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10 Good Reads Expand your skills, gain insight, and get inspired with these top picks. Bank 4.0: Banking Everywhere, Never at a Bank By Brett King Banking is moving online, and with completely online banks emerging, Bank 4.0 follows this path to its logical conclusion. e world's best banks have been forced to adapt to changing consumer behaviors; regulators are rethinking friction, licensing, and regulation; fintech start-ups and tech giants are redefining how banking fits in the daily life of consumers. To survive, banks are having to develop new capabilities, new jobs, and new skills. In Bank 4.0, Brett King discusses how fintech and tech "disruptors" are using behavior, psychology, and technology to reshape the economics of banking. Bank 4.0 explores the ways financial services will need to continue adapting for a rapidly changing future. The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions By Jeffrey D. Sachs In e Ages of Globalization, Jeffrey D. Sachs, economist and expert on sustainable development, turns to world history to shed light on how we can meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. Sachs takes readers through a series of seven distinct waves of technological and institutional change, starting with the original settling of the planet by early modern humans through long-distance migration and ending with reflections on today's globalization. Along the way, he considers how the interplay of geography, technology, and institutions influenced the Neolithic revolution; the role of the horse in the emergence of empires; the spread of large land-based empires in the classical age; the rise of global empires after the opening of sea routes from Europe to Asia and the Americas; and the industrial age. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes By Zachary D. Carter John Maynard Keynes, namesake of Keynesian economics," was not only an economist but the preeminent anti-authoritarian thinker of the twentieth century. In e Price of Peace, journalist Zachary Carter explores how Keynes not only became the foundation of a burgeoning economics profession, but also became a flash point in the broader political struggle of the Cold War. ough many Keynesian ideas survived the struggle, much of the project to which he devoted his life was lost, and Carter unearths Keyne's lost legacy. Good Economics for Hard Times By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo In Good Economics for Hard Times, MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo argue that solving today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. According to the authors, the solutions to immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change, sources of great anxiety across the world, are all there. What we lack are ideas. Good Economics for Hard Times makes a case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect.