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A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond (Dan Susskind)
2. Behavioural economics – a very short introduction (Baddeley) - detailed despite the book’s size
3. Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy (Haskel) – rise of capital-light businesses
4. Divided (Tim Marshall) – another great book from Tim Marshall on international relations / Geo-Politics
5. Doughnut Economics (Kate Raworth) – challenges much of orthodox thinking on environmental issues
6. Drunkard’s Walk (Leonard Mlodinow) – brilliant history of Maths with lots of relevant applications
7. Game Theory – a very short introduction (Ken Binmore) - perfect prime on the key ideas
8. Good Economics for Hard Times (Banerjee and Duflo) – a new book from the Nobel-winning duo
9. Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today (Linda Yueh) – perspectives on contemporary issues
10. More: The 10,000 Year Rise of the World Economy (Phillip Coggan) - comprehensive & lucid economic history
11. Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond Numbers (John Kay and Mervyn King) – perfect book for 2020
12. Rebel Ideas (Matthew Syed) – excellent on contrarian thinking and going against the Grain!
13. Risk Savvy - How to make good decisions (Gerd Gigerenzer) – the world of heuristics and risk management
14. Samsung Rising: Inside the Secretive Company Conquering Tech (Geoffrey Cain)
15. Thinking Fast and Thinking Slow: (Professor Daniel Kahneman) – the classic Kahneman epic on psychology
16. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Michael Sandel) – Pure PPE bliss
17. What’s Wrong with Economics: A Primer for the Perplexed (Robert Skidelsky) – critique of core economics
18. Who Gets What - And Why: Understand the Choices You Have; Improve the Choices You Make (Al Roth)
19. Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies (Cesar Hidalgo) – challenging
20. World of Three Zeroes (Muhammad Yunus) – new book from founder of the Grameen Bank

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