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How Asia Works

av Joe Studwell • 2013

Some Asian economies boomed while others stalled. The difference wasn't free markets.

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📊 Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🌏 Asian Economies 🌾 Land Reform 🏭 Export-Led Growth

How Asia Works

Some Asian economies boomed while others stalled. The difference wasn't free markets.

av Joe Studwell 2013 288 sider

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📊 Development Economics 📜 Economic History 🌏 Asian Economies 🌾 Land Reform 🏭 Export-Led Growth

False Alarm

av Bjørn Lomborg • 2020

Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.

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🏛️ Climate Policy 📊 Environmental Economics ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🔋 Green Energy Innovation 🛡️ Adaptation Strategies

False Alarm

Two trillion a year for one-twentieth of a degree: the smarter investments our panic overlooks.

av Bjørn Lomborg 2020 320 sider

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🏛️ Climate Policy 📊 Environmental Economics ⚖️ Cost-Benefit Analysis 🔋 Green Energy Innovation 🛡️ Adaptation Strategies

Alibaba

av Duncan Clark • 2016

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

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🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

Alibaba

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

av Duncan Clark 2016 304 sider

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🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

Moneyland

av Oliver Bullough • 2018

Stolen wealth has a home: a borderless financial nation built by Western lawyers and accountants.

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🔒 Financial Secrecy 💰 Kleptocracy 🧺 Money Laundering 🌐 Global Corruption

Moneyland

Stolen wealth has a home: a borderless financial nation built by Western lawyers and accountants.

av Oliver Bullough 2018 413 sider

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🔒 Financial Secrecy 💰 Kleptocracy 🧺 Money Laundering 🌐 Global Corruption

The Health Gap

av Michael G. Marmot • 2015

Life expectancy varies by 28 years within one city. The culprit is social hierarchy, not healthcare.

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🧬 Social Determinants Of Health ⚖️ Health Equity 🔬 Social Epidemiology 📈 Social Gradient 🏛️ Structural Inequality

The Health Gap

Life expectancy varies by 28 years within one city. The culprit is social hierarchy, not healthcare.

av Michael G. Marmot 2015 400 sider

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🧬 Social Determinants Of Health ⚖️ Health Equity 🔬 Social Epidemiology 📈 Social Gradient 🏛️ Structural Inequality

Great Escape

av Angus Deaton • 2013

Life expectancy doubled, incomes soared, and inequality became the price of progress.

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🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Income Inequality 🌍 Global Health 📈 Poverty Reduction 📊 Measuring Wellbeing

Great Escape

Life expectancy doubled, incomes soared, and inequality became the price of progress.

av Angus Deaton 2013 360 sider

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🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Income Inequality 🌍 Global Health 📈 Poverty Reduction 📊 Measuring Wellbeing

The Oil Kings

av Andrew Scott Cooper • 2011

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

The Oil Kings

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

av Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 sider

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

Chaos Kings

av Scott Patterson • 2023

They lose money every day on purpose, because one market crash will repay everything.

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📉 Catastrophe Investing 🔄 Hedge Fund Strategies 🌐 Systemic Fragility 📊 Risk Modeling Failure 🔮 Limits Of Prediction

Chaos Kings

They lose money every day on purpose, because one market crash will repay everything.

av Scott Patterson 2023 335 sider

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📉 Catastrophe Investing 🔄 Hedge Fund Strategies 🌐 Systemic Fragility 📊 Risk Modeling Failure 🔮 Limits Of Prediction

The China Model

av Daniel A. Bell • 2015

Voters are ignorant, money corrupts, and the future gets no vote. China's alternative explained.

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🏛️ Chinese Governance 🎓 Meritocracy Critique 📊 Public Choice Theory ☯️ Modern Confucianism

The China Model

Voters are ignorant, money corrupts, and the future gets no vote. China's alternative explained.

av Daniel A. Bell 2015 336 sider

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🌍 Comparative Politics 🏛️ Chinese Governance 🎓 Meritocracy Critique 📊 Public Choice Theory ☯️ Modern Confucianism

Divided

av Tim Marshall • 2018

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

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🌍 Geopolitics 🧱 Border Barriers 🚩 Nationalism 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🛂 Immigration Politics

Divided

We were promised a borderless world. There are more walls now than during the Cold War.

av Tim Marshall 2018 316 sider

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🌍 Geopolitics 🧱 Border Barriers 🚩 Nationalism 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 🛂 Immigration Politics

The Money Trap

av Alok Sama • 2024

He brokered SoftBank's biggest bets. Then he realized the money was never the point.

