Our Reading List (Bibliography)
The Great Books Of The Aristocracy: The Evolution of the Nature Law of Sovereigns
Contents
The Western Order
[T]he ruling class under the monarchies never produced a canon of its own: a collection of works whose content is politically scientific and rationally written. The rulers simply did their job with tradition, pragmatism and familial wisdom. So a rich, fully articulated analysis of the western social and political system has been unavailable to us, other than Plato’s – and he was tragically wrong. There have been a number of ‘Great Books’ lists, in an effort to develop a western, or even world canon1 . These lists start by sharing a desire for freedom, and at some point for democracy, and finally, evolve to a desire for communism. They are not scientific, but merely moral appeals for power. As such they are sentimental and political propaganda and little more than efforts to seize political power or seize assets from the aristocracy by promoting redistribution, collectivism and democracy, using derivatives of Christian arguments. This list is my attempt to cover the body of ‘scientific’ political thought: writing that is based upon the record of what humans actually do, rather than what we fantasize that they should do. I also try to be consistent in avoiding appeals to sentiments, and instead, limit selections to rational or scientific arguments. I’ve tried to select books that the inquiring reader can wade through, and avoided the most abstract texts wherever possible. (The distraction of Bohm Bahwerk for example.) And I have tried to provide selections from a breadth of fields which serves to prevent the errors inherent in selective specialization. And because I believe that practical wisdom is the result of accumulated general knowledge and the further synthesis of common principles regardless of their field of origin. Included are: Art, Mythology, History, The Behavior Of Man, Philosophy, Politics, Economics, Law, and War. These are, together, the technologies of cooperation and conflict resolution.
Our Digital Library Is Huge.
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Genus Homo and the Species and Races of Man
The Species of Great Apes: Contrary to Abrahamic, Marxist, Postmodernist, Pseudoscience, of the Universalist Herd, here is the Genus Homo, and the species and races (subspecies) of man.
Jayman’s Human Biodiversity Reading List
Jayman and HBD Chick’s Recommended Reading list is also here. We really ought to just make a book out of readings from it.
The History of Philosophy Timeline
The History of Philosophy Timeline with links for who relates to whom.
The Short List: The Current State of Knowledge
Our Minds
Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence (The Brain) Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (The Mind) Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (The Moral Intuition) Steven Pinker: How the Mind Works Ramachandran: The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human Simon Baron-Cohen : The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism Steven Pinker: The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language
Man
Nicholas Wade: Before The Dawn: Recovering the Last History of Our Ancestors David Reich: Who We Are and How We Got Here Matt Ridley: The Red Queen Dale Petersen: Demonic Males William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization Nicholas Wade: A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History Peter Turchin: Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending: The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution Francis Fukuyama: Trust (The Political Objective) Francis Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order Garett Jones: Hive Mind: How Your Nations IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray: Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Richard Lynn: The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide [Perfect Paperback] Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Hartshorna, Kaznatcheeva, and Shultz: The Evolutionary Dominance of Ethnocentric Cooperation
The West (Sovereignty)
Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans David W. Anthony: The Horse, the Wheel, and Language Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation Eric H. Cline: 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
The Militia – the West Is Defined by The Militia of Sovereign Men
John Keegan: A History Of Warfare Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Victor Davis Hanson: The Other Greeks – The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization. Victor Davis Hanson: The Western Way of War – Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Victor Davis Hanson: Why the West Has Won : Carnage and Culture from Salamis to Vietnam
The Destruction of The West – and Its Self Resurrection
Catherine Nixey : The Darkening Age: The Christian(Jewish) Destruction of the Classical World Ramsay MacMullen: Paganism and Christianity 100-425 C.E Ramsay MacMullen: Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth To Eighth Centuries Bryan Ward-Perkins: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity Emmet Scott: Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited. Raymond Ibrahim: Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War between Islam and the West
Neoteny and Genetic Pacification (Jayman)
Peter Frost (2008). Sexual selection and human geographic variation, Frost, Peter (2010). The Roman State and genetic pacification, Frost, Peter and Harpending, Henry (2015). Western Europe, State Formation, and Genetic Pacification, Harpending, Henry (2012). Genetics and the Historical Decline of Violence? Peter Frost (2013). Evo and Proud: Making Europeans kinder, gentler Peter Frost (2013). Evo and Proud: Where do those tensions come from? Also: Ron Unz (2013). How Social Darwinism Made Modern China | The American Conservative Also: Cochran, Gregory; Hardy, Jason; & Harpending, Henry (2006). Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence. Journal of Biosocial Science 38, 1-35 Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology (Family) Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe (French) (Families)
ALSO: MANORIALISM AND CLANNISHNESS (HBD Chick) HBD Chick’s Work on Family and Clannishness (Continuing Emmanuel Todd etc)
start here clannishness defined big summary post on the hajnal line the middle ages year-end summary, 2011 outbreeding, self-control and lethal violence 2012 top ten historic european homicide rates … and the hajnal line medieval manorialism’s selection pressures
In addition to Jayman’s summaries of her work:
An HBD Summary of the Foundations of Modern Civilization How Inbred are Europeans?
