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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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Redefining What Success Really Means

Success is one of the most misleading words in modern life because we often inherit its definition before we ever examine it. Early in life, many people treat success like a scoreboard: salary, job title, prestige, home size, followers, or the visible symbols that prove we are winning. Galloway argu...

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

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Choose Work That Builds Identity

Work will occupy more of your waking life than almost anything else, which means it cannot be treated as a side issue in the pursuit of happiness. Galloway is clear-eyed about this: career matters enormously, not because work should define your entire worth, but because bad work choices compound int...

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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