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Politics & Society books
Books on power, institutions and society, with their key references.
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Thomas Piketty
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
Command and Control
Eric Schlosser
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell
Human Action
Ludwig von Mises
Intellectuals and Society
Thomas Sowell
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
Man, Economy, and State
Murray N. Rothbard
Milton Friedman on Economics
Milton Friedman
Nudge
Richard H. Thaler
Prisoners of Geography
Tim Marshall
Quiet
Susan Cain
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber and David Wengrow
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Friedrich Hayek
The Lessons of History
Will Durant
The Looming Tower
Lawrence Wright
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