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2025 reading list: brief reviews, durable ideas
A year of books on incentives, institutions, narrative, and decision-making—what each one argues, why it matters, and where it’s useful The Upside of Down | Megan McArdle McArdle examines why failure is essential to success. She pulls from economics, psychology, and personal narrative to argue that societies and individuals that learn from failure outperform those … Read more