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🏦 Wall Street Memoir 💰 Venture Capital 💭 Wealth Psychology 📉 Boom And Bust Cycles 🌏 Cross-Cultural Business

The Money Trap

He brokered SoftBank's biggest bets. Then he realized the money was never the point.

av Alok Sama 2024 304 sider

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🏦 Wall Street Memoir 💰 Venture Capital 💭 Wealth Psychology 📉 Boom And Bust Cycles 🌏 Cross-Cultural Business

Capitalism without Capital

av Jonathan Haskel • 2017

Investment shifted from machines to ideas, and ideas refuse to follow the old economic rules.

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 📊 Intangible Assets 📉 Productivity Paradox 💡 Innovation Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality

Capitalism without Capital

Investment shifted from machines to ideas, and ideas refuse to follow the old economic rules.

av Jonathan Haskel 2017 288 sider

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 📊 Intangible Assets 📉 Productivity Paradox 💡 Innovation Economics ⚖️ Economic Inequality

War on Peace

av Ronan Farrow • 2018

Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.

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📜 Us Foreign Policy 🕊️ American Diplomacy 🛡️ National Security State 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 💬 Soft Power

War on Peace

Before Trump, before forever war, Washington gutted the one tool that could prevent them: diplomacy.

av Ronan Farrow 2018 392 sider

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📜 Us Foreign Policy 🕊️ American Diplomacy 🛡️ National Security State 🌐 Liberal Internationalism 💬 Soft Power

Kleptopia

av Tom Burgis • 2020

Soviet collapse privatized a theft machine stretching from Kazakh mines to the White House.

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🏝️ Offshore Finance 🪆 Post-Soviet Oligarchs 💎 Resource Curse 🎭 Disinformation

Kleptopia

Soviet collapse privatized a theft machine stretching from Kazakh mines to the White House.

av Tom Burgis 2020 464 sider

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🕵️ Investigative Journalism 🏝️ Offshore Finance 🪆 Post-Soviet Oligarchs 💎 Resource Curse 🎭 Disinformation

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

av John Perkins • 2016

Empire runs on rigged loans and broken countries. One of its architects tells all.

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🏴 Neocolonialism 🌐 Global Finance 📣 Whistleblower Accounts 🏢 Corporate Power 💸 Debt And Power

The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Empire runs on rigged loans and broken countries. One of its architects tells all.

av John Perkins 2016 385 sider

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🏴 Neocolonialism 🌐 Global Finance 📣 Whistleblower Accounts 🏢 Corporate Power 💸 Debt And Power

Average Is Over

av Tyler Cowen • 2013

The labor market is now a chess match: winning means teaming up with the machine.

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🛠️ Labor Economics 🔮 Future Of Work 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🤝 Human-Machine Teams 💸 Wage Inequality

Average Is Over

The labor market is now a chess match: winning means teaming up with the machine.

av Tyler Cowen 2013 304 sider

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🛠️ Labor Economics 🔮 Future Of Work 🤖 Technological Unemployment 🤝 Human-Machine Teams 💸 Wage Inequality

Utopia for Realists

av Rutger Bregman • 2014

Three policies sound absurd: free money, open borders, a fifteen-hour week. The evidence disagrees.

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💸 Universal Basic Income 🌍 Open Borders ⏳ Work Reduction 🏙️ Utopian Thinking 🪙 Poverty Alleviation

Utopia for Realists

Three policies sound absurd: free money, open borders, a fifteen-hour week. The evidence disagrees.

av Rutger Bregman 2014 252 sider

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💸 Universal Basic Income 🌍 Open Borders ⏳ Work Reduction 🏙️ Utopian Thinking 🪙 Poverty Alleviation

How Countries Go Broke

av Ray Dalio • 2025

The pattern that broke Rome, imperial China, and the Dutch empire is now visible in Washington.

