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Looking for a new book to dive into? Our in-depth reviews cover some of the best new books being released into the world and use those books to gain a better understanding of the world, helping guide where to go—and what to read—next.
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Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Sara Horowitz's new book is based on an idea that is as old as humankind, and a tradition that is so entrenched in our country that we don’t even notice it. But it is still going strong even if it has been eroded. It is the idea of an “economic system of mutual obligation.”
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The Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
The idea of “what’s good for business” is changing. The “walls between business and society” that kept companies shielded from a full accounting of their effect on society while maintaining an outsized influence over it, are crumbling. The “core assumptions and dominant beliefs” of business are slowly evolving, being pushed by both outside activists and those within. Judy Samuelson is one of those champions.
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The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
There is a lot of disinformation out there, but there is also a lot of good information provided by hard-working individuals dedicated to providing good numbers for us to base big decisions on. Tim Harford helps us identify the difference.
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Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
" An award-winning psychologist reveals how to overcome the negative voice in your head and go from inner critic to inner coach."
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We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
America was founded upon an idea of what might be possible, not what was—that we can bring about a society that honors the human dignity inherent in us all and extends opportunity to those who’ve been denied it in the past. To that end, Mitchell Weiss reminds us, "We get the government we invent."
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The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
The two through lines of America (and any exceptionalism it may exhibit) have always been personal freedom and a commitment to the greater whole. They seem at odds with each other, but they are inextricably intertwined.
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When More Is Not Better: Overcoming America's Obsession with Economic Efficiency
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
In his latest book, Roger Martin warns us that, "In the case of American democratic capitalism, the proxies that we have adopted for measuring and driving efficiency are turning our pursuit of efficiency into a destructive force."
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Outside the Box: How Globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
The issue of international trade and globalization is often used as political cudgel. Marc Levinson’s new book about globalization’s multiple incarnations, its present state, and our potential future, provides an antidote based in historical fact and analysis.
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The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work That Matters Most
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Nobody is really anti-innovation—at least not many people, not anymore. But, as the authors of THE INNOVATION DELUSION make clear, it is not the most important element in our lives, or in the economy.
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Accountable: The Rise of Citizen Capitalism
Book Review by Dylan Schleicher
Michael O'Leary and Warren Valdmanis show that it is not even in investors' interests to have such a focus on short-term profits, to allow a system that is currently creating so much inequality, releasing so much carbon into the air, failing too many people.
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