Book recommendations: sitting on my desk and waiting to be read

Posted by admin on January 8th, 2005 filed in Uncategorized

The Constitution of Liberty
By: F. A. Hayek

The Road to Serfdom
By: F. A. Hayek

Why Globalization Works
By: Martin Wolf

In Defense of Globalization
By: Jagdish Bhagwati

A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
By: Thomas Sowell

The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
By: James Surowiecki

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
By: Howard Rheingold

We the Media
By: Dan Gillmor

The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
By: Siva Vaidhyanathan

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
By: Lawrence Lessig

Promises to Keep: Technology, Law, and the Future of Entertainment
By: William W. Fisher III

Innovation and Its Discontents : How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It
By: Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner

Open Source Licensing : Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law
By: Lawrence Rosen

The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law
By: William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner

Initially I wanted to organise the books in this list into some sort of categories, but then I realise that most of them can’t be easily fit into any one category. Even though I have yet to finish all of them, I highly recommend them to anyone with an interest in economics, politics, law, technology and media.