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Books like Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

12 books with a reading profile close to Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.

1

The Great Escape

by Angus Deaton

Also outward-looking · history, analytical

Angus Deaton examines the historical divergence in global living standards, tracking how breakthroughs in medicine and economic productivity allowed specific populations to exit lives of poverty and early death.
2

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

by Jane Mayer

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical

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

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

by Naomi Klein

Also outward-looking · analytical, economics

Naomi Klein argues that the current global economic model and the survival of the planetary ecosystem are fundamentally at odds.
4

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't

by Nate Silver

Also outward-looking · analytical, economics

Nate Silver examines why human forecasts often fail by distinguishing between the "signal," which represents meaningful patterns, and "noise," which is random data that obscures truth.
5

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

by Cathy O'Neil

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, economics

Cathy O’Neil identifies a specific breed of algorithmic modeling she labels Weapons of Math Destruction.
6

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical

Niall Ferguson traces the evolution of global finance through the development of credit, banking, bond markets, and insurance.
7

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

by Beth Macy

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical

Beth Macy chronicles the rise of the opioid crisis within the Appalachian region, documenting how the aggressive marketing of OxyContin by Purdue Pharma ignited a public health disaster.
8

Chaos: Making a New Science

by James Gleick

Also outward-looking · history, analytical

James Gleick chronicles the emergence of a new physics centered on non-linear systems and unpredictable behavior.
9

The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

by Michael Lewis

Also outward-looking · history, analytical

In this study of federal governance, Michael Lewis details the transition between the Obama and Trump administrations, focusing on the Department of Energy, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Commerce.
10

The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

by Deborah Blum

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical

In Jazz Age New York, poison was the perfect weapon because medical examiners lacked the chemical knowledge to detect it in human tissue.
11

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by Naomi Klein

Also outward-looking · history, analytical

Naomi Klein argues that free-market economists use large-scale crises to push through unpopular neoliberal policies while citizens are in states of collective shock.
12

Poverty, by America

by Matthew Desmond

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, analytical

Matthew Desmond identifies the persistence of American poverty as a deliberate byproduct of the advantages enjoyed by the secure classes.

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