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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order — Arnheim, Rudolf
- Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy — Arthur, Brian W.,
- Linked: The New Science of Networks. — Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo,
- Randomness. — Bennett, Deborah J.,
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. — Bernstein, Peter L.,
- Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life. — Brent, Joseph,
- Nonlinear Dynamics, Chaos, and Instability: Statistical Theory and Economic Evidence — Brock, W. A., D. A. Hsieh, and B. LeBaron,
- The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. — Brockman, John,
- Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen. — Buchanan, Mark,
- Essays on Genetic Evolution and Economics — Burnham, Terence C.,
- Mean Genes. — Burnham, T., and J. Phelan,
- Exploring Consciousness. — Carter, Rita,
- Mapping the Mind. — Carter, Rita,
- Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. — Chancellor, Edward,
- Elements of Information Theory. — Cover, T. M., and J. A. Thomas,
- Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life — Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly,
- Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain. — Damasio, Antonio,
- Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain. — Damasio, Antonio,
- Games, Gods, and Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas. — David, Florence Nightingale,
- Hollywood Economics: Chaos in the Movie Industry. — De Vany, Arthur
- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. — Dennett, Daniel C.,
- The Fabric of Reality. — Deutsch, David
- The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. — DeWitt, B. S., and N. Graham
- The Imitation Factor: Evolution Beyond the Gene. — Dugatkin, Lee Alan
- The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics. — Easterly, William
- Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a TenMinute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers. — Edmonds, D., and J. Eidinow
- Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics and Marriage. — Ekman, Paul,
- Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions. — Alchemies of the Mind: Rationality and the Emotions.
- The Modularity of Mind: An Essay on Faculty Psychology. — Fodor, Jerry A.,
- Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status. — Frank, Robert H.,
- Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess. — Frank, Robert H.,
- The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us. — Frank, R. H., and P. J. Cook,
- The End of History and the Last Man. — Fukuyama, Francis,
- The Great Crash 1 929. — Galbraith, John Kenneth,
- The Entropy Law and the Economic Process. — Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas,
- The Empire of Chance: How Probability Changed Science and Everyday Life. — Gigerenzer, Gerd,
- Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart. — Gigerenzer G., P. M. Todd, and ABC Research Group,
- Calculated Risks: How to Know When Numbers Deceive You. — Gigerenzer, Gerd,
- Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment. — Gilovich, T. , D. Griffin, and D. Kahneman
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. — Gladwell, Malcolm,
- Decisions, Uncertainty, and the Brain: The Science of Neuroeconomics — Glimcher, Paul
- Destructive Emotions, How Can We Overcome Them?: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama — Goleman, Daniel,
- The Taming of Chance. — Hacking, Ian,
- The Road to Serfdom. — Hayek, F. A.
- Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity. — Horrobin, David
- The Theory of Financial Decision Making. — Ingersoll, Jonathan E.,
- Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. — Jaynes, E. T.,
- Well-being: The Foundations of Hedonic Psychology. — Kahneman, D.,
- Judgment Under Uncertainly: Heuristics and Biases. — Kahneman, D.,
- Choices, Values, and Frames. — Kahneman, D.,
- The High Price of Materialism. — Kasser, Tim,
- Manias, Panics, and Crashes. — Kindleberger, Charles P.,
- Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. — Knight, Frank,
- An Introduction to Behavioral Ecology — Kreps, J., and N. B. Davies
- Epistemology and Inference. — Kyburg, Henry E., Jr.,
- Synaptic Self How Our Brains Become Who We Are. — LeDoux, Joseph,
- Gambling with Truth. Boston, — Levi, Isaac,
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of LongTerm Capital Management. — Lowenstein, Roger,
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. — MacKay, Charles,
- Fractals and Scaling in Finance. — Mandelbrot, Benoit B.,
- The Education of a Speculator — Niederhoffer, Victor,
- The Nature of Rationality. — Nozick, Robert,
- A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market. — Paulos, John Allen,
- The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari. — Peterson, !vars,
- Inevitable Illusions: How Mistakes of Reason Rule Our Minds. — Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo
- How the Mind Works. — Pinker, Steven,
- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature — Pinker, Steven,
- Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology. — Plotkin, Henry,
- The Open Society and Its Enemies, — Popper, Karl R.,
- Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge, — Popper, Karl R.,
- The Myth of the Framework. — Popper, Karl R.,
- Luck: The Brilliant Randomness of Everyday Life. — Rescher, Nicholas,
- Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance. — Schleifer, Andrei,
- The Paradox Of Choice. — Schwartz, Barry,
- Rationality and Freedom. — Sen, Amartya, K,
- Beyond Fear and Greed: Understanding Behavioral Finance and the Psychology of Investing — Shefrin, Hersh,
- Market Volatility. — Shiller, Robert J.,
- Irrational Exuberance. — Shiller, Robert J.,
- Models of Man. — Simon, Herbert A.,
- Reason in Human Affairs. — Simon, Herbert A.,
- The Perception of Risk. — Slavic, Paul
- Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems. — Sornette, Didier,
- The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market — Soros, George,
- The Millionaire Mind. — Stanley, T. J. ,
- The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1 900. — Stigler, Stephen M.,
- Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options. — Taleb, Nassim Nicholas,
- Quasi Rational Economics. — Thaler, Richard H.,
- The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life. — Thaler, Richard H.,
- Creating Modern Probability. — Von Plato, Jan,
- Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. — Watts, Duncan
- The Illusion of Conscious Will. — Wegner, Daniel M.,
- Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious. — Wilson, Timothy D.,
- Human Instinct: How Our Primeval Impulses Shape Our Lives. — Winston, Robert,