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Curated Booklists - Business & Economics

Financial Times' Best Business Book of the Year / Dec. 2024

For December 2024, here are 12 books from the longlist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year for 2024 that you can borrow from JMU Libraries. Parmy Olson won the £30,000 prize for Supremacy, which explores the rivalry between the founders of artificial intelligence companies OpenAI and Google DeepMind (Hill, 2024).

Dec24 Gallery / Best Business Book of Year

Supremacy

Tells the astonishing story of the battle between the world's two leading AI firms, OpenAI and DeepMind, their struggles to use their tech for good, and the hazardous direction they could go as they serve two tech Goliaths whose power is unprecedented in history.

The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong

John Kay, one of the greatest economists of our time, describes how the pursuit of shareholder value has destroyed some of the leading companies of the twentieth century.

Tribal

A revelatory, paradigm-shifting work from a renowned Columbia professor that demystifies our tribal instincts and shows us how to use them to create positive change.

The Longevity Imperative

Outlines the innovations needed to make the most of our longer lives: substantial changes to our health system, economy, and financial sector, as well as in how we manage our careers, health, finances, and relationships.

Unit X : how the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are transforming the future of war

A riveting inside look at an elite unit within the Pentagon--the Defense Innovation Unit, also known as Unit X--whose mission is to bring Silicon Valley's cutting-edge technology to America's military: from the two men who launched the unit.

The war below : lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives

Building electric vehicles, solar panels, and millions of other devices requires critical minerals, and the competition for them is intensifying. This is a story of the industry giants, researchers, and policymakers at the forefront of the new energy wars.