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.
