Ten important, accessible books:
(Click on any title to read about the book or order
a copy from Amazon.com)
Daniel Botkin, Discordant
Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-First Century
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow:
The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Freeman Dyson, From
Eros to Gaia
Friedrich A. Hayek, The
Constitution of Liberty
Walter Olson, The
Litigation Explosion
Henry Petroski, The
Evolution of Useful Things
Michael Polanyi, Personal
Knowledge
Jonathan Rauch, Kindly
Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought
Thomas Sowell, Knowledge
and Decisions
Stephen Toulmin, The
Discovery of Time
Dynamist
Case Studies: Evolution in Action Daniel
Boorstin, The
Americans (three volumes)
Stewart Brand, How
Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
John Brewer, The
Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth
Century
Lowell Bryan and Diana Farrell, Market
Unbound: Unleashing Global Capitalism
William Cronon, Nature's
Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
Peter Galison, Image
& Logic: A Material Culture of Microphysics
Joel Garreau, Edge
City: Life on the New Frontier
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon, Where
Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Regina Herzlinger, Market-Driven
Health Care
Anne Hollander, Sex
and Suits
Joseph Nocera, A
Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class
Thomas Schatz, The
Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
Some
Other Dynamist Books: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
Creativity:
Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention
Hernando de Soto, The
Other Path: The Invisible Revolution in the Third World
Freeman Dyson, Infinite
in All Directions
Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies
of Freedom
Richard A. Epstein, Simple
Rules for a Complex World
F.A. Hayek, The
Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
Peter Huber, Liability
Peter Huber, Law
and Disorder in Cyberspace: Abolish the FCC and Let Common Law Rule
the Telecosm
Johan Huizinga, Homo
Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture
Jane Jacobs, The
Death and Life of Great American Cities
Kevin Kelly, Out
of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization
J.S. Mill, On
Liberty
Joel Mokyr, The
Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
Douglass C. North, Institutions,
Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Walter Olson, The
Excuse Factory: How Employment Law Is Paralyzing the American Workplace
Elinor Ostrom, Governing
the Commons
Jonathan Rauch, Demosclerosis
Roberta Romano, The
Genius of American Corporate Law
Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell Jr., How
the West Grew Rich
Nathan Rosenberg, Beyond
the Black Box
Nathan Rosenberg, Exploring
the Black Box
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism,
Socialism and Democracy
Herbert A. Simon, The
Sciences of the Artificial
Julian Simon, The
Ultimate Resource 2
Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis
Frederick Turner, Tempest,
Flute, and Oz
M. Mitchell Waldrop, Complexity:
The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos
Aaron Wildavsky, Searching
for Safety
Just
a Dab of Stasis:
Technocratic Classics:
John Kenneth Galbraith, The
New Industrial State
Le Courbusier, The
City of Tomorrow
Herbert Croly, The
Promise of American Life
Daniel Bell, The
Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Reactionary Classics:
E.F. Schumacher, Small
Is Beautiful
Christopher Lasch, The
True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
Twelve Southerners, I'll
Take My Stand
Other stasist references:
Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith, editors, The
Case Against the Global Economy: And for a Turn Toward the Local
John Gray, Beyond
the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment
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