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💥 Debt Crises 🏛️ Sovereign Debt 🔄 Macroeconomic Cycles 🏦 Monetary Policy 📜 Economic History

How Countries Go Broke

The pattern that broke Rome, imperial China, and the Dutch empire is now visible in Washington.

av Ray Dalio 2025 400 sider

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💥 Debt Crises 🏛️ Sovereign Debt 🔄 Macroeconomic Cycles 🏦 Monetary Policy 📜 Economic History

Strategic Vision

av Zbigniew Brzeziński • 2012

America's decline won't produce a Chinese century. It will produce a global free-for-all.

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🦅 Us Foreign Policy 🗺️ Grand Strategy 📉 American Decline 🔄 Power Transition 🐉 Rising China

Strategic Vision

America's decline won't produce a Chinese century. It will produce a global free-for-all.

av Zbigniew Brzeziński 2012 224 sider

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🦅 Us Foreign Policy 🗺️ Grand Strategy 📉 American Decline 🔄 Power Transition 🐉 Rising China

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

av George Soros • 2008

Markets amplify extremes. 2008 was the bill for a decades-long credit binge.

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📉 Financial Crises 🫧 Asset Bubbles ⚠️ Market Instability ⛓️ Laissez-Faire Critique 📋 Financial Regulation

The New Paradigm for Financial Markets

Markets amplify extremes. 2008 was the bill for a decades-long credit binge.

av George Soros 2008 163 sider

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📉 Financial Crises 🫧 Asset Bubbles ⚠️ Market Instability ⛓️ Laissez-Faire Critique 📋 Financial Regulation

Colossus

av Niall Ferguson • 2004

America has always been an empire. Refusing to admit it is the root of its failures.

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🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ Nation-Building 💸 Fiscal Crisis 📉 Declinism

Colossus

America has always been an empire. Refusing to admit it is the root of its failures.

av Niall Ferguson 2004 417 sider

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🇺🇸 American Hegemony 🏛️ Comparative Empires 🏗️ Nation-Building 💸 Fiscal Crisis 📉 Declinism

The Square and the Tower

av Niall Ferguson • 2017

The real shapers of history were not kings but the networks connecting everyone else.

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🌍 World History 💰 Economic History 📜 Big History 🕸️ Network Science 👥 Social Networks

The Square and the Tower

The real shapers of history were not kings but the networks connecting everyone else.

av Niall Ferguson 2017 592 sider

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🌍 World History 💰 Economic History 📜 Big History 🕸️ Network Science 👥 Social Networks

The Age of Cryptocurrency

av Paul Vigna • 2015

When the 2008 crash shattered trust in banks, a currency emerged that runs on math alone.

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💱 Digital Currencies ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 💥 Financial Disruption 🔐 Cryptography 🕵️ Cypherpunk Roots

The Age of Cryptocurrency

When the 2008 crash shattered trust in banks, a currency emerged that runs on math alone.

av Paul Vigna 2015 368 sider

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💱 Digital Currencies ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 💥 Financial Disruption 🔐 Cryptography 🕵️ Cypherpunk Roots

Revolutionary Wealth

av Alvin Toffler • 2006

New wealth is not made of things but of ideas and invisible contributions the market ignores.

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 🏛️ Postindustrial Society 👻 Hidden Economy 🌫️ Intangible Assets 🌏 Global Economic Shift

Revolutionary Wealth

New wealth is not made of things but of ideas and invisible contributions the market ignores.

av Alvin Toffler 2006 512 sider

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🧠 Knowledge Economy 🏛️ Postindustrial Society 👻 Hidden Economy 🌫️ Intangible Assets 🌏 Global Economic Shift

"They Take Our Jobs!"

av Aviva Chomsky • 2007

We blame immigrants for problems that trade deals and colonial extraction actually created.

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📋 Immigration Policy 🚧 Border Militarization 🌍 Global Inequality ⛓️ Labor Exploitation 🪜 Racial Hierarchies

"They Take Our Jobs!"

We blame immigrants for problems that trade deals and colonial extraction actually created.

av Aviva Chomsky 2007 264 sider

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📋 Immigration Policy 🚧 Border Militarization 🌍 Global Inequality ⛓️ Labor Exploitation 🪜 Racial Hierarchies

Freefall

av Joseph E. Stiglitz • 2010

The 2008 crash was a crisis of economic ideas, not just banks. The ideas are still orthodox.

