The Entrepreneurial State — Mariana Mazzucato
Superb … At a time when government action of any kind is ideologically suspect, and entrepreneurship is unquestioningly lionized, the book’s importance cannot be understated. —The Guardian According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should...
The Net Delusion — Evgeny Morozov
In The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov argues that our utopian, internet-centric thinking holds devastating consequences for the future of democracy. We were promised that the internet would set us free. From the Middle East’s ‘twitter revolution’ to Facebook activism, technology...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power — Soshana Zuboff
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called “surveillance capitalism,” and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling...