Editor's Choice
Looking for a new book to dive into? Our in-depth reviews cover some of the best new books being released into the world and use those books to gain a better understanding of the world, helping guide where to go—and what to read—next.
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When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
In his latest book, Roger Martin warns us that, "In the case of American democratic capitalism, the proxies that we have adopted for measuring and driving efficiency are turning our pursuit of efficiency into a destructive force."
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Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
The issue of international trade and globalization is often used as political cudgel. Marc Levinson’s new book about globalization’s multiple incarnations, its present state, and our potential future, provides an antidote based in historical fact and analysis.
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The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Nobody is really anti-innovation—at least not many people, not anymore. But, as the authors of THE INNOVATION DELUSION make clear, it is not the most important element in our lives, or in the economy.
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Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis show that it is not even in investors' interests to have such a focus on short-term profits, to allow a system that is currently creating so much inequality, releasing so much carbon into the air, failing too many people.
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
We have inherited and continue to live in a caste system, one that was built on and is still based on an arbitrary difference between people—the color of their skin.
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Break 'em Up: Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Zephyr Teachout explains how monopoly power is a form of government—and a form of tyranny.
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Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Change is not only occurring in the world around us, but in the worlds within us. What we’re going through now is going to change the story and alter the shape of our lives.
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Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
A free press is foundational to a free society. We have gone too far in trading ours for the Silicon Valley notion that information wants to be free, even as Silicon Valley has built some of the world’s largest, most monopolistic corporations monetizing that supposedly “free” information.
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Book Review by Porchlight
John Maynard Keynes stared down two world wars and the Great Depression, and in response offered hope and optimism to the world through sound economic policy.
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Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History's First Global Manhunt
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Steven Johnson explains an inflection point in economic, political, and human history with a tale of high crimes on the high seas.
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