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Scott Galloway Books

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Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the founder of several companies, including L2, Red Envelope, and Prophet. He is known for his research and commentary on technology, business strategy, and the digital economy.

Known for: Adrift: America in 100 Charts, Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity, The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

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Historical Context: From Postwar Prosperity to Structural Drift

To understand where we’ve gone adrift, we must trace the arc of how we got here. The America that emerged from the ashes of World War II was an economic miracle. With much of the world rebuilding, the United States stood strong, its factories humming, its middle class expanding, and its corporations...

From Adrift: America in 100 Charts

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Wealth and Inequality: The Arithmetic of Unfairness

Perhaps no chart in this collection strikes a more visceral chord than the one showing the gap between the top one percent and everyone else. In 1980, the wealth held by the bottom 90 percent of Americans was roughly equal to that of the top one percent. Today, that equation has collapsed. Our socie...

From Adrift: America in 100 Charts

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The Shock of COVID-19: Economic and Societal Disruptions

When the virus swept across continents, our first reaction was panic—empty shelves, shuttered offices, locked borders, and a sudden sense of vulnerability. For decades, the global economy had been optimized for efficiency, not resilience. Supply chains stretched across oceans, businesses relied on j...

From Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity

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Acceleration of Digital Transformation: Technology’s Dominance

Before the pandemic, technology was already redefining how we live and work. After it—or rather, through it—digital became oxygen. The faster the world shut down physically, the faster it opened digitally. Companies like Zoom, Amazon, and Microsoft didn’t just meet demand; they rewrote our standards...

From Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity

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Defining Success

When I was young, success seemed like a scoreboard. The numbers—salary, title, apartment view—were all that mattered. That illusion is deeply cultural; we’re raised to see accomplishment as a function of recognition. But as you age, something shifts. The applause fades. You realize that pure achieve...

From The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

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Career and Work

Work has been the central axis of my life. I’ve seen how ambition can both propel and poison us. The truth is, you will probably devote more waking hours to your career than to anything else. So it matters that you find work that excites you—or at least work that serves a purpose. Young people often...

From The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning

About Scott Galloway

Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business and the founder of several companies, including L2, Red Envelope, and Prophet. He is known for his research and commentary on technology, business strategy, and the digital economy.

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