Technocracy (46 books)

Books about technocracy and governance by appointed expert decision-makers, particularly those with scientific or technical knowledge.

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1	The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis 4.32 avg rating — 43,039 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition by Theodore Roszak 3.86 avg rating — 443 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	Gaiia by Hares Youssef 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis 4.09 avg rating — 48,186 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Chasing the Moon: The People, the Politics, and the Promise That Launched America into the Space Age by Robert L. Stone 4.04 avg rating — 508 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg 4.21 avg rating — 16,698 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Water Politics by David Lewis Feldman 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children by Gerald E. Markowitz 3.97 avg rating — 75 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 1,384 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War by Fred Kaplan (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 743 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam by H.R. McMaster 3.99 avg rating — 4,877 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam 4.27 avg rating — 12,862 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell 4.02 avg rating — 1,034 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Republican War on Science by Chris C. Mooney (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 1,259 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy by Michael G. Vickers 4.15 avg rating — 481 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Republic of Technology: Reflections on Our Future Community by Daniel J. Boorstin 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Your Government Failed You: Breaking the Cycle of National Security Disasters by Richard A. Clarke 3.90 avg rating — 263 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State by Parag Khanna (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health by Laurie Garrett 4.13 avg rating — 1,353 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse Of Global Transformation by Patrick M. Wood 4.26 avg rating — 224 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Mission Accomplished! Or How We Won the War in Iraq: The Experts Speak by Christopher Cerf (Goodreads Author) 3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Guide to the Technocracy by Phil Brucato 4.17 avg rating — 139 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900-1941 by William E. Akin 3.50 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Complete Works of Thorstein Veblen: Complete writings in political economy and cultural critique: capitalism, industrial revolution, science, and gender by Thorstein Veblen 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Works of Thorstein Veblen by Thorstein Veblen 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Veblen in Plain English: A Complete Introduction to Thorstein Veblen's Economics by Ken McCormick 4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen by Sidney Plotkin it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Thorstein Veblen and the American Way of Life by Louis Patsouras 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The New Italian Republic : From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi by Stephen Gundle (Editor) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Crisis and Transition in Italian Politics by Martin Rhodes (series_editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting by Daniel Bell 3.63 avg rating — 150 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order by Patrick M. Wood 4.27 avg rating — 116 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War by Ludwig von Mises 4.17 avg rating — 369 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde (a Cultural Politics book) by John Beck 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Artists, Craftsmen, and Technocrats: The Dreams, Realities and Illusions of Leadership by Patricia Pitcher 4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico by Miguel Ángel Centeno 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	School World Order: The Technocratic Globalization of Corporatized Education by John Adam Klyczek 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Technocratic Antarctic: An Ethnography of Scientific Expertise and Environmental Governance by Jessica O'Reilly 3.57 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Searching for Scientific Womanpower: Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980 by Laura Micheletti Puaca 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Rise of the Technocrats: A Social History by W.H.G. Armytage 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Wage Justice: Comparable Worth and the Paradox of Technocratic Reform by Sara M. Evans liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Philippine Politics and the Marcos Technocrats: The Emergence and Evolution of a Power Elite by Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Technocrats, Prophets of Automation by Henry Elsner 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age by Archibald Putt 3.76 avg rating — 66 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Technocratic Challenge to Democracy by Eri Bertsou (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber 4.02 avg rating — 6,453 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars