to the machine-breakers of the Industrial Revolution, drawing parallels with ordinary workers of today, from Uber to Amazon, affected by wrenching tech-fuelled change.
. Sharpe is a former UK civil servant working on climate policy, whose title refers to the need to decarbonise the world economy about five times faster this decade than what was managed in the past two decades to meet global warming targets. He lays out pragmatic ways in which scientists, economists and diplomats could help.
, by Bethany Allen, who chronicles the many ways in which she says the ruling Communist party seeks to exert its power abroad. Allen warns that the rest of the world needs to act now to curb China’s “authoritarian economic statecraft”, expressed through trade policy, indirect influence over western brands, investment in technology, and more., by James Stewart and Rachel Abrams is the no-holds-barred tale of the brutal succession battle that broke out over media mogul Sumner Redstone’s empire.
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner draw on the former’s comprehensive studies of the fate of megaprojects — most of which run over time and over budget — in: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration