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Books like Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good
The best books like Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good are The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World, Capitalism and Freedom, and Good to Great. Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good by Colin Mayer is about corporate purpose, capitalism, governance. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
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The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
Johan Norberg · Economics
Johan Norberg has made a career of making the case that open markets have lifted more people out of poverty than any other force in human history, and The Capitalist Manifesto is his most direct statement of that argument.
Both dig into capitalism.
Read the summary → - Capitalism and Freedom
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Milton Friedman · Economics
Capitalism and Freedom was published in 1962, and the ideas it contains had been circulating even longer — the book grew from lectures Friedman gave at a 1956 conference.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Good to Great
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Jim Collins · Business
Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Brave New Work
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Aaron Dignan · Business
Brave New Work is Aaron Dignan's diagnosis of why most organizations are dysfunctional and a practical guide to building something better.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Reinventing Organizations
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Frédéric Laloux · Business
Reinventing Organizations is Frédéric Laloux's attempt to map the next stage of organizational development.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Capital: Volume I
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Karl Marx · Economics
Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume I, published in 1867, is Karl Marx's systematic analysis of the capitalist mode of production.
Both dig into capitalism.
Read the summary → - The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
Paul Collier · Economics
Paul Collier spent two decades as a development economist at the World Bank and Oxford before writing The Bottom Billion, and the book reflects that experience in a specific way: rather than offering a unified theory of why poor countries stay poor, it offers a careful, empirically grounded account of the different mechanisms — the traps — that keep the roughly fifty countries and one billion people in the most severe and persistent poverty from breaking out.
Both dig into governance.
Read the summary → - The Great Transformation
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Karl Polanyi · Economics
The Great Transformation is Karl Polanyi's 1944 account of how a self-regulating market economy emerged in nineteenth-century England, what social catastrophe that emergence caused, and why the market society created its own political reaction.
Both dig into capitalism.
Read the summary → - Americana
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Bhu Srinivasan · History
Americana is Bhu Srinivasan's attempt to tell the history of American capitalism through its defining industries and the entrepreneurs who built them.
Both dig into capitalism.
Read the summary → - Atlas Shrugged
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Ayn Rand · Philosophy
Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand's philosophical novel and the fullest expression of her system, Objectivism.
Both dig into capitalism.
Read the summary → - Empire of Cotton: A Global History
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Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert · History
Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton argues that cotton was not just the raw material of the Industrial Revolution but the commodity through which modern capitalism was invented.
Both dig into capitalism.
Read the summary → - Political Order and Political Decay
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Political Order and Political Decay
Francis Fukuyama · History
Political Order and Political Decay is the second volume of Francis Fukuyama's ambitious two-volume study of political development.
Both dig into governance.
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Books like Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good: quick answers
What are the best books like Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good?
The best books like Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good by Colin Mayer are The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg, Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan, Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good, such as corporate purpose, capitalism, governance.
What should I read after Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good?
A natural next read after Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good is The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg. Both dig into capitalism. Other strong choices are Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan.
What books are similar to Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good by Colin Mayer?
Prosperity: Better Business Makes the Greater Good centers on corporate purpose, capitalism, governance. Books with a similar feel include The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World by Johan Norberg, Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, Good to Great by Jim Collins, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan, Reinventing Organizations by Frédéric Laloux, Capital: Volume I by Karl Marx — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
