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. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
  8. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill 
  9. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
  10. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  11. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  12. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
  13. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  14. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  15. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  16. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato
  17. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything by Matthew L. Ball
  18. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  19. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
  20. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  21. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  22. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  23. Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
  24. Social Justice Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
  25. Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
  26. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  27. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  28. Capitalism: A Short History by Jürgen Kocka
  29. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  30. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
  31. [Upcoming] Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
  32. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  33. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  34. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  35. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have 
  36. Failed by James C. Scott
  37. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
  38. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  39. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  40. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
  41. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
  42. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  43. Guide to Profitability by Hetal Shah
  44. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
  45. The National System Of Political Economy by Friedrich List
  46. 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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