Ranked: To Cooperate Or To Defect?

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: To Cooperate Or To Defect?


The Basic Premise

  1. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
  2. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations by Amy Chua
  3. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals that Direct Our Lives by Michele Gelfand
  4. The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It: On Social Position and How We Use it by Will Storr
  5. Race And Culture: A World View by Thomas Sowell
  6. The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
  7. The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
  8. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom
  9. Individualism and Economic Order by Friedrich A. Hayek
  10. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
  11. [Upcoming] Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
  12. The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve by Steve Stewart-Williams
  13. Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua D. Greene
  14. The Lessons of History by Will Durant, Ariel Durant
  15. Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the U.S. House of Representatives by Juliet Eilperin
  16. Inquisition by Edward Peters
  17. The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
  18. World Cultures: Analyzing Pre-Industrial Societies In Africa, Asia, Europe, And the Americas by James T. Shea
  19. The Republic Of Plato by Plato, and Allan Bloom


The How

  1. Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas
  2. The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present by David Runciman
  3. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter by Joseph Henrich
  4. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
  5. How America Works... and Why it Doesn't by William Cooper
  6. The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Robin Hanson
  7. The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth by Jonathan Rauch
  8. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  9. Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
  10. A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine
  11. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neill 
  12. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
  13. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  14. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics by Joseph S. Nye
  15. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
  16. An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
  17. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives by Siddharth Kara
  18. Forgotten Capitals and the Historical Lessons They Teach by Derek Dwight Anderson
  19. Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age by A. C. Grayling
  20. Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  21. Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  22. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller
  23. SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
  24. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  25. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
  26. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
  27. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
  28. Hot Buttons: How to Resolve Conflict and Cool Everyone Down by Sybil Evans, Sherry Suib Cohen
  29. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
  30. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist
  31. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
  32. The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben
  33. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  34. The Heroine With 1,001 Faces by Maria Tatar
  35. Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World by Nicholas Ostler
  36. On Obligations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  37. The Politics by Aristotle
  38. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  39. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  40. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  41. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  42. The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes

Cooperation

  1. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
  2. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer
  3. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
  4. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  5. Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert Cialdini
  6. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge by Matt Ridley
  7. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
  8. The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
  9. The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by Peter Zeihan
  10. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff
  11. Saint Joan of Arc by Vita Sackville-West
  12. Development and Connection in the Time of COVID-19: Corona’s Call for Conscious Choices by Cornelia C. Walther
  13. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  14. The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
  15. The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin
  16. Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley

Cooperation / Fiction

Defection
  1. In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life and Business by Charlan Jeanne Nemeth
  2. The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America by Verlan Lewis, Hyrum Lewis
  3. Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
  4. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum
  5. A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell
  6. My Two Chinas: The Memoir of a Chinese Counterrevolutionary by Baiqiao Tang
  7. Hybrid Warfare: The Russian Approach to Strategic Competition & Conventional Military Conflict by Curtis L. Fox
  8. Science Fictions: The Epidemic of Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype in Science by Stuart Ritchie
  9. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
  10. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein
  11. Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
  12. The End of Gender: Debunking the Myths about Sex and Identity in Our Society by Debra Soh
  13. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
  14. Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
  15. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
  16. Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited: Anti-Globalization in the Era of Trump by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  17. Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns
  18. The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
  19. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  20. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient by Edward W. Said
  21. Man Against Himself by Karl Menninger
  22. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine
  23. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution by China Miéville
  24. Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman

Defection / Fiction


A Choice
  1. The Divided State: Factional Structures and the Crisis of Democracy by Joonhong Park
  2. The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World by Stewart Patrick
  3. The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource by Christopher L. Hayes
  4. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
  5. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World by Tim Marshall
  6. The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank
  7. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
  8. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer, Sebastian Rosato
  9. Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness by Steve Magness
  10. Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
  11. The Second Stage by Betty Friedan
  12. Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
  13. Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
  14. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  15. The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World by Marie Favereau
  16. Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
  17. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle by Isabel Kershner
  18. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
  19. Korea: A History by Eugene Y. Park
  20. Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky
  21. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland by Shlomo Sand
  22. Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women's Rights by Helen Joyce
  23. Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming by Gary Gorton
  24. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston
  25. Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries by Marc Fasteau, and Ian Fletcher
  26. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
  27. The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United States by Ross Terrill
  28. 1789: The Threshold of the Modern Age by David Andress
  29. A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin
  30. From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents by David Gress
  31. Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy by Joseph E. Stiglitz
  32. Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization by Paul Kriwaczek
  33. Japan Unbound: A Volatile Nation's Quest for Pride and Purpose by John Nathan
  34. Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao by Lao Tzu
  35. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
  36. Empire by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
  37. Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley

A Choice / Fiction

Fiction 
  1. The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  2. Circe by Madeline Miller
  3. The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel by Irvin Yalom
  4. A Quiet Life by William Cooper, Michael McKinley
  5. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (The Book of Laughter and Forgetting)
  6. The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  7. Berlin by Jason Lutes
  8. The Guest by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  9. Death's End by Cixin Liu (The Three-Body Problem Series)
  10. Candide by Voltaire
  11. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
  12. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
  13. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
  14. A Voracious Grief by Lindsey Lamh
  15. Jonas, or The Artist at Work by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  16. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  17. Elektra by Jennifer Saint
  18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  19. The Voiceless by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
  20. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
  21. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  22. The Renegade, or A Confused Mind by Albert Camus (Exile and the Kingdom)
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