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. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  3. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  4. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
  5. 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. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  4. The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
  5. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
  6. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  7. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  8. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
  9. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  10. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  11. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  12. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
  13. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  14. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  15. Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
  16. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  17. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  18. Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
  19. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  20. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
  21. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
  22. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  23. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  24. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
  25. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
  26. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  27. Guide to Profitability by Hetal Shah
  28. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
  29. The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List

Allocation | Fiction
  1. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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

Impact
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