Additional Contributors: Alla Harmsworth, Robertas Stancikas and Maureen Hughes
Before people head off for summer breaks, we suggest some reading that might be of interest, at least for those who want to delve into work-adjacent material. In lists such as these, we want to offer a mix of books that are new this year, but also others from recent years that we think are relevant. Hopefully the selection is broad enough, but also we are curating the selection specifically to be recent works that in some, albeit indirect way, shape a strategic narrative for the world.
The themes that run through this selection are the return of the importance of the physical economy through demand for raw materials and energy. Then there is the demographic change that is taking place and promises to make the coming decades very different from the post-WWII years. AI, of course, is omnipresent as a topic. Then there are questions of inequality and societal resilience which appear to be more urgent than in recent decades.
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