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. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
  6. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
  7. Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises by Anwar Shaikh
  8. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  9. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  10. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  11. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoğlu, James A. Robinson
  12. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
  13. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  14. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
  15. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  16. Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy edited by Jamee K Moudud, Cyrus Bina, Patrick L Mason
  17. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
  18. Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age by Amy Klobuchar
  19. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
  20. Civilization: The West and the Rest by Niall Ferguson
  21. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  22. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  23. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
  24. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
  25. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  26. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
  27. The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
  28. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  29. Monopsony in Motion: Imperfect Competition in Labor Markets by Alan Manning




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