The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: The International Bestseller Carlo M. Cipolla
Sort the intelligent from the stupid, and the helpless from the bandits ahead of the 2019 general election.'A classic' - Simon Kuper, Financial Times'This is brilliant' - James O'Brien, author of How to be RightThe five laws that confirm our worst fe...
Behold a Pale Horse Milton William Cooper
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Bill Cooper, former United States Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member, reveals information that remains hidden from the public eye. This information has been kept in topsecret government files since the 1940s. His audiences hear the ...
Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam
Once we bowled in leagues, usually after work -- but no longer. This seemingly small phenomenon symbolizes a significant social change that Robert Putnam has identified in this brilliant volume, Bowling Alone , which The Economist hailed as "a prodi...
Breakdown of Will George Ainslie
Ainslie argues that our responses to the threat of our own inconsistency determine the basic fabric of human culture. He suggests that individuals are more like populations of bargaining agents than like the hierarchical command structures envisaged...
Discrimination and Disparities Thomas Sowell
An empirical examination of how economic and other disparities arise Economic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with less fortuna...
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner Daniel Ellsberg
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Yea...
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy Raghuram G. Rajan
From an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economyRaghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggle...
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, 1965-2000 Lee Kuan Yew
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when independence was thrust upon it in 1965. Today the former British trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis with one of the world’s highest per capita income. The story of that transformation is...
Good Economics for Hard Times Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo
The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time...
Leviathan Thomas Hobbes
By a deep and careful analysis of the text, enabling a new printing history of Leviathan to be constructed, this edition demonstrates that the traditional picture is substantially wrong. Both the Bear and Ornaments editions contain corrections and ch...
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of the New Elite Sebastian Mallaby
Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge-find managers have emerged as the stars of twenty-first century capitalism. Based on unprecedented access to the industry, More Money Than God provides the first authoritative history of hedge fund...
Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel Tom Wainwright
Picking his way through Andean cocaine fields, Central American prisons, Colorado pot shops, and the online drug dens of the Dark Web, Tom Wainwright provides a fresh, innovative look into the drug trade and its 250 million customers. More than just...
A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn
Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools–with its emphasis on great men in high p...
The Road to Serfdom Friedrich A von Hayek
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A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in ...
The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control John D. Marks
From 16,000 pages of CIA documents, interviews and behavioral science studies, the author uncovers the shocking truth about the CIA's experiments with drug-testing and mind control. He shows the tragic consequences for freedom when a government agen...
So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America
Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has pu...
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World Raghuram Rajan
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019 From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization and how re...
Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity Lilliana Mason
Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable...
Why Honor Matters Tamler Sommers
A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality
To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamle...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World Anand Giridharadas
The New York Times bestselling, groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite's efforts to "change the world" preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve. An essential read for understandin...
Woke: A Guide to Social Justice Titania McGrath
'The book everyone's talking about' The Times'Titania McGrath is a genius' Spectator'Just as Bridget Jones was the embodiment of the anxiety-ridden Nineties feminist, a creation whose diary entries encapsulated all our hopes, fears and failures, so T...
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future Blake Masters
If you want to build a better future, you must believe in secrets. The great secret of our time is that there are still uncharted frontiers to explore and new inventions to create. In Zero to One, legendary entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel shows...
