019  · 273pp  · 83,802 words

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

by Chris Hayes  · 28 Jan 2025  · 359pp  · 100,761 words

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist

by Liz Pelly  · 7 Jan 2025  · 293pp  · 104,461 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  · 7 Oct 2024  · 336pp  · 104,899 words

The Next Factory of the World: How Chinese Investment Is Reshaping Africa

by Irene Yuan Sun  · 16 Oct 2017  · 239pp  · 62,311 words

One Less Car: Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

by Zack Furness and Zachary Mooradian Furness  · 28 Mar 2010  · 532pp  · 155,470 words

The Globalization of Inequality

by François Bourguignon  · 1 Aug 2012  · 221pp  · 55,901 words

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

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

The Default Line: The Inside Story of People, Banks and Entire Nations on the Edge

by Faisal Islam  · 28 Aug 2013  · 475pp  · 155,554 words

The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties

by Paul Collier  · 4 Dec 2018  · 310pp  · 85,995 words

We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages

by Annelise Orleck  · 27 Feb 2018  · 382pp  · 107,150 words

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

by Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght  · 20 Mar 2017

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

by Zeynep Tufekci  · 14 May 2017  · 444pp  · 130,646 words

Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Popular Culture Is Making Us Smarter

by Steven Johnson  · 5 Apr 2006  · 250pp  · 9,029 words

Who Is Rich?

by Matthew Klam  · 3 Jul 2017  · 291pp  · 92,688 words

Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple's Greatest Products

by Leander Kahney  · 14 Nov 2013  · 363pp  · 94,139 words

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

by Aaron Bastani  · 10 Jun 2019  · 280pp  · 74,559 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

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

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

The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World

by Scott Galloway  · 2 Oct 2017  · 305pp  · 79,303 words

Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen

by Peter Apps  · 10 Nov 2022  · 279pp  · 85,552 words

Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence

by Jacob Turner  · 29 Oct 2018  · 688pp  · 147,571 words

Still Broke: Walmart's Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism

by Rick Wartzman  · 15 Nov 2022  · 215pp  · 69,370 words

An Olive Grove in Ends

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