Economics Books
Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, aut…
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Künstliche Intelligenz ist die Coming Wave, der nächste technologische Sprung, der sich nicht aufhalten lässt. Wir nähern uns einem kritisc…
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today's industrial revolution will…
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shippin…
Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it; and TV ads hailed it as the…
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles -- and All of Us
A penetrating indictment of how today’s largest tech companies are hijacking our data, our livelihoods, our social fabric, and our minds—from an a…
How Innovation Works: Serendipity, Energy and the Saving of Time
Innovation is the main event of the modern age, the reason we experience both dramatic improvements in our living standards and unsettling changes…
Abundance
From bestselling authors and journalistic titans Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Abundance is a once-in-a-generation, paradigm-shifting call to ret…
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough ed…
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER National Bestseller * New York Times Editors’ Choice * Financial Times “Books to Read in 2022” A SABEW…