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Nick Szabo Book Recommendations (23 Books)

Nick Szabo is a computer scientist, legal scholar and cryptographer.

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The Rational Optimist

The Rational Optimist

How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's. This is my favorite one.]" - Nick Szabo
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The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene

Richard Dawkins

Source: "Explains more about life (including human behavior and myself) than anything else I’ve read. " - Nick Szabo
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Getting To Maybe

Getting To Maybe

How to Excel on Law School Exams

Richard Michael Fischl

Source: "Nominally a book on how to take a law school exam. Really a primer on quantum thought." - Nick Szabo
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The Origins of Virtue

The Origins of Virtue

Human Instincts and The Evolution of Cooperation

Matt Ridley

Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo
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The Red Queen

The Red Queen

Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Matt Ridley

Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo
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Genome

Genome

The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

Matt Ridley

Source: "I think three or four of my top 20 books of all time are all [this author's]." - Nick Szabo
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The Columbian Exchange

The Columbian Exchange

Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

Alfred Crosby

Source: "Basically what Jared Diamond ripped off when he wrote his book." - Nick Szabo
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The Fatal Conceit

The Fatal Conceit

The Errors of Socialism

F. A. Hayek

Source: "[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo
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Metaphors We Live By

Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff

Source: "[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo
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The 10,000 Year Explosion

The 10,000 Year Explosion

How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

Gregory Cochran

Source: "[A crucial book] on our origins & our natures." - Nick Szabo
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The Wealth of Nations

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

Source: "[One] of the most important books I’ve read." - Nick Szabo
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World

The Most Powerful Idea in the World

A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention

William Rosen

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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Money Changes Everything

Money Changes Everything

How Finance Made Civilization Possible

William N. Goetzmann

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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The Measure of Reality

The Measure of Reality

Quantification in Western Europe, 1250–1600

Alfred Crosby

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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A History of Western Technology

A History of Western Technology

Friedrich Klemm

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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Masters of the Word

Masters of the Word

How Media Shaped History

William J. Bernstein

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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The Fourth Part of the World

The Fourth Part of the World

The Race to the Ends of the Earth, and the Epic Story of the Map That Gave America Its Name

Toby Lester

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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The Black Book of Communism

The Black Book of Communism

Crimes, Terror, Repression

Mark Kramer

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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Glass

Glass

A World History

Alan Macfarlane

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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Conquest, Tribute and Trade

Conquest, Tribute and Trade

How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization

Howard J. Erlichman

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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A Splendid Exchange

A Splendid Exchange

How Trade Shaped the World

William J. Bernstein

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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To Rule the Waves

To Rule the Waves

How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World

Arthur Herman

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Source: Nick Szabo mentioned this book on Twitter.
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