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!

💸 Economics

📚 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 Jörn-Steffen Pischke
• Radical Markets by Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
• Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen
• Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson *
• Economics Rules by Dani Rodrik
• A Macroeconomics Reader by Brian Snowdon (Editor)

📝 Blogs

• A Fine Theorem
• Marginal Revolution
• The Enlightened Economist
• Overcoming Bias

🎧 Podcasts

• Econ Talk
• Slate Money
• The Uncertain Hour
• Conversations with Tyler *
• Ezra Klein Show

📹 Videos

• Economicurtis
• Jacob Clifford
• Virtual Macro Seminar

🧠 Social Sciences / Social Psychology

📚 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 *

📹 Videos

• CGP Grey

🧪 Maths / Science

📚 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

🎧 Podcasts

• Sean Carroll's Mindscape
• Lex Fridman's Artificial Intelligence

📹 Videos

• 3Blue1Brown

☁️ Philosophy

📚 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
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter *

🎧 Podcasts

• Very Bad Wizards
• Philosophize This
• 80,000 Hours *
• Philosophy Bites

📝 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 César A. Hidalgo
• Dark Continent: Europe's Twentieth Century by Mark Mazower

We are planning on setting up a collection of your recommendations — if you want to submit one, please email recs@hearthisidea.com!