CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST Every once in a while I put out a short list of m

CURRENT RECOMMENDED BOOKS LIST

Every once in a while I put out a short list of my favorite books to recommend. I try to keep it short (The list on my web site is well over a thousand books now.)

THIS LIST

Morality = Family Model = Property Rights = Wealth = Fragile.

INFORMAL INSTITUTIONS

Alan Macfarlane: The Origins of English Individualism

Emmanuell Todd: L’invention de l’Europe: (family and ideology)

James C. Russell: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity

Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization

MORALITY

Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind (evolutionary morality)

Matt Ridley: The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origin of Human Violence (co-authored by Richard Wrangham

FORMAL INSTITUTIONS

Fukuyama: The Origins Of Political Order

Acemoglu: Why Nations Fail

Colin Renfrew: The Collapse of Complex Societies

Hans Hoppe: (post-bureaucracy for homogenous groups)

POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES

Political Ideologies: An Introduction (introduction to ideology)

Stephen Hicks: Explaining Postmodernism

Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals and Society