ON GENETIC LOAD (Cochran)
First, be sure to see these blog posts by Greg Cochran on West Hunter (2012):
Typos Get Smart More thoughts on genetic load The genetics of stupidity The Golden Age Also: Keller, Matthew C., & Miller, Geoffery (2006). Resolving the paradox of common, harmful, heritable mental disorders: Which evolutionary genetic models work best? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 285-452.
The Rights of Anglo Saxons (Contractualism)
Edwin Vieira Jr.: The Sword and Sovereignty: The Constitutional Principles of “the Militia of the Several States” (multimedia only – Trying to find pdf.) Fritz Kern: Kingship and Law in the Middle Ages John Blair: Building Anglo Saxon England Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom David Hackett Fischer: Albion‘s Seed: Four British Folkways in America David Hackett Fischer, (1989). Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. Colin Woodard (2011). American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms
The Natural Common Law (Contractual Constitutionalism)
Milsom: Natural History of the Common Law. Plucknett: A Concise History Of The Common Law. Hayek’s: The Constitution of Liberty
20th Century Context
Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed
The Present Conflict
On Racial and Ethnic Strife, the Pull of Genetic Similarity, and Challenges Presented by “diversity”:
Putnam, Robert D. (2007). E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century — The 2006 Johan Skytte Prize. Scandinavian Political Studies, 30(2), 137-174
Also, on that note, see this ranking of the most peaceful U.S. states, in which, Maine (see HBD Chick here) consistently tops out at #1!
United States Peace Index « Vision of Humanity
Krupp, D.B., Debruine, L.M., Jones, B.C., and Lalumiere, M.L. (2012) Kin recognition: evidence that humans can perceive both positive and negative relatedness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 25 (8). pp. 1472-1478.
