Ranked: How Products Shape and Change the World

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Products Shape and Change the World


Consumers choices shape what producers produce.  Producers shape what products are available to be consumed.  Consumers and producers have the power to shape how this world's resources are used.  This list is dedicated to that everlasting cycle of change based on the products and services that are available.   


Books

  1. A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
  2. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
  3. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
  4. Making a Literary Life: Advice for Writers and Other Dreamers by Carolyn See


Cobalt

  1. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara


Coffee

  1. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World by Mark Pendergrast

Communication (Language, Media, Entertainment, Advertising, News, and Social)

  1. The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
  2. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
  3. Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday

Cotton

  1. The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli

Drugs

Energy Source

  1. (Oil) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  2. (Oil) Asia's Cauldron: The South China Sea and the End of a Stable Pacific by Robert D. Kaplan

Fish

Honey

  1. A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell


Sugar

  1. Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
  2. Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It by Gary Taubes


Technology

  1. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy by George Gilder
  2. Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl


Tourism

  1. Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution by Carol Ann Bassett

Variety of Products
  1. The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven C. Topik
  2. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
  3. Upcoming: The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  4. Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
  5. Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization by Nayan Chanda
  6. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith




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