Books Recommended by Nick Szabo
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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
1 recommender
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
2 recommenders
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
4 recommenders
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
4 recommenders
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
1 recommender
The Fatal Conceit
The Errors of Socialism
F. A. Hayek
Source: "[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo
2 recommenders
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
Source: "[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo
3 recommenders
The 10,000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
Gregory Cochran
Source: "[A crucial book] on our origins & our natures." - Nick Szabo
1 recommender
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
William Rosen
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
2 recommenders
Money Changes Everything
How Finance Made Civilization Possible
William N. Goetzmann
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
The Measure of Reality
Quantification in Western Europe, 1250–1600
Alfred Crosby
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
1 recommender
Masters of the Word
How Media Shaped History
William J. Bernstein
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
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.
1 recommender
The Black Book of Communism
Crimes, Terror, Repression
Mark Kramer
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
1 recommender
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.
1 recommender
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
William J. Bernstein
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
To Rule the Waves
How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Arthur Herman
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
1 recommender
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