Genres: Economics

  • Thinking in Systems – Donella H Meadows

    Thinking in Systems – Donella H Meadows

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    Just a few pages into this book I was expecting a fairly dense book on the mechanics of systems thinking. In fact I assumed the first chapter was a warmup to deep hard to wrap my head around topics. I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn’t that type of book. Meadows treats readers to a…

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  • The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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    This is supposed to be some all fired amazing book about randomness. The title is derived from the idea that Europeans thought all swans were black until they visited Australia and suddenly found a black swan. They had no way of knowing that what they thought was true was untrue until confronted by the evidence.…

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  • Democracy at Work – Richard Wolff

    Democracy at Work – Richard Wolff

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    The biggest idea was intrigued by here was radical democracy, which in this context means that only workers have any say in the ways they work and the ways that any surplus (profits) from their work are spent at their place of work. There are no boards, no shareholders, no owners unless you are doing…

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  • More Human – Steve Hilton

    More Human – Steve Hilton

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    In More Human former UK government insider attempts to propose a way to make life more suitable to the humans who have to live it instead of the corporations who seemingly dictate so much of the life humans live. While Steve hits some good notes, he also widely misses the mark on many others. Hilton…

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  • Against Creativity – Oli Mould

    Against Creativity – Oli Mould

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    In Against Creativity, Oli Mould, takes a critical look at the creativity the world wants to push on us. Your boss cuts funding and says that you need to be “creative” to provide the same level of service with half the employees. What they really mean is you should work extra hours for the same…

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  • The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein

    The Color of Law – Richard Rothstein

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    The Color of Law looks at how redlining affected the wealth of Black Americans after Word War 2. From not letting Black Vetrans get the financing that all Vetrans were supposed to be eligible for, to breaking up Black neighbourhoods for “public projects” this is a sobering look at how white people stole wealth from…

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  • Dark PR – Grant Ennis

    Dark PR – Grant Ennis

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    Dark PR walks readers through all the “framing” companies do to minimize their responsibility so that they can keep doing the terrible shit they are doing. From car companies showing us all their “magic” features that will save lives, to blaming some random person walking on the street for not being visible enough (victim blaming)…

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  • Foreverism – Grafton Tanner

    Foreverism – Grafton Tanner

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    In Foreverism, Grafton Tanner, examines the push towards nostalgia shown in society today. From endless reboots, which are safer than new properties thus more likely to profit, to gadgets that continue to get improved so that we always have a fresh one to purchase, capitalism doesn’t want our consumerism to die as that would stop…

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  • Everything and Less – The Novel in the Age of Amazon

    Everything and Less – The Novel in the Age of Amazon

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    This is a fairly academic look at how Amazon has affected the world of literary fiction, and genre fiction. It takes a brief look at the enshittification cycle that Amazon is embarking on as it changes it’s stance from growing the sellers on it’s platform, to driving prices down and extracting as much profit as…

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  • The Bill Gates Problem – Tim Schwab

    The Bill Gates Problem – Tim Schwab

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    While we may think that Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation is a benevolent Billionaire philanthropist, it’s not quite so clear. This book shows how Gates has used his many dollars and foundations to avoid taxes and push a Big Tech capitalist mindset on assisting other countries. Yes your tax dollars pay for about 50%…

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