Reading

I enjoy collecting physical books, but lament that doing so is rather difficult when (i) living out of a suitcase, and (ii) much of my reading is short form and online. Alas, in the absence of a physical library, I'll settle for a digital one. 

Below is an (unranked) list of books, academic papers, essays, and miscellanea that I've found particularly interesting.

Always looking for recommendations; drop me a line.

Books

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

• Exit, Voice, and Loyalty.

• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World.

• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern.

• A History of Economic Thought: The LSE Lectures.

• An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions.

• The Education of An Idealist: A Memoir.

• Paper: Paging Through History.

• From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000.

• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and Markets.

• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World.

• Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization.

• Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues.

• The Good Earth.

• Empire of Cotton: A Global History.

• Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival.

• Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World.

• The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?

• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World.

• Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crisis.

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.

• A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen.

• Atonement.

• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.

• Research Through Imperial Eyes.

• The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East.

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World — and Why Things are Better Than You Think.

• The Poverty of Historicism.

• Things Fall Apart.

• "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide.

• Development as Freedom.

• The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagnation, and Social Rigidities.

• Orientalism.

• The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World.

• Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of Our Time.

• The White Tiger.

• The Light That Failed: Why the West is Losing the Fight for Democracy.

• The Merchant of Venice.

• The God of Small Things.

• China Road: A Journey into the Future of a Rising Power.

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China.

• No Exit and Other Plays.

• A Tale of Two Cities.

• The Great Transformation.

• The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia.

• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation.

• Angels in America.

• Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives.

• Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor.

• Dream of Ding Village.

• Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance.

• The Kite Runner.

• Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before.

• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World.

• Pachinko.

• Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe.

• The Map Thief: The Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare Map Dealer Who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps.

• The Wealth of Nations (Book I): Of the Causes of Improvement in the Productive Powers of Labour.

• Americanah.

• Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853.

• Economics: Making Sense of the Modern Economy.

• 1968: The Year that Rocked the World.

• On China.

• Tortilla Flat.

• Development Microeconomics.

Short Form

• Description as Choice.

• Slouching Towards Bethlehem.

• Economics of Development and the Development of Economics.

• Instruments, Randomization, and Learning About Development.

• On Exactitude in Science.

• Development's Paradox: Is Washington DC a Third World City?

• Indian Traditions and the Western Imagination.

• The Housing Theory of Everything.

• Achieving Universal Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: Addressing Market Failures or Providing a Social Floor?

• Economic Development: A Semantic History.

• Delivering World Class Healthcare, Affordably.

• The Generalizability Puzzle.

• Should We Pay More Attention to South-North Learning?

• Walrasian Economics in Retrospect.

• Harry Truman's Four Points.

• Why We Didn't Get a Malaria Vaccine Sooner.

• Development: Which Way Now?

• Toward a Counter-Counter Revolution in Development Theory.

• Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist.

• An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science.

• The Economics of Life and Death.

• I, Pencil: My Family Tree.

• Reciprocity and the State.

• The New Development Economics: We Shall Experiment But How Shall We Learn?

• Experimentation at Scale.

Academic Papers

• The Quantity and Quality of Life and the Evolution of World Inequality

• Is American Pet Health Care (Also) Uniquely Inefficient?

• The Evolution of Reciprocal Altruism

• On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough

• International Trade and Institutional Change: Medieval Venice's Response to Globalization

• The Theory of Interstellar Trade

• Corruption, Norms, and Legal Enforcement: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets

• Do Poverty Traps Exist? Assessing the Evidence

• The Political Economy of the Rent-Seeking Society

• Transfers in Cash and In-Kind: Theory Meets the Data

• Inappropriate Technology: Evidence from Global Agriculture

• The Effect of the Tsetse Fly on Economic Development

• In Kind Transfers as Insurance

• Why Do People Stay Poor?

• Advance Market Commitments: Insights from Theory and Experience

• Can Good Products Drive Out Bad? A Randomized Intervention in the Antimalarial Medicine Market in Uganda

• For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality

• Understanding the Average Impact of Microcredit Expansions: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis of Seven Randomized Experiments

• General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

• The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence from the Decline of Vultures in India

• The Fish is the Friend of Matriliny: Reef Density and Matrilineal Inheritance