20 Best politics books like The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations by Philippe Aghion

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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

By: Philippe Aghion

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year From one of the wo…

"The United States incarnates a more cutthroat form of capitalism, while the Scandinavian countries, and to a lesser extent Germany, are the representatives of a more cuddly capitalism. According to this view, insofar as innovation at the technological frontier relies on strong monetary incentives, the countries that aim for frontier innovation should forgo the goals of insurance and equality: in other words, they should renounce “cuddly capitalism"

-Philippe Aghion, The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

"The United States incarnates a more cutthroat form of capitalism, while the Scandinavian countries, and to a lesser extent Germany, are the representatives of a more cuddly capitalism. According to this view, insofar as innovation at the technological frontier relies on strong monetary incentives, the countries that aim for frontier innovation should forgo the goals of insurance and equality: in other words, they should renounce “cuddly capitalism"

-Philippe Aghion, The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

"The United States incarnates a more cutthroat form of capitalism, while the Scandinavian countries, and to a lesser extent Germany, are the representatives of a more cuddly capitalism. According to this view, insofar as innovation at the technological frontier relies on strong monetary incentives, the countries that aim for frontier innovation should forgo the goals of insurance and equality: in other words, they should renounce “cuddly capitalism"

-Philippe Aghion, The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

"It may seem paradoxical that innovation should increase both the share of income of the richest 1 percent (top income inequality) and social mobility. Yet the comparison among different American states suggests that this is indeed the case. For example, if we compare California, currently among the most innovative states in the United States, with Alabama, which is among the least innovative, we find that the share of the state’s total income that goes to the top 1 percent is significantly higher in California than in Alabama. At the same time, social mobility is substantially higher in California than in Alabama."

-Philippe Aghion, The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

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1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

3.88

Format: 1076 pages, Paperback

Adam Smith's masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and… read more

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"Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production"

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"of their passions in the same object at that particular time."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

-Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

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2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

By: Jared Diamond

3.93

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more

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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."

-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

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3. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson

4.08

Format: 529 pages, Hardcover

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more

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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"

-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

4. Capital in the Twenty-First Century

By: Thomas Piketty , Arthur Goldhammer

4.61

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions abou… read more

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5. The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets (Addison-Wesley Series in Economics)

By: Frederic S. Mishkin

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

The historic economic events and financial crises of late 2008 have changed the entire landscape of… read more

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6. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War

By: None

4.43

Format: 85 pages, Hardcover

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living… read more

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7. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

By: Michael J. Sandel

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for… read more

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8. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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10. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

By: Brian Christian

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more

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"Curiosity bred competence."

-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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

By: Sebastian Mallaby

4.43

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year  Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more

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"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"

-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

Cover of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoğlu

12. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

By: Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more

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13. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

By: Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global … read more

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14. The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

By: Michael J. Sandel

4.19

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds ar… read more

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"A wealthy CEO could justify his or her advantages to a lower paid worker on a factory floor as: "I am not worthier then you nor morally deserving of the privileged position I hold. My generous compen…"

-Michael J. Sandel, The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

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15. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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16. The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

By: Daniel Yergin

4.20

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A Wall Street Journal besteller and a USA Today Best Book of 2020 Named Energy Writer of the Yea… read more

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"У 1976 в газеті "Вечірній Ленінград" з'явилася стаття про досі невідомого дзюдоїста, що переміг у змаганнях і здобув звання чемпіона. "Люди ще почують про нього в майбутньому", передбачало видання. Т…"

-Daniel Yergin, The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations

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17. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

By: Martin Wolf

3.97

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more

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18. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

By: Jeff Hawkins

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more

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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"

-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence

Cover of 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19 by Ben S. Bernanke

19. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

By: Ben S. Bernanke

4.21

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics and former chair of the Federal Reserve explains th… read more

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Cover of Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems by Abhijit V. Banerjee

20. Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee

4.23

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of … read more

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"The bottom line is that, much as in rich countries, we have no accepted recipe for how to make growth happen in poor countries. Even the experts seem to have accepted this. In 2006, the World Bank as…"

-Abhijit V. Banerjee, Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

Cover of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya

21. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

By: Ananyo Bhattacharya

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolution… read more

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"The young von Neumann made an instant impact on his new tutors. His first mentor, Gábor Szego˝, who would later lead Stanford University’s maths department, was moved to tears after their first meeti…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"The best estimates of Trinity’s power put the figure somewhere between 20,000 and 22,000 tons. Oppenheimer reached for poetry, recalling a verse from ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita, which…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"At one of his ‘high-proof, high-I.Q. parties’ one analyst produced a fat cylindrical ‘coin’ that was something of a RAND obsession at the time. Milled by the RAND machine shop at the behest of Willia…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

"With his school years behind him, von Neumann took the train to Berlin with his father in September 1921 to begin the arduous programme of study that had been agreed. A passenger sharing their carria…"

-Ananyo Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann

Cover of Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East by Uri Kaufman

22. Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East

By: Uri Kaufman

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"Pacy and enthralling." ― Financial Times "Tells the story brilliantly." ―Senator Joseph I. Lieber… read more

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23. The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

By: Philippe Aghion

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year From one of the wo… read more

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"The United States incarnates a more cutthroat form of capitalism, while the Scandinavian countries, and to a lesser extent Germany, are the representatives of a more cuddly capitalism. According to t…"

-Philippe Aghion, The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

"It may seem paradoxical that innovation should increase both the share of income of the richest 1 percent (top income inequality) and social mobility. Yet the comparison among different American stat…"

-Philippe Aghion, The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

Cover of Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing by Peter Robison

24. Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

By: Peter Robison

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fast-paced look at the corporate dysfunction--the ruthless cost-cutting, toxic workplaces, and cu… read more

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Cover of How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now by Stanislas Dehaene

25. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

By: Stanislas Dehaene

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more

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"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"

-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now

Cover of A Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty

26. A Brief History of Equality

By: Thomas Piketty

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world's leading economist of inequality presents a short but sweeping and surprisingly optimist… read more

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"The idea that each country–or worse yet–each person in each country is individually responsible for its production and its wealth, makes little sense from a historical point of view. All wealth is co…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

"The growth of wealth in the Western world, like that in Japan or China, has long been based on the international division of labor and the feverish exploitation of natural and human resources worldwi…"

-Thomas Piketty, A Brief History of Equality

Cover of A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021 by Alan S. Blinder

27. A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021

By: Alan S. Blinder

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, the fascinating story of U.S. economic policy from Kenn… read more

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Cover of Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by Eric A. Posner

28. Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

By: Eric A. Posner

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Revolutionary ideas on how to use markets to bring about fairness and prosperity for all Many bl… read more

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"Most people live in urban settings and interact with others over telecommunications networks, implying their well-being is closely tied to and influenced by others around them. In such large-scale, c…"

-Eric A. Posner, Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

Cover of Growth: A Reckoning by Daniel Susskind

29. Growth: A Reckoning

By: Daniel Susskind

3.92

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

A revelatory account of the past, present, and future of economic growth - and how we should rethin… read more

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Cover of The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World by Fernanda Pirie

30. The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World

By: Fernanda Pirie

3.59

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizatio… read more

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