If your economy, company, or career feels stuck, The Power of Creative Destruction shows why purposeful churn—not safety—drives lasting prosperity, and how to harness it rather than fear it. When … Read more
What if the cure for our housing crisis, climate anxiety, and political doomism is the same verb: build? The abundance agenda says prosperity, health, and sustainability scale together when we … Read more
We keep hitting planetary and economic limits because our factories are blunt instruments, not scalpels. Drexler’s answer is a manufacturing paradigm—atomically precise manufacturing (APM)—that aims to make physical things with … Read more
In plain English, AI 2041 argues that ten very plausible AI scenarios — spanning jobs, health, security, and privacy — are coming fast and that our choices, not the code … Read more
We argue about climate, growth, food, and energy using slogans. In his How the World Really Works, Smil replaces slogans with literacy: what energy is, where your food comes from, … Read more
In our hyper-connected world, we take for granted the magic inside our smartphones, computers, and cars. Yet, the tiny silicon chips that power our reality are at the center of … Read more
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey, first published in 1989 by Free Press, is one of the most influential self-help and business books of all time. … Read more
The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail was published in 1997 by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. Since its release, this book has become … Read more
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries was first published in 2011 by Crown Business, New York. This landmark book … Read more
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Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (German: Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Ökonomie) is the monumental economic and philosophical treatise written by Karl Marx. The first volume was published in … Read more
Economics isn’t just about money—it’s about power, society, human behavior, and choices. The best economics books don’t just teach you graphs and formulas; they open your eyes to how systems … Read more
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations—commonly referred to as The Wealth of Nations—was written by the renowned Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith and … Read more
The book under discussion is What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, written by Michael J. Sandel, a renowned political philosopher and professor at Harvard University. Published in … Read more
The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers Our Future (2012) is an influential non-fiction work by Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz, published by W. W. Norton & Company. … Read more
Capitalism and Freedom is a seminal economic and philosophical treatise by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, published originally in 1962 by the University of Chicago Press and co-developed with the assistance … Read more
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a groundbreaking book by French economist Thomas Piketty, first published in French in 2013 as Le Capital au XXIe siècle, and translated into English … Read more
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty, authored by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, explores the critical factors that differentiate prosperous nations from impoverished ones. The … Read more
The modern world is a complex tapestry of behaviors, decisions, and systems that intertwine in unexpected ways. Freakonomics, penned by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, offers a compelling … Read more
In his compelling book, Poverty by America, Matthew Desmond not only interrogates why poverty persists in such an affluent society but also exposes the uncomfortable truth—the perpetuation of poverty is … Read more