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Capitalism, Economics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

February 24, 2023February 23, 2023

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back – Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

You should read this book and become upset at tech giants, in case you weren’t already.

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Conservative, Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

June 17, 2022August 21, 2021

Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World – Charles Koch

If you hate Charles Koch you should steal a copy of ‘Believe in People’ and read it. It’ll just make you hate him more.

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Economics, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Novel, Politics, Sociology  0 Comments

April 15, 2022May 10, 2021

Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present – Yanis Varoufakis

Regardless of the author, writing a Utopia has always been a bad idea.

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Comics, Economics, History, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

October 1, 2021May 20, 2021

Economix – Michael Goodwin and Dan E. Burr

Want to understand the economy? Look elsewhere. Want to understand economic history? This may help.

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Economics, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 30, 2021November 29, 2020

Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison

The word of the day is: Malthusian

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Economics, Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

November 27, 2020October 2, 2020

The Second Machine Age – Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew Mcafee

If you come into a book looking to answer just one question, you may come out of it disappointed.

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Capitalism, Economics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

October 16, 2020September 9, 2020

The System Worked – Daniel W. Drezner

Paging Dr Pangloss.

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Economics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 24, 2020September 18, 2019

Talking to my Daughter About the Economy, or How Capitalism Works – and How It Fails – Yanis Varoufakis

I don’t know if distilling economics gives you correct simplifications, but it does make good reading.

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Capitalism, Current Events, Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

October 4, 2019October 1, 2019

The War on Normal People – Andrew Yang

I’ve been concerned about the problem of automation for years, and considered a universal basic income a solution. This book is a much larger look at the issue.

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Capitalism, Economics, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

August 16, 2019April 5, 2019

Makers – Cory Doctorow

Makers by Cory Doctorow really seems to cement the point that Doctorow just really hates the Disney corporation.

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