18 must-read nonfiction books like The Cost-Benefit Revolution by Cass R. Sunstein

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The Cost-Benefit Revolution

By: Cass R. Sunstein

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on in…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Cost-Benefit Revolution by Cass R. Sunstein , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

By: Alex Epstein

4.12

Format: None pages,

A sure-to-be-controversial defense of the fossil fuel industry Conventional wisdom says fossil fuel… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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3. 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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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"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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4. Utilitarianism

By: John Stuart Mill , George Sher

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

This expanded edition of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianismincludes the text of his 1868 speech to t… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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5. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

By: Atul Gawande

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of Betterand Complicationsreveals the surprising power of the … read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

By: Joe Navarro , Marvin Karlins

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

He says that's his best offer. Is it? She says she agrees. Does she? The interview went great--or d… read more

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  • nonfiction

7. SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner

4.31

Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling over four million c… read more

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8. On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

3.97

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • economics

10. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

By: Dan Ariely

3.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Why do our headaches persist after taking a one-cent aspirin but disappear when we take a 50-cent a… read more

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11. 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works

By: Dan Harris

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

After having a nationally televised panic attack on Good Morning America, Dan Harris knew he had to… read more

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12. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

By: David Epstein

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What's the most effective path to success in any domain? It's not what you think. Plenty of experts… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We learn who we are only by living, and not before."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"Repetition, it turned out, was less important than struggle."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"If we treated careers more like dating, nobody would settle down so quickly."

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

"mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated"

-David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

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13. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

By: Annie Duke

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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14. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

By: Brian Christian

4.37

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A jaw-dropping exploration of everything that goes wrong when we build AI systems and the movement … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Curiosity bred competence."

-Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

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15. Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

By: Steven Pinker

4.20

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
"There is no law of complex systems that says that intelligent agents must turn into ruthless conquistadors. Indeed, we know of one highly advanced form of intelligence that evolved without this defec…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"Enlightenment humanism, then, is far from being a crowd-pleaser. The idea that the ultimate good is to use knowledge to enhance human welfare leaves people cold. Deep explanations of the universe, th…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"This heroic story is not just another myth. Myths are fictions, but this one is true-true to the best of our knowledge, which is the only truth we can have. We believe it because we have reasons to b…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

"Our understanding of who we are, where we came from, how the world works, and what matters in life depends on partaking of the vast and ever-expanding store of knowledge. Though unlettered hunters, h…"

-Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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16. 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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  • nonfiction
"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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17. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

By: Michael Lewis

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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18. What We Owe the Future

By: William MacAskill

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • nonfiction
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19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • economics
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20. The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

By: Michael Lewis

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

“Brilliant. . . . Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncerta… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. In this match, surprises are expected."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours"

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

"The way it feels to me,' he said, 'is that there were certain ideas that I was put on this earth to think. And now I can think them."

-Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

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21. The Cost-Benefit Revolution

By: Cass R. Sunstein

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why policies should be based on careful consideration of their costs and benefits rather than on in… read more

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  • politics
  • social science
  • economics
  • nonfiction

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Transform Your Habits

The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels

Alex Epstein

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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3.84

Transform Your Habits

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill , George Sher

4.73

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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

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Morgan Housel

4.19

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Zeke Faux

4.26

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