Are you curious about the ways data shapes our world—and how it often excludes half the population? Caroline Criado Perez’s groundbreaking book, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, is an eye-opening exploration of how gender bias in data impacts women’s lives. This meticulously researched book shines a light on the…
In Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, authors Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass Sunstein expose a hidden but pervasive problem in decision-making—noise. Noise is defined as the unwanted and unpredictable variability in human judgments that ideally should be consistent. When a decision-making process is noisy, outcomes that should be similar are instead scattered, leading…
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies is a groundbreaking book by Jared Diamond, published in 1997. The book attempts to explain the different rates of development and success among various human societies throughout history, focusing on the factors that have influenced the course of human civilization. The central thesis of the book…
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty is a widely acclaimed book by economists Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. It delves into the question of why some nations are rich and others poor, exploring the economic and political factors that determine a country’s success or failure. Rather than attributing prosperity to…