Readings

Economics and Political Economy

• Development Economics
  • Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
  • The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
  • Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
• Political Economy
  • The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
  • The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
  • The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
• Labor Economics
  • The Race Between Education and Technology by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
  • The New Geography of Jobs by Enrico Moretti
  • The Future of Work by Richard Baldwin

Technology and Society

• Digital Economy
  • The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff
  • The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Social Impact of Technology
  • The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu
  • Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
  • The Shallows by Nicholas Carr

General Interest

• History and Society
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
  • The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan
• Science and Philosophy
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn
  • The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Recent Additions

• The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
• The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor
• The Great Leveler by Walter Scheidel

Reading Notes

I maintain reading notes for some of these books. If you’re interested in any particular book’s notes, feel free to contact me.