Governance


Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The Prince
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
A Promised Land
Tithing and Giving by J.A.    CoxFrom Buddha to Jesus by Steve CioccolantiWhy Pro-Life? by Randy AlcornHumility by C.J. MahaneyRadical by David     Platt
Christian Engagement in Culture
170 books — 59 voters
Never Go With Your Gut by Gleb TsipurskyThe Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyExplosive Growth by Cliff Lerner
Best Business and Technology Books
118 books — 141 voters

Superintelligence by Nick BostromHuman Compatible by Stuart RussellThe Precipice by Toby  OrdLife 3.0 by Max TegmarkSuperforecasting by Philip E. Tetlock
AI Governance
5 books — 1 voter
The Art of Deception by Kevin D. MitnickReal Life by Jamil SoucarPassing Your ITIL Foundation Exam by Office of Government CommerceAn Integrated Requirements Process - Governing Cost & Risk in... by Peter  BrooksService Delivery by Office of Government Commerce
Services
7 books — 4 voters


Thomas Paine
Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
Thomas Paine

Any organization that treats cybersecurity as a cost is structurally fragile.
Stephane Nappo

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