Reviews & Essays
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  • ECONOMICS
October 20, 2011

The Third Industrial Revolution

By JEREMY RIFKIN
Reviewed by Andrew Keen

Will the salvation of the global economy come from a thousand points of light?

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  • economics
May 12, 2010

The Great Reset and The Rational Optimist

Essay by Felix Salmon

New books by Richard Florida and Matt Ridley that try to put recent economic turbulence in perspective.

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  • economics
January 22, 2010

I.O.U: Why Everyone Owes Everyone And No One Can Pay

By JOHN LANCHESTER
Reviewed by Andrew Keen

How we drove the world's economy right off the road.

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Daybook

May 21: The musical smash hit Gypsy opened on Broadway on this day in 1959. The bestseller upon which the show is based, Gypsy Rose Lee's memoir Gypsy, told her life as a rags-to-naked success story, and added to…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results. 

Story of My People

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.