BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
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1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, “the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,” comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history one with ripple effects that still shape our society today
In 1929, the world watched in shock as the unstoppable Wall Street bull market went into a freefall, wiping out fortunes and igniting a depression that would reshape a generation. But behind the flashing ticker tapes and panicked traders, another drama unfolded—one of visionaries and fraudsters, titans and dreamers, euphoria and ruin.
Sorkin delivers an immersive, electrifying account of the most pivotal market collapse of all time—with lessons that remain as urgent as ever. More than just a history, 1929 is a crucial blueprint for understanding the cycles of speculation, the forces that drive financial upheaval, and the warning signs we ignore at our peril.
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Moral Ambition
Rutger Bregman
Every day we’re bombarded with methods, mantras and life hacks that promise us wellness and prosperity – while time and talent remain some of our most squandered resources. The average full-time worker will spend 80,000 hours at their job: are you making the most of them? Do you truly believe in what you do, day in, day out?
Rutger Bregman shows us that with moral ambition – the will to make the world a wildly better place – we can be both idealistic and successful, and change the world along the way. Uncovering the qualities that made the great change-makers of history so effective, he shows how we too can lend our talents to the biggest challenges of our time, from climate change to inequality to the next pandemic. With moral ambition, we can do more than be on the right side of history: we can make history itself.
This book won’t make your life easier, but it should make it more meaningful. The question is: what will you do with it?
1929
Andrew Ross Sorkin
How to Save the Internet
Nick Clegg
The Happy Index
James Timpson
Moral Ambition
Rutger Bregman
The Art of Spending Money
Morgan Housel
The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett
The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer
Ken Costa
Gambling Man
Lionel Barber
The Trading Game
Gary Stevenson
The 5 Types of Wealth
Sahil Bloom
Embracing Uncertainty
Margaret Heffernan
The Seven Rules of Trust
Jimmy Wales
The Six-Minute Entrepreneur
Sara Davies
Start With Why
Simon Sinek
The Stoic Capitalist
Robert Rosenkranz
Human Resources
Renay Richardson and Arisa Loomba
The Age of Extraction
Tim Wu
Capitalism and Its Critics
John Cassidy
Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Green Budget Guide
Nancy Birtwhistle
Hayek's Bastards
Quinn Slobodian
Power Manifesting
Paul McKenna
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Rule Breaker Investing
David Gardner
Strong Ground
Brené Brown
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck UK
Mark Manson
Without Reservation
Jeremy King
Code Dependent
Madhumita Murgia
How Not to Mess Up Your Startup
Tom Fairey
The Invisible Doctrine
George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison
Karma Capitalism
James Reed
The Land Trap
Mike Bird
The Power to Change
Chuck Chakrapani
Ruthless
Edmond Smith
Seven Myths About Money
Rob Dix
The Technological Republic
Alexander C.Karp and Nicholas W.Zamiska
Think and Grow Rich (The Concise Classic)
Napoleon Hill
What You're Made For
Ryan Holiday and George Raveling
Adaptability
Denise Lewis
The AI Con
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
Capitalism
Sven Beckert
Growth
Daniel Susskind
The Hidden Globe
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
A Little History of Economics
Niall Kishtainy
Money
David McWilliams
The Optimist
Keach Hagey
The Price is Wrong
Brett Christophers
Property
Rowan Moore
Space to Grow
Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau
Supremacy
Parmy Olson
Why We’re Getting Poorer
Cahal Moran
The Winner's Curse
Richard H. Thaler and Alex O. Imas
Africonomics
Bronwen Everill
Blood and Treasure
Duncan Weldon
The Book of Money
A Climate of Truth
Mike Berners-Lee
Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic
Saabira Chaudhuri
Countdown to Riches
Rhonda Byrne
Empire of AI
Karen Hao
Environomics
Dharshini David
Equality Is a Struggle
Thomas Piketty
Exile Economics
Ben Chu
Friends That Invest
Simran Kaur
The Glass Cliff
Sophie Williams
The Infinite Alphabet
César A. Hidalgo
Influence
Justin Hempson-Jones
The Invention of Infinite Growth
Christopher F. Jones
Just F**king Say It
Susie Ashfield
Life in the Pitlane
Calum Nicholas
The Master's Tools
Michael A. McCarthy
The New Geography of Innovation
Mehran Gul
Over Work
Brigid Schulte
The Philosopher in the Valley
Michael Steinberger
The Real Economy
Jonathan Levy
The Secret History of Gold
Dominic Frisby
Secrets of the Career Game
Kendall Berg
Spirit Untamed
Ajaz Ahmed
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
The Tesla Files
Sönke Iwersen and Michael Verfürden
The Next Crisis
Danny Dorling
The Thinking Machine
Stephen Witt
Tiny Experiments
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Tokens
Rachel O'Dwyer
Breakneck
Dan Wang
Chokepoints
Edward Fishman
The Tree that Bends
Ross G White
House of Huawei
Eva Dou
How Progress Ends
Carl Benedikt Frey
What's Your Dream?
