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Short-termism is a category for books that examine society’s bias toward immediate gains and near-term metrics at the expense of long-run value. These titles probe how incentives, behavioral biases, media cycles, and technology drive quick fixes in business, finance, politics, and culture, tracing consequences such as fragile institutions, environmental damage, inequality, and burnout. Blending case studies, investigative reporting, behavioral science, and management thinking, they diagnose “quarterly capitalism” and instant-gratification habits while offering tools to extend time horizons—patient capital, stewardship, governance reforms, new metrics, scenario planning, and intergenerational ethics. The genre spans critique and solutions, from policy proposals and organizational playbooks to narrative accounts that show what is lost when we optimize for now.

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