The Stuff That Makes the World Go Round (Published 1990)

Winners Take All — Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All. An insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.

Home - FLI Worldbuilding Contest

It is frequently practiced by creative writers and scriptwriters, providing the context and backdrop for stories that take place in future, fantasy or alternative realities. Worldbuilding is a tool that can help us explore possible futures for our own world. It helps us better understand what sorts of worlds we may find more or less desirable, and how we might get to there. World builds don’t always have to be grounded in reality, but for our worldbuilding contest we asked contestants to make their imagined worlds plausible and aspirational. To better understand the constraints and ground rules that were used for this contest, visit the Rules page prior to exploring the worlds.

Socialized Proof of Work — Open Indie

There’s an increasing obsession with “humanness” these days: Humanness in the age of AI Worldcoin: a solution in search of its problem (...

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here

Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023

The Alchemy Lecture 2023

Material World by Ed Conway | Penguin Random House Canada

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. • Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History

A Financial Times Most Anticipated Book of 2025A sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics. At a time when artificial intelligence, climate change, and inequality are raising fundamental questions about the economic system, Capitalism and Its Critics provides a kaleidoscopic history of global capitalism, from the East India Company and Industrial Revolution to the di...

What is Money, Anyway?

Editor’s Note: This topic is now comprehensively covered in my book, Broken Money. Money is a surprisingly complex subject. People spend their lives seeking money, and in some ways it seems so straightforward, and yet what humanity has defined as money has changed significantly over the centuries. How could something so simple and so universal, […]

The Nobel for Econsplaining

Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson won a prize for applying economics to the very things economics is inherently bad at figuring out

This Is for Everyone ebook by Tim Berners-Lee - Rakuten Kobo

Read "This Is for Everyone The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web" by Tim Berners-Lee available from Rakuten Kobo. A Sunday Times Bestseller The inventor of the World Wide Web explores his vision’s promise—and how it can be redeemed fo...

Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places - Christopher Pollon

Purchase Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places (Greystone Books, October 2023), is a global investigation of metals mining – led by a secretive industry that enables most modern comforts, but simultaneously exacts staggering environmental and social costs. How do we get the metals we need, including to save the planet from