Working Topics
(Just topics I am working on but not finished with)LIES Dallas Denery: The Devil Wins: A History of Lying from the Garden of Eden to the Enlightenment Thomas Carson: Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice Jennifer Mather Saul: Lying, Misleading, and What is Said Clancy Martin: The Philosophy of Deception 1st Edition Herbert Fingarette: Self-Deception Brooke Harrington: Deception: From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating Edward Bernays: Propaganda Jason Stanley: How Propaganda Works Hardcover Jeremy Elkins: Truth and Democracy David Livingstone: Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others Daniel Nanavati: A Brief History Of Lies THE JEWISH DEFECT – DUPLICITY Michael Hoffman: Judaism Discovered from Its Own Texts: A Study of the Anti-Biblical Religion of Racism, Self-Worship, Superstition and Deceit Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals Karl Marx: Communist Manifesto Benjamin Ginsberg: The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State Kevin MacDonald: The People that Shall Dwell Alone Kevin MacDonald: The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements Kevin MacDonald: Separation and its DiscontentsTHE GERMANIC DEFECT – INTUITIONISM (The Secular Religiousness and Effeminacy of Germanics) Ostwald Spengler: The Decline Of The West Francis Parker Yockey: Imperium. Julius Evola: Revolt Against the Modern WorldTHE FRENCH DEFECT – FEMINISM (Illustrates Femininity of French Analysis) ( … ) Emmanuel Todd: Illusion EconomiqueTHE ANGLO DEFECT – OPTIMISM (The Masculine Science But Feminine Optimism of Anglo Analysis) Madison Grant: The Passing of the Great Race Pat Buchanan: The Death of the WestANTI-WHITE – ANTI-WEST ( … ) ANTI-MALE Christina Hoff Sommers: The War Against Boys, Christina Hoff Sommers: The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling Warren Farrell PhD, John Gray PhD: The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling Bob Lewis :The Feminist Lie: It Was Never About EqualityBELIEF (in progress) “The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life” “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior” by Leonard Mlodinow, “Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment” by Phil Zuckerman, “The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies—How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths” by Michael Shermer, “SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable” by Bruce M. Hood, “The Brain and the Meaning of Life” by Paul Thagard. “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain” by David Eagleman Authors Removed: I am a little iffy on Pinker despite the fact that he fired the first salvo against pseudoscience in the social sciences. I can’t tell where his defense of market for his books begins and his academic honesty ends. Better angels is not true for the reasons he states. And that really troubles me. Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate I am a little iffy on Harris because I have figured out his biases and errors, and his book on lying is too weak to include versus the alternatives. Sam Harris : Lying
THE CANON
I. POLITICS
Aristotle: Ethics, Politics Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses Burke: Reflections On The Revolution In France Hamilton: The Federalist Papers Bastiat: The Law Sorel: Reflections On Violence Mosca: Ruling Class Michels: Political Parties Burnham: The Machiavellians Hayek: The Road To Serfdom, The Constitution Of Liberty Mancur Olson: The Logic Of Collective Action Andrew Heywood : Political Ideologies : An Introduction.POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature, Essays Moral and Political, An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Locke: Two Treatise on Government Adam Smith: The Theory of Moral Sentiments, The Wealth of Nations Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America Weber: Economy And Society, Essays in Sociology Pareto: Mind And Society Hayek: Individualism And Economic Order Veblen: The Theory of the Leisure Class Schumpeter: Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Durkhiem: Division Of Labor In Society Hoppe: The Economics And Ethics Of Private Property, Democracy The God That Failed POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY Thomas Sowell: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Society Thomas Sowell: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy. Thomas Sowell: Knowledge and Decisions
II. HISTORY
HISTORICAL ANALYSIS AND CRITICISMHISTORY Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order Carroll Quigley: The Evolution Of Civilizations Braudel: A History of Civilizations Durant: Lessons Of History (Everything really) Toynbee: A Study Of History BIRTH Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization Emmanuel Todd: The Invention Of Europe (French Only) Emmanuel Todd: The Causes of Progress McNeil: The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community McNeil: Plagues and Peoples Diamond: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Pomeranz: The Great Divergence (Anything he has written.) DECLINE Acemoglu: Why Nations Fail Gibbon: The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Spengler: The Death Of the West Yockey: The enemy Of Europe, The Enemy Of Our Enemies, Imperium Burnham: Suicide Of The West Buchannan: The Decline Of The West Whittaker Chambers: Witness CONFLICT Keegan: A