A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single book. Here you can find a sampling of the many sources on which we rely to learn about our ever-changing world. Our scope is broad and our interests eclectic. Feel free to check the archives, for we often refer back to these materials for fresh insights.
Happy reading!
Winter 2020
Books
Politics & Culture
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshanna Zuboff
Uncanny Valley, Anna Weiner
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber
The Theory of the Leisure Class, Torsten Veblen
The Case Against Education, Bryan Caplan
Manufacturing Consent, Noam Chomsky
The Seneca Effect, Ugo Bardi
Edmund Burke, Jesse Norman
Rendez-Vous with Oblivion, Thomas Frank
Sh*t Show! The Country's Collapsing...and the Ratings are Great, Charlie LeDuff
Economics & Finance
Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, Hyman Minsky
Fed Up, Danielle DiMartino Booth
Debt, the First 5,000 Years, David Graeber
The Great Crash of 1929, John Kenneth Galbraith
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, Matt Stoller
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, Rana Foroohar
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition, Jonathan Tepper & Denise Hearn
Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government, Paul Volcker
Risk Less and Prosper: Your Guide to Safer Investing, Zvi Grilliches
Business
Small Giants: Companies that Choose to be Great Instead of Big, Bo Burlingham
The Coaching Habit, Michael Bungay Stanier
Psychology & Health
An American Sickness, Elisabeth Rosenthal
Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker
The Coddling of the American Mind, Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
The Narcissist in Your Life, Julie Hall
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error, Kathryn Schultz
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life, Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
On the Shortness of Life: Life is Long if You Know How to Use It, Seneca
Fiction
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gilead, Marilyn Robinson
Early Warning, Jane Smiley
Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
American Triangle, Nelda Hirsh
Articles
Coronavirus
400 million locked down in China to fight coronavirus
It’s past time to tell the public it will probably go pandemic and we should all prepare now
Why does the US have so few confirmed coronavirus cases?
Only three US states can test for coronavirus says public lab group
Coronavirus threatens shortages of about 150 drugs
https://twitter.com/Barton_options
https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk
https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD
https://twitter.com/HelenBranswell
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing
https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd
Dystopian Technology
Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
New Mexico Attorney General Sues Google Over Kiddie Privacy
You Are Now Remotely Controlled
Surveillance Capitalism (video)
Lawmakers Say Financial Giant Envestnet Has Been Selling User Data Without Telling Them
Leaked Document Shows How Big Companies Buy Credit Card Data on Millions of Americans
Facebook will now pay you for your voice recordings…But it won’t pay much
Barclays installs big-brother style spyware on employees’ computers
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos
Monopoly/Inequality
IMF Boss Says global economy risks return of Great Depression
Trump Administration Sees No Threat to Economy From Monopolies
Oren Cass, The Once and Future Worker
Bad News is No Longer Good News For Markets
Morgan Stanley Can't Believe What's Going On: "All Aboard The Crazy Train"
Goldman: Imminent Market Correction Now Looks Much More Probable
A Change of Heart at the Fed?
IMF Global Financial Stability Report, Global Corporate Vulnerabilities: Riskier Business
Japan, the Fed and the Limits of QE
Not if people keep writing shit like this! How Millennials Could Make the Fed’s Job Harder
The Crazy Train
David Collum's Year in Review 2019, Part I and Part II
Magazines, Blogs & Podcasts