Books Recommended by Nick Szabo
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's. This is my favorite one.]" - Nick Szabo
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Source: "Explains more about life (including human behavior and myself) than anything else I’ve read. " - Nick Szabo
Getting To Maybe
How to Excel on Law School Exams
Richard Michael Fischl
Source: "Nominally a book on how to take a law school exam. Really a primer on quantum thought." - Nick Szabo
The Origins of Virtue
Human Instincts and The Evolution of Cooperation
Matt Ridley
Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo
The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley
Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo
Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt Ridley
Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo
The Columbian Exchange
Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
Alfred Crosby
Source: "Basically what Jared Diamond ripped off when he wrote his book." - Nick Szabo
The Fatal Conceit
The Errors of Socialism
F. A. Hayek
Source: "[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
Source: "[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo
The 10,000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Gregory Cochran
Source: "[A crucial book] on our origins & our natures." - Nick Szabo
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
William Rosen
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
Money Changes Everything
How Finance Made Civilization Possible
William N. Goetzmann
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
The Measure of Reality
Quantification in Western Europe, 1250–1600
Alfred Crosby
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
Masters of the Word
How Media Shaped History
William J. Bernstein
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
The Fourth Part of the World
The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name
Toby Lester
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
The Black Book of Communism
Crimes, Terror, Repression
Mark Kramer
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
Conquest, Tribute and Trade
How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization
Howard J. Erlichman
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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