History Of Warfare (Anything he has written.) Victor Davis Hanson’s “The Other Greeks”, Carnage and Culture (Anything he has written) Sir Lawrence Freedman: Strategy: A History RELIGION Karen Armstrong: The Great Transformation James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity MORALITY Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology Robert Nisbet: The Quest for Community Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY Niall Ferguson: (Everything he has written) Murray: Human Accomplishment (Everything he has written) Mokyr: The Gifts Of Athena, The Lever Of Riches (Anything he has written) CYCLE THEORY – HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF Strauss and Howe: Generations, The Fourth Turning FUTURE GEOPOLITICS Christopher Hayes: Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy Fareed Zakaria: The Post-American World: Release 2.0 Joseph S. Nye Jr.:The Future of Power [Kindle Edition] Samuel P. Huntington: The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order [Kindle Edition] Joseph Tainter), Colin Renfrew:The Collapse of Complex Societies (New Studies in Archaeology) Fred Guterl:The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop ItSOCIOLOGY Banfield: The Unheavenly City, The Moral Basis of a Backward Society Axelrod: The Evolution Of Cooperation Mancur Olson: The Rise and Decline Of Nations Edward O. Wilson: The Social Conquest of Earth [Kindle Edition] Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson: Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty [Kindle Edition] Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann:The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge [Paperback] Bryan Caplan: The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies [Hardcover] Samuel P. Huntington: Political Order in Changing Societies (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series) [Paperback] Niall Ferguson: Civilization: The West and the Rest Charles Murray: Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 Tim Harford:Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure [Kindle Edition]
III. HUMAN BEINGS
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Cavalli-Svorza; The Great Human Diasporas Cochran & Harpending: The 10,000 Year Explosion Richard Dawkins:The Selfish Gene:30th Anniversary edition Jared M. Diamond: The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (P.S.) [Paperback] Robert Axelrod: The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition Matt Ridley: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature [Kindle Edition] Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha: Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality Dale Peterson, Richard Wrangham: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence Steven Goldberg : Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance PaperbackINTELLIGENCE Flynn: What Is Intelligence? Sternberg/Kaufman : The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence Earl Hunt: Human Intelligence Jeff Hawkins: On Intelligence Richard Lynn: The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide [Perfect Paperback] Richard Lynn, Tatu Vanhanen:IQ and the Wealth of Nations (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)Essays: The humorous essays of “Le Griffe Du Lion” (Prof Robert Gordon. Some subtle statistical errors, but in general useful. His smart fraction theory is being explored by others at the moment.) HUMAN BIO DIVERSITY
ALSO SEE
Also see this much more comprehensive list of research supporting human biodiversity here: Human BioDiversity Reading List: http://www.humanbiologicaldiversity.com/Top of the list: Pinker, Steven (2002). The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. Viking. Harris, Judith Rich (1998). The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. Free Press. Revised and Updated edition, 2009. Harris, Judith Rich (2006). No Two Alike: Human Nature and Human Individuality. W.W. Norton. Frost, Peter (2011). Human nature or human natures?Futures, 43, 740–748. Clark, Gregory (2014). The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility. Princeton University Press. SEX DIFFERENCES AND THE BRAIN (From Jayman) Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke: A video of a debate between Steven Pinker and Elizabeth Spelke – Edge: THE SCIENCE OF GENDER AND SCIENCE (2005) . The video from the above site has been removed, but can be found here. The above text contains a transcript of the debate and each presenter’s slides. Larry Cahill: This discussion/review of sex differences by Larry Cahill (2014): Equal ≠ The Same: Sex Differences in the Human Brain
Think Again: Working Women – By Kay Hymowitz – Foreign Policy Sommers, Christina Hoff (2013). Lessons from a feminist paradise on Equal Pay Day – Society and Culture – AEI Sommers, Christina Hoff (2013). What ‘Lean In’ Misunderstands About Gender Differences – The Atlantic Lemos, Gina C.; Abad, Francisco J.; Almeida, Leandro S.; and Colom, Robert (2013). Sex differences on g and non-g intellectual performance reveal potential sources of STEM discrepancies. Intelligence 41(1), 11-18. (2011) Sex differences in the Brain: Fact or Fiction?: A video lecture by Margaret M. McCarthy that goes into great depth about the evidence for human and non-human animal sex differences in the brain and behavior (see starting at 28:09 for humans). And of course, Harald Eia’s Brainwash episode on gender.
