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The End of Reality

av Jonathan Taplin • 2023

Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?

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The End of Reality

Four billionaires want $20 trillion for Mars, the metaverse, crypto, immortality. Who pays?

av Jonathan Taplin 2023 336 sidor

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Autocracy, Inc.

av Anne Applebaum • 2024

A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.

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Autocracy, Inc.

A global network of dictators runs autocracies like for-profit firms. Democracies bankroll them.

av Anne Applebaum 2024 224 sidor

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The Winner-Take-All Society

av Robert H. Frank • 1995

Why a narrow edge now pays millions across every profession, and what we can do about it.

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The Winner-Take-All Society

Why a narrow edge now pays millions across every profession, and what we can do about it.

av Robert H. Frank 1995 288 sidor

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The Post-American World

av Fareed Zakaria • 2008

American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.

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The Post-American World

American power isn't eroding. A dozen new powers are simply rising alongside it.

av Fareed Zakaria 2008 336 sidor

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The Great Taking

av David Rogers Webb • 2023

Your stocks aren't yours. They're collateral for a derivatives bet you never made.

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157

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Pengar

The Great Taking

Your stocks aren't yours. They're collateral for a derivatives bet you never made.

av David Rogers Webb 2023 133 sidor

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

av Paul Craig Roberts • 2000

Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.

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The Tyranny of Good Intentions

Good intentions retooled criminal justice into a weapon, and the Constitution is losing.

av Paul Craig Roberts 2000 186 sidor

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Waste Land

av Robert D. Kaplan • 2025

When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.

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International

Waste Land

When crises travel instantly but solutions stall at borders, we get one unending emergency.

av Robert D. Kaplan 2025 224 sidor

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Crisis Economics

av Nouriel Roubini • 2010

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

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Crisis Economics

Financial crises are not rare. They are predictable, systemic, and already brewing again.

av Nouriel Roubini 2010 368 sidor

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The Dying Citizen

av Victor Davis Hanson • 2021

The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.

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The Dying Citizen

The four forces dismantling American citizenship are one crisis, each speeding the others.

av Victor Davis Hanson 2021 448 sidor

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How to Stop Fascism

av Paul Mason • 2021

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

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390

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How to Stop Fascism

The antifascist playbook, updated for an era of online radicalization and cascading global crises.

av Paul Mason 2021 320 sidor

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How Tyrants Fall

av Marcel Dirsus • 2024

The trap of power: why most dictators meet exile, prison, or a violent end.

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Krig

How Tyrants Fall

The trap of power: why most dictators meet exile, prison, or a violent end.

av Marcel Dirsus 2024 274 sidor

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Krig

The Assault on Truth

av Peter Oborne • 2021

Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.

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Democracy

The Assault on Truth

Two leaders, one playbook: turn truth into a loyalty test, and watch democracy erode.

av Peter Oborne 2021 251 sidor

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Democracy

National Populism

av Roger Eatwell • 2018

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

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National Populism

National populism isn't a passing fury. It's a lasting demand for voice from a forgotten majority.

av Roger Eatwell 2018 374 sidor

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Shattered Nation

av Danny Dorling • 2023

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

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119

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Shattered Nation

Beneath every British crisis lies a map of inequality decades in the making.

av Danny Dorling 2023 288 sidor

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The Invention of Russia

av Arkady Ostrovsky • 2015

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

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The Invention of Russia

Television became the new Kremlin: how post-Soviet Russia was built on air, not on law.

av Arkady Ostrovsky 2015 378 sidor

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Heroic Failure

av Fintan O'Toole • 2018

Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.

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Heroic Failure

Brexit wasn't about economics. It was a culture of glorified defeat and shared self-harm.

av Fintan O'Toole 2018 240 sidor

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Wildland

av Evan Osnos • 2021

Cashflow beats capital gains: the simple formula for separating good real estate deals from bad.

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Wildland

Cashflow beats capital gains: the simple formula for separating good real estate deals from bad.

av Evan Osnos 2021 465 sidor

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Winter Is Coming

av Garry Kasparov • 2015

Western money and misplaced goodwill built Putin's war machine: a warning from the front lines.

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Winter Is Coming

Western money and misplaced goodwill built Putin's war machine: a warning from the front lines.

av Garry Kasparov 2015 290 sidor

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Eastward to Tartary

av Robert D. Kaplan • 2001

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

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Eastward to Tartary

From Budapest to the Caspian, a journey through lands where history refuses to end.

av Robert D. Kaplan 2001 385 sidor

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House of Trump, House of Putin

av Craig Unger • 2018

Trump's condos laundered billions for the Russian mob, tied to Putin through a single crime boss.

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Ryssland

House of Trump, House of Putin

Trump's condos laundered billions for the Russian mob, tied to Putin through a single crime boss.

av Craig Unger 2018 382 sidor

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Ryssland

Un-Trumping America

av Dan Pfeiffer • 2020

The GOP was built for Trump long before he came down the escalator.

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Un-Trumping America

The GOP was built for Trump long before he came down the escalator.

av Dan Pfeiffer 2020 273 sidor

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The Fall of the House of Bush

av Craig Unger • 2007

An alliance of faith and force corrupted intelligence to start a war that broke American power.

