Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts.
Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making us Smarter; both Robin and Bryan are fond of this one.
Steven Klepper, Experimental Capitalism: The Nanoeconomics of American High-Tech Industries.
Caroline Freund, assisted by Sarah Oliver. Rich People Poor Countries: The Rise of Emerging-Market Tycoons and their Mega Firms.
Clement Fatovic, America’s Founding and the Struggle Over Economic Inequality.
Rick Shenkman, Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart Politics.
America and inequality: the contradiction that is America is reflected in its founding documents, equality promoted in the Declaration of Independence and property rights of the wealthy protected in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence motivating ordinary men and women to fight and die for the cause of freedom, the Constitution the product of wealthy elites who mostly sat out the war of independence, the Declaration of Independence an aspirational document for all, the Constitution a practical document for the few.
‘The Future of the Professions’ looks like a good book.
Do we need a Henrich/Shenkman debate?