ON THE REALITY OF IQ:
This talk by Steve Hsu: Also see these blog posts by Steve Hsu: Information Processing: Horsepower matters; psychometrics works (2009) Information Processing: Do advanced education and a challenging career make you smarter? (2009) Information Processing: Life impacts of personality and intelligence (2014) More on the predictive validity of IQ, see this essay: Murray, Charles (1997). IQ and economic success. The Public Interest, Summer 1997, 21-35 On the central importance of g to many aspects of life: Gottfredson, Linda S. (1997). “Why g matters: The Complexity of Everyday Life.” Intelligence24
BEHAVIORAL GENETICS:
See these key papers on behavioral genetics:
Plomin, Robert et al. (2013). Common DNA Markers Can Account for More Than Half of the Genetic Influence on Cognitive Abilities. Psychological Science, April 2013, 24(4) 562-568.
Trzaskowski, Maciej; Harlaar, Nicole; Arden, Rosalind; Krapohl, Eva; Rimfeld, Kaili; McMillan, Andrew; Dale, Philip S.; and Plomin, Robert. (2013) Genetic influence on family socioeconomic status and children’s intelligence. Intelligence, 42, 83-86. Verweij, K. J. H., Yang, J., Lahti, J., Veijola, J., Hintsanen, M., Pulkki-Råback, L., … Zietsch, B. P. (2012). Maintenance of genetic variation in human personality: Testing evolutionary models by estimating heritability due to common causal variants and investigating the effect of distant inbreeding. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution, 66(10), 3238–3251. Also see this wonderful and comprehensive review of the heritability of brain structure and the relationship between this structure and IQ: Strike, Lachlan T.; Couvy-Duchesne, Baptiste; Hansell, Narelle K.; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Medland, Sarah E.; and Wright, Margaret J. (2015) Genetics and Brain Morphology, Neuropsychology Review, March, 14, 2015. And of course, my own blog posts on the matter: All Human Behavioral Traits are Heritable Taming the “Tiger Mom” and Tackling the Parenting Myth Environmental Hereditarianism The Son Becomes The Father More Behavioral Genetic Facts As well as Harald Eia’s Brainwash episode “The Parental Effect”ON RACE:
These five key blog posts by Steve Hsu: (2008) Information Processing: “No scientific basis for race” (2008) Information Processing: Human genetic variation, Fst and Lewontin’s fallacy in pictures (2012) Information Processing: Rare variants and human genetic diversity (2013) Information Processing: Learning can hurt (2014) Information Processing: What’s New Since Montagu? These papers describing some of the genetic processes used, particularly principal component analysis (PCA): Price, Alkes L.; Reich, David (2006). Population Structure and Eigenanalysis. PLOS Genetics. McVean, Gil (2009). A Genealogical Interpretation of Principal Components Analysis. PLOS: Genetics. These blog posts by Peter Frost: (2011) Evo and Proud: Apples, oranges, and genes (2012) Evo and Proud: Trans-species polymorphisms As well as these two by Greg Cochran: (2012) Lewontin’s argument | West Hunter (2014) Phenotypes vs genetic statistics | West Hunter And this post by Razib Khan:
(2013) Why race as a biological construct matters | Gene Expression This video of racial differences in newborn behavior: Cross-Cultural Differences in Newborn Behavior Discussed in Freedman, Daniel G. (1979). Human Sociobiology: A Holistic Approach. Free Press. Also see: Kagan, Jerome, & Snidman, Nancy C. (2004). The long shadow of temperament. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press. And also see my own blog post: How Much Hard Evidence Do You Need? And of course, Harald Eia’s Brainwash episode on Race.
