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Book Recommendations

Life gets busy and it can be hard to find the time and motivation to sit down and read nonfiction. However, many of the most important ideas that frame my perspective on the world and my place in it have come from nonfiction books. If you have the time to explore some of the following, great! If you don't have time to read the full books, I still recommend Googling these authors / titles. Whether it's a summary of the book, a YouTube video, or an article or blog post, these people have ideas worth hearing! You can also check out my list of articles and videos related directly to my professional interests here.

Environmental:

  • Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet (2022) by George Monbiot

  • The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change (2020) by Solomon Goldstein-Rose

  • Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World (2013) by William Norhaus

  • The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014) by Elizabeth Kolbert

  • The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse (2012) by David Owen

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Data Science: 

  • The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (2020) by Brian Christian

  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (2019) by Caroline Criado-Perez

  • Weapons of Math Destruction (2016) by Cathy O’Neil

  • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don’t (2012) by Nate Silver

 

Global Health / Inequality / Development:

  • The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions (2017) by Jason Hickel

  • Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020) by Isabel Wilkerson

  • The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (2013) by Angus Deaton

  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World -- and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (2018) by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund, and Ola Rosling

  • Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution (2015) by James Ferguson

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Human Nature / Behavioral Economics / Public Policy:

  • The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World (2023) by Robert E. Rubin

  • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (2020) by Joseph Henrich

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011) by Yuval Noah Harari

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011) by Daniel Kahneman

  • Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2009) by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

  • Predictably Irrational (2008) by Dan Ariely

  • The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities (1982) by Mancur Olson

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