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Utopia for Realists : And How We Can Get There

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Basic-Income

Rutger-Bregman

Welcome to the land of plenty. I found it encouraging that the book starts by showing how rich we are today, rather than trying to claim we live in a...

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Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction

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by quantropy » Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:14 am

J-Stanley-Metcalfe

Creative-Destruction

Creative destruction seems to me to be a very important concept in economics. To move forward we have to dismantle some of the existing productive...

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The Cult of Statistical Significance

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by quantropy » Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:42 pm

Deirdre-N-McCloskey

Statistics

Stephen-Thomas-Ziliak

In the quest to make sure that results are credible, statistics is becoming more and more important in science, and in particular in the medical...

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The inner lives of markets : how people shape them

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by quantropy » Sat Aug 18, 2018 10:35 am

Markets are a central part of the study of economics, and the claims for the efficiency of markets are often made. But how similar are the markets...

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Sat Aug 18, 2018 10:35 am
Scale : the universal laws of life and death in organisms, cities and companies

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Geoffrey-West

Scale

Many governments are implementing a policy of austerity at present, but there is a lot of criticism of this. For a household it may sometimes be best...

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Macroeconomics and the Phillips Curve Myth

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Macroeconomics

James-Forder

Many conisder the decades following the end of World War II to be the golden age of capitalism. High growth, increasing equality,plenty of money for...

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Mon Jul 23, 2018 3:43 pm
Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Daniel-Kahneman

In this book a Nobel prize winner looks at the way we think and how we can change it. It looks interesting, and I'm hoping for something that really...

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Sun Jul 22, 2018 6:23 am
Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money

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Quantum

Economics

David-Orrell

A long time ago I did a doctorate in Quantum Theory. I've also written a book on economics. So I thought I should read this book. In particular I...

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Grand Pursuit: A History of Economic Genius

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Sylvia-Nasar

Economics

I've read a few books on the history of economics, and have tried to read the original works of some of the early economists, Economics is often...

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Messy: how to be creative and resilient in a tiny-minded world

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Tim-Harford

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Five years of economic crisis

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by quantropy » Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:14 am

I'm interested in reading some of the books by Robert Skidelsky, in particular his views on inequality. I thought I'd start with this as it's a short...

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Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:14 am
The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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by quantropy » Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:38 am

Adam-Smith

Adam Smith is well known for his Wealth of Nations , but this book was written considerably earlier. Now it often happens that when an author puts...

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Six weeks in Russia, 1919

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Arthur-Ransome

Communism

When we learn about revolutions it often looks like there was a sudden change from one regime to another. I doubt that it is really like that,...

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Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck

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Eliezer-Yudkowsky

In The People's Economics I argue that as an economic system tends towards equilibrium it should also tend towards a more egalitarian society. The...

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Sat Jun 30, 2018 9:25 am
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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by quantropy » Mon Jun 11, 2018 3:49 pm

Cass-R-Sunstein

Richard-H-Thaler

nudge

I've heard a lot about the concept of a 'nudge' to influence behaviour, and this seems to be the book which introduces this concept. However, the...

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Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:14 pm
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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by quantropy » Tue Jun 12, 2018 5:38 am

Enlightenment

Steven-Pinker

This book is being strongly recommended by Bill Gates, so I thought I ought to read it. But I also think that some of the anti-enlightenment rhetoric...

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Fri Jun 29, 2018 12:42 pm
Pricing the future

Last post by quantropy « Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:48 pm
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by quantropy » Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:12 am

options-pricing

George-Szpiro

Black-Scholes

I've heard of the Black-Scholes equation, but I'm interested in finding more about it. How much is it related to the Gaussian model of risk, whose...

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Bottlenecks:A New Theory of Equal Opportunity

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by quantropy » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:34 am

inequality

Joseph-Fishkin

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Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence

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by quantropy » Thu Jun 21, 2018 11:14 am

Tim-Parks

Medici

Banking

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Sun Jun 24, 2018 5:13 pm
The Philosophy of Money

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by quantropy » Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:25 am

Georg-Simmel

We tend to take for granted the idea that money represents value. The complexities of what we find important in life are all too easily reduced to a...

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Liars and outliers : enabling the trust that society needs to thrive

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by quantropy » Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:31 am

Bruce-Schneier

Trust

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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

Last post by quantropy « Sat Jun 16, 2018 12:23 pm
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by quantropy » Sat Jun 16, 2018 5:40 am

housing

Toby-Lloyd

Laurie-Macfarlane

Josh-Ryan-Collins

In today's economy many people are struggling to get by, and I feel that a substantial cause of this is the cost of accommodation. The land occupied...

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Sat Jun 16, 2018 12:23 pm
The Sexual Paradox

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by quantropy » Fri Jun 01, 2018 9:00 am

Susan-Pinker

While it is important to get away from the discrimination that women have experienced, the idea that men and women are essentially interchangable...

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Fri Jun 15, 2018 12:58 pm
Progress and Poverty

Last post by quantropy « Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:41 am
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by quantropy » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:57 pm

Henry-George

Progress and Poverty sold over 3 million copies, and Alfred Russell Wallace thought it to be the most important book of the 19th Century (more...

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Behavioural economics saved my dog

Last post by quantropy « Fri Jun 01, 2018 12:31 pm
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by quantropy » Fri Jun 01, 2018 5:35 am

Dan-Ariely

behavioural-economics

In the words of Tim Harford, this book is "Addictive and life-changing". Somehow I have my doubts. I've read Predictably irrational and...

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