The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy

A diagnosis of US politics as a broken industry rather than a broken democracy, written by former business executive Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter, the Harvard Business School strategy professor. Their argument: the two parties form an entrenched duopoly that competes on suppressing competition and polarizing the electorate, so the fix is not goodwill between existing players but political innovation — new rules and institutions that change the structure of the game itself.

Cuban's recommendation frames the book as a market-structure lesson, not a political one: 'a great book about how the Duopoly has been used to shut out competition and polarize the country.' The founder analogy is direct — an industry can be captured by a small number of incumbents who benefit from the status quo, and the way to break a duopoly is rarely to out-compete within its rules but to change them.