Editor's Choice

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

By Dylan Schleicher

Peter Goodman takes a close look at the robber barons of the modern era, explaining how they have grabbed the gains of globalization and profited off the pandemic, undermined working people, economic stability, and even our very democracy in the process.

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Ethical Issues & Automation

By Bhaskar Ghosh, Rajendra Prasad, Gayathri Pallail

In today’s world, AI algorithms are being applied to highly sensitive territory. AI systems of the future cannot remain opaque if they have to garner trust from their human users.

Staff Picks

How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel

By Emily Porter

Beginning in 2030 and spanning generations beyond, Sequoia Nagamatsu’s How High We Go in the Dark tells the story of humanity trying to live in a world desecrated by an Arctic plague that spreads through contaminated water, changing the world as we know it.

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Books to Watch | January 18, 2022

Book Giveaways

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

From the New York Times global economics correspondent, a rollicking and revelatory exposé of the global billionaire class who increasingly control the world.

News & Opinion

The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee is the 2021 Porchlight Business Book of the Year

By Dylan Schleicher

Heather McGhee's brilliant and beautifully written book examines the origins of the zero-sum narrative that is used to divide us as individuals and undermine us economically, and asks us to embrace instead the power and possibilities of the Solidarity Dividend.

News & Opinion

The 2021 Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry

This year, we are using our annual Jack Covert Award for Contribution to the Business Book Industry to honor the amazing man, mentor, and friend who the award is named for.

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A New Game in Town: Create Your Own Future of Work from the Inside Out

By Karen Mangia

In a post-pandemic era, each of us has a choice: a choice to design a new kind of game, regardless of how anyone else decides to design, play, or win their game.

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The Sum of Us | An Excerpt from the Porchlight Big Ideas & New Perspectives Book of the Year

By Heather McGhee

In the lead up to announcing the Porchlight Business Book of the Year (coming tomorrow, January 13th!), we have been sharing excerpts from each of the eight books on the shortlist for the award. Today, we have one from the Big Ideas & New Perspectives book of the year, The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee.

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Books to Watch | January 11, 2021