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Books recommended by Nick Szabo

Nick Szabo recommends 20 books, among them The Wealth of Nations, The Selfish Gene and A History of Western Technology.

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Economics & politics

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Science & nature

A History of Western Technology

Friedrich Klemm

Technology

A Splendid Exchange

William J. Bernstein

Economics & politics

Conquest, Tribute and Trade

Howard J. Erlichman

Economics & politics

Getting To Maybe

Richard Michael Fischl

Nonfiction

Glass

Alan Macfarlane

History

Masters of the Word

William J. Bernstein

Economics & politics

Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff

Philosophy

Money Changes Everything

William N. Goetzmann

Money & investing

The 10,000 Year Explosion

Gregory Cochran & Henry Harpending

Technology

The Black Book of Communism

Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski & Karel Bartosek

History

The Columbian Exchange

Alfred Crosby

Biography & memoir

The Fatal Conceit

F.A. Hayek

Philosophy

The Fourth Part of the World

Toby Lester

History

The Measure of Reality

Alfred Crosby

Philosophy

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

William Rosen

History

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

History

The Red Queen

Matt Ridley

Psychology

To Rule the Waves

Arthur Herman

Nonfiction