9 must-read economics books like Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It by Cass R. Sunstein

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Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It

By: Cass R. Sunstein

3.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling author of Nudge reveals h ow we became so burdened by red tape and …

If you liked the economics plot in Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It by Cass R. Sunstein , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like

By: Paul Bloom

4.14

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Yale psychologist Paul Bloom presents a striking new vision of the pleasures of everyday life. The … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
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2. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

By: Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a r… read more

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  • self help
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
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  • audiobook
"Just as no building lacks an architecture, so no choice lacks a context."

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

"As good architects know, seemingly arbitrary decisions, such as where to locate the bathrooms, will have subtle influences on how the people who use the building interact. Every trip to the bathroom …"

-Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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3. The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking

By: Mikael Krogerus

4.01

Format: 560 pages,

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  • business
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help

4. Freedom's Forge: How American Business Built the Arsenal of Democracy That Won World War II

By: Arthur Herman

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Remarkable as it may seem today, there once was a time when the president of the United States coul… read more

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5. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

By: Richard H. Thaler

4.16

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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6. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

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  • self help
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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7. On Grand Strategy

By: John Lewis Gaddis

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • business
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8. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

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  • audiobook
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • self help
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9. Liberalism and Its Discontents

By: Francis Fukuyama

3.93

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more

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"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"

-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents

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10. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

By: Daniel Kahneman

3.66

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more

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  • self help
  • psychology
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  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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11. Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better

By: Jennifer Pahlka

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“The book I wish every policymaker would read.” ― Ezra Klein, The New York Times A bold call to… read more

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  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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12. God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

By: Lawrence Wright

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

With humor and the biting insight of a native, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tow… read more

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  • cultural
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In Austin, we don't have such high expectations of chihuahuas."

-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

"In every generation until mine, most of humanity lived with the night sky. As people began moving into cities and using more illumination, the sky gradually disappeared. There must be a corresponding…"

-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

"With more than a million Texans licensed to carry handguns, the state is actually far behind Florida, with 1.7 million. "I'm EMBARRASSED," Governor Greg Abbott tweeted in 2015; "Texas #2 in nation fo…"

-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

"South of Marfa is the road to Big Bend, one of the least visited national parks in the country, and also one of the most glorious. On the way, there is a pleasant resort, Cibolo Creek Ranch, built ar…"

-Lawrence Wright, God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

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13. Armoede uitgelegd aan mensen met geld

By: Tim 'S Jongers

4.16

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In een land geregeerd door welvarende, hogeropgeleide mensen wordt op een beperkte en soms zelfs sc… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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14. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

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  • self help
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15. Grip: Het geheim van slim werken

By: Rick Pastoor

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Het is best gek dat we nooit écht hebben leren werken. Hoe houden we ons staande in deze tijd van v… read more

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16. The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

By: Ross Douthat

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Today the Western world seems to be in crisis. But beneath our social media frenzy and reality-tele… read more

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"I’m just saying that if this were the age in which some major divine intervention happened, whether long prophesied or completely unforeseen, there would be, in hindsight, a case that we should have …"

-Ross Douthat, The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success

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17. Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less

By: Leidy Klotz

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Blending behavioral science and design, Leidy Klotz's Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less offers… read more

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18. Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It

By: Cass R. Sunstein

3.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling author of Nudge reveals h ow we became so burdened by red tape and … read more

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  • self help
  • unfinished
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
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19. China's World View: Demystifying China to Prevent Global Conflict

By: David Daokui Li

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A distinguished Chinese economist offers a timely, essential exploration of China’s perspective on … read more

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  • politics
  • economics
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20. The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

By: John A. List

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A leading economist answers one of today’s trickiest questions: Why do some great ideas make it big… read more

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  • self help
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  • economics
  • sociology
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"Scaling a solution that saves or improves the lives of eight-year-olds instead of eighty-year-olds has a bigger cumulative impact over time and thus arguably calls for a larger slice of the budget."

-John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

"We are reluctant to quit things because we want to avoid the resulting heartbreak. The pain of failure is magnified by the sunk costs: all the time and effort and emotion you have already invested."

-John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

"When resources are limited, if you’re not getting the most out of every last dollar spent, the opportunity cost includes the additional impact your dollars could have had if allocated more effectively"

-John A. List, The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

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21. Ask: Tap Into the Hidden Wisdom of People Around You for Unexpected Breakthroughs In Leadership and Life

By: Jeff Wetzler

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Global expert on adult development and learning Jeff Wetzler offers a hands-on, surprisingly effect… read more

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16 must-read audiobook books like Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It by Cass R. Sunstein

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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Cass R. Sunstein , Richard H. Thaler

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Richard H. Thaler

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

Robert I. Sutton

3.85

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Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Abigail Shrier

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Kim Ghattas

4.40

Transform Your Habits

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman

3.86

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