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The 2025 Porchlight Business Book Awards shortlist had some very interesting books such as The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity and Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

The winner declared this week was the much expected Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

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America, the world’s oldest democracy and largest economy, marks its quarter millennium this year. There are several things about its voyage as a nation that resonate around the world (I say this as a non-American). Great coverage on many platforms including WSJ. I found The Economist’s special covering the different eras from the Declaration of Independence till the present time educative as well as entertaining. They have various book recommendations, to go with the 250th year - The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy is one of the many to explore.

Lot’s happening in the world of Business, Finance, and Economics literature. Nobel prize-winning Author Daron Acemoglu’s new work, which includes discussion on AI, is getting talked about everywhere. What Happened to Liberal Democracy?: Remaking a Politics of Shared Prosperity And equally so is the controversy between him and The Economist. The publication has chosen to question the weight of his views in a feature article. Surprising and uncharted territory for the magazine, many feel.