Date: | Author | Title |
December 2016 | Garett Jones | Hive Mind |
November 2016 | Alex Epstein | The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels |
October 2016 | Nick Lane | The Vital Question |
August 2016 | Joseph Henrich | The Secret of Our Success |
July 2016 | Suzana Herculano-Houzel | The Human Advantage |
June 2016 | DeSalle, Perkins | Welcome to the Microbiome |
May 2016 | Leslie Valiant | Probably Approximately Correct: Nature's Algorithms for Learning and Prospering in a Complex World |
March 2016 | Joel Kotkin | The New Class Conflict |
February 2016 | Steven Weinberg | To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science |
January 2016 | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith | The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics |
December 2015 | John Kounios and Mark Beeman | The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain |
November 2015 | David Skarbek | The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System |
October 2015 | Gregory Hickok | The Myth of Mirror Neurons: The Real Neuroscience of Communication and Cognition |
September 2015 | Ian Morris | War! |
July 2015 | John Micklethwait | The Fourth Revolution |
June 2015 | Ronald Coase and Ning Wang | How China Became Capitalist |
May 2015 | Nicholas Wade | Troublesome Inheritance |
April 2015 | William Bernstein | Masters of the Word |
March 2015 | Glenn Greenwald | No Place to Hide |
February 2015 | Nick Bostrom | Superintelligence |
January 2015 | Max Tegmark | Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality |
November 2014 | Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber | Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit |
September 2014 | Rodney Stark | How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity |
August 2014 | Michael Lewis, | Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt |
June 2014 | Brian Greene | The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos |
May 2014 | Mark S. Weiner | The Rule of the Clan: What An Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom |
March 2014 | Jonah Goldberg | Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change |
February 2014 | Niall Ferguson, | The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die |
January 2014 | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder |
December 2013 | James Rickards | Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis |
November 2013 | Antonio Damasio | Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the Conscious Brain |
August 2013 | Azar Gat | War in Human Civilization |
July 2013 | Robin Hanson | After the Dreamtime (unpublished draft) |
May 2013 | Francis Fukuyama | The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution |
April 2013 | Jonathan Haidt | The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion |
March 2013 | Daron Acemoglu | Why Nations Fail |
February 2013 | Daniel Kahneman | Thinking, Fast and Slow |
November 2012 | Steven Pinker | The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined |
September 2012 | Stephen Greenblatt | The Swerve: How the World Became Modern |
August 2012 | Charles Murray | Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 |
July 2012 | Douglas W. Allen | The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World |
June 2012 | Charles C. Mann | 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created |
May 2012 | Matthew M. Hurley | Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind |
April 2012 | David Deutsch | The Beginning of Infinity |
February 2012 | Charles P. Kindleberger | Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises |
January 2012 | Brink Lindsey | The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture |
December 2011 | Christopher Ryan | Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality |
October 2011 | John B. Taylor | Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis |
September 2011 | E. T. Jaynes | Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (Vol 1) |
July 2011 | Thomas Metzinger | The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self |
June 2011 | Matt Ridley | The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves |
May 2011 | Dani Kollin | The Unincorporated Man |
April 2011 | Peter Turchin | War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires |
February 2011 | Elinor Ostrom | Understanding Institutional Diversity |
January 2011 | John McCrone | Going Inside: A Tour Round a Single Moment of Consciousness |
| (2 books discussed together): |
December 2010 | Peter D. Schiff | How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes |
Russell Roberts | The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity |
October 2010 | P. W. Singer | Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century |
(2 books discussed together): |
July 2010 | Alex (Sandy) Pentland | Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World |
Keith Johnstone | Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre |
June 2010 | Carl Zimmer | Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life |
May 2010 | Paul Collier | The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It |
(2 books discussed together): |
April 2010 | Tyler Cowen | Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World |
