The Innovation Illusion
How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard

It is a rather strange book but very interesting. I fully agree with most of the authors’ analyses about the illusions we have created around innovation. Less sure I agree with some of their important claims. Their “very liberal” point of view, not to say libertarian, makes their claims sometimes ex......more

This book agree with Cowen’s The Complacent Class, and Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth. The authors posit that innovation is in decline because of: 1. Gray capitalism: when owners are shareholders and fund managers who trade their ownership many times a day, the managing agent (CEO) wou......more

I have a roling list of my three favourite Non-Fiction books. This one easily made the list. It not only demystifies the ex-machina character of the blurry term "innovation", but also improved my layman understanding of the economy in general. It is vastly more technical than your average bookstore-eco......more

Capitalism encourages the moral imagination of individuals and societies; it espouses a notion about life, people, work, and their future as attending to larger desires than just money. The chief worry, therefore, is not that the Four Horsemen of capitalist decline will lower economic growth. Falling......more

It isn't the techno-robot-apocalypse we should fear, it's the gray-capital-over-regulating forever recession. That's the main thesis of this book. Some of the points are argued for better than others. In particular, the actual discussion of robots and automation seems like an alien graft on the rest......more