ON RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN IQ AND THEIR GLOBAL IMPACT:
Rushton, J. Philippe and Jensen, Arthur R. (2010). Race and IQ: A Theory-Based Review of the Research in Richard Nisbett’s Intelligence and How to Get It. The Open Psychology Journal, 3, 9-35. On the effect of poverty and socioeconomic status on IQ (there isn’t one) and said explanations for racial gaps, this blog post: (2013) The Unsilenced Science: Black Suits, Gowns, & Skin: SAT Scores by Income, Education, & Race Rushton, J. Philippe & Jensen, Arthur R. (2010). The rise and fall of the Flynn Effect as a reason to expect a narrowing of the Black-White IQ gap. Intelligence,38, 213-219 Nijenhuis, J., & van der Flier, H. (2013). Is the Flynn effect on g?: A meta-analysis, Intelligence Nijenhuisa, Jan te; Jongeneel-Grimenb, Birthe; & Armstrong, Elijah L. (2015). Are adoption gains on the g factor? A meta-analysis, Personality and Individual Differences 73, 50-60. Gottfredson, Linda S. (2007). Shattering Logic to Explain the Flynn Effect. Cato Unbound. Lynn, Richard and Tatu Vanhanen. (2002). IQ and the Wealth of Nations. Praeger/Greenwood. Lynn, Richard (2008). The Global Bell Curve: Race, IQ, and Inequality Worldwide. Washington Summit Publishers. Lynn, Richard and Tatu Vanhanen, (2012). Intelligence: A Unifying Construct for the Social Sciences. Also see this blog post by Jason Malloy (2006): Gene Expression: A World of Difference: Richard Lynn Maps World Intelligence Also see the ongoing discussion over at Human Varieties Also these posts by La Griffe du Lion: (2002) The Smart Fraction Theory of IQ and the Wealth of Nations (2004) Smart Fraction Theory II: Why Asians Lag Rindermann, Heiner (2007). The g-factor of international cognitive ability comparisons: the homogeneity of results in PISA, TIMSS, PIRLS and IQ-tests across nations. European Journal of Personality21, 667-706. Rindermann, Heiner; Sailer, Michael; and Thompson, James (2009). The impact of smart fractions, cognitive ability of politicians and average competences of peoples on social development. Talent Development & Excellence 1 (1), 3-25. Christainsen, Gregory B (2013). IQ and the wealth of nations: How much reverse causality?Intelligence 41, 688-698.
IV. SOCIAL MAN: COOPERATION AND TRUST
SOCIAL CLASS Paul Fussell: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray: Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Robert Gordon (La Griffe Du Lion): “Smart Fraction Theory” (Methodological flaws aside, the theory is insightful) and Smart Fraction Theory II Charles Murray: Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 [Hardcover] Stanley, DankoThe Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy Stanley: The Millionaire Mind Nassim Nicholas Taleb: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility” Mandelbrot, Hudson:The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial TurbulenceTRUST Harrison, Huntington: Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress Francis Fukuyama: Trust: The Social Virtues and The Creation of Prosperity [Paperback] Sam Harris: Lying Joel Kotkin: Tribes Frank Salter: Risky Transactions: Trust, Kinship and Ethnicity; On Genetic Interests Huntington: The Clash Of Civilizations Becker: The Economic Approach To Human Behavior THE HANJAL LINE – MATING PATTERNS (Trying to trim this section down) SUMMARY: Kevin MacDonald “What Makes Western Culture Unique?” John Hajnal, (1965): European marriage pattern in historical perspective en D.V. Glass and D.E.C. Eversley, (eds.) Population in History, Arnold, Londres Ansley J. Coale & Roy Treadway, (1986): The Decline of Fertility in Europe David Levine, (1977): Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism Wally Seccombe (1992): A Millennium of Family Change, Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe, Verso. Göran Therborn, (2004): Between Sex and Power, Family in the World, 1900–2000, Routledge Press (see pp. 144–45). Mary S. Hartman (2004): The Household and the Making of History, A Subversive View of the Western Past, Cambridge University Press. David I Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli. 2001. The history of the European family. New Haven: Yale University Press. p xiv David Levine (1977): Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism, Academic Press. 152 Peter Laslett: The World We Have Lost. Stephanie Coontz: Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage. De Moor, Tine and Jan Luiten van Zanden. 2009. Girl power: the European marriage pattern and labour markets in the North Sea region in the late medieval and early modern period. MANORIALISM Michael Mitterauer: Why Europe?: The Medieval Origins of Its Special Path Bloch, Marc (1989-11-16). Feudal Society: Vol 1: The Growth and Ties of Dependence (2 ed.). Bloch, Marc (1989-11-16). Feudal Society: Vol 2: Social Classes and Political Organisation (2 ed.). (“Feudal Society”, in its modern sense was coined in Marc Bloch’s 1939-40 books. He emphasized the distinction between economic manorialism which preceded feudalism and survived it, and political and social feudalism, or seigneurialism.) Prosper Boissonnade; Eileen Power, Lynn White; Life and work in medieval Europe : the evolution of medieval economy from the fifth to the fifteenth century. Henri Pirenne: Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe. Harcourt Brace & Company.
