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Loved The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman? If its nonfiction, economics and current affairs hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity, The Industries of the Future and Who Owns the Future?. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century: Nonfiction · Economics · Current Affairs · Technology and Society · Business

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   The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity

   Tim Wu

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   The Industries of the Future

   Alec J. Ross

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   Who Owns the Future?

   Jaron Lanier

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   Free: The Future of a Radical Price

   Chris Anderson

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   The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

   Matthew L. Ball

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   Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

   Michael Lewis

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   The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire

   Tim Schwab

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   That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back

   Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum

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   Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business

   Rana Foroohar

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    Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

    Douglas Rushkoff

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    The Mind Of The CEO: The World's Business Leaders Talk About Leadership, Responsibility The Future Of The Corporation, And What Keeps Them Up At Night

    Jeffrey E. Garten

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    Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle

    Dan Senor, Saul Singer

    Economics · Technology and Society · Business · Nonfiction · Economic History

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    The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World

    Russell Gold

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    Enshittification

    Cory Doctorow

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    Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World

    Christopher Steiner

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    Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

    Ellen Ruppel Shell

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    What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

    Rachel Botsman, Roo Rogers

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    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel, Blake Masters

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    Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order

    Noam Chomsky

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    Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy

    Lawrence Lessig

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