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A massive congratulations to two of our authors Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, as well as James Robinson, for winning the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences!
POWER AND PROGRESS by @DAcemogluMIT and @baselinescene is out in paperback: bit.ly/4h2sV2a
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
#NobelPrize
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Watch Adam Becker (@FreelanceAstro), author of "More Everything Forever," on @StarTalkRadio with @neiltyson.
They talk about Silicon Valley's dreams of space empires, AGI, and "functional immortality"—and why you shouldn't believe the hype.
Watch here: bit.ly/4iZ5ubp
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The winner of the 2025 #CundillHistoryPrize is...
Lyndal Roper for ‘Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War, published by @johnmurrays and @BasicBooks.
A “sensational” account of the sixteenth-century uprising that shook Europe to its core.
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For years, athletic directors and sports executives have made costly mistakes too often when leading a head coaching search. I recently finished reading Credible – The Power of Expert Leaders by Amanda Goodall. Reading this book should be a requirement for all ADs and sports executives. These decision-makers can learn from Amanda Goodall’s insightful perspective, examples, and research about who should actually lead and how to identify that person. I’ve read more than 200 books on decision-making, business successes, leadership, and coaches. More than any book, this one will help decision-makers avoid mistakes made by many.
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It gives me great pleasure to share the cover of my new book with you:
"The Crusader Storm: A Global History of the Wars for the Middle East."
Currently scheduled for release in June 2026.
@BasicBooksUK
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My new book's now out in the UK too! Wondering what we can read into societies based on different design aesthetics... 🥳🎨
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Happy pub day Simon May & Lyndal Roper!
📚Jump! offers a radically new philosophy for conquering procrastination
📚Summer of Fire and Blood is the definitive history of the German Peasants War, the uprising that revolutionized Europe
Out now: basicbooks.uk
ALT A hardback copy of Jump! by Simon May, propped on a table with a display of bookshelves in the background. The cover shows the bottom half of a person preparing to jump from a diving board, against the backdrop of a blue sky with bold yellow text.
ALT A hardback copy of Summer of Fire and Blood by Lyndal Roper, propped on a table with a display of bookshelves in the background. The cover shows an illustration of a bright red figure carrying a flag and wielding a sword, against a backdrop of an illustrated battle scene.
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.@BasicBooksUK has landed @BBC journalist and economist Ben Chu’s "provocative warning about the risks of abandoning globalisation", titled Exile Economics 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/bas…
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This very fine book on land and power is out. I provided the following endorsement for the book:
“Land has always been a source of economic wealth. This captivating book demonstrates that it has also been a fountainhead of political and social power, profoundly shaping the organization and political structures of many societies.”
Very excited to announce the release of my new book today, Land Power! Based on 15 years of work, it tells the story of how land shapes societies, from racial hierarchy to inequality, development, gender & the environment.
In hardcover/eBook/audiobook. More in 🧵 @BasicBooks 🥳
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The "Most Anticipated Books of 2025"!!
@ForeignPolicy has selected The Once and Future World Order among the "biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics". (And here are the preorder info and some advance praises from Arne Westad, Gareth Evans, Ayse Zarakol, Kishore Mahbubani & Amitav Ghosh- others to come)
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For those who are interested, here are the Nobel prize lectures in economics. Thank you.
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Hugely enjoyable night at @FT & @Schroders Business Book of the Year Award. Wonderful to have The Longevity Imperative (amzn.eu/d/6zOtJX8) in the short list but congratulations to Parmy Olson @parmy who emerged the winner on a suspense filled night with her book Supremacy.
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Intent to Destroy is here! A book that I never imagined writing, hated to write and now so glad I did. This is the UK version, the US one has a different cover, though both are published by Basic Books @BasicBooks and @BasicBooksUK. So, a short 🧵
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Keen On podcast - @ajkeen talks to @ProfAndrewScott about aging with grace and wisdom.
#LongevityImperative is shortlisted for the @FinancialTimes @Schroders Business Book of the Year Award.
@BasicBooksUK @johnmurrays #BBYA24
Episode 2238: Andrew J. Scott explains how to age with grace and wisdom, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon…
Can one age with grace and wisdom? Yes, according to Andrew J. Scott, author of the Longevity Imperative, one of the six books on the Financial Times’ illustrious short list for best business books of the year . For Scott, aging in the 21st century requires a sharp shift in both personal and public policy attitudes to “old age”. No, we can’t live forever, he reminds us, but we do need to make the necessary social, political and economic adjustments to enable us to enjoy the increasingly longer lives most of us now take for granted. Rather than medicalizing old age, he argues, we need to normalize it so that its a central feature of, rather than an epilogue to, the good life. Wise words from one of the world’s leading authorities on aging.