Ask HN: Book Recommendations?
Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press.
De Mesquita, B. B., Smith, A., Siverson, R. M., & Morrow, J. D. (2005). The logic of political survival. MIT press.
Axelrod, R., & Hamilton, W. D. (1981). The evolution of cooperation. science, 211(4489), 1390-1396.
Tetlock, P. E. (2017). Expert political judgment: How good is it? How can we know?-New edition. In Expert Political Judgment. Princeton University Press.
Diamond, J., & Renfrew, C. (1997). Guns, germs, and steel: The fates of human societies. Nature, 386(6623), 339-339.
McGillivray, F., & Smith, A. (2008). Punishing the prince: a theory of interstate relations, political institutions, and leader change. Princeton University Press.
Kuhn, T. S. (1997). The structure of scientific revolutions (Vol. 962). Chicago: University of Chicago press.
Lietaer, B., & Dunne, J. (2013). Rethinking money: How new currencies turn scarcity into prosperity. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Fulcher, J. (2015). Capitalism: A very short introduction (Vol. 108). Oxford University Press, USA.
Wiseman, R. (2016). Queen bees and wannabes: Helping your daughter survive cliques, gossip, boys, and the new realities of girl world. Harmony.
Any recommendations are appreciated. =)
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 87.6 ms ] threadIt is a great read!!
I’m also currently reading: Kahneman, D. (2011) Thinking fast and slow. Penguin.
So far I’m liking it.
Then this one:
Cialdini, R. B., & Cialdini, R. B. B. (2007) and it is (2007). Influence: The psychology of persuasion (Vol. 55, p., p. 339) and 33. New York City: Collins.
Might as well call it: The psychology of fairness. Cool.
Then for this one:
Harari, Y. N. (2014). Sapiens: A brief history of humankind. Random House.
This quote caught my attention: "Harari surveys the history of humankind from the Stone Age up to the 21st century ..."
O_O
Thanks again. =)
https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Graphic-History-Birth-Humanki...
I got it for my kids, but enjoyed reading it myself.
- Information Rules - Carl Shapiro & Hal Varian
- Normal Accidents - Charles Perrow
- Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture - Mario Salvadori
- Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief - Jordan Peterson
- The Power Broker - Robert Caro
- Political Order and Political Decay - Francis Fukuyama
- The Creators - Daniel Boorstin
- The Square and the Tower - Niall Ferguson
Then, a note on "The Creators - Daniel Boorstin" for others, as I had a little trouble finding it:
Boorstin, D. J. (1993). The creators: A history of heroes of the imagination (Vol. 1). Vintage.
Here's a few books I think you'd be interested in:
Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century (2022) by Brad DeLong
The Open Society and Its Complexities (2021) by Jerry Gaus
Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy: The Cold War Origins of Rational Choice Liberalism (2003) by S. M. Amadae
This book explained to me how self-fulfilling prophecies work. ps. If you know German, I recommend you read it in the original language.
- Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
- The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
- A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
- Tragedies, William Shakespeare
Ford, H. (2019). Today and Tomorrow: Commemorative Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis)
https://archive.org/details/todaytomorrow0000ford