This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: How To Allocate Resources?
What to do with the resources that we have? How does using them impact the world? What are the resources anyway?
Resources
- Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet: A Report to the Club of Rome by Ugo Bardi
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
Allocation
- Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
- The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
- Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
- Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
- Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
Allocation | Fiction
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Agriculture
- Citizenship Papers by Wendell Berry
- The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston
- Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
Climate Change
- Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk
Climate Change | Fiction
- The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
Impact
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
- The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