Articles: ^ Peter Sarris, “The Origins of the Manorial Economy: New Insights from Late Antiquity”, The English Historical Review 119 (April 2004:279-311). ^ Horn, “On the Origins of the Medieval Cloister” Gesta 12.1/2 (1973:13-52), quote p. 41. ^ Andrew Jones, “The Rise and Fall of the Manorial System: A Critical Comment” The Journal of Economic History 32.4 (December 1972:938-944) p. 938; a comment on D. North and R. Thomas, “The rise and fall of the manorial system: a theoretical model”, The Journal of Economic History 31 (December 1971:777-803). ^ C.R. Whittaker, “Circe’s pigs: from slavery to serfdom in the later Roman world”, Slavery and Abolition 8 (1987:87-122. ^ Averil Cameron, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-600, 1993:86.
RACE AND RACISM Michael Levin: Why Race Matters:Race Differences and What They Mean J. Philippe Rushton: Race, Evolution and Behavior Gobineau; The Inequality of Human Races
V. LAW
LAW Core: – Milsom’s Natural History of the Common Law. – Plucknett’s A Concise History Of The Common Law. – Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty More: Bastiat: The Law Hayek: Law, Legislation, and Liberty Leoni: Freedom and the Law Benson: Enterprise of Law Randy E. Barnett: The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law Richard Epstein: How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution, Simple Rules for a Complex World.LEGAL CODES The Code Of Hammurabi (UNDONE: list the other early laws here) The Athenian Constitution Roman Law The Anglo Saxon Codes Magna Carta The Articles Of Confederation The US Declaration Of Independence, Constitution, and Original Bill of Rights.
VI. ECONOMICS AND HUMAN COOPERATION
ENTRY LEVEL ECONOMICS Bernard Mandelville: The Fable Of The Bees: Private Vice Public Benefit Leonard Read: “I, Pencil” Hazlitt: Economics In One Lesson Thomas Sowell: Basic Economics ECONOMICS AND POLICY Aristotle: Topics Xenophon: Economics Cantillon: Essai Sur la Nature du Commerce en Général. David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-1740), the Enquiries concerning Human Understanding (1748) and concerning the Principles of Morals (1751) Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834),An Essay on the Principle of Population. David Ricardo (1772–1823), Adam Smith (1723–1790). Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850); William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882). (undone) THE KNOWLEDGE AND CALCULATION PROBLEMS Popper: Sources of Knowledge And Ignorance Popper: The Open Universe Taleb: The Black Swan, Fooled By Randomness Mandelbrot: ?? (undone) (undone: the essays on the socialist calculation debate, the essay on the incentive priority) THE PROBLEM OF ABSTRACTIONS Religions: States: – Nock: Our Enemy, The State – Rothbard: Man, Economy and State Corporations: Abstract Property Types (Options) (UNDONE)
VII. PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY
PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY Montaigne: Essays Hazlitt: Foundations Of Morality Henry: In Defense Of Elitism (undone) RELATED Robert Greene: The 48 Laws Of Power Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends & Influence People (Mass Market Paperback)
VIII. EDUCATION
Inside American Education, Thomas Sowell The Conspiracy of Ignorance, Martin Gross Real Education, Charles Murray The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, Charlotte Iserbyt
IX. THE ARTS
