Nick Szabo Recommended Books
Nick Szabo has recommended 23 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer.
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Money Changes Everything
How Finance Made Civilization Possible
Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter. (Source)
The Most Powerful Idea in the World
A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
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The Fatal Conceit
The Errors of Socialism
"[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
"Nominally a book on how to take a law school exam. Really a primer on quantum thought." - Nick Szabo (Source)
Masters of the Word
How Media Shaped History
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A History of Western Technology
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The Measure of Reality
Quantification in Western Europe, 1250–1600
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Metaphors We Live By
"[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo (Source)
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The Columbian Exchange
Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
"Basically what Jared Diamond ripped off when he wrote his book." - Nick Szabo (Source)
The Rational Optimist
How Prosperity Evolves
"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, Anthony Pompliano, Rupert Murdoch
The Black Book of Communism
Crimes, Terror, Repression
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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
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The 10,000 Year Explosion
How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution
"[A crucial book] on our origins & our natures." - Nick Szabo (Source)
Glass
A World History
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The Origins of Virtue
Human Instincts and The Evolution of Cooperation
"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
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A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter. (Source)
The Selfish Gene
"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, Ev Williams, Phil Libin, Mr. Money Mustache, Bob Metcalfe, David Deutsch, Tai Lopez, Elon Musk, Mark Manson
The Wealth of Nations
"[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 Red Queen
Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
"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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To Rule the Waves
How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Genome
The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
"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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