Nick Szabo Book Recommendations
Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer.
(Read more on Wikipedia)23 Books Recommended
Money Changes Everything
How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by William N. Goetzmann
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
by William Rosen
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The Fatal Conceit
The Errors of Socialism
by F. A. Hayek
"[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo (Source)
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Getting To Maybe
How to Excel on Law School Exams
by Richard Michael Fischl
"Nominally a book on how to take a law school exam. Really a primer on quantum thought." - Nick Szabo (Source)
A History of Western Technology
by Friedrich Klemm
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Masters of the Word
How Media Shaped History
by William J. Bernstein
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The Measure of Reality
Quantification in Western Europe, 1250–1600
by Alfred Crosby
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Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff
"[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo (Source)
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The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley
"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 (Source)
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Naval Ravikant, Jordan Peterson, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, Mr. Money Mustache, John Arnold, Bill Gurley, Rupert Murdoch, Anthony Pompliano
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
by Toby Lester
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The Columbian Exchange
Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
by Alfred Crosby
"Basically what Jared Diamond ripped off when he wrote his book." - Nick Szabo (Source)
The Black Book of Communism
Crimes, Terror, Repression
by Mark Kramer
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The 10,000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
by Gregory Cochran
"[A crucial book] on our origins & our natures." - Nick Szabo (Source)
The Origins of Virtue
Human Instincts and The Evolution of Cooperation
by Matt Ridley
"I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo (Source)
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Conquest, Tribute and Trade
How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization
by Howard J. Erlichman
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A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
by William J. Bernstein
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The Selfish Gene
by Richard Dawkins
"Explains more about life (including human behavior and myself) than anything else I’ve read. " - Nick Szabo (Source)
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Charlie Munger, Matt Ridley, Brian Armstrong, Phil Libin, Ev Williams, Mr. Money Mustache, Bob Metcalfe, Mark Manson, Elon Musk, Tai Lopez, David Deutsch
To Rule the Waves
How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
by Arthur Herman
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The Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
by Matt Ridley
"I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo (Source)
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The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
"[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo (Source)
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Elon Musk, Naval Ravikant, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Noam Chomsky, Brandon Stanton, Bill Gurley, Patrick Bet-David
The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
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Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
by Matt Ridley
"I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo (Source)
