44 books to understand the implications of blockchain/bitcoin

in #books • 8 years ago (edited)

Blockchain, and Bitcoin in particular, are changing rapidly global economic and social scenario. Blockchain technology based on open distributed ledger has begin to prove its potential and today is one of the cornerstones of what Klaus Schwab calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution. To understand the implications and impact of such changes it is not only important to understand, for instance, the mechanics of bitcoin, but also to have a proper idea of what is money (and credit) and how markets currently work. Here there is 44 books (some are academic papers) that can be usefull to frame and understand this new complex scenario.

** To safe space and time, I've only included titles and authors.

  • Antifragile, Nicholas N. Taleb
  • The Theory of Efficient Dyamics, Jesús Huerta de Soto
  • "The Use of Knowledge in Society", F.A. Hayek
  • 1984, George Orwell
  • "On the Origins of Money", Carl Menger
  • Bitcoin: the Future of Money?, Dominic Frisby
  • "Bitcoin: Problems and Prospects", George Selgin
  • The Theory of Money and Credit, L. von Mises
  • The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson
  • "Knowledge and Society", F.A. Hayek
  • Chaos, James Gleick
  • "The Theory of the Firm", R. Coase
  • Competition and Entrepreneurship, Israel Kirzner
  • The Fatal Conceit, F.A. Hayek
  • The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper
  • Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  • Blockchain Revolution, D. Tapscott/A. Tapscott
  • The book of Satoshi: the collected writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, P. Champagne
  • The Age of Crytocurrency, P. Vigna/M. Casey
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Klaus Schwab
  • The Science of the Blockchain, Roger Wattenhofer
  • The Sovereign Individual, J. Davison/W. Ress-Mogg
  • Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin Toffler
  • The Filter Bubble, Eli Parinser
  • The Rise and Fall of Great Empires, Paul Kennedy
  • Digital Gold, Nathiel Popper
  • Information: the New Language of Science, H-C von Baeyer
  • The (mis)behaviour of the Markets, B. Mandelbrot
  • The Growth of Information, César Hidalgo
  • The Long Tail, Chris Anderson
  • From Zero to One, Peter Thiel
  • The Black Swan, Nicholas N. Taleb
  • The Collapse of Complex Societies, J. Tainter
  • The Death of Money, J. Rickards
  • End the Fed, Ron Paul
  • The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard/ H. Herman-Hoppe
  • The Ethics of Sound Money, G. Hülsman
  • A Monetary History of the United States, Friedman/Schwartz
  • A History of the Fed, 2 vols., Allan Meltzer
  • History of Banking in the United States, 2 vols., Murray Rothbard
  • Human Action, Ludwig Von Mises
  • Trust, Francis Fukuyama
  • The Innovators Dilemma, C.M. Christiansen
  • Poker's Liar, Michael Lewis
  • The Information, James Gleick
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