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📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Economic Policy ⚖️ Market Regulation 🔓 Deregulation ⚠️ Moral Hazard

Freefall

The 2008 crash was a crisis of economic ideas, not just banks. The ideas are still orthodox.

av Joseph E. Stiglitz 2010 361 sider

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📉 Financial Crises 🏛️ Economic Policy ⚖️ Market Regulation 🔓 Deregulation ⚠️ Moral Hazard

Age of Revolutions

av Fareed Zakaria • 2024

Four centuries of revolutions reveal one pattern: gradual change sticks; radical breaks collapse.

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🔍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 🔄 Revolution And Reform ⚡ Populist Backlash

Age of Revolutions

Four centuries of revolutions reveal one pattern: gradual change sticks; radical breaks collapse.

av Fareed Zakaria 2024 400 sider

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🔍 Comparative History 💰 Economic History 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 🔄 Revolution And Reform ⚡ Populist Backlash

The Future Is Asian

av Parag Khanna • 2019

The West's two-century dominance was a blip. Asia reclaims the center, with new rules.

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🗺️ Asian Geopolitics 🏛️ Technocratic Governance 🌐 Multipolar World Order 💰 Economic Regionalism 📜 Eurasian History

The Future Is Asian

The West's two-century dominance was a blip. Asia reclaims the center, with new rules.

av Parag Khanna 2019 448 sider

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🗺️ Asian Geopolitics 🏛️ Technocratic Governance 🌐 Multipolar World Order 💰 Economic Regionalism 📜 Eurasian History

Gambling on Development

av Stefan Dercon • 2022

Elite bets on growth, not aid or policy, explain why some nations prosper and others stall.

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🏗️ Development Economics ⚖️ Political Economy 🏛️ State Capacity 👥 Political Elites 💸 Foreign Aid

Gambling on Development

Elite bets on growth, not aid or policy, explain why some nations prosper and others stall.

av Stefan Dercon 2022 360 sider

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🏗️ Development Economics ⚖️ Political Economy 🏛️ State Capacity 👥 Political Elites 💸 Foreign Aid

China's Economy

av Arthur R. Kroeber • 2016

China's economy isn't a miracle: it's a hybrid of one-party rule and market forces at scale.

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🇨🇳 Chinese Economy 🌏 Emerging Markets 🏛️ Political Economy 📦 Export Led Growth 🏭 State Capitalism

China's Economy

China's economy isn't a miracle: it's a hybrid of one-party rule and market forces at scale.

av Arthur R. Kroeber 2016 336 sider

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🇨🇳 Chinese Economy 🌏 Emerging Markets 🏛️ Political Economy 📦 Export Led Growth 🏭 State Capitalism

The Palestine Laboratory

av Antony Loewenstein • 2023

Palestine is a live testing ground. The weapons perfected there now police the world.

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🏭 Defense Industry 📡 Surveillance State 🧱 Border Militarization 🗺️ Ethnonationalism 🔫 Arms Trade

The Palestine Laboratory

Palestine is a live testing ground. The weapons perfected there now police the world.

av Antony Loewenstein 2023 320 sider

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🏭 Defense Industry 📡 Surveillance State 🧱 Border Militarization 🗺️ Ethnonationalism 🔫 Arms Trade

Digital Transformation

av Thomas M. Siebel • 2019

Corporate lifespans dropped from 60 years to 20. Four technologies determine who goes extinct.

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🏭 Digital Disruption 🔄 Organizational Change 👔 CEO Leadership 🤖 AI Strategy ⚔️ AI Arms Race

Digital Transformation

Corporate lifespans dropped from 60 years to 20. Four technologies determine who goes extinct.

av Thomas M. Siebel 2019 253 sider

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🏭 Digital Disruption 🔄 Organizational Change 👔 CEO Leadership 🤖 AI Strategy ⚔️ AI Arms Race

The Capitalist Manifesto

av Johan Norberg • 2023

What brought extreme poverty from 29% to 8% in twenty years? The answer is not what you've been told

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🌍 Poverty Reduction 🌐 Globalization Debate 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 📊 Data-Driven Economics 🌤️ Climate Optimism

The Capitalist Manifesto

What brought extreme poverty from 29% to 8% in twenty years? The answer is not what you've been told

av Johan Norberg 2023 304 sider

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🌍 Poverty Reduction 🌐 Globalization Debate 🏛️ Classical Liberalism 📊 Data-Driven Economics 🌤️ Climate Optimism

The Rare Metals War

av Guillame Pitron • 2018

Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.

