Book Reviews

Matt Lucky reviews Daron Acemoglu’s “What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity,” now out at Penguin Press.

Matt Lucky reviews Jimmy Wales’ new book The Seven Rules of Trust: A Blueprint for Building Things that Last, now out at Penguin Press.

Matt Lucky reviews Noam Schieber’s Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class, now out at Macmillan.

Matt Lucky reviews The Wage Standard: What’s Wrong in the Labor Market and How to Fix it by Arindrajit Dube, now out at Penguin Press.

Matt Lucky reviews Jonathan D. Cohen’s new book, Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling.

Matt Lucky reviews Dani Rodrik’s new book, “Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate”

Matt Lucky reviews two new books exploring why digital platforms are failing users and how to rediscover the internet’s original promises of an abundance of high-quality and cheap services: Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It and Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity.

Matt Lucky reviews Nobel Laureate Richard Thaler and Alex Imas’ newly updated book “The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies Then and Now,” now out at Simon & Schuster.

Skewed incentives and the distribution of resources toward corporations have undermined the integrity of scientific research and contributed to the public’s distrust in expertise....

Surya Gowda reviews Branko Milanović’s Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War and how his analysis of class and inequality applies to contemporary America.