Ranked: How Competitive Is Competition?

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. 


  1. Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin, and David K. Levine
  2. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  3. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
  4. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  5. [Upcoming] Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  6. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
  7. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
  8. Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh
  9. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  10. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  11. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  12. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
  13. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
  14. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
  15. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  16. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  17. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
  18. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  19. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  20. Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy edited by Jamee K Moudud, Cyrus Bina, Patrick L Mason
  21. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
  22. Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
  23. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  24. [Upcoming] An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  25. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
  26. Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
  27. Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
  28. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  29. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  30. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  31. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  32. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
  33. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  34. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
  35. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  36. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
  37. The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
  38. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  39. Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets by Alan Manning




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