Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
wealth reflected a broader cultural shift. Flaunting money was once seen as gauche, but gaucheness itself was no longer socially disqualifying. In a high-pressure, winner-takes-all economy, the most successful millennials displayed their status by living and dressing like children and by outsourcing adult responsibility to focus entirely on self-optimization. The
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
by Sarah Chayes · 19 Jan 2015 · 352pp · 90,622 words
took me on a tour of shuttered factories and warehouses: Bata shoes, an electronics factory, despairingly empty.* The result of this oil “monoculture” is a winner-take-all economy, in which unemployment and penury rise steadily, while political office guarantees a space at the Nigerian version of Tunisia’s feeding-trough state. The official
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
by Matthew B. Crawford · 29 Mar 2015 · 351pp · 100,791 words
good democratic Übermensch. And while in Calvin’s time the threat of damnation might have been dismissed by some as a mere superstition, with our winner-take-all economy the risk of damnation has acquired real teeth. There is a real chance that you may get stuck at the bottom. MOBILITY AND THE DEMOCRATIC
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
by Conor Dougherty · 18 Feb 2020 · 331pp · 95,582 words
with a lack of space. It’s the concentration of opportunity and the rising cost of being near it. It says much about today’s winner-take-all economy that many of the cities with the most glaring epidemics of homelessness are growing technology and finance centers where good-paying jobs are plentiful and
Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
by Erik Brynjolfsson · 23 Jan 2012 · 72pp · 21,361 words
of revenues in every market, from classical music’s Yo-Yo Ma to pop’s Lady Gaga. Economists Robert Frank and Philip Cook documented how winner-take-all markets have proliferated as technology transformed not only recorded music but also software, drama, sports, and every other industry that can be transmitted as digital bits
The Scandal of Money
by George Gilder · 23 Feb 2016 · 209pp · 53,236 words
than wages in accordance with inexorable capitalist logic, the yield of investment exceeds the rate of economic growth. The harvest is an increasingly top-heavy, winner-take-all economy, smothering middle- and lower-class opportunities. President Obama’s friend and counselor Ta-Nehisi Coates, from his perch atop the bestseller lists and at the
Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy
by Andrew Yang · 15 Nov 2021
Americans own only 8 percent of stock market wealth, and the bottom 48 percent own zero. We are in the midst of the most extreme winner-take-all economy in the history of the world. This disparity might be more tolerable for the average American if costs were stable even as their income and
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file disappear. Top journalists continue to make good money; there will just be a lot fewer of them, with others looking up at them. The winner-take-all economy is subsuming the field as it is so many others. If you ask a journalist about the secular disruption, you’re likely to get a
The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth · 14 Jan 2020 · 180pp · 55,805 words
creates a positive feedback loop of value leading to exponential growth. Designing a platform to take advantage of strong network effects creates lock-in and winner-take-all markets. The Internet itself has one of the strongest network effects, and consequently so do many of the top companies built on it. Ironically, network effects
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
by Arianna Huffington · 7 Sep 2010 · 300pp · 78,475 words
$46 million.49 HOMER SIMPSON HAS IT TOO GOOD: SNAPSHOTS FROM THE MIDDLE-CLASS BATTLEFIELD The numbers don’t lie: We increasingly live in a “winner take all” economy. Indeed, we’ve arrived at a point where even Homer Simpson—created as a classic American Everyman character—is now living a middle-class fantasy
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport · 5 Jan 2016
the peak of the market thrive while the rest suffer. In a seminal 1981 paper, the economist Sherwin Rosen worked out the mathematics behind these “winner-take-all” markets. One of his key insights was to explicitly model talent—labeled, innocuously, with the variable q in his formulas—as a factor with “imperfect substitution
The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned--And Have Still to Learn--From the Financial Crisis
by Martin Wolf · 24 Nov 2015 · 524pp · 143,993 words
With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough
by Peter Barnes · 31 Jul 2014 · 151pp · 38,153 words
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
by Guy Standing · 27 Feb 2011 · 209pp · 89,619 words
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
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Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
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The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy
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Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
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Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit, and Authoritarian Populism
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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
Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America
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Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
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The Facebook Effect
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The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
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The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality
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Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
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The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
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Team Human
by Douglas Rushkoff · 22 Jan 2019 · 196pp · 54,339 words
Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
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Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
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The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy
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Fair Shot: Rethinking Inequality and How We Earn
by Chris Hughes · 20 Feb 2018 · 173pp · 53,564 words
Democracy and Prosperity: Reinventing Capitalism Through a Turbulent Century
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How Will Capitalism End?
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The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All
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WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
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The Global Auction: The Broken Promises of Education, Jobs, and Incomes
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The Upside of Inequality
by Edward Conard · 1 Sep 2016 · 436pp · 98,538 words
Tech Titans of China: How China's Tech Sector Is Challenging the World by Innovating Faster, Working Harder, and Going Global
by Rebecca Fannin · 2 Sep 2019 · 269pp · 70,543 words
Model Thinker: What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You
by Scott E. Page · 27 Nov 2018 · 543pp · 153,550 words
Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life
by Alan B. Krueger · 3 Jun 2019
The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age
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The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
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Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It
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Competition Overdose: How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us From Citizen Kings to Market Servants
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The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
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Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland · 11 Oct 2012 · 481pp · 120,693 words
Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms
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Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess
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System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
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How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
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Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History
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Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect
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Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
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The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff · 15 Jan 2019 · 918pp · 257,605 words
Social Class in the 21st Century
by Mike Savage · 5 Nov 2015 · 297pp · 89,206 words
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
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How to Fix Copyright
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The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us
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What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy
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Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations Are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (And What to Do About It)
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The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
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The Internet Is Not the Answer
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Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy--And How to Make Them Work for You
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Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy
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The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World
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Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
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The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners
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Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
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Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
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The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
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Philanthrocapitalism
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Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
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Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity
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The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
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Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge
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The Content Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
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Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
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Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America
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Markets, State, and People: Economics for Public Policy
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Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth
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The Success Equation: Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing
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Work Rules!: Insights From Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
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Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage
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