• The Best Books on the Politics of Information - Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  • The Best Books on the Politics of Information - The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It by Charles Lindblom
  • The Best Books on the Politics of Information - The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon
  • The Best Books on the Politics of Information - Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society by E. Glen Weyl & Eric A. Posner
  • The Best Books on the Politics of Information - Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener

The Best Books on the Politics of Information, recommended by Henry Farrell

Our political systems evolved in an era when information was much harder to come by. What challenges does our current reality of information overload pose for democracy? How do we even start thinking about these questions? Political scientist Henry Farrell proposes key books for building a curriculum on ‘the politics of information,’ starting with a beautifully written novel.

  • The Best Books on the Big Bang - The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
  • The Best Books on the Big Bang - The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean M Carroll
  • The Best Books on the Big Bang - How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
  • The Best Books on the Big Bang - A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
  • The Best Books on the Big Bang - Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S Thorne

The Best Books on the Big Bang, recommended by Dan Hooper

Before Einstein, how the universe began was a question for theologians, not scientists. Over a century later, we know much more, but not enough to do more than guess at what happened at the moment of the Big Bang and immediately after. Astrophysicist Dan Hooper, author of At the Edge of Time—a book that explores dark energy, dark matter and other things we don’t yet understand—talks us through books about the Big Bang, and questions whether our entire understanding of the universe is about to be turned upside down.

  • The best books on Learning Economics - Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
  • The best books on Learning Economics - The Death of Economics by Paul Ormerod
  • The best books on Learning Economics - Inequality: What Can Be Done? by Tony Atkinson
  • The best books on Learning Economics - Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
  • The best books on Learning Economics - Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V Banerjee and Esther Duflo

The best books on Learning Economics, recommended by John Quiggin

We live in a society where it’s vital to have a good grasp of economics, but that doesn’t mean you need an economics degree to understand what it’s all about. Australian economist John Quiggin, author of Economics in Two Lessons, recommends books for learning about economics, all accessible to the general reader, and tries to dispel some of the myths about what it is professional economists do.

  • The best books on Thucydides - Pericles of Athens by Vincent Azoulay
  • The best books on Thucydides - Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens by David Stuttard
  • The best books on Thucydides - The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City by Nicole Loraux
  • The best books on Thucydides - Histories by Herodotus
  • The best books on Thucydides - The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika by Xenophon

The best books on Thucydides, recommended by Johanna Hanink

The Greek historian and general Thucydides wanted his History of the Peloponnesian War “to be a possession for all time.” In that, he’s been remarkably successful, with his name still echoing in the corridors of power. But what lessons should we take away from his great work? Translator and classicist Johanna Hanink talks us through books to better understand Thucydides and the mythical Athens he lived in and wrote about.