17 must-read economics books like The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu

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The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

By: Tim Wu

4.16

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

"Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dolla…

If you liked the economics plot in The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

By: John Seabrook

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"An utterly satisfying examination of the business of popular music." ―Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic… read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
"You can get in a car in Maine and drive all the way to California and hear the same Top 40 songs on the same chain broadcasters,"

-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

"Connection, he explained, was the essence of pop music, according to his boss, Jimmy Iovine: “Jimmy always says it’s all about the connection between the artist and the fans,"

-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

"They told me exactly how it worked, the marketing of it. Our target market was always going to be young teenage girls, because boys are into sports, and they like buying jerseys and caps and so on, f…"

-John Seabrook, The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

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2. The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

By: Richard G. Wilkinson , Kate E. Pickett

4.13

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking work on the root cause of our ills, which is changing the way politicians think. W… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • society
"... When infectious diseases lost their hold as the major causes of death, the industrialised world underwent a shift, known as the 'epidemiological transition' and chronic diseases, such as heart di…"

-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psycholigst and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' virus…"

-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

"So why do people tend to have mental health problems in more unequal places? Psychologist and journalist Oliver James uses an analogy with infectious disease to explain the link. The 'affluenza' viru…"

-Richard G. Wilkinson, The spirit level: why more equal societies almost always do better

3. Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

By: Rana Foroohar

4.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the … read more

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4. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"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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5. 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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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • technology
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6. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • technology
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7. Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

By: Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
"Il profitto è vulnerabile alla competizione di mercato, mentre la rendita non lo è."

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Se non è un mercato capitalista, in cosa entriamo, buon Dio, quando andiamo su amazon.com ?"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"Oltre ad avvertirci che ogni nuova epoca forgiata da qualche tecnologia rivoluzionaria produce una generazione che “mai passerà un giorno immune da fatica e dolore, struggendosi anche di notte"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

"La rivoluzione digitale potrebbe consistere nel trasformare i lavoratori salariati in proletari del cloud, che vivono una vita sempre più precaria e stressante sotto il controllo invisibile di capi a…"

-Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

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8. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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9. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

By: Zoë Schiffer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more

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  • history
  • technology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • audiobook
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10. Subprime Attention Crisis (FSG Originals x Logic)

By: Tim Hwang

3.62

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

From FSGO x Logic : a revealing examination of digital advertising and the internet's precarious fo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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11. The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

By: Cory Doctorow

4.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech When the tech platforms … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • technology
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12. 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
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"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

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13. The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

By: Jonathan Tepper

4.13

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplac… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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14. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • audiobook
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15. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
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16. The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age

By: Tim Wu

4.16

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

"Persuasive and brilliantly written, the book is especially timely given the rise of trillion-dolla… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • technology
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17. Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age

By: Amy Klobuchar

3.69

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Antitrust enforcement is one of the most pressing issues facing America today… read more

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  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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18. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy

By: Matt Stoller

4.23

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A startling look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism transformed American politics,… read more

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  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money by Zephyr Teachout

19. Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money

By: Zephyr Teachout

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then… read more

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  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • technology
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20. Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power

By: David Dayen

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the airlines we fly to the food we eat, how a tiny group of corporations have come to dominate… read more

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  • economics
  • society
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick

21. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more

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  • business
  • audiobook

16 Best audiobook books like The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age by Tim Wu

Transform Your Habits

The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory

John Seabrook

3.93

Transform Your Habits

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

Chris Miller

4.44

Transform Your Habits

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

Daron Acemoğlu

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

Kashmir Hill

4.14

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power by David Dayen

Transform Your Habits

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Jane Mayer

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

David Graeber

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism

Yanis Varoufakis

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

Sarah Jaffe

3.97

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