The reading pile

Nothings beats the feeling of buying a book and the illusion that you just transformed cash into knowledge.

A list of the books that are on a pile and ready to read. Hopefully most will make it to the "read" page. I now try to read with a purpose: new references are gathered in notebooks throughout this garden, so this list will dwindle and does not reflect my current reading pile.

Economics

  • Blanchard - Macroeconomics: a european perspective
  • Graeber - Bullshit jobs
  • Colombi - Où va l'argent des pauvres
  • Mazzucato - The entrepreneurial state

Essays

  • Keen - Debunking economics
  • Keen - The New Economics
  • Renahy - Là où est l'argent
  • Mazzucato - Mission economy
  • Wainwright - Narconomics
  • Vinsel & Russel - The innovation delusion

General

  • Adam Smith - The wealth of nations
  • Nozick - Anarchy, State and Utopia
  • John Stuart Mill - Collection of texts
  • Hayek - The road to serfdom
  • Polanyi - La grande transformation
  • Ponsot et al - L'économie post-kéneysienne
  • King - The economic superorganism

  • Randall Wray - Modern Money Theory
  • Goldstein - Money
  • Weatherford - The history of money
  • Ferguson - The ascent of money
  • Mosler - Soft Currency Economics II
  • Prasad - The future of money
  • Ingham - The Nature of money

Taxation

  • Young - The myth of the millionaire tax flight

Monetary systems

  • Benn - The battle of Bretton Woods
  • De Grauwe - Economics of monetary union
  • Mody - Eurotragedy
  • Marsch - The Euro
  • Eichengreen - Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
  • Howell - Capital wars
  • Xu - Empire of silver
  • Prasad - The future of money
  • Klein - Trade wars are class wars
  • Stiglitz - The euro: how a common currency threatens the future of Europe

Debt

  • Graeber - Debt
  • Lemoine - L'ordre de la dette

Inflation

  • Fischer - The great wave

Inequality

  • Kwak - Bad Economis and the Rise of Inequality
  • Saez & Zucman - The triumph of injustice
  • Piketty - Capital au XXIe siècle
  • Piketty - Capital et idéologie
  • Clark - The son also rises
  • Clark - A farewell to alms

Finance

  • Cassis - The world of private banking

History

It realized that my historical knowledge is close to nonexistant, so I am trying to catch up. I am currently focusing on building a mental 4D map of events so I can next focus on specific periods / events / locations.

Belin edits a great series on French history that I highly recommend.

  • Chalmin - Une brève histoire économique

Big History

  • Turchin - Ultrasociety
  • Turchin - Ages of discord
  • Diamond - Guns, germs and steel
  • Fukuyama - Political order and political decay
  • Norenzayan - Big Gods

Ancient Greece

  • Ober - The rise and fall of classical Greece
  • Ober - Democracy and knowledge
  • Ober - Mass and Elite in democratic Athens
  • Samons & Loren - What's wrong with democracy?

Histoire de France

  • Bührer-Thierry & Mériaux - La France avant la France (481-888)
  • Mazel - Féodalités (888-1180)
  • Cassard - L'âge d'or capétien (1180-1328)
  • Woronoff - Histoire de l'industrie en France

Religion

Je comptais lire les évangiles apocryphe en préparation d'un roman que je suis en train d'écrire. Preneur si vous en connaissez d'autres !

  • Leloup - L'évangile de Thomas
  • Leloup - L'évangile de Marie
  • Leloup - L'évangile de Philippe
  • L'évangile de Judas

Biographies

  • Etiévent - Ambroise Croizat ou l'invention sociale
  • Logson - John F. Kennedy and the race to the moon
  • Dallek - An unfinished life (John F. Kennedy 1917-1963)
  • Brands - Traitor to his class

History of thouhgts

  • Audier - Néo-libétalisme(s)
  • Stiegler - Il faut s'adapter
  • Plehwe et al - Nine lives of neoliberalism
  • Jones - Masters of the universe
  • Finley - Democracy Ancient and Modern

Essays

  • Amable & Palombarini - L'illusion du bloc bourgeois
  • Farah - Fake state
  • Frank - What's the matter with Kansas?
  • Todd - Après la démocratie
  • Todd - Le destin des immigrés
  • Klein - La stratégie du choc
  • Mischi - Le communisme désarmé
  • Todd - L'invention de l'Europe
  • Todd - Les luttes de classe en France au XXIe siècle
  • Herman & Chomsky - Manufacturing consent
  • Arendt - The origins of totalitarianism
  • Crétois - La part commune
  • Herzog - A short history of european laws
  • Kaczynski - Industrial society and its future
  • Perrow - Normal accidents
  • Seely - Honeybee democracy

Practical

  • McCormick - Preparing for climate change

Energy

  • Parisi & Ball - The future of fusion energy

Blockchain

  • Antanopoulos - Mastering ethereum
  • Gecko - How to DeFi: beginner
  • Gecko - How to DeFi: advanced

Sharpening the saw

  • Adlet - How to read a book

Technical

  • Petzold - Code
  • The little schemer
  • The reasoned schemer

Statistics

  • Grimmet & Stirzaker - Probability and random processes
  • Spiegelhalter - The art of statistics: learning from data
  • Masters & Spiegelhalter - Covid by numbers
  • Martin & Kumar & Lao - Bayesian modeling and computation with python

Visualisation

  • Rougier - Scientific visualization with Python and Matplotlib
  • Tufte - The visual display of quantitative information

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