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Leo Tolstoy
The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
The State and Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
Albert Camus
The Cost of Sexism: How the Economy Is Built for Men and Why We Must Reshape It
Linda Scott
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market
Nicholas Wapshott
Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Daron Acemoğlu
Phenomenology of Spirit
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Organisation und Koordination: Eine ökonomische Einführung (German Edition)
Peter-J. Jost
Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain
Paul W. Glimcher
Misunderstandings: False Beliefs in Communication
Georg Weizsäcker
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (Liberty Fund Library of the Works of Ludwig von Mises)
Ludwig von Mises
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
Joel Mokyr
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Mark Fisher
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Stephen Fry
Golden Son
Pierce Brown
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B.F. Skinner
Jeder Mensch
Ferdinand von Schirach
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
Plato
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Brian Wansink
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Ananyo Bhattacharya
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
Tyler Cowen
Zur Genealogie der Moral
Friedrich Nietzsche
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Michael Malice
Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought
Agnar Sandmo
QualityLand
Marc-Uwe Kling
QualityLand 2.0
Marc-Uwe Kling
Die Pest
Albert Camus
Introduction to Modern Economic Growth
Daron Acemoğlu
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds)
John Maynard Keynes
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David A. Sinclair
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Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
George A. Akerlof
What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold
Stephen Fry
Golden Son
Pierce Brown
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B.F. Skinner
Jeder Mensch
Ferdinand von Schirach
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
Plato
Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
Brian Wansink
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Ananyo Bhattacharya
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies
Tyler Cowen
Zur Genealogie der Moral
Friedrich Nietzsche
The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Michael Malice
Economics Evolving: A History of Economic Thought
Agnar Sandmo
QualityLand
Marc-Uwe Kling
QualityLand 2.0
Marc-Uwe Kling
Die Pest
Albert Camus
Introduction to Modern Economic Growth
Daron Acemoğlu
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds)
John Maynard Keynes
Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David A. Sinclair
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray Dalio
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
Inflation Reduction Act of 2022: With Amendments
U.S. Congress
Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense
Gad Saad
Modern Man in Search of a Soul
C.G. Jung
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought
Dennis C. Rasmussen
Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports)
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
Chess Story
Stefan Zweig
Project Hail Mary
Andy Weir
The Mind Illuminated: A Complete Meditation Guide Integrating Buddhist Wisdom and Brain Science
Culadasa (John Charles Yates)
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Bryan Caplan
Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
Max Lugavere
Good Economics for Hard Times
Abhijit V. Banerjee
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Charles Wheelan
How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers
Tim Harford
China: The Bubble That Never Pops
Thomas Orlik
Politische Ökonomie Der Finanzmärkte
Jörg Huffschmid
Fear and Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard
Contra Krugman: Smashing the Errors of America's Most Famous Keynesian
Robert P. Murphy
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Circe
Madeline Miller
The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Eristische Dialektik Von
Arthur Schopenhauer
Anatomy of the State
Murray N. Rothbard
Candide
Voltaire
Dune Messiah
Frank Herbert
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
When Nietzsche Wept
Irvin D. Yalom
Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You've Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong
Edward Conard
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
Dan Ariely
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Daniel Goleman
Knowledge and Decisions
Thomas Sowell
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Der zerbrochne Krug
Heinrich von Kleist
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Katharina Pistor
The Schopenhauer Cure
Irvin D. Yalom
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
L'Étranger
Albert Camus
The Unincorporated Man
Dani Kollin
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
James Nestor
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Rutger Bregman
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
The Princess Diarist
Carrie Fisher
Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine
Anne Applebaum
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
Johann Hari
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Helen Pluckrose
Average Is Over
Tyler Cowen
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell
I, Pencil: My Family Tree As Told to Leonard E. Read
Leonard Edward Read
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance
Steven D. Levitt
Priced Out: The Economic and Ethical Costs of American Health Care
Uwe E. Reinhardt
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe
Niall Ferguson
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty
The Three-Body Problem
Liu Cixin
The Law
Frédéric Bastiat
Irrational Exuberance
Robert J. Shiller
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
René Girard
Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior
Erez Yoeli
Unsere Welt neu denken: Eine Einladung
Maja Göpel
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History
Michel Foucault
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
The Martian
Andy Weir
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It
Heather Boushey
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us
Jonathan Aldred
Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding
Daniel E. Lieberman
Warum es so schwer ist, ein guter Mensch zu sein: …und wie wir das ändern können: Antworten eines Verhaltensökonomen
Armin Falk
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Friedrich A. Hayek
Life Time
Russell Foster
Gott: ein Theaterstück
Ferdinand von Schirach
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Steven Pinker
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Ashlee Vance
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Notes from Underground
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Anti-Christ
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
The Iliad
Homer
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson
Operations Management
Gérard Cachon
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
Daniel Kahneman
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
Daron Acemoğlu
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
The Republic
Plato
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt
The White Pill: A Tale of Good and Evil
Michael Malice
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
Bill Gates
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
Kelly McGonigal
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Richard H. Thaler
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
Lysander Spooner
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
Michael Pollan
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Leo Tolstoy
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Stephen Kotkin
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
The Fall (Vintage International)
Albert Camus
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
Der Großinquisitor
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Red Rising
Pierce Brown
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson
Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il
Michael Malice
What Is Money?
