Books like Free: The Future of a Radical Price
12 books with a reading profile close to Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. Outward-looking, growth-minded and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
by Michael Moss
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Michael Moss investigates how multinational food corporations utilize laboratory science to maximize consumer consumption.
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Abundance
by Ezra Klein
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Ezra Klein examines the structural hurdles preventing the United States from building the infrastructure, housing, and clean energy technology required for a functional future.
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Economics Explained
by Robert L. Heilbroner, Lester Thurow
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, economics
Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow provide a foundational breakdown of how capital, labor, and markets operate within a modern society.
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Chris Anderson explains the shift from a hit-driven culture to a niche-driven economy enabled by digital distribution.
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Thomas L.
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The Undercover Economist
by Tim Harford
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, economics
Tim Harford explains how price discrimination, scarcity power, and information asymmetry dictate the costs of daily life.
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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics
Rutger Bregman argues that modern society has lost its capacity for visionary thinking and proposes three specific policies to reclaim progress.
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, economics
John Perkins details his career as a consultant for MAIN, where he manipulated developing nations into accepting massive infrastructure loans.
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Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · analytical, business strategy
Andrew Ross Sorkin reconstructs the day-by-day mechanics of the 2008 financial collapse, focusing on the frantic negotiations between Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke, and the chief e…
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, economics
Michael Lewis details the rise of high-frequency trading and its impact on the American stock market.
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · analytical, economics
Michael Lewis tracks the global aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis by visiting nations that experienced extreme credit bubbles.
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Rich Dad's Prophecy
Also outward-looking and growth-minded · business strategy, economics
Robert Kiyosaki argues that the trillion-dollar influx of 401(k) and IRA contributions from the Baby Boomer generation created an artificial bubble in the stock market.
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