Girls & Sex Summary of Key Points
Peggy Orenstein explores the sexual challenges and realities facing today’s young women, from the impact of porn to the concept of sexual consent.
Social Media Influence
Narrative Economics Summary of Key Points
In ‘Narrative Economics’, Robert J. Shiller, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, explores how viral stories or narratives influence economic events and shape financial markets. Shiller argues that these narratives, spreading through word of mouth, news, and social media, significantly impact economic decisions and can fuel speculative bubbles, economic crises, and other major economic phenomena. He emphasizes the need to understand and analyze these stories to better predict and manage economic outcomes. The book combines insights from economics, psychology, and history to illustrate how narratives have driven economic events throughout history and continue to do so today.
#NeverAgain Summary of Key Points
‘#NeverAgain’ is a raw account of the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, as told by two survivors, David and Lauren Hogg. The book focuses on gun control activism and youth’s political engagement that followed the tragedy.
Narrative Economics
Exploring how viral stories shape major economic events and markets.
#NeverAgain
Survivors’ account on Parkland shooting and their activism for gun control.