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Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
John Gribbin
Random House, 2005
A Beautiful Piece of Literature
+ logical and scientific integration is profound
+ Good update of chaos theory
+ Fantastic book
+ Cheo-plexity exposed.
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Straight Choices: The Psychology of Decision Making
Newell/Shanks
Routledge, 2007
Straight Talk about Traditional Decision Theory and its Critics
Decision theory, based on the rational actor model, represents one of the great scientific achievements of all time, beginning with Bernoulli and Pascal in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and culminating in the work of Ramsey, de Finetti, Savage, and von Neumann and Morgenstern in the ...
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America Works: Critical Thoughts on the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market
Richard B. Freeman
Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2007
Eye opener
Freeman offers an eye-opening perspective on the forces that have changed and developed the U.S. Labor Market. He highlights what he perceives to be it's biggest problems and offers explanations as well as recommendations to help the U.S. Labor Market. The final chapters really get past all of the ...
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Chaos and Life: Complexity and Order in Evolution and Thought
Richard J. Bird
Columbia University Press, 2003
Critique of Neo-Darwinism
+ A Thought-Provoking Book
This fascinating voyage braiding evolutionary thinking with chaos theory starts with a cogent critique of current Neo-Darwinism in a fashion reminiscent of Robert Wesson's _Beyond Natural Selection_. Students of evolution are seldom aware of the criticisms of Darwin springing from scientists ...
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The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Tim Harford
Random House, 2008
Best of the current crop of pop-economic books
+ Human are both logic and irational creature
+ Very Readable, and Interesting
I've read a lot of books lately on human behavior, the economics of daily life, and game theory.
Although "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is the most famous recent book of pop economics (and I did quite enjoy it), I think the best of the current lot is this one: "The ...
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Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
Ian Ayres
Bantam, 2007
Freakonomics 2: enjoyable survey of interesting research with real-world impacts
Ayres demonstrates how statistical analysis of large datasets is affecting the way the world works in a broad range of applications: credit card companies, sports teams, wine critics, development economists, medical practitioners,* law enforcement agencies, schools, etc. "Freakonomics didn't talk ...
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Simple Rules for a Complex World
Richard Epstein
Harvard University Press, 1998
a good book.
+ Complex
+ Cost-benefit analysis in defense of liberty?
Professor Richard Epstein does a very convincing job in this book of articulating a legal system which is far more practical and comprehensible than the regime we currently enjoy. In the tradition of the law and economics approach, Epstein's major theme is that the administrative costs associated ...
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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in ...
John H. Miller, Scott E. Page
Princeton University Press, 2007
Best in Class, Very Technical, Saluting and Moving On
+ very good introduction to the subject
+ Good Overview
+ Depending on your interest..
+ A Gentle and Insightful Introduction to Complexity
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Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter M. Todd, ...
Oxford University Press, USA, 2000
Well, i liked it anyway
+ Worthwhile Insight into Mental Shortcuts
+ Gigerenzer's clearest text - very inspiring.
+ Great book about cognitive pitfalls
+ Statistical, Mathematical, Academic
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books)
Robert B. Reich
Knopf, 2007
Reich changes my worldview
+ Can This Mess Be Fixed?
+ Supercapitalism; human progress or demise?
+ Reich is persuasive and explains himself very well
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Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich
Jason Zweig
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Sobering experience
+ Good insight into the inner workings of the brain.
+ You CAN teach an old primate new tricks (about investing)
+ Interesting Read
+ great insight
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Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerd Gigerenzer
Viking Adult, 2007
Making sense of the social brain
+ Reality in Behavioral Study
+ Evolutionary Shortcomings in Human Behavior and Decision Making
+ Great read
+ Gut Feelings/Blink
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Government and the American Economy: A New History
Price V. Fishback
University Of Chicago Press, 2007
The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by ...
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order
Steven H. Strogatz
Hyperion, 2003
sync sync
+ Resonance
+ Heavy Science for Light Readers
This book gave both nature and theoretical explanation of what sync is and how it might
happen. Of course, its raminifaction still need a lot of exploration. This book is a good start and definite a good read for scientific inquiring mind. Read it and you know if you sync with this book.
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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
Neil Shubin
Pantheon, 2008
Facinating Read!
+ Your Inner Fish Review
+ Good, but not splendid
+ The Story of Fossils and Geneology
+ chordate anatomy made bearable, even interesting
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