Frédéric Bastiat
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
Rutger Bregman
Über das Böse
Hannah Arendt
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies
Peggy McIntosh
The Human Crisis
Albert Camus
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Hans Rosling
Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Jesse Norman
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Pérez
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Einführung in die Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre
Günter Wöhe
That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen: The Unintended Consequences of Government Spending
Frédéric Bastiat
The Gene: An Intimate History
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Zachary D. Carter
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Lenin
Das Kapital im 21. Jahrhundert
Thomas Piketty
The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
Timothy Snyder
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Capitalism and Freedom
Milton Friedman
The Essential Women of Liberty (Essential Scholars)
Fraser Institute
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
Chris Voss
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
Tom Mustill
The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Joseph Henrich
The Qur'an
Anonymous
Abundance
Ezra Klein
The Titan’s Curse
Rick Riordan
The Sea of Monsters
Rick Riordan
The Lightning Thief
Rick Riordan
The Last Olympian
Rick Riordan
The Battle of the Labyrinth
Rick Riordan
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald J. Robertson
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins
Die Räuber
Friedrich Schiller
The Anarchist Handbook
Michael Malice
The Essential James Buchanan (Essential Scholars)
Donald J. Boudreaux
Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
Jordan B. Peterson
The Body: A Guide for Occupants
Bill Bryson
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Simone de Beauvoir
Advanced Macroeconomics
David Romer
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
Paul Krugman
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Steven Pinker
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
Henry David Thoreau
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It
Benjamin Bikman
Climate Change 2022 – Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulerability: Working Group II Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Sarah E. Hill
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
John A. List
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure
Jonathan Haidt
The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
Edward Conard
How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
Michael Greger
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
Eric Jorgenson
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics
Nicholas Wapshott
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
Kevin Simler
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of All Time?
Tyler Cowen
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Steven Pinker
The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care—and How to Fix It
Marty Makary
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Jonathan Haidt
Der Sandmann
E.T.A. Hoffmann
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
Richard G. Wilkinson
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Peter Zeihan
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
Amanda Gorman
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Susan Cain
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Patrick Radden Keefe
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
Abhijit V. Banerjee
Operations Management
William J. Stevenson
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Screwtape Letters
C.S. Lewis
Reagan: The Life
H.W. Brands
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
Bryan Caplan
Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Jordan B. Peterson
Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
Shadowplay: Behind the Lines and Under Fire: The Inside Story of Europe's Last War
Tim Marshall
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
Bjørn Lomborg
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
Peter Singer
Willhelm Tell
Friedrich Schiller
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Nathan der Weise
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis
Jugend ohne Gott
Ödön von Horváth
Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen
Heinrich Heine
Der Goldene Topf
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Die Känguru-Chroniken
Marc-Uwe Kling
Das Känguru-Manifest
Marc-Uwe Kling
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
The Return of the King
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
Ben Horowitz
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States
Founding Fathers
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe
Gottfried Keller
Psychological Types
C.G. Jung
My Own Life
David Hume
Moneyball
Michael Lewis
Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins
Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Lock In
John Scalzi
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Holy Bible: New International Version
Anonymous
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
J.K. Rowling
Government
Frédéric Bastiat
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust, First Part
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ender’s Game
Orson Scott Card
Emilia Galotti
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
Steve Magness
Die Physiker
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Die Leiden des jungen Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Der Gang vor die Hunde
Erich Kästner
Capital and Interest
Frédéric Bastiat
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah
Bahnwärter Thiel
Gerhart Hauptmann
Animal Farm
George Orwell
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
A Game of Thrones #1
Daniel Abraham
A Clash of Kings
George R.R. Martin
1984
George Orwell
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes
Adam Rutherford
A Course in Behavioral Economics
Erik Angner
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960
Milton Friedman
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
Burton G. Malkiel
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson
A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises
Ray Dalio
A Theory of Justice
John Rawls
A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics (Ludwig Von Mises Institute's Studies in Austrian Economics)
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Mary Wollstonecraft
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians & Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Victor Davis Hanson
Action (1893): Essay on a Critique of Life and a Science of Practice
Maurice Blondel
Against Intellectual Monopoly
Michele Boldrin
Age Later: Secrets of the Healthiest, Sharpest Centenarians
Nir Barzilai
All It Takes Is Guts: A Minority View
Walter E. Williams
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
An Introduction to Political Philosophy
Jonathan Wolff
Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices (The New Institutionalism in American Politics)
Michael C. Munger
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st-Century
Jean-Philippe Delsol
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
Arthur Schopenhauer
Aphorisms on Love and Hate
Friedrich Nietzsche
Armchair Economist: Economics & Everyday Life
Steven E. Landsburg
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Bryan Burrough
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History
Rodney Stark
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
William Quinn
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Robert D. Putnam
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future
Dan Wang
Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Regulation
Bryan Caplan
Bureaucracy
Ludwig von Mises
Caligula
Albert Camus
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises
Anwar Shaikh
Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick
Climate Future: Averting and Adapting to Climate Change
Robert S. Pindyck
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings
Thomas Paine
Communication With the Spirit World of God
johannes greber
Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World
Tyler Cowen
Critique of Cynical Reason
Peter Sloterdijk
Critique of Judgment
Immanuel Kant
Critique of Practical Reason
Immanuel Kant
Critique of the Gotha Program
Karl Marx
Culture and the Evolutionary Process
Robert Boyd
Das Globalisierungs-Paradox: Die Demokratie und die Zukunft der Weltwirtschaft
Dani Rodrik
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
Nick Bostrom
Defending the Undefendable
