Our Recommendations
Here are some of the books and podcasts we recommend. They're divided up first by topic, and then by medium (books / podcasts / blogs). An asterisk (*) indicates a particular favourite. Drop us an email if you picked any of these up and enjoyed them!
๐ธ Economics
๐ Books
- Worldly Philosophers by Robert L. Heilbroner
- Poor Economics by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo *
- Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- The Deluge by Adam Tooze
- Economics: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Change
- Mostly Harmless Econometrics by Joshua D. Angrist and Jรถrn-Steffen Pischke
- Radical Markets by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
- Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
- Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoฤlu and James A. Robinson *
- Economics Rules by Dani Rodrik
- A Macroeconomics Reader by Brian Snowdon (Editor)
๐ Blogs
๐ง Podcasts
๐น Videos
๐ง Social Sciences / Social Psychology
๐ Books
- The Righetous Mind by Jonathan Haidt *
- Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Social Class in the 21st Century by Mike Savage
- Superforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner *
- Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker *
๐น Videos
๐งช Maths / Science
๐ Books
- Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey B. West
- Weapons of Maths Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian
- What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics by Adam Becker
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell
- Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky
๐ง Podcasts
- Sean Carroll's Mindscape
- Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence
๐น Videos
โ๏ธ Philosophy
๐ Books
- The Precipice by Toby Ord *
- Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
- Natural Justice by Ken Binmore
- Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit *
- Practical Ethics by Peter Singer
- Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- The Conscious Mind by David Chalmers
- Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
- Gรถdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter *
๐ง Podcasts
๐ Blogs
- Eric Schwitzgebel's The Splintered Mind
- Maria Popova's Brain Pickings
- Scott Alexander's Slate Star Codex
Miscellaneous
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Reply All
- R for Data Science by Hadley Wickham
- The Box by Marc Levinson
- Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies by Cรฉsar A. Hidalgo
- Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower
We are planning on setting up a collection of your recommendations โ if you want to submit one, please email recs@hearthisidea.com!