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Anne Case & Angus Deaton
Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
A groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class.
New York Times Bestseller. Wall Street Journal Bestseller. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year.
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Jill Lepore
If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
A revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller These Truths.
Best Books of Fall 2020: O, The Oprah Magazine, The Observer, Boston.com. Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2020: TIME.
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Sarah Frier
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
A book about what happened after Facebook bought its rival picture-based social networking site Instagram in 2012. In this “sequel to The Social Network” (The New York Times), award-winning reporter Sarah Frier reveals the never-before-told story of how Instagram became the most culturally defining app of the decade.
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Reed Hastings
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
It's time to do things differently. Trust your team. Be radically honest. And never, ever try to please your boss.
These are some of the ground rules if you work at Netflix. They are part of a unique cultural experiment that explains how the company has transformed itself at lightning speed from a DVD mail order service into a streaming superpower.
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Rebecca Henderson
Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top. The time for action is running short.
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Daniel Susskind
A World Without Work
From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.
