54 Books recommended by Tyler Cowen

Sketches of the Criminal World
Further Kolyma Stories
Author :Varlam Shalamov

"The first third being remarkably moving and incisive as well." - Tyler Cowen [Source]


The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Author :Martin Gurri

"One of the more important and more prophetic social science books of our time." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Industrialists
How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism
Author :Jennifer A. Delton

"Why don’t more books fit this model: take one topic and explain it well?" - Tyler Cowen [Source]


The Book of Disquiet
Author :Fernando Pessoa

"It’s really a book of meditations. It’s very philosophical." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Confessions of a Sociopath
A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
Author :M.E. Thomas

"One of the most interesting parts of the memoir is how she reconciles being both a 'psychopath' and a Mormon..." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Very Important People
Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Author :Ashley Mears

"I loved this book." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume II
Control
Author :Brendan O'Leary

"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Cure That Works
How to Have the World's Best Health Care -- at a Quarter of the Price
Author :Sean Masaki Flynn

"A look at how to translate ideas from Singapore’s health care system into the United States." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Wicked City
The Many Cultures of Marseille
Author :Nicholas Hewitt

"Every city should have a good book about it, and now Marseille does." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Here Comes Everybody
The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Author :Clay Shirky

"About spontaneous order and decentralisation, and just how powerful the web can be." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The American Dream Is Not Dead
(But Populism Could Kill It)
Author :Michael R. Strain

"Just how good or bad are things in America right now? [This book] is the most balanced and informative take on this question you are likely to see." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Glass Hotel
A Novel
Author :Emily St. John Mandel

"I think, is [the author's] very best, deepest, most subtle novel." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Generation Priced Out
Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
Author :Randy Shaw

"A YIMBY book, with good historical material on San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other locales involved in the struggle to build more." - Tyler Cowen [Source]


Leonhard Euler
Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment
Author :Ronald S. Calinger

"What a beautiful book." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Age of Entitlement
America Since the Sixties
Author :Christopher Caldwell

"A very old thesis, but these days quite new." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Infinite Machine
How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
Author :Camila Russo

"Yes, this is the story of Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum. Very useful, and I am glad there is now a good book on this topic." - Tyler Cowen [Source]


Free to Move
Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
Author :Ilya Somin

"The best book on geographic mobility and exit that has been written to date." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume III
Consociation and Confederation
Author :Brendan O'Leary

"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Spastic Diplegia--Bilateral Cerebral Palsy
Understanding the Motor Problems, Their Impact on Walking, and Management Throughout Life
Author :Lily Collison

"New and notable." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Cognitive Gadgets
The Cultural Evolution of Thinking
Author :Cecilia Heyes

"Perhaps the most important general social science book in a good while." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Fully Grown
Why a Stagnant Economy Is a Sign of Success
Author :Dietrich Vollrath

"An excellent book on economic growth." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Senkaku Paradox
Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes
Author :Michael E. O'Hanlon

"About what options a U.S. government would have — short of full war — to deal with international grabs by China or Russia." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Power Notebooks
Author :Katie Roiphe

"Power, sex, dating, and romance, but surprisingly substantive." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Conviction Machine
Standing Up to Federal Prosecutorial Abuse
Author :Harvey A. Silverglate

"A frank and brutal documentation of why you should never trust a prosecutor or speak to the FBI." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Individualism and Economic Order
Author :F. A. Hayek

"Has nothing to do with the internet per se, it’s really about decentralisation." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Frank Ramsey
A Sheer Excess of Powers
Author :Cheryl Misak

"Thorough and useful, though not exciting to read." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Everything Is Miscellaneous
The Power of the New Digital Disorder
Author :David Weinberger

"Brilliant, but I think it raises an important question." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Founders
The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
Author :Jimmy Soni

"Illuminating." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Social Democratic Capitalism
Author :Lane Kenworthy

" A very smart, well-written, well-argued book." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Idealist
Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World
Author :Samuel Zipp

"I could not help but crack open the cover and sample a few pages, and then I was hooked." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

New Atlantis Revisited
Author :Paul R. Josephson

"Imagine the Soviets trying to build a 'city of science,' and meeting problem after problem." - Tyler Cowen [Source]


Lost Pianos of Siberia
Author :Sophy Roberts

"A wonderful book if you care about the lost pianos of Siberia and indeed I do." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Origins of You
How Childhood Shapes Later Life
Author :Jay Belsky

"Will prove one of the best and most important works of the last few years." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Quarantined
Life and Death at William Head Station, 1872-1959
Author :Peter Johnson

"British Columbia had a quarantine station that late, and this is its story." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Decadent Society
How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
Author :Ross Gregory Douthat

"Excellent book!" - Tyler Cowen [Source]

When the President Calls
Conversations with Economic Policymakers
Author :Simon W. Bowmaker

Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. [Source]

Station Eleven
A Novel
Author :Emily St. John Mandel

"[The author's] biggest-selling book to date." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
Author :James C. Scott

"Wonderful." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

The Ideas Industry
How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
Author :Daniel W. Drezner

"Excellent." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

A Treatise on Northern Ireland, Volume I
Colonialism
Author :Brendan O'Leary

"This three-volume set is quite the remarkable achievement." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Wikinomics
How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Author :Don Tapscott

"It basically says wikis work and wikis are important and wikis are the way of the future." - Tyler Cowen [Source]


The Wizard and the Prophet
Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World
Author :Charles C. Mann

"I loved [this book]." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Under the Influence
Putting Peer Pressure to Work
Author :Robert H. Frank

Tyler Cowen recommended this book in his blog. [Source]

The Glass Bead Game
A Novel
Author :Hermann Hesse

"About the beauty of organised structures and how we play them in game-like fashion and how much they entrance us." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Working Backwards
Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
Author :Colin Bryar

"One of the very best management books of recent times." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Golden Gates
Fighting for Housing in America
Author :Conor Dougherty

"A very good book about the YIMBY movement and its struggles." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Children of Ash and Elm
A History of the Vikings
Author :Neil S. Price

"I have only browsed this book, yet it appears to have much more information about the Vikings than other books I know." - Tyler Cowen [Source]

Sunnis and Shi'a
A Political History
Author :Laurence Louër

"Captures the complexities, and in fact pulls the reader away from the usual tired dichotomy." - Tyler Cowen [Source]
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