written by
Matthew Rensberry
on 2023-08-29
Booklist: Books to Understand the World
Here are books I've read that I think would make a good educational background to learn how the World works (in both good and bad ways):
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling
- Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
- Civilian Warriors: The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror by Erik Prince
- Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow
- Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer by Steven Johnson
- Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell
- Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
- The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and How It's Transforming the American Economy by Charles Fishman
- Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry that Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas
- Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
- Reinventing American Health Care: How the Affordable Care Act will Improve our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System by Ezekiel J. Emanuel
- The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
- Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living by David Fideler
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson