Library

Books that have had a profound impact on how I see and act in the world.

  • Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

    Aid on the Edge of Chaos: Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World

    Ben Ramalingam

  • Change by Design

    Change by Design

    Tim Brown

  • Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

    Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

    Pierre Bourdieu

  • Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

    Kate Raworth

  • Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

    Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

    Mariana Mazzucato

  • Scaling Impact: Innovation for the Public Good

    Scaling Impact: Innovation for the Public Good

    Robert McLean & John Gargani

  • Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change

    Social Innovation: How Societies Find the Power to Change

    Geoff Mulgan

  • Systems Thinking for Social Change

    Systems Thinking for Social Change

    David Peter Stroh

  • Tackling Wicked Problems Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Tackling Wicked Problems Through the Transdisciplinary Imagination

    Valerie A. Brown, John A. Harris & Jacqueline Y. Russell

  • The  Systems Work of Social Change

    The  Systems Work of Social Change

    Cynthia Rayner & François Bonnici

  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

    Shoshana Zuboff

  • The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

    The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

    Kate Crawford

  • The Civilizing Process

    The Civilizing Process

    Norbert Elias

  • The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

    The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

    Mariana Mazzucato

  • The Ministry for the Future

    The Ministry for the Future

    Kim Stanley Robinson

  • The Open Book of Social Innovation: Ways to Design, Develop and Grow Social Innovation

    The Open Book of Social Innovation: Ways to Design, Develop and Grow Social Innovation

    Robin Murray, Julia Caulier-Grice & Geoff Mulgan (Author)

  • The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

    The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

    Erving Goffman

  • The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    The Return of Inequality: Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    Mike Savage

  • The Slow Lane: Why Quick Fixes Fail and How to Achieve Real Change

    The Slow Lane: Why Quick Fixes Fail and How to Achieve Real Change

    Sascha Haselmayer

  • The Sociology of Social Change

    The Sociology of Social Change

    Piotr Sztompka

  • The Wretched of the Earth

    The Wretched of the Earth

    Frantz Fanon

  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer

    Thinking in Systems: A Primer

    Donella H. Meadows

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

  • Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

    Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

    Joy Buolamwini

  • Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

    Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

    Cathy O’Neil

  • World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

    World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction

    Immanuel Wallerstein

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