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⚡ Energy Transition ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🔗 Supply Chains ⚖️ Environmental Justice ⚔️ Resource Wars

The Rare Metals War

Your electric car runs on metals that leave toxic wastelands and enrich an authoritarian superpower.

av Guillame Pitron 2018 192 sider

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⚡ Energy Transition ⛏️ Resource Extraction 🔗 Supply Chains ⚖️ Environmental Justice ⚔️ Resource Wars

The Mystery Of Capital

av Hernando de Soto • 2000

$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.

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🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Development Economics 🏘️ Informal Economies 🏛️ Institutional Economics ⚖️ Rule Of Law

The Mystery Of Capital

$9.3 trillion: what the world's poor already own and cannot borrow a dime against.

av Hernando de Soto 2000 276 sider

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🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Development Economics 🏘️ Informal Economies 🏛️ Institutional Economics ⚖️ Rule Of Law

The Life You Can Save

av Peter Singer • 2009

Child drowning: you'd wade in. Child dying of malaria: $10 saves her. The moral math is identical.

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🧮 Effective Altruism 🌍 Global Poverty ⚖️ Utilitarian Ethics 💝 Charitable Giving 🌐 Global Justice

The Life You Can Save

Child drowning: you'd wade in. Child dying of malaria: $10 saves her. The moral math is identical.

av Peter Singer 2009 224 sider

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🧮 Effective Altruism 🌍 Global Poverty ⚖️ Utilitarian Ethics 💝 Charitable Giving 🌐 Global Justice

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority

av Martin Gurri • 2014

The digital revolution gave the public the power to destroy institutions but not to replace them.

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📱 Digital Media Politics 🏛️ Crisis Of Authority ✊ Populist Revolt 🌐 Information Ecosystems 📡 Media Ecology

The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority

The digital revolution gave the public the power to destroy institutions but not to replace them.

av Martin Gurri 2014 362 sider

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📱 Digital Media Politics 🏛️ Crisis Of Authority ✊ Populist Revolt 🌐 Information Ecosystems 📡 Media Ecology

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

av Paul Krugman • 2008

2008 was not new. It was Japan's lost decade and Asia's meltdown, repeated.

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🚨 Financial Crises 🌐 Global Finance 🏦 Shadow Banking 💰 Monetary Policy ⚖️ Financial Regulation

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

2008 was not new. It was Japan's lost decade and Asia's meltdown, repeated.

av Paul Krugman 2008 224 sider

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🚨 Financial Crises 🌐 Global Finance 🏦 Shadow Banking 💰 Monetary Policy ⚖️ Financial Regulation

Consumed

av Aja Barber • 2021

Fast fashion is colonialism in new clothes, and its dumping ground is a market in Accra.

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👗 Fast Fashion Critique 🏛️ Colonial Legacies ⛓️ Supply Chain Ethics ♻️ Textile Waste 🎭 Cultural Appropriation

Consumed

Fast fashion is colonialism in new clothes, and its dumping ground is a market in Accra.

av Aja Barber 2021 288 sider

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👗 Fast Fashion Critique 🏛️ Colonial Legacies ⛓️ Supply Chain Ethics ♻️ Textile Waste 🎭 Cultural Appropriation

China After Mao

av Frank Dikötter • 2022

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

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📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

China After Mao

Deng's reforms weren't a path to democracy; they were the same dictatorship with a market face.

av Frank Dikötter 2022 416 sider

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📜 Modern Chinese History 💰 State Capitalism ⛓️ Authoritarian Rule 📹 Surveillance State 🌫️ Environmental Damage

The Global Minotaur

av Yanis Varoufakis • 2011

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

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🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

The Global Minotaur

Global prosperity ran on America's twin deficits from the 1970s until 2008. Then the engine died.

av Yanis Varoufakis 2011 252 sider

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🏦 International Economics 🏛️ Political Economy 📉 Financial Crises 💵 Dollar Hegemony 🏭 Financialization

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

av Martin Wolf • 2023

The system that delivered freedom and prosperity is devouring itself from the inside.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 💰 Rent-Seeking 📉 Inequality 🗣️ Populism

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism

The system that delivered freedom and prosperity is devouring itself from the inside.

av Martin Wolf 2023 496 sider

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🏛️ Political Economy 🗳️ Liberal Democracy 💰 Rent-Seeking 📉 Inequality 🗣️ Populism

Upheaval

av Jared Diamond • 2019

Crisis therapy adapted to nations: six countries reveal which recoveries work, why America's next.

