The 16 Best Business Books of 2019 by Inc.

Title: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight.

Author(s): Shoshana Zuboff

ISBN 13: 9781610395694
Pages: 640

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Title: Invisible Women

Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, highly readable exposé that will change the way you look at the world"--Jacket.

Author(s): Caroline Criado Perez

ISBN 13: 9781419729072
Pages: 432

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Title: The Big Nine

In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI--the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself--is broken.

Author(s): Amy Webb

ISBN 13: 9781541773752
Pages: 288

Title: Human Compatible

A leading artificial intelligence researcher lays out a new approach to AI that will enable people to coexist successfully with increasingly intelligent machines.

Author(s): Stuart Russell

ISBN 13: 9780525558613
Pages: 352

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Title: Make, Think, Imagine

An impassioned defense of progress and innovation--and an argument for social responsibility from engineer, businessman, and former CEO of BP Lord John Browne.

Author(s): John Browne

ISBN 13: 9781643132129
Pages: 416

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Title: Big Business

In Big Business, Cowen puts forth an impassioned defense of corporations and their essential role in a balanced, productive, and progressive society. He dismantles common misconceptions and untangles conflicting intuitions.

Author(s): Tyler Cowen

ISBN 13: 9781250110541
Pages: 272

Title: Kochland

Shortlisted for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award “Superb…Among the best books ever written about an American corporation.” —Bryan Burrough, The New York Times Book Review Just as Steve Coll told ...

Author(s): Christopher Leonard

ISBN 13: 9781476775388
Pages: 704

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Title: Equal

EQUAL is BBC journalist Carrie Gracie's urgent call to arms - a powerful story about how women can fight for equal pay, and how men and employers can help them.

Author(s): CARRIE. GRACIE

ISBN 13: 9780349012261
Pages: 256

Title: The Anxious Triumph

In this riveting account of the rise of global capitalism from the 1880s until 1914, Donald Sassoon describes how after industrialization swept the world in the early nineteenth century the modernization of society and global capitalism ...

Author(s): Donald Sassoon

ISBN 13: 9780241315163
Pages: 800

Title: Firefighting

"From the three primary architects of the American policy response to the economic crisis of 2008, this big-picture synthesis of why it happened, how it was combatted, what was learned, and where we are now is a short primer on leadership ...

Author(s): Ben S. Bernanke Timothy F. Geithner Henry M. Paulson

ISBN 13: 9780143134480
Pages: 240

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Title: The Man Who Solved the Market

Bestselling author and veteran Wall Street Journal reporter Zuckerman answers the question investors have been asking for decades: How did Jim Simons do it?

Author(s): Gregory Zuckerman

ISBN 13: 9780735217980
Pages: 384

Title: Boom

Dealers operate within a private world of handshake agreements, negotiating for the highest commissions. Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, writes the first ever definitive history of their activities.

Author(s): Michael Shnayerson

ISBN 13: 9781610398404
Pages: 496

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Title: The Third Pillar

In The Third Pillar he offers up a magnificent big-picture framework for understanding how these three forces--the state, markets, and our communities--interact, why things begin to break down, and how we can find our way back to a more ...

Author(s): Raghuram Rajan

ISBN 13: 9780525558316
Pages: 464

Title: Extreme Economies

So argues the economist Richard Davies, who takes readers to the margins of the modern economy and beyond in his globe-trotting book.

Author(s): Richard Davies

ISBN 13: 9781250170484
Pages: 304

Title: Loonshots

In Loonshots, physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall reveals a surprising new way of thinking about the mysteries of group behavior that challenges everything we thought we knew about nurturing radical breakthroughs.

Author(s): Safi Bahcall

ISBN 13: 9781250185969
Pages: 368

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Title: Range

Shares counterintuitive advice on the most effective path to success in any domain while revealing the essential contributions of generalist, not specialist, team members

Author(s): David Epstein

ISBN 13: 9780735214484
Pages: 352

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