Business and Economics

Recent books on business and economics.

Updated August 18, 2025
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Why are we here? : creating a work culture everyone wants
Moss, Jennifer (Entrepreneur)
Paper Book
A deeply human exploration of how our relationship with work has evolved--and a guide for leaders who aim to make things right--from the author of The Burnout Epidemic. Work has recently undergone profound changes, not all for the better. AI's acceleration has led to...
The Licensing Racket: How We Decide Who Is Allowed to Work, and Why It Goes Wrong
Rebecca Haw Allensworth
Paper Book
A bottom-up investigation of the broken system of professional licensing, affecting everyone from hairdressers and morticians to doctors, lawyers, real estate agents, and those who rely on their services. Tens of millions of US workers are required by law to have a license to do their jobs...
Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles
Mike Colias
Paper Book
A sweeping portrait of the EV transformation and what it means for all of us. The question is no longer if electric vehicles will happen, or even when they'll happen, but how. Veteran automotive reporter Mike Colias takes you inside the transformation in this thoroughly reported...
Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier
Matthew Weinzierl
Paper Book
Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space. Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a revolution. A wave of...
The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America
Bruce G. Carruthers
Ebook
A comprehensive and illuminating account of the history of credit in America--and how it continues to divide the haves from the have-nots The Economy of Promises is a far-reaching study of credit in nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. Synthesizing and surveying...

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