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The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller

How Money Became Dangerous by Christopher Varelas

The Trouble With Billionaires: Why Too Much Money At The Top Is Bad For Everyone by Linda McQuaig

A World Without Work by Daniel Susskind

When the wolves bite by Scott Wapner

"With their unprecedented amounts of capital and their savvy understanding of business, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have …

The Book by Keith Houston

Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, …

The Technology Trap by Carl Benedikt Frey

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac

In June 2017, Travis Kalanick, the hard-charging CEO of Uber, was ousted in a boardroom coup that capped a brutal …

1983: The World at the Brink by Taylor Downing

Hired: Six Months Undercover in Low-Wage Britain by James Bloodworth

Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch

A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language.

Language is humanity's most spectacular …

Catch-67 by Micah Goodman

Since the Six-Day War, Israelis have been entrenched in a national debate over whether to keep the land they conquered …

The next factory of the world by Irene Yuan Sun

China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa: largest trade partner, largest infrastructure financier, and fastest-growing source of foreign …

Licence to Be Bad by Jonathan Aldred

Transaction Man by Nicholas Lemann (No)