Economics
The Affluent Society - John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith
In progress review to come. Purchase on Bookshop.org - support local bookstores Purchase on Amazon
At the Trough - Laurent Carbonneau
Laurent Carbonneau
At The Trough continues my curiosity at Canadian focused looks at the economy, and ties in with Corporate Control from a few weeks back. Here Laurent Carbonneau looks at the Canadian corporate welfar
Corporate Control - Nora Loreto
Nora Loreto
Much like Dark PR I see in this government subsidizing industries that really aren't good for the people that live in the country, the people that government is supposed to be serving. From choosing
Apple in China - Patrick McGee
Patrick McGee
Apple in China paints a picture of a company that took Steve Jobs personality to heart. From Tony Blevin's making deals that put workers in dire situations at Foxconn so that the company could hit th
Thinking in Systems - Donella H Meadows
Donella H Meadows
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.
The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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 b
More Human - Steve Hilton
Steve Hilton
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
Democracy at Work - Richard Wolff
Richard Wolff
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
Against Creativity - Oli Mould
Oli Mould
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
Everything and Less - The Novel in the Age of Amazon
Mark McGurl
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 chang