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Wikinomics
It basically says wikis work and wikis are important and wikis are the way of the future. - Tyler Cowen
Don Tapscott
2
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The Glass Bead Game
About the beauty of organised structures and how we play them in game-like fashion and how much they entrance us. - Tyler Cowen
Hermann Hesse
2
people
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Working Backwards
One of the very best management books of recent times. - Tyler Cowen
Colin Bryar
4
people
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The Age of Entitlement
A very old thesis, but these days quite new. - Tyler Cowen
Christopher Caldwell
1
people
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Cognitive Gadgets
Perhaps the most important general social science book in a good while. - Tyler Cowen
Cecilia Heyes
1
people
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The Idealist
I could not help but crack open the cover and sample a few pages, and then I was hooked. - Tyler Cowen
Nina Munk
2
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Quarantined
British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story. - Tyler Cowen
Peter Johnson
1
people
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Lost Pianos of Siberia
A wonderful book if you care about the lost pianos of Siberia and indeed I do. - Tyler Cowen
Sophy Roberts
1
people
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The Origins of You
Will prove one of the best and most important works of the last few years. - Tyler Cowen
Jay Belsky
1
people
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Free to Move
The best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date. - Tyler Cowen
Ilya Somin
1
people
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Wicked City
Every city should have a good book about it, and now Marseille does. - Tyler Cowen
Nicholas Hewitt
1
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The Decadent Society
Excellent book! - Tyler Cowen
Ross Gregory Douthat
3
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The Infinite Machine
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
Camila Russo
1
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The Book of Disquiet
It’s really a book of meditations. It’s very philosophical. - Tyler Cowen
Fernando Pessoa
2
people
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Economists
Self-recommending. - Tyler Cowen
Robert M. Solow
1
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Sketches of the Criminal World
The first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well. - Tyler Cowen
Varlam Shalamov
1
people
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Confessions of a Sociopath
One of the most interesting parts of the memoir is how she reconciles being both a 'psychopath' and a Mormon... - Tyler Cowen
M.E. Thomas
1
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Here Comes Everybody
About spontaneous order and decentralisation, and just how powerful the web can be. - Tyler Cowen
Clay Shirky
2
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The Glass Hotel
I think, is [the author's] very best, deepest, most subtle novel. - Tyler Cowen
Emily St. John Mandel
1
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Generation Priced Out
A YIMBY book, with good historical material on San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other locales involved in the struggle to build more. - Tyler Cowen
Randy Shaw
1
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The Ideas Industry
Excellent. - Tyler Cowen
Daniel W. Drezner
1
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Very Important People
I loved this book. - Tyler Cowen
Ashley Mears
1
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The Industrialists
Why don’t more books fit this model: take one topic and explain it well? - Tyler Cowen
Jennifer A. Delton
1
people
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New Atlantis Revisited
Imagine the Soviets trying to build a 'city of science,' and meeting problem after problem. - Tyler Cowen
Paul R. Josephson
1
people
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Allah
A very good treatment of what it promises, with an emphasis on the concept of mercy in Islam. - Tyler Cowen
Gabriel Said Reynolds
1
people
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The Senkaku Paradox
About what options a U.S. government would have — short of full war — to deal with international grabs by China or Russia. - Tyler Cowen
Michael E. O'Hanlon
1
people
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Leonhard Euler
What a beautiful book. - Tyler Cowen
Ronald S. Calinger
1
people
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The Bomb
Not a secret history, but it is a good general overall introduction to its chosen topic. - Tyler Cowen
Fred M. Kaplan
1
people
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II
This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement. - Tyler Cowen
Brendan O'Leary
1
people
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Fully Grown
An excellent book on economic growth. - Tyler Cowen
Dietrich Vollrath
1
people
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Station Eleven
[The author's] biggest-selling book to date. - Tyler Cowen
Emily St. John Mandel
4
people
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When the President Calls
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog.
Simon W. Bowmaker
1
people
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Drink?
A very good introduction to the growing body of evidence about the harms of alcohol, in all walks of life. - Tyler Cowen
Professor David Nutt
1
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement. - Tyler Cowen
Brendan O'Leary
1
people
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Children of Ash and Elm
I have only browsed this book, yet it appears to have much more information about the Vikings than other books I know. - Tyler Cowen
Neil S. Price
1
people
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Against the Grain
Wonderful. - Tyler Cowen
James C. Scott
1
people
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A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I
This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement. - Tyler Cowen
Brendan O'Leary
1
people
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Social Democratic Capitalism
A very smart, well-written, well-argued book. - Tyler Cowen
Lane Kenworthy
1
people
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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
One of the more important and more prophetic social science books of our time. - Tyler Cowen
Martin Gurri
2
people
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The Wizard and the Prophet
I loved [this book]. - Tyler Cowen
Charles C. Mann
1
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Sunnis and Shi'a
Captures the complexities, and in fact pulls the reader away from the usual tired dichotomy. - Tyler Cowen
Laurence Louër
1
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Everything Is Miscellaneous
Brilliant, but I think it raises an important question. - Tyler Cowen
David Weinberger
1
people
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Dante
The book to read on Dante after you’ve read all the other books. - Tyler Cowen
John Took
1
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The Founders
Illuminating. - Tyler Cowen
Jimmy Soni
4
people
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Conviction Machine
A frank and brutal documentation of why you should never trust a prosecutor or speak to the FBI. - Tyler Cowen
Harvey A. Silverglate
1
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The Power Notebooks
Power, sex, dating, and romance, but surprisingly substantive. - Tyler Cowen
Katie Roiphe
1
people
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Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
New and notable. - Tyler Cowen
Lily Collison
2
people
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Facebook
Probably the best history of the company were are going to get, at least for the earlier years of the company. - Tyler Cowen
Steven Levy
1
people
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Frank Ramsey
Thorough and useful, though not exciting to read. - Tyler Cowen
Cheryl Misak
1
people
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Golden Gates
A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles. - Tyler Cowen
Conor Dougherty
2
people
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The Cure That Works
A look at how to translate ideas from Singapore’s health care system into the United States. - Tyler Cowen
Sean Masaki Flynn
1
people
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The American Dream Is Not Dead
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
Michael R. Strain
1
people
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Under the Influence
Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog.
Robert H. Frank
1
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Individualism and Economic Order
Has nothing to do with the internet per se, it’s really about decentralisation. - Tyler Cowen
F. A. Hayek
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