ART Anthony F. Janson: History Of Art Paul Johnson: Art: A New History Ayn Rand: The Romantic Manifesto MYTHOLOGY Anon: Gilgamesh Euripides:Cyclops, Heracles, Alcestis, Hecuba, Bacchae, Orestes, Andromache, Medea, Ion, Hippolytus, Helen, Iphigenia at Aulis Aristophanes : The Birds, The Clouds, The Frogs, Lysistrata, The Knights, The Wasps, The Assemblywomen Aesop’s Fables Homer: The Illiad and the Odyssey Virgil: The Aneid Plutarch: Life of Alexander Julius Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul Anon: Beowulf Mallory: Le Morte De Arthur (England) The Carolingian Cycle (The Matter Of France) The Nibelungenlied (Germany) The Norse Sagas (Norse) Grimm: Grimm’s Fairy Tales Spenser: Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene Scott: Ivanhoe (Scott) Tolkein: The Hobbit, The Lord Of The Rings (English) Heinlein: Starship Troopers (American) Herbert: Dune (American) PLAYS (Undone) NARRATIVE ANALYSIS Bullfinch: Mythology Campbell: The Hero’s Journey, The Hero With A Thousand Faces Frazer: The Golden Bough Nietzsche: The Birth Of Tragedy HISTORY Herodotus Livy Plutarch Tacitus Kagan: The Peleponnesian War (undone)
X. WAR
THE WAR OF STATES Sun Tzu: The Art Of War The History of the Peloponnesian War: Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) Julius Ceasar: Caesar’s Commentaries: On the Gallic War And on the Civil War Julius Ceasar: The Conquest of Gaul Machiavelli: The Prince Machiavelli: The Art Of War Carl Van Clausewitz: On War (2G Second Generation Warfare) Antoine De Jomini: The Art Of War Moltke: The Art Of War Mao Tse-Tung: The Art of War (4G Fourth Generation Warfare) B. H. Liddell Hart: Strategy: Second Revised Edition (Meridian) Michael Handel: Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought Martin van Creveld: Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton (Paperback) Robert Leonhard: The Art of Maneuver: Maneuver Warfare Theory and Airland Battle (3G Third Generation Warfare) John Keegan: The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare IDEOLOGICAL GUERILLA WAR Martin van Creveld: The Rise and Decline of the State, Transformation of War, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st Century ADDITIONAL WORKS OF GENERAL THEORY Michael Handel: Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought Bevin Alexander: How Wars Are Won: The 13 Rules of War from Ancient Greece to the War on Terror Bevin Alexander: How Great Generals Win (Paperback) John Keegan: The Mask of Command Martin van Creveld: Command in War (everything he has written) John Keegan: The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme Donald Kagan: On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace (everything he has written) WORKS ON REBELLION Étienne de La Boétie: The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary ServitudeThe IRA Green BookThe Marxist Mini ManualThe Protocols Of ZionThe Ten Planks Of The Communist Manifesto Michael Jacoby Brown: Building Powerful Community Organizations Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals Rinku Sen: Stir It Up (Lessons in Community Organizing & Advocacy) Randy Shaw: The Activist’s Handbook Joe Szakos and Kristin Layng Szakos: Lessons from the Field: Organizing in Rural Communities ADDITIONAL WORKS OF HISTORY3 Donald W. Engels: Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third John Keegan: A History of Warfare (Everything he has written.) Archer Jones: The Art of War in Western World Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age Donald Kagan: (everything he has written) ANALYTICAL METHODS Two-Person Game Theory Differential Games: A Mathematical Theory with Applications to Warfare and Pursuit, Control and Optimization Numbers, prediction, and war: Using history to evaluate combat factors and predict the outcome of battles Attrition: Forecasting Battle Casualties and Equipment Losses in Modern War
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