Walter Block
Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
Hermann Hesse
Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff
Democracy: The God That Failed
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Demons
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Der Sozialismus der Zukunft
Thomas Piketty
Die Inflation kommt: Und wie Sie sich jetzt schon schützen können (German Edition)
Riße Stefan
Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung
Arthur Schopenhauer
Die Würde ist antastbar
Ferdinand von Schirach
Die wundersame Geldvermehrung: Staatsverschuldung, Negativzinsen, Inflation (German Edition)
Hans-Werner Sinn
Discourses and Selected Writings
Epictetus
Do Markets Corrupt Our Morals?
Virgil Henry Storr
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
Tom Holland
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
Don’t Die
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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
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Dune
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Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell
Economic Theory of the Leisure Class
Nikolai Bukharin
Economical Writing
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
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Educated
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Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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Einführung in das Controlling
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End This Depression Now!
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Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff
Arthur M. Okun
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Michel de Montaigne
Essays and Aphorisms
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Baruch Spinoza
Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard (Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture)
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Existentialism is a Humanism
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Fight Club
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First in His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton
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Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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Free Will
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Freedom: Memoirs 1954-2021
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Games People Play
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Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research
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Gekränkte Freiheit: Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus
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Gorgias
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
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Government versus Markets: The Changing Economic Role of the State
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950
Bruce Caldwell
Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
Jonathan Gruber
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
Eva Dou
How Economics Can Save the World: Simple Ideas to Solve Our Biggest Problems
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How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Numbers
Mihir Desai
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
Peter D. Schiff
How the Economic Machine Works
Ray Dalio
Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
Gary S. Becker
I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche
Sue Prideaux
Illustrations of Political Economy: Selected Tales (Broadview Editions)
Harriet Martineau
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
Carol Gilligan
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Industrial Society and Its Future
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Is Behavioral Economics Doomed? The Ordinary versus the Extraordinary
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Judgement in Managerial Decision Making
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Jump-Starting America: How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream
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Labor Econ Versus the World: Essays on the World's Greatest Market
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Letter to a Christian Nation
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Letters from a Stoic
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Christopher Hitchens
Liberalismus
Ludwig von Mises
Liberty and Property
Ludwig von Mises
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
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Rüdiger Safranski
Marx, Wagner, Nietzsche: Welt im Umbruch
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Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse (German Edition)
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Master of the Senate
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René Descartes
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Aristotle
Microfoundations and Macroeconomics (Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy)
Steven Horwitz
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George Eliot
Morning Star
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Napoleon: A Life
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Philosophical Investigations
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Please Don't Say You're Sorry: An Empowering Perspective on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce from a Marriage-Loving Divorce Attorney
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Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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Postscript on the Societies of Control
Gilles Deleuze
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth... The Remedy
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis
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Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing
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The Concept of the Political
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The Conscience of a Liberal
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The Constitution of Liberty
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The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms
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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy
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The Denial of Death
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
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The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority
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The Diviners
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The End of History and the Last Man
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The Federalist Papers
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The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism
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The Master and Margarita
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The Merchant of Venice
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The Red Book: Liber Novus
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The Trouble With Being Born
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The Undiscovered Self
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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The Use of Knowledge in Society
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The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life
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The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions about Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy
Ryan A. Bourne
The Wasp Factory
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The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
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The World of Yesterday
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The Worldly Philosophers
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The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
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Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Troy
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Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Near Futures, 4)
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Utilitarianism and Other Essays (Classics)
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