Daniel Mont | A Different Kind of Boy: A Father's Memoir on Raising a Gifted Child With Autism |
March 2010 | Robert Laughlin | A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down |
January 2010 | William J. Bernstein | A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World |
December 2009 | Keith E. Stanovich | What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought |
November 2009 | Malcolm Gladwell | Outliers: The Story of Success |
October 2009 | Daniel Kennefick | Traveling at the Speed of Thought: Einstein and the Quest for Gravitational Waves |
September 2009 | Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending | The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution |
(2 books discussed together): |
August 2009 | Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Ron Paul | Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse |
Paul Krugman | The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008 |
July 2009 | Peter Leeson | The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates |
June 2009 | Dean Keith Simonton | Greatness: Who Makes History and Why |
April 2008 | Arthur De Vany | Hollywood Economics: How extreme uncertainty shapes the film industry |
February 2008 | Stephen Ziliak and Deirdre McCloskey | The Cult of Statistical Significance: How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives |
January 2008 | Michael Abramowicz | Predictocracy: Market Mechanisms for Public and Private Decision Making |
December 2008 | Diane Coyle | The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why It Matters |
November 2008 | Mark Edward Lewis and Timothy Brook | The Early Chinese Empires: Qin and Han |
October 2008 | Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson | The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin & Reward |
September 2008 | Aubrey de Grey and Michael Rae | Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime |
August 2008 | Charles Murray | Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 |
May 2008 | Paul Martin | Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams |
May 2008 | Gregory Clark | A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World |
April 2008 | William Bernstein | The Birth of Plenty : How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created |
(2 books discussed together): |
February 2008 | James R. Flynn | What is Intelligence?: Beyond the Flynn Effect |
Nicholas Humphrey | Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness |
January 2008 | Christine Kenneally | The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language |
December 2007 | Ken MacLeod | The Execution Channel |
November 2007 | Keith E. Stanovich | The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin |
September 2007 | Daniel Gilbert | Stumbling on Happiness |
August 2007 | Sunny Y. Auyang | How Is Quantum Field Theory Possible? |
July 2007 | Thomas Sowell | Black Rednecks and White Liberals |
June 2007 | David Warsh | Knowledge and the Wealth Of Nations: A Story of Economic Discovery |
April 2007 | Judith Rich Harris | No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality |
March 2007 | Lee Smolin | The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next |
February 2007 | Robert Pape | Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism |
(2 books discussed together): |
January 2007 | James Surowiecki | The Wisdom of Crowds |
Robert Hahn | Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions |
December 2006 | Edward Castronova | Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games |
November 2006 | Helmut Schoeck | Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior |
September 2006 | Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner | Innovation and Its Discontents : How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It |
August 2006 | Michael Lockwood | The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe |
July 2006 | (2 books discussed together): |
| Sue Savage-Rumbaugh | Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind |
| Marc Bekoff (editor) | The Cognitive Animal: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives on Animal Cognition (a few selected papers from this book) |
June 2006 | Charles C. Mann | 1491 : New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus |
May 2006 | J. Philippe Rushton | Race Evolution & Behavior |
March 2006 | Sam Harris | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason |
March 2006 | David J. Buller | Adapting Minds : Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature |
January 2006 | Thomas L. Friedman | The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century |
December 2005 | Charles Stross | Accelerando |
November 2005 | Kenneth Pomeranz | The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy |
September 2005 | Eric B. Baum | What Is Thought? |
August 2005 | John Steele Gordon | Empire of Wealth, An : The Epic History of American Economic Power |
July 2005 | Wayne C. Gramlich, Patri Friedman and Andrew Houser | Seasteading: A Practical Guide to Homesteading the High Seas |
June 2005 | Thomas P. M. Barnett | The Pentagon's New Map |
April 2005 | Cory Doctorow | Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |
March 2005 | Jeff Hawkins | On Intelligence |
February 2005 | Michael Scheuer | Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror
