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New books in March-April 2018
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The net and the butterfly:
the art and practice of breakthrough thinking
Olivia Fox Cabane
and
Judah Pollack
BF444 .C33 2017
New Books in January-February 2018
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Move fast and break things:
how Facebook, Google and Amazon cornered culture and undermined democracy
Jonathan Taplin
Doriot and Tanoto Libraries
HM851 .T37 2018
“Move Fast and Break Things” tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating three monopoly firms-Facebook, Amazon and Google-that now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries.
Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page: tolerating piracy of books, music, and film while at the same time promoting opaque business practices and subordinating privacy of individual users to create the surveillance marketing monoculture in which we now live.
The enormous profits that have come with this concentration of power tell their own story. Since 2001, newspaper and music revenues have fallen by 70%, book publishing, film and television profits have also fallen dramatically. Revenues at Google in this same period grew from $400 million to $74.5 billion. Google’s YouTube today controls 60% of the streaming audio business and pays only 11% of the streaming audio revenues. More creative content is being consumed than ever before, but less revenue is flowing to creators and owners of the content.
“Move Fast and Break Things” offers a vital, forward-thinking prescription for how artists can reclaim their audiences using knowledge of the past and a determination to work together. Using his own half-century career as a music and film producer and early pioneer of streaming video online, Taplin offers new ways to think about the design of the World Wide Web and specifically the way we live with the firms that dominate it.
Book review cited from: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31420725-move-fast-and-break-things
Special book display – Philippe Van Parijs
In conjunction with the 5th Conférence de l’INSEAD 2017-2018,
“Qu’est-ce qu’une Europe juste ? Qu’est-ce qu’un Brexit équitable ?” on Thursday 18 January, the library is hosting a special display on Philippe Van PARIJS, Professeur.
From Monday 15 to Sunday 21 January on the ground floor of the Doriot Library.
New Business Best Sellers
Come and check out our latest business best sellers at Doriot Library.
Special Book Display – Patrick Viveret
In conjunction with the 4th Conférence de l’INSEAD 2017-2018, “Dans la perspective de la citoyenneté planétaire : quels changements dans nos approches géopolitiques, économiques et spirituelles ?» on Thursday 14 December, the library is hosting a special display on Patrick Viveret , philosopher.
From Monday 11 to Sunday 17 December on the ground floor of the Doriot Library.
Special Book Display – Esther Duflo
In conjunction with the INSEAD Public Lecture – “The Economist as Plumber” by Professor Esther DUFLO, Wednesday 6th December 2017, the Doriot and Tanoto Libraries are presenting Professor Duflo’s books. They include “Poor economics” which won the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year.
From 1 to 10 December.
Doriot Library Book Sale
Hundreds of used books are for sale at the Doriot Library,
from 27 November to 1 December.
Do not miss this opportunity to enrich your own personal library for only 1€ per book!
Special Book Display – Thinkers50
To celebrate our faculty’s success, the Doriot and Tanoto Libraries are hosting a Thinkers50 display from Monday 20 November to Sunday 3 December.
INSEAD Professors of Strategy Chan W. Kim and Renée Mauborgne, INSEAD Professors of Organisational Behaviour Erin Meyer and Gianpiero Petriglieri have been recognised among world’s best thought leaders in the Thinkers50 ranking of management and innovation thinkers.
Come to the library to find out about the other top 50 Thinkers.
New Books in November-December 2017
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Utopia for the realists:
and how we can get there
by Rutger Bregman
Doriot and Tanoto Libraries
JC577 .B74 2017
This is a book with one compelling proposition for which you can forgive the rest. It is utopian visions that have driven humanity forwards. It was the hope we could fly, conquer disease, motorise transport, build communities of the faithful, discover virgin land or live in permanent peace that has propelled men and women to take the risks and obsess about the new that, while not creating the utopia of which they dreamed, has at least got us some of the way. Celebrate the grip that utopia has on our imagination. It is the author of progress. (…)
You may not dream the same dreams as Rutger Bregman – a 28-year-old Dutch historian – but he invites you to take dreaming seriously.
For that alone, this book is worth a read.
Book review cited from Will Hutton, MBA ‘78: https://goo.gl/26j1wq
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