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Micromotives Bookshelf
Here is a short list of books that have inspired me in writing about Micromotives. Most of these books are specifically related to the ideas I cover on this blog, however a few are of more general business interest and are included as well.
To browse posts which are related to specific books, please check out the “books” tag archive.
Recently read (or re-read):
Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street, William Poundstone
Expert Political Judgement: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?, Philip E. Tetlock 
Choice and Consequence: Perspectives of an Errant Economist, Thomas SchellingRead related posts: thomas schelling
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, Barry SwartzRead related posts: the paradox of choice, barry swartz, choice, indecision
Investing: The Last Liberal Art, Robert G. Hagstrom
Micromotives and Macrobehavior, Thomas SchellingRead related posts: thomas schelling, micromotives, macrobehavior
What Price the Moral High Ground?, Rober H. Frank
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations, James SurowieckiRead related posts: the wisdom of crowds, james surowiecki
Fooled by Randomness: The Hiddem Role of Chane in Life and in the Markets, Nassim TalebRead related posts: fooled by randomness, nassim taleb, the black swan, randomness
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. BernsteinRead related posts: risk, statistics
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, Hernando de Soto
Investigations, Stuart Kauffman
The Intelligent Asset Allocator: How to Build Your Portfolio to Maximize Returns and Minimize Risk, TODO
My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
Also recommended:
Why We Buy: The Science Of Shopping, Paco Underhill
The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
Linked, Albert Laszlo Barabasi
A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Burton G. Malkiel
A Non-Random Walk Down Wall Street, Andrew W. Lo
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom, Doug Henwood
Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian
The Nature of Economies, Jane Jacobs
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright
Butterfly Economics, Paul Ormerod
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation, Matt Ridley
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration, Robert Axelrod
Harnessing Complexity: Organizational Implications of a Scientific Frontier, Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen
The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II: Proceedings
Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Paul Hawkens, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Edward Tufte
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, Edward Tufte
Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making, Edward Tufte
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