Books Recommended by Tyler Cowen
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The American Dream Is Not Dead
(But Populism Could Kill It)
Michael R. Strain
Source: "Just how good or bad are things in America right now? [This book] is the most balanced and informative take on this question you are likely to see." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderFacebook
The Inside Story
Steven Levy
Source: "Probably the best history of the company were are going to get, at least for the earlier years of the company." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderThe Glass Bead Game
A Novel
Hermann Hesse
Source: "About the beauty of organised structures and how we play them in game-like fashion and how much they entrance us." - Tyler Cowen
2 recommendersThe Senkaku Paradox
Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes
Michael E. O'Hanlon
Source: "About what options a U.S. government would have — short of full war — to deal with international grabs by China or Russia." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderConfessions of a Sociopath
A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
M.E. Thomas
Source: "One of the most interesting parts of the memoir is how she reconciles being both a 'psychopath' and a Mormon..." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderGeneration Priced Out
Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
Randy Shaw
Source: "A YIMBY book, with good historical material on San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other locales involved in the struggle to build more." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderThe Infinite Machine
How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
Camila Russo
Source: "Yes, this is the story of Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum. Very useful, and I am glad there is now a good book on this topic." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderChildren of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings
Neil S. Price
Source: "I have only browsed this book, yet it appears to have much more information about the Vikings than other books I know." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderAllah
God in the Qur’an
Gabriel Said Reynolds
Source: "A very good treatment of what it promises, with an emphasis on the concept of mercy in Islam." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderConviction Machine
Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
Harvey A. Silverglate
Source: "A frank and brutal documentation of why you should never trust a prosecutor or speak to the FBI." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderThe Idealist
Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World
Samuel Zipp
Source: "I could not help but crack open the cover and sample a few pages, and then I was hooked." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderThe Cure That Works
How to Have the World's Best Health Care -- at a Quarter of the Price
Sean Masaki Flynn
Source: "A look at how to translate ideas from Singapore’s health care system into the United States." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderDrink?
The New Science of Alcohol and Health
Professor David Nutt
Source: "A very good introduction to the growing body of evidence about the harms of alcohol, in all walks of life." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderNew Atlantis Revisited
Paul R. Josephson
Source: "Imagine the Soviets trying to build a 'city of science,' and meeting problem after problem." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderSunnis and Shi'a
A Political History
Laurence Louër
Source: "Captures the complexities, and in fact pulls the reader away from the usual tired dichotomy." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderWikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Don Tapscott
Source: "It basically says wikis work and wikis are important and wikis are the way of the future." - Tyler Cowen
2 recommendersHere Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clay Shirky
Source: "About spontaneous order and decentralisation, and just how powerful the web can be." - Tyler Cowen
2 recommendersThe Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Martin Gurri
Source: "One of the more important and more prophetic social science books of our time." - Tyler Cowen
2 recommendersIndividualism and Economic Order
F. A. Hayek
Source: "Has nothing to do with the internet per se, it’s really about decentralisation." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommenderThe Bomb
Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
Fred M. Kaplan
Source: "Not a secret history, but it is a good general overall introduction to its chosen topic." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
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