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🌍 National Crises 🗳️ Comparative Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 🛡️ Political Resilience 🏴 National Identity

Upheaval

Crisis therapy adapted to nations: six countries reveal which recoveries work, why America's next.

av Jared Diamond 2019 575 sider

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🌍 National Crises 🗳️ Comparative Politics 🏗️ Nation-Building 🛡️ Political Resilience 🏴 National Identity

Overbooked

av Elizabeth Becker • 2013

The biggest unregulated industry on earth, measured in six destinations and a billion annual trips.

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🏨 Tourism Industry 🔍 Investigative Journalism 👥 Mass Tourism 🌱 Sustainable Tourism 🏛️ Cultural Preservation

Overbooked

The biggest unregulated industry on earth, measured in six destinations and a billion annual trips.

av Elizabeth Becker 2013 464 sider

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🏨 Tourism Industry 🔍 Investigative Journalism 👥 Mass Tourism 🌱 Sustainable Tourism 🏛️ Cultural Preservation

Treasure Islands

av Nicholas Shaxson • 2011

For every dollar in foreign aid, ten flee into tax havens. London's hidden City runs the system.

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🏝️ Offshore Finance ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏢 Corporate Crime 🏦 Financial Regulation 📜 Economic History

Treasure Islands

For every dollar in foreign aid, ten flee into tax havens. London's hidden City runs the system.

av Nicholas Shaxson 2011 272 sider

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🏝️ Offshore Finance ⚖️ Global Inequality 🏢 Corporate Crime 🏦 Financial Regulation 📜 Economic History

Crisis Economics

av Nouriel Roubini • 2010

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

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💥 Financial Crises 🌐 Global Finance ⚠️ Systemic Risk 💸 Debt And Leverage 🫧 Market Bubbles

Crisis Economics

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

av Nouriel Roubini 2010 368 sider

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💥 Financial Crises 🌐 Global Finance ⚠️ Systemic Risk 💸 Debt And Leverage 🫧 Market Bubbles

A Century of War

av F. William Engdahl • 1992

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

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🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

A Century of War

How Anglo-American elites controlled oil to engineer a century of wars and financial crises.

av F. William Engdahl 1992 312 sider

4.20

480 vurderinger

🛢️ Oil Geopolitics 🇬🇧🇺🇸 Anglo-American Power 💵 Petrodollar System 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 British Empire ⚠️ Manufactured Crises

The Geopolitics of Emotion

av Dominique Moïsi • 2008

Oil and armies are not what drive nations. The real forces: fear, hope, and humiliation.

3.65

500+

🗺️ Geopolitics 🧠 Political Psychology ❤️ Emotion And Politics 🌐 Cultural Psychology 🐉 Asian Century

The Geopolitics of Emotion

Oil and armies are not what drive nations. The real forces: fear, hope, and humiliation.

av Dominique Moïsi 2008 176 sider

3.65

500+ vurderinger

🗺️ Geopolitics 🧠 Political Psychology ❤️ Emotion And Politics 🌐 Cultural Psychology 🐉 Asian Century

Soros on Soros

av George Soros • 1994

A billionaire trader's core idea: beliefs warp markets, and the pattern repeats until it breaks.

3.75

500+

💭 Philosophy Of Economics 🌐 Open Society Theory 🎢 Boom And Bust Cycles 🧐 Intellectual Humility 📖 Investor Memoirs

Soros on Soros

A billionaire trader's core idea: beliefs warp markets, and the pattern repeats until it breaks.

av George Soros 1994 336 sider

3.75

500+ vurderinger

💭 Philosophy Of Economics 🌐 Open Society Theory 🎢 Boom And Bust Cycles 🧐 Intellectual Humility 📖 Investor Memoirs

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

av Yuen Yuen Ang • 2016

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

4.30

410

🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

How China Escaped the Poverty Trap

China grew rich using the very governance flaws that experts said would doom it.

av Yuen Yuen Ang 2016 503 sider

4.30

410 vurderinger

🏗️ Development Economics 📈 Political Economy 🔄 Institutional Change 🧭 Adaptive Governance 🧪 Local Experimentation

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