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 recommender
Facebook
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 recommender
The 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 recommenders
The 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 recommender
Confessions 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 recommender
Generation 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 recommender
The 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 recommender
Children 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 recommender
Allah
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 recommender
Conviction 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 recommender
The 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 recommender
The 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 recommender
Drink?
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 recommender
New Atlantis Revisited
Paul R. Josephson
Source: "Imagine the Soviets trying to build a 'city of science,' and meeting problem after problem." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Sunnis 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 recommender
Wikinomics
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 recommenders
Here 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 recommenders
The 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 recommenders
Individualism and Economic Order
F. A. Hayek
Source: "Has nothing to do with the internet per se, it’s really about decentralisation." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
The 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
The Origins of You
How Childhood Shapes Later Life
Jay Belsky
Source: "Will prove one of the best and most important works of the last few years." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Free to Move
Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
Ilya Somin
Source: "The best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Lost Pianos of Siberia
Sophy Roberts
Source: "A wonderful book if you care about the lost pianos of Siberia and indeed I do." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Cognitive Gadgets
The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
Cecilia Heyes
Source: "Perhaps the most important general social science book in a good while." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
1 recommender
Quarantined
Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959
Peter Johnson
Source: "British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
Consociation and Confederation
Brendan O'Leary
Source: "This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II
Control
Brendan O'Leary
Source: "This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I
Colonialism
Brendan O'Leary
Source: "This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Working Backwards
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Colin Bryar
Source: "One of the very best management books of recent times." - Tyler Cowen
4 recommenders
The Industrialists
How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
Jennifer A. Delton
Source: "Why don’t more books fit this model: take one topic and explain it well?" - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Sketches of the Criminal World
Further Kolyma Stories
Varlam Shalamov
Source: "The first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Wicked City
The Many Cultures of Marseille
Nicholas Hewitt
Source: "Every city should have a good book about it, and now Marseille does." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
The Power Notebooks
Katie Roiphe
Source: "Power, sex, dating, and romance, but surprisingly substantive." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
The Glass Hotel
A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
Source: "I think, is [the author's] very best, deepest, most subtle novel." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder
David Weinberger
Source: "Brilliant, but I think it raises an important question." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Golden Gates
Fighting for Housing in America
Conor Dougherty
Source: "A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles." - Tyler Cowen
2 recommenders
Social Democratic Capitalism
Lane Kenworthy
Source: " A very smart, well-written, well-argued book." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
Source: "It’s really a book of meditations. It’s very philosophical." - Tyler Cowen
2 recommenders
The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
Christopher Caldwell
Source: "A very old thesis, but these days quite new." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Frank Ramsey
A Sheer Excess of Powers
Cheryl Misak
Source: "Thorough and useful, though not exciting to read." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Fully Grown
Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
Dietrich Vollrath
Source: "An excellent book on economic growth." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Station Eleven
A Novel
Emily St. John Mandel
Source: "[The author's] biggest-selling book to date." - Tyler Cowen
4 recommenders
Under the Influence
Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Robert H. Frank
Source: Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog.
1 recommender
When the President Calls
Conversations with Economic Policymakers
Simon W. Bowmaker
Source: Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog.
1 recommender
1 recommender
2 recommenders
Leonhard Euler
Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
Ronald S. Calinger
Source: "What a beautiful book." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
The Founders
The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Jimmy Soni
Source: "Illuminating." - Tyler Cowen
4 recommenders
The Wizard and the Prophet
Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
Charles C. Mann
Source: "I loved [this book]." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
Very Important People
Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Ashley Mears
Source: "I loved this book." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
1 recommender
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
James C. Scott
Source: "Wonderful." - Tyler Cowen
1 recommender
The Decadent Society
How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Ross Gregory Douthat
Source: "Excellent book!" - Tyler Cowen
3 recommenders
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