1873
1873
The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World
Reading
101 booksThe Return of the King
The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings · Part Three
Bubble in the Sun
Bubble in the Sun
The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
How Jesus Became God
How Jesus Became God
The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
The Two Towers
The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings · Part Two
America First
America First
Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings · Part One
The Price of Time
The Price of Time
The Real Story of Interest
Knowledge and Decisions
Knowledge and Decisions
Fumbling the Future
Fumbling the Future
How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer
Tailspin
Tailspin
Antitrust and Monopoly
Antitrust and Monopoly
Anatomy of a Policy Failure
How China Became Capitalist
How China Became Capitalist
My Life and Work
My Life and Work
Where Is My Flying Car?
Where Is My Flying Car?
A Conflict of Visions
A Conflict of Visions
The Conservative Futurist
The Conservative Futurist
The Housing Boom and Bust
The Housing Boom and Bust
The Great Stagnation
The Great Stagnation
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
Cobalt Red
Cobalt Red
Taxes Have Consequences
Taxes Have Consequences
The Managerial Revolution
The Managerial Revolution
Rooseveltcare
Rooseveltcare
"Imagine in 1980 a California resident is about to invest $5,000 in a new company called Microsoft but at the last minute he is conned by a Ponzi-scheme artist to give him the $5,000 instead. The con artist spends the money on consumption - wether his own or that of the "needy" is irrelevant - and he finds new suckers to get the money to pay the interest to the man who "invested". But nothing is actually invested; all the money is consumed. Multiply that by 100 million households and you can get a sense of the magnitude of the loss created by Social Security"
"If, starting in 1870 economic growth had been just 1% lower each year than it was, our standard of living today would be lower than Mexico's"
Highways of Progress
Highways of Progress
You won't learn about James J. Hill in government school and there's a reason for that
"Work, hard work, intelligent work, and then more work"
Fossil Future
Fossil Future
All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Gray Lady Winked
The Gray Lady Winked
Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Peter Pan
Peter Pan
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Enough Already
Enough Already
Catch-22
Catch-22
The High Cost of Good Intentions
The High Cost of Good Intentions
A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
A Thousand Brains
A Thousand Brains
Ultracrepidarianism at its finest
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies
"there was a space around Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins"
"Maybe there is a beast, maybe it's only us."
No Place to Hide
No Place to Hide
"The president does not have the power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation." - Obama 2007
"No more ignoring the law when it's inconvenient. That is not who we are. We will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers..." - Obama 2007
"The US is not spying on ordinary people" - Obama 2014
Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for these are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against."
"Bigger the population, the more minorities. [...] The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. [...] There you have it, Montag. It didn’t come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.
The Republic
The Republic
"then the first thing will be to establish a censorship of the writers of fiction and let the sensors receive any tale of fiction which is good and reject the bad and we will desire mothers and nurses to tell their children the authorized ones only let them fashion the mind with such tales even more fondly than they would the body with the hands but most of those which are now in use must be discarded"
"then if anyone at all is to have the privilege of lying the rulers of the state should be the persons and they in their dealings either with enemies or with their own citizens may be allowed to lie for the public good."
Intellectuals and Society
Intellectuals and Society
"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them" George Orwell
Hidden Order
Hidden Order
The Vision of the Anointed
The Vision of the Anointed
"[The anointed] seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board" - Adam Smith
Up from Slavery
Up from Slavery
"No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of law be ours but vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges"
The Dichotomy of Leadership
The Dichotomy of Leadership
"Every leader must walk a fine line.… Leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities, between one extreme and another. The simple recognition of this is one of the most powerful tools a leader has. "
63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read
“The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.” - Patrick Henry
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
Charter Schools and Their Enemies
The most important topic
Coolidge
Coolidge
On farm subsidies: "Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it" - Coolidge
“It does not follow that because something ought to be done the National Government ought to do it” - Calvin Coolidge
The Dao of Capital
The Dao of Capital
“No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in the salvation through spending and credit expansion” - Mises
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning” - Henry Ford
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen
The Forgotten Depression
The Forgotten Depression
Boring book, important information
The Machinery of Freedom
The Machinery of Freedom
"The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations."
The Coddling of the American Mind
The Coddling of the American Mind
Liberalism
Liberalism
Chaos Theory
Chaos Theory
"Just as right-wing hawks embrace the Orwellian notion that War is Peace, left-wing egalitarians believe that Slavery is Freedom. The hawks wage endless war to end war, while the social democrats engage in massive theft - "taxation" as they call it - to eliminate crime"
The Diversity Delusion
The Diversity Delusion
The Vanishing American Adult
The Vanishing American Adult
How Capitalism Saved America
How Capitalism Saved America
The Myth of the Robber Barons
The Myth of the Robber Barons
"Those who tried to succeed through federal aid, pools, vote buying, or stock speculation were political entrepreneurs. Those who tried to succeed by creating and marketing a superior product at a low cost were market entrepreneurs"
"Before he died, Rockefeller had given away $550,000,000, more than any other American had ever possessed"
Great Society
Great Society
"We have plenty of money" - Sargent Shriver (Head of Office of Economic Opportunity)
Keynes the Man
Keynes the Man
"Is it monomania—this colossal moral superiority that we feel? I get the feeling that most of the rest [of the world] never see anything at all—too stupid or too wicked" - J.M. Keynes
"Moderate planning will be safe if those carrying it out are rightly oriented in their minds and hearts to the moral issue" - J.M. Keynes
Animal Farm
Animal Farm
"Everyone is equal but some are more equal than others"
The Law
The Law
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.”
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."
The Chomsky Reader
The Chomsky Reader
Free to Choose
Free to Choose
The People's Republic of China
The People's Republic of China
"This famine… was largely the result of failed communist policies and the grandest, most ambitious, most destructive social engineering project ever. The total communization and nationalization of an agricultural system involving over half a billion human beings and it's reduction to military like central planning and administration and the vast and hurried great leap forward."
The Gulag Archipelago
The Gulag Archipelago
"There always is this fallacious belief: "It would not be the same here; here such things are impossible."
Alas, all the evil of the twentieth century is possible everywhere on earth."
"... the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either - but through every human heart - and through all human hearts."
Capitalism and Freedom
Capitalism and Freedom
"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it"
Cambodia
Cambodia
Basic Economics
Basic Economics
The Black Swan
The Black Swan
The Brain: The Story of You
The Brain: The Story of You
Extreme Ownership
Extreme Ownership
Algorithms to Live By
Algorithms to Live By
Discrimination and Disparities
Discrimination and Disparities
"In 1960 2/3 of all black American children were living with both parents [...] This declined until only 1/3 we're living with both parents in 1995. Among black families in poverty 85% of the children had no father present."
Zero to One
Zero to One
The Man in the High Castle
The Man in the High Castle
Skin in the Game
Skin in the Game
"In academia there is no difference between academia and the real world; in the real world, there is"
"Government interference in general tends to remove skin in the game"
"Administrators everywhere on the planet, in all businesses and pursuits, and at all times in history, have been the plague."
The Gone World
The Gone World
Solar Lottery
Solar Lottery
Six Easy Pieces
Six Easy Pieces
R.U.R.
R.U.R.
God and the Astronomers
God and the Astronomers
The Case for Christ
The Case for Christ
A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time
Your Brain Is a Time Machine
Your Brain Is a Time Machine
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
Brave New World
Brave New World
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
12 Rules for Life
12 Rules for Life
1984
1984
Endurance
Endurance
Outliers
Outliers
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
On Intelligence
On Intelligence
The Elegant Universe
The Elegant Universe
Space Chronicles
Space Chronicles
The Martian
The Martian
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