One of the many gifts that my mentor and dissertation advisor Douglass North gave me was that when I asked him for ten recommended readings, he gave me seventeen (presented in the order that he wrote them down):
- Putnam, R. Making Democracy Work
- Rosenberg, N. and Birdzell, L. How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of The Industrial World
- Coleman, J. Foundations of Social Theory
- Boyd and Richerson Culture and the Evolutionary Process
- Bates, R. Beyond the Miracle of the Market
- De Soto, H. The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
- Davis, R. (ed.) The Origins of Modern Freedom in the West
- Easterlin, R. Growth Triumphant
- Elster, J. Making Sense of Marx
- Hodgson, G. Economics and Evolution
- Mokyr, J. The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
- McNeil, W. H. Plagues and People
- Olson, M. The Logic of Collective Action
- Miller, G. Managerial Dilemmas: The Political Economy of Hierarchy
- Holland, J. et al. Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery
- Kauffman, S. At Home in the Universe: The Search for the Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity
- Hutchins, E. Cognition in the Wild
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Thanks. – shawn
