July 2026
Intermediate
288 pages
6h 31m
English
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ROY'S RECOMMENDED READING LIST: 47 ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR POSITIVE SUM THINKING
RELATING TO PSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE
Why do people slip into win‐lose thinking?
- COLLECTIVE ILLUSIONS | Todd Rose
- PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL | Dan Ariely
- INFLUENCE: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION | Robert Cialdini
- BEHAVE | Robert M. Sapolsky
- MAN'S SEARCH FOR MEANING | Viktor Frankl
- THE WORM AT THE CORE | Solomon, Greenberg, Pyszczynski
- A PRIMATE'S MEMOIR | Robert M. Sapolsky
- THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION | Robert Axelrod
- THINKING, FAST AND SLOW | Daniel Kahneman
- THE UNDOING PROJECT | Michael Lewis
RELATING TO LEWIS POWELL'S STRATEGY AND INSTITUTIONAL CAPTURE
How are institutions reshaped in pursuit of narrow objectives?
- DARK MONEY | Jane Mayer
- THE WRECKING CREW | Thomas Frank
- DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS | Nancy MacLean
- THE BIG MYTH | Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway
- WINNERS TAKE ALL | Anand Giridharadas
- PROPAGANDA | Edward Bernays
RELATING TO SYSTEMATIC INEQUALITY AND EXTRACTION
How does zero‐sum policy perpetuate disadvantage across generations?
- CASTE | Isabel Wilkerson
- THE COLOR OF LAW | Richard Rothstein
- HOW CAPITALISM UNDERDEVELOPED BLACK AMERICA | Manning Marable
- EVICTED | Matthew Desmond
- THE TYRANNY OF MERIT | Michael Sandel
- BORN IN BLACKNESS | Howard W. French
- THE ROAD TO ZERO WEALTH | Collins, Asante‐Muhammad, et al.
- PLUNDER | Brendan Ballou
RELATING TO THE MORAL COMPASS OF CAPITALISM
How can we recover the market's philosophical and ethical foundations?
- THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS | Adam Smith ...
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