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January 2005 | Alexander Tabarrok (ed) | Entrepreneurial Economics: Bright Ideas from the Dismal Science |
November 2004 | Peter Ward, Donald Brownlee | Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe |
October 2004 | Mancur Olson | Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups |
September 2004 | Judea Pearl | Causality : Models, Reasoning, and Inference |
August 2004 | Michael Lewis | Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game |
June 2004 | Mark Skousen | The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers |
April 2004 | Martin Seligman | Authentic Happiness |
February 2004 | Thomas Gold | The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels |
January 2004 | Daniel C. Dennett | Freedom Evolves |
December 2003 | Robert J. Shiller | The New Financial Order: Risk in the Twenty-First Century |
November 2003 | Paul H. Rubin | Darwinian Politics: The Evolutionary Origin of Freedom |
September 2003 | Steven Pinker | The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature |
August 2003 | Amy Chua | World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability |
June 2003 | William Easterly | The Elusive Quest for Growth : Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics |
May 2003 | Lawrence Lessig | The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World |
April 2003 | Andy Clark | Being There : Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again |
March 2003 | Tom Bethell | The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages |
February 2003 | Alfred W. Crosby | The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250-1600 |
January 2003 | Michael D. Coe | Breaking the Maya Code |
December 2002 | Mancur Olson | Power and Prosperity: Outgrowing Communist and Capitalist Dictatorships |
November 2002 | Joseph Ledoux | The Emotional Brain : The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life |
August 2002 | Robert J. Shiller | Irrational Exuberance |
July 2002 | Victor Davis Hanson | Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power |
June 2002 | Joel Mokyr | Lever of Riches : Technological Creativity and Economic Progress |
April 2002 | Leonard Shlain | The Alphabet Versus the Goddess : The Conflict Between Word and Image |
March 2002 | Burton W. Folsom | The Myth of the Robber Barons |
March 2002 | Matthew Josephson | The Robber Barons |
January 2002 | Julian L. Simon | The Ultimate Resource 2 |
December 2001 | Richard D. Alexander |
The Biology of Moral Systems (Foundations of Human Behavior) |
November 2001 | Hernando De Soto |
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West
and Fails Everywhere Else |
September 2001 | Jane Jacobs |
Systems of Survival : A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of
Commerce and Politics |
August 2001 | Marc D. Hauser |
Wild Minds: What Animals Really Think
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June 2001 | Anthony Stevens and John Price |
Evolutionary Psychiatry: New Beginning
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May 2001 | V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee |
Phantoms in the Brain : Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
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April 2001 | Joel Kotkin |
Tribes: How Race, Religion and Identity Determine
Success in the New Gobal Economy
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(2 books discussed together): |
February 2001 | Paul W. Ewald |
Plague Time : How Stealth Infections Are Causing Cancers,
Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments |
Matt Ridley | The Future of Disease : Predictions
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January 2001 | Keith J. Devlin |
The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip
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December 2000 | David D. Friedman | Law's Order |
October 2000 |
Sarah Hrdy |
Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants, and Natural Selection
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September 2000 |
Geoffrey Miller |
The Mating Mind : How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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August 2000 |
F. A. Hayek |
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (Collected Works of F A Hayek, Vol 1)
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JuLy 2000 |
Susan Blackmore |
The Meme Machine |
June 2000 |
Steven Pinker |
How the Mind Works |
April 2000 |
Gary Klein |
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions |
March 2000 |
Sober, Elliott |
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
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February 2000 |
Fukuyama, Francis |
The Great Disruption |
January 2000 |
Robert H. Frank |
Luxury Fever |
December 1999 |
Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian |
Information Rules |
October 1999 |
Judith Rich Harris |
The Nurture Assumption |
September 1999 |
Howard Baetjer, Jr. |
Software as Capital |
July 1999 |
Diamond, Jared |
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies |
April 1999 |
Moravec, Hans |
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind |
March 1999 |
Brin, David | The Transparent Society |
February 1999 |
Strauss, William and Neil Howe | The Fourth Turning |