 | The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric Beinhocker
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £5.11 Indispensable read for anyone interested in Economics. I knew something was not quite right in classical economic theory, but not that such a revolution is taking place.
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 | Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alan MacFarlane
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.18 Great book. You might agree or not with the author thesis but it is beautifully written, it's engaging and insightful.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: £5.10 / Used from: £2.54 It seems obvious what he stands for. But I guess that the outrage that the book caused means that books like these are still needed.
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 | Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: £5.28 / Used from: £3.35 Great, great book. "The emperor is naked!" and Taleb is not affraid to say it.
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 | The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £3.19 Taking the consecuences form "Fooled by randomness" a step further. Maybe one book would have been enough, but I enjoyed so much the reading that I didn't mind going again through the same story twice
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 | The (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward by Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Buy used from: £8.00 The confessed guru of Mr. Taleb. Science and finance will never be the same again.
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 | Taleb on Risk: Dynamic Hedging by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Buy new: £41.83 / Used from: £39.69 I didn't get much. I quit after 10 pages... Maybe too technical for me (and I guess that for most of non-traders)
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 | The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science) by Edward O Wilson
Buy new: £7.12 / Used from: £4.68 Well meant, extremely well informed and well written. I wish everybody read it. The best biology book I ever read.
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 | The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams and God by David J. Linden
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £11.49 Entertaining. He's loyal to a great advice he says he was given: "Write as your audience had no knowledge but infinite intelligence". All science books for general audiences should be like this one.
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 | Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £4.67 Funny and easy to read. You can't beat the market...
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