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Biografi

The Fall of the House of Bush

An alliance of faith and force corrupted intelligence to start a war that broke American power.

av Craig Unger 2007 448 sidor

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How Britain Ends

av Gavin Esler • 2021

Brexit did not crack the union; it exposed cracks English nationalism had been opening for decades.

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How Britain Ends

Brexit did not crack the union; it exposed cracks English nationalism had been opening for decades.

av Gavin Esler 2021 320 sidor

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The Silenced Majority

av Amy Goodman • 2012

The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.

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The Silenced Majority

The news decides which wars and uprisings didn't happen. Here is what they buried.

av Amy Goodman 2012 380 sidor

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When the Money Runs Out

av Stephen D. King • 2013

Western prosperity was a loan, not a promise. The stagnation now is structural, not a phase.

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When the Money Runs Out

Western prosperity was a loan, not a promise. The stagnation now is structural, not a phase.

av Stephen D. King 2013 304 sidor

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Reckless Endangerment

av Gretchen Morgenson • 2011

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

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Reckless Endangerment

Good intentions met Wall Street greed and captured regulators. The crisis was built to order.

av Gretchen Morgenson 2011 331 sidor

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The Growth Map

av Jim O'Neill • 2011

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

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Finans

The Growth Map

Four giant economies already power a third of global growth, and the next wave is bigger.

av Jim O'Neill 2011 256 sidor

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Moveable Feasts

av Sarah Murray • 2007

Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.

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205

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Moveable Feasts

Rome needed grain ships. Cities need container ports. How moving food built the modern world.

av Sarah Murray 2007 272 sidor

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Facts and Other Lies

av Ed Coper • 2022

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

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Facts and Other Lies

The internet runs on outrage, our brains are built for bias, and facts never stood a chance.

av Ed Coper 2022 394 sidor

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Giving Up Is Unforgivable

av Joyce Vance • 2025

Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.

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Regering

Giving Up Is Unforgivable

Spotting the slow dismantling of democracy, and the citizen playbook for stopping it.

av Joyce Vance 2025 208 sidor

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Regering

Rebellion

av Robert Kagan • 2024

A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.

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Ras

Rebellion

A 250-year rebellion against America's founding promise is closer to victory than ever.

av Robert Kagan 2024 258 sidor

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Ras

Londonistan

av Melanie Phillips • 2006

Islamist terror's nerve center was London, built with British law and left-wing alliances.

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Islam

Religion

Londonistan

Islamist terror's nerve center was London, built with British law and left-wing alliances.

av Melanie Phillips 2006 200 sidor

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Islam

Religion

A Necessary Evil

av Garry Wills • 1999

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

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196

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America

A Necessary Evil

The Constitution was built for action, not gridlock. How Americans came to believe otherwise.

av Garry Wills 1999 368 sidor

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America

Winner-Take-All Politics

av Jacob S. Hacker • 2010

The top 1% took 36% of income gains over decades. That's not economics; it's politics.

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Winner-Take-All Politics

The top 1% took 36% of income gains over decades. That's not economics; it's politics.

av Jacob S. Hacker 2010 368 sidor

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Laboratories of Autocracy

av David Pepper • 2021

How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.

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338

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Amerikansk

Laboratories of Autocracy

How statehouses became the most dangerous threat to American democracy, and why nobody noticed.

av David Pepper 2021 452 sidor

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Iran's Grand Strategy

av Vali Nasr • 2025

Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.

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Iran

Iran's Grand Strategy

Iran looks like a religious crusade. It operates as a nation-state with calculated grand strategy.

av Vali Nasr 2025 408 sidor

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Iran

Ill Winds

av Larry Diamond • 2019

Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.

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274

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Kina

Ill Winds

Democracy is being dismantled not by tanks but through courts, captured media, and laundered money.

av Larry Diamond 2019 368 sidor

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274 betyg

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Kina

The Destructionists

av Dana Milbank • 2022

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

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The Destructionists

Gingrich lit the match in 1993. Twenty-five years of arson later, Trump walked through the ashes.

av Dana Milbank 2022 416 sidor

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Beyond Outrage

av Robert B. Reich • 2012

The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.

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Social rättvisa

Beyond Outrage

The top 1% doubled their share of national income, and then they bought the government.

av Robert B. Reich 2012 72 sidor

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Social rättvisa

Dangerous Charisma

av Jerrold M. Post • 2019

A CIA profiler diagnosed malignant narcissism. The surprise was how perfectly it fit his followers.

3.56

186

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Politik

Biografi

Dangerous Charisma

A CIA profiler diagnosed malignant narcissism. The surprise was how perfectly it fit his followers.

av Jerrold M. Post 2019 352 sidor

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186 betyg

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Politik

Biografi

The New Rulers of the World

av John Pilger • 2002

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

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The New Rulers of the World

The global economy was built on mass graves. A reporter shows you who filled them.

av John Pilger 2002 192 sidor

4.14

1 000+ betyg

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Ekonomi

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