This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: How Competitive Is Competition?
Below is a list of books that discuss competition. The way individuals and firm compete, the intensity of competition, and what it means for the economy and people's lives.
- Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin, and David K. Levine
- The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
- The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
- The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
- Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
- Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
- Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
- Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
- The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
- What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
- The Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
- Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
- The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
- The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
- Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
- Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
- Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy edited by Jamee K Moudud, Cyrus Bina, Patrick L Mason
- How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
- Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
- The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
- Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
- How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
- Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
- The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
- The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Christopher L. Hayes
- When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
- My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
- Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
- Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
- A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
- The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
- Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
- Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
- The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
- The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
- October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
- Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets by Alan Manning
- On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Fiction
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
