Five stars = 'stunning, not to be missed'; four stars = 'excellent.'
Enjoy!
| Title | Author | Stars | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Wild Life Of Our Bodies | Rob Dunn | ***** | Therapeutic use of hookworms, vertical farming, much more |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion | Johnathan Haidt | ***** | Genetic differences in Liberals and Conservatives, much more |
| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahnemann | ***** | How we mostly use heuristics for thinking and what to do when they don't work |
| Predictably Irrational | Dan Ariely | **** | The power of Free to befuddle us, among many other things |
| Too Big to Fail | Andrew Ross Sorkin | ***** | The Financial Crisis as a page-turner (and later an HBO movie) |
| Debunking Economics | Steve Keen | ***** | See my full post on this one here. |
| Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World | Liaquat Ahamed | **** | The guys in charge the last time this happened (they didn't do as well) |
| All the Devils are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis | Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera | ***** | Smart guys (Goldman Sachs) and dumb guys (Merrill Lynch) during the financial meltdown |
| The Smartest Guys in the Room | Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind | ***** | Enron and its amazing hubris and wild cast of characters |
| Paper Promises: Debt, Money and the New World Order | Philip Coggan | **** | The history of financial crises past, and it's a long one |
| Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ***** | If you're so rich, why aren't you smart? |
| The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | ***** | ... like a decline in housing prices ... |
| Fringeology | Steve Vulk | **** | If we can't explain it, what do we say to ourselves? |
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