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- Unintended consequences.
Robert Greene • The Laws of Human Nature
Because criminals respond to incentives as readily as anyone, the result was a surge in crime.
Steven D. Levitt • Freakonomics Rev Ed
perhaps, Ötzi suiting Pinker’s argument.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Dennis figured out how to profit in the real world from an understanding of behavioral finance decades before Nobel prizes were handed out to professors preaching theory.
Michael W. Covel • The Complete TurtleTrader: How 23 Novice Investors Became Overnight Millionaires
The data don’t lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.
Stephen J. Dubner • SuperFreakonomics
Hayek gives us the intuition of prices conveying only what market participants deem to be the most important information and actually destroying the rest, and Holland shows how this can be represented with the formalism of complex systems.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
(note that even institutional investors seem to have a neocortex).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto Book 1)
At university, he had been learning about game theory and now it came in handy.