Ranked: How To Allocate Resources?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: 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

  1. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet: A Report to the Club of Rome by Ugo Bardi
  2. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
  3. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  4. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
  5. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Christopher L. Hayes
  6. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  7. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  8. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  9. The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson

Allocation
  1. The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality by Katharina Pistor
  2. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
  3. Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
  4. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  5. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
  6. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
  7. The Weaponisation of Everything: A Field Guide to the New Way of War by Mark Galeotti
  8. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  9. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill 
  10. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
  11. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  12. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  13. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
  14. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  15. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel
  16. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  17. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  18. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
  19. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do? by Michael Sandel
  20. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis by James Rickards
  21. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew L. Ball
  22. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  23. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
  24. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  25. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  26. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  27. Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization by Vijay Govindarajan, and Chris Trimble
  28. Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
  29. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
  30. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
  31. Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
  32. Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
  33. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  34. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  35. Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
  36. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  37. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
  38. Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure by Don Kladstrup, and Petie Kladstrup
  39. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones
  40. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
  41. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  42. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  43. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  44. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have 
  45. Failed by James C. Scott
  46. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
  47. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  48. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  49. The Spanish Civil War by Hugh Thomas
  50. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
  51. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
  52. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  53. Guide to Profitability by Hetal Shah
  54. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
  55. The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
  56. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said

Allocation | Fiction

Climate Change
Climate Change | Fiction
  1. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

Impact
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