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Books, articles, and essays for further reading
- Rational Decisions — Binmore, K.
- Fooled by Randomness — Taleb, N. N.
- The Black Swan — Taleb, N. N.
- Metaphors We Live By — Lakoff, G.
- Uncertain Futures — Beckert, J.
- Narrative Economics — Shiller, R.
- Nature, the Artful Modeler — Cartwright, N.
- The World in the Model — Morgan, M.
- The Enigma of Reason — Mercier, H.
- The Hidden Half — Blastland, M.
- A Call for Judgment — Bhidé, A.
- Beyond Mechanical Markets — Frydman, R.
- Blueprint — Christakis, N.
- The Mind is Flat — Chater, N.
- The Secret of our Success — Henrich, J.
- A Culture of Growth — Mokyr, J.
- Risk — Bernstein, P.
- Classical Probability in the Enlightenment — Daston, L.
- The Ascent of Money — Ferguson, N.
- Ubiquity — Buchanan, M.
- Do Dice Play God? — Stewart, I.
- As If: Idealization and Ideals — Appiah, K. A.
- The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History — Barry, J. M.
- The Economic Approach to Human Behavior — Becker, G. S.,
- Imagined Futures — Beckert, J.,
- The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden — Bowden, M.,
- Demographic Transition Theory — Caldwell, J. C
- The General vs. The President — Brands, H. W.
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York — Caro, R. A.
- The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition — Carroll, L. and Gardner, M.
- Strategy and Structure — Chandler, A. D.
- The Probable and the Provable — Cohen, L. J.
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap . . . and Others Don’t — Collins, J. C.
- The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties — Collier, P.
- Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain — Damasio, A. R.
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Csikszentmihalyi, M.
- Judgement Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right — Davenport, T. H. and Manville, B.
- Games, Gods, and Gambling: A History of Probability and Statistical Ideas — David, F. N.
- Truth, Language, and History — Davidson, D.
- The Selfish Gene — Dawkins, R.
- The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern — Devlin, K.
- Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography — Drake, S.
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts — Duke, A.,
- Essays in Positive Economics — Friedman, M.
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking — Gladwell, M.
- Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions — Gigerenzer, G.
- Simple Heuristics that Make Us Smart — Gigerenzer, G.
- The Map and the Territory 2.0: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting — Greenspan, A.
- How Doctors Think — Groopman, J.,
- The Emergence of Probability — Hacking, I.
- The Social Construction of What? — Hacking, I.
- The Life of John Maynard Keynes — Harrod, R. F.
- Against Prediction — Harcourt, B.
- The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter — Henrich, J.
- Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man — Hermanns, W. and Einstein, A.,
- An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding — Hume, D.
- A History of Mathematics — Katz, V. J.
- Other People’s Money — Kay, J. A.,
- Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Kennedy, R. F.
- Essays in Biography — Keynes, J. M.
- The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money — Keynes, J. M.
- The End of Alchemy — King, M. A.,
- Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions — Klein, G. A.
- Risk, Uncertainty and Profit — Knight, F. H.,
- What is Truth in Economics? — Knight, F. H.,
- Rogue Trader — Leeson, N. W.
- The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World — Lewis, M.
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds — Mackay, C.
- Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought — Lo, A.
- The Fable of the Bees — Mandeville, B.
- The Limits to Growth — Meadows, D. L.
- The Tragedy of Great Power Politics — Mearsheimer, J. J.
- Strategy Safari: A Guided Tour Through the Wilds of Strategic Management — Mintzberg, H., Ahlstrand, B. and Lampel, J.,
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism — Noble, S. U.
- Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters — Norman, J.
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy — O’Neil, C.
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb — Rhodes, R.
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters — Rumelt, R.
- Brilliant Mistakes: Finding Success on the Far Side of Failure — Schoemaker, P. J. H.
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed — Scott, J. C.,
- The Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction — Silver, N.
- An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — Smith, A.
- The Wisdom of Crowds — Surowiecki, J.
- Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder — Taleb, N. N.
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Taleb, N. N.
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction — Tetlock, P. E. and Gardner, D.
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics — Thaler, R. H.,
- A Man For All Markets: Beating the Odds, from Las Vegas to Wall Street — Thorp, E. O.,
- Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn’t Buy Presents for the Holidays — Waldfogel, J.,
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge — Wilson, E. O.,
- The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution — Wrangham, R.
- Human Behaviour and the Principle of Least Effort — Zipf, G. K.
- Your Money and Your Brain — Zweig, J.