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Books like Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

12 books with a reading profile close to Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients by Ben Goldacre. Outward-looking and growth-minded; a moderate read.

1

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

by Caroline Criado Pérez

Also outward-looking · analytical, academic

Caroline Criado Perez details a persistent global phenomenon called the gender data gap, where the male body and lifestyle are treated as the human default.
2

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

by Jane Mayer

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, data driven

Jane Mayer tracks the decades-long evolution of a coordinated political network funded by ultraconservative billionaires, most notably Charles and David Koch.
3

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

by Matthew Desmond

Also outward-looking · analytical, academic

Matthew Desmond tracks eight families in Milwaukee as they navigate the private rental market, illustrating how eviction functions as a cause, rather than just a symptom, of poverty.
4

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein

Also outward-looking · analytical, data driven

Naomi Klein argues that the current global economic model and the survival of the planetary ecosystem are fundamentally at odds.
5

Microsoft Secrets

by Michael A. Cusumano, Richard W. Selby

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, data driven

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6

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

by Jared Diamond

Also outward-looking · analytical, academic

Jared Diamond examines why some civilizations vanish while others endure by applying a five-point framework of environmental collapse.
7

Accounting for Sustainability

by Anthony G. Hopwood, Jeffrey Unerman

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, academic

Accounting for Sustainability provides a technical framework for integrating environmental and social impacts into corporate financial systems.
8

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

Also outward-looking · analytical, academic

Michelle Alexander argues that the American legal system functions as a contemporary mechanism of racial control, effectively relegating millions of Black men to a permanent second-class status.
9

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, data driven

Cathy O’Neil identifies a specific breed of algorithmic modeling she labels Weapons of Math Destruction.
10

Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To

by David A. Sinclair

Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, data driven

David Sinclair proposes that aging is a treatable medical condition rather than an inevitable biological decay.
11

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

by Richard Dawkins

Also outward-looking · analytical, academic

Richard Dawkins assembles a cumulative case for biological evolution, positioning it as an established fact rather than a tentative hypothesis.
12

Capital in the Twenty First Century

by Thomas Piketty

Also outward-looking · analytical, academic

Thomas Piketty examines the historical evolution of wealth concentration through an analysis of data spanning three centuries across twenty countries.

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