Economics Books
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Explaining the process of the “enshittification” of digital platforms over time and what to do about it. Cory Doctorow's Enshittification t…
Technics and Civilization
This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the mac…
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human j…
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life
A field manual to the technologies that are transforming our lives Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our l…
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives--where we go to school, whether we can get a job or a loan,…
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship o…
Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies
Mastering Bitcoin is essential reading for everyone interested in learning about bitcoin basics, the technical operation of bitcoin, or if you're …
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things a…
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times technology correspondent presents the dramatic story of Uber, the Silico…
Free: The Future of a Radical Price
Reveals how to run an online business profitably in spite of the Internet's inherently free culture, disseminating the principles of a ''priceless…