Simon Squibb
What Went Wrong With Capitalism
Ruchir Sharma
Dirtbag Billionaire
David Gelles
What We Value
Emily Falk
Enshittification
Cory Doctorow
No More Tears
Gardiner Harris
When We Sold God's Eye
Alex Cuadros
Who Owns the Moon?
A. C. Grayling
Your Life Is Manufactured
Tim Minshall
You Deserve To Be Rich: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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The Land Trap
Mike Bird
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The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
John Kay
'Original and thought-provoking... A brilliantly erudite account of the major waves in the theory and practice of management.' ~ Financial Times
For generations, we have defined a corporation as a business that uses its accumulated wealth to own the means of production and exercise economic power. That is no longer the reality.
Corporations no longer control their own industries, and our most desired goods and services aren't stacked in container ships: they appear on your screen, fit in your pocket or occupy your head. But even as we consume more than ever before, big business faces a crisis of legitimacy.
In incisive, provocative prose, economist John Kay describes how the pursuit of shareholder value has destroyed mammoth companies, redefines successful commercial activity, and looks to the future of what the corporation might be.
Doughnut Economics
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Turn The Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett
Paying It Forward
Josh Littlejohn
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People: Revised and Updated
Stephen R. Covey and Sean Covey
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
The 80/20 Principle
Richard Koch
Mindset - Updated Edition
Carol Dweck
The Art of People
Dave Kerpen
Legacy
James Kerr
Start With Why
Simon Sinek
Higher Ground
Alison Taylor
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara
Radical Candor
Kim Scott
Dare to Lead
Brené Brown
Friends That Invest
Simran Kaur
The Intelligent Investor Third Edition
Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig
Girls Just Wanna Have Funds
Camilla Falkenberg, Emma Due Bitz and Anna-Sophie Hartvigsen
We Need to Talk About Money
Otegha Uwagba
The Trading Game
Gary Stevenson
Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis
The Culture Map
Erin Meyer
Follow the Money
Paul Johnson
The Wealth Of Nations
Adam Smith
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Abundance
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Debt
David Graeber
The Value of a Whale
Adrienne Buller
Vulture Capitalism
Grace Blakeley
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
The Big Con
Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington
The Value of Everything
Mariana Mazzucato
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
TAXTOPIA
The Rebel Accountant
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Technology Trap
Carl Benedikt Frey
Economics for the Common Good
Jean Tirole
The Technology Trap
Carl Benedikt Frey
Can’t We Just Print More Money?
Rupal Patel and Jack Meaning
Supremacy
Parmy Olson
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
John Kay
Right Kind of Wrong
Amy Edmondson
Chip War
Chris Miller
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends
Nicole Perlroth
Empire of Pain
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us.
Zuboff shows that we are at a crossroads. We still have the power to decide what kind of world we want to live in, and what we decide now will shape the rest of the century. Our choices: allow technology to enrich the few and impoverish the many, or harness it and distribute its benefits.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a deeply-reasoned examination of the threat of unprecedented power free from democratic oversight. Most critically, it shows how we can protect ourselves and our communities and ensure we are the masters of the digital rather than its slaves.