Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
By: Rebecca Henderson
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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1. A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age
By: Daniel J. Levitin
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From TheNew York Times bestselling author of THE ORGANIZED MIND and THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON MUSIC, a … read more
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2. The Affluent Society
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
3.86
Format: 302 pages, Paperback
John Kenneth Galbraith's international bestseller The Affluent Society is a witty, graceful and dev… read more
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3. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
By: None
4.12
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more
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4. The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth
By: James Allen , Chris Zook
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
A Washington PostBestseller Three Principles for Managing--and Avoiding--the Problems of Growth Why… read more
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5. 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
6. The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
By: David Wallace-Wells
4.01
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears… read more
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- audiobook
"A state of half-ignorance and half-indifference is a much more pervasive climate sickness than true denial or true fatalism."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The last time the earth was four degrees warmer, as Peter Brannen has written, there was no ice at either pole and sea level was 260 feet higher."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"The world has, at most, about three decades to completely decarbonize before truly devastating climate horrors begin. You can't halfway your way to a solution to a crisis this large."-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
"Especially those who have imbibed several centuries of Western triumphalism tend to see the story of human civilization as an inevitable conquest of the earth, rather than the saga of an insecure cul…"-David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
7. How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
By: Annie Duke
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Through a blend of compelling exercises, illustrations, and stories, the bestselling author of Thin… read more
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- audiobook
8. A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
By: Daniel Susskind
3.84
Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of ho… read more
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"the future , they say ; holds both obsolescence and ever-greater relevance ; technology is a threat and an opportunity ; a rival and a partner , a foe and a friend"-Daniel Susskind, A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
9. 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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- audiobook
10. How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
By: Bill Gates
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Bill Gates shares what he's learned in more than a decade of studying climate change and investing … read more
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11. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
By: Amy C. Edmondson
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more
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12. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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- economics
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- business
- audiobook
13. Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
By: Reid Hoffman
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Foreword by Bill Gates LinkedIn cofounder, legendary investor, and host of the award-winning Maste… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- business
- audiobook
14. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
By: Anand Giridharadas
4.14
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An insider's groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" p… read more
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- history
- politics
- finance
- nonfiction
- economics
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- audiobook
"For every thought leader who offered advice on how to build a career in a merciless new economy, there were many less-heard critics aspiring to make the economy less merciless."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"To question the doing-well-by-doing-good globalists is not to doubt their intentions or results, rather it is to say that even when all those things are factored in, something is not quite right."-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"Walker had broken what in his circles were important taboos: Inspire the rich to do more good, but never, ever tell them to do less harm; inspire them to give back, but never, ever tell them to take …"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
"And what these winners wanted was for the world to be changed in ways that had their buy-in—think charter schools over more equal public school funding, or poverty-reducing tech companies over antitr…"-Anand Giridharadas, Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
15. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse
By: Dave Goulson
4.32
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
16. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
By: Jason Hickel
4.51
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- economics
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
17. Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
By: Robert J. Shiller
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbr… read more
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- audiobook
18. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
By: Christiana Figueres
4.07
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more
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- sustainability
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- audiobook
"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
19. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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- audiobook
20. No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
By: Sarah Frier
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals an inside, never-before-told, behind-the-scenes look at … read more
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- history
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- audiobook
"Mosseri’s answer to the important question was perfect by Facebook standards: “Technology isn’t good or bad—it just is,"-Sarah Frier, No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
21. The Earned Life: Lose Regret, Choose Fulfillment
By: Marshall Goldsmith
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Discover the steps to earning your path to fulfillment and living witho… read more
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22. Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
By: Paul Polman
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
These massive dual challenges—and other profound shifts like pandemics, resource constraints, and s… read more
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- sustainability
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"People with purpose thrive, brands with purpose grow, and companies with purpose last."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Anyone who things that you can have infinite growth in a finite environment is either a madman or an economist."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Our current economic system has two fundamental weaknesses: it’s based on unlimited growth on a finite planet, and it benefits a small number of people, not everyone."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
"Creating positive returns for stakeholders does not mean satisfying all of them at the same time, or focusing equal attention and resources on each. You can't prioritize everyone at once."-Paul Polman, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
23. The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
By: Nicholas Mulder
3.87
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
The first international history of the emergence of economic sanctions during the interwar period a… read more
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- history
- politics
- finance
- nonfiction
- political science
- economics
"The policy debate about sanctions has been repeated almost every decade since the [League of Nations] was created in the wake of World War I. At its core has been the perennial question: do economic …"-Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
24. How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
By: Matt Ridley
4.11
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements… read more
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- history
- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
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- audiobook
25. What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society
By: Minouche Shafik
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better suppo… read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- economics
26. Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
By: Rebecca Henderson
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new intellectual foundation and a … read more
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- politics
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- nonfiction
- political science
- economics
- business
- audiobook
27. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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- politics
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
28. Doramar ou a Odisseia: histórias
By: Itamar Vieira Junior
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Quem se deslumbrou com a maestria narrativa, a sólida e delicada construção de personagens, a lingu… read more
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29. The Future of the Responsible Company: What We've Learned from Patagonia's First 50 Years
By: Vincent Stanley
4.29
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Simple but powerful advice on how and why to rethink your business structure in a time when traditi… read more
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- economics
- sustainability
- nonfiction
- business
30. The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
By: Nick Romeo
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Winners Take All meets Nickel and Dimed in this provocative debunking of accepted wisdom, providing… read more
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- nonfiction
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31. The Resilient Society
By: Markus Brunnermeier
3.43
Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition
People in a resilient society are able to bounce back from shocks, such as pandemics and economic c… read more
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