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Eliot Brown joined the Wall Street Journal in 2010 to cover commercial real estate in the wake of the financial crisis. Today he reports on startups and venture capital. He previously covered economic development and local politics at the New York Observer.

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Thomas Sowell is a conservative economist, social theorist, and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Sowell has taught economics at Cornell, Amherst, and the University of California at Los Angeles, and the history of ideas at Brandeis University. In 2002, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal.

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Mission Economy (2021) explains how we can rethink our approaches toward government and capitalism through the concept of missions – huge, ambitious projects that inspire people across society to think big. These blinks show how we can change the world by taking inspiration from one of the most famous missions of all: the moon landing.

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The Lonely Century (2021) explores the loneliness that characterizes the twenty-first century. Drawing on a decade of research, it reveals how neoliberal policies, new technologies, and mass migration to cities have contributed to us becoming so lonely – and what shifts need to occur for us to reconnect.

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Noreena Hertz is an English academic, economist, author, and host of the Sirius XM show MegaHerz: London Calling. Named by the Observer as “one of the world’s leading thinkers,” she has published opinion pieces in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian. She has a PhD from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Professor Klaus Schwab is Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, an international nongovernmental organization based in Geneva. His previous books include The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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The Future of Capitalism (2018) offers a candid analysis of capitalism that calls for a return to communitarian ethics to mend rifts between families, communities and nations. Diagnosing the failings of modern liberalism, Paul Collier proposes the reintroduction into economic thinking of ethical concerns. He also suggests pragmatic policies that might forge a capitalism that works for everyone.

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Crashed (2018) unpacks the metaphorical seismograph to take the measure of an economic earthquake whose tremors can still be felt today – the 2008 financial crisis. Written with an eye to the global effects of what’s now known as the “Great Recession,” Adam Tooze traces the crash’s shockwaves from their epicenter in the American financial markets to their conclusions in Crimea, London, Athens and other geopolitical hotspots.

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British historian Adam Tooze is a professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University, New York. His previous books include the Wolfson History Prize-winning The Wages of Destruction (2006), a study of Nazi Germany’s economic policies, and The Great Deluge (2014), an analysis of the Great War and the creation of a new international order.

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