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(Última actualización: 18/04/2014)

- THE GEEK MANIFESTO - Why science matters, Mark Henderson, Bantam Press, 2012.

- THE EPIGENETICS REVOLUTION, Nessa Carey, Icon Books, 2012.

- WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM,Steven Johnson, Allen Lane, 2010.

- RAINY BRAIN, SUNNY BRAIN - The new science of optimism and pessimism, Elaine Fox, Arrow Books, 2013

- ZERO DEGREES OF EMPATHY, A human theory of human cruelty and kindness, Simon Baron-Cohen (primo de Sacha), Penguin Books, 2012.

- THIS WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER, edited by John Brockman, Harper Perennial, 2012.

- THE MORAL LANDSCAPE, How Science Can Determine Human Values. Sam Harris, Free Press, 2010.

- THE BIG QUESTIONS, Tackling the problems of philosophy with ideas from mathematics, economics and physics. Steven Landsburg, Pocket Books, 2009.

- THE SIGNAL AND THE NOISE, The art and science of prediction, Nate Silver, Penguin Books, 2013.

- THE GERMAN GENIUS, Peter Watson, Simon and Schuster, 2010.

- CURIOSIDAD, Por qué todo nos interesa, Philip Ball, Turner Noema, 2013 (Excelente traducción de Victor V. Úbeda).

- FORECAST, What physics, meteorology and the natural Sciences can teach us about economics, Mark Buchanen, Bloomsbury, 2013.

- CÓDIGO ROJO, Jonathan Tepper & John Mauldin, Deusto, 2014.

- EL ECONOMISTA CAMUFLADO ATACA DE NUEVO, Tim Harford, Conecta, 2014.

- MAPPING THE MIND, Rita Carter, Phoenix, 2010. (Excelente y detallada descripción del funcionamiento del cerebro, con muy buenas ilustraciones)

- THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING, ideas that will shape the future. Edited by John Brockman, Harper perennial, 2010.

- THE TEMPERAMENTAL THREAD, How genes, culture, time and luck make us who we are, Jerome Kagan, dana Press, new York, 2010.

- THE AGE OF ABSURDITY, Why modern life makes it hard to be happy, Michael Foley. Simon & Schuster, 2010.

- SPENT! Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior, Geoffrey Miller, Viking, 2009.

- CRITICAL MASS, Philip Ball, Arrow Books, 2004. (Premio Aventis).

- THAT'S DISGUSTING. Unraveling the Mysteries of Repulsion, Rachel Herz, Norton, 2012.

- THE WISDOM OF CROWDS, James Surowiecki, Abacus, 2004.

- SUPERCRUNCHERS, How anything can be predicted, Ian Ayres. John Murray, 2007.

- THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING, Deep, beautiful and elegant theories of how the world works, Edited by John Brockman, 2013.

- THE TIPPING POINT, Malcolm Gladwell, Abacus, 2003.

- FREAKONOMICS. A rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything, Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. William Morrow. 2005.

- THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST, Tim Harford, Little Brown, 2006

- MICROTRENDS, The small forces behind today’s big changes, Mark J. Penn; Penguin, Allen Lane, 2007.

- THE MATHEMATICS OF BEHAVIOR, Earl Hunt, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

- MORE SEX IS SAFER SEX, The unconventional wisdom of economics, Steven E. Landsburg, Pocket Books, 2009

- 59 SECONDS, Think a little, change a lot, Richard Wiseman, PAN, 2009.

- THE SHALLOWS. How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember. Nicholas Carr, Atlantic Books, London, 2010.

- THINKING, Edited by John Brockman, Harper Perennial, 2013.

- LA NATURALEZA HUMANA, Jesús Mosterín, Gran Austral, 2006.

- THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE, Matt Ridley, Penguin Books, 1997.

- RACE, the reality of human differences, V. sarich & F. Miele, Westview Press, 2005.

- THE 10.000 YEAR EXPLOSION, How civilization accelerated human evolution. Gregory Cochran & Henry Harpending, Basic Books, 2009.

- THE ORIGIN OF WEALTH, Eric D. Beinhocker, Random House, 2006.

- LA INSENSATEZ DE LOS NECIOS, Robert Trivers, Clave intelectual, 2013. (Una muy mala traducción, búsquese el inglés original).

- MISMEASURING OUR LIVES. Why GDP doesn't add up. JE Stiglitz, Amartya Sen & Jean-Paul Fitoussi. Prefacio de Nicolas Sarkozy. The New Press, 2010.

- WHAT MONEY CAN'T BUY. The moral limits of markets, Michael J. Sandel, FSG, 2012.

- THE AGE OF WONDER, Richard Holmes, Harper Press, 2009. (Traducido al español con 4 años de retraso).

- TIME: A USER’S GUIDE, Stefan Klein, Penguin Books, 2009.

- CHEAP – The real cost of living in a low price, low wage world, David Bosshart, Kogan Page, 2007.

- GENES AND BEHAVIOR, Michael Rutter, Blackwell Publishing, 2006.

- INCOGNITO, David Eagleman, Canongate, 2011.

- THE MATING MIND, Geoffrey Miller, Vintage, 2001.

- THE BLANK SLATE, Steven Pinker, Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 2002.

- EVERYTHING BAD IS GOOD FOR YOU, Steven Johnson, Penguin Books, 2005

- QUIRKOLOGY, The curious science of everyday lives, Richard Wiseman, 2007.

- BUYOLOGY, Truth and lies about why we buy, Martin Lindstrom, Doubleday, 2008.

- THE INGENUITY GAP, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Vintage, 2001.

- THE MORAL ANIMAL, Robert Wright, Pantheon Books, 1994.

- IRRATIONALITY, Stuart Sutherland, Penguin, 1992.

- SIX DEGREES, Duncan J. Watts, Vintage, 2004.

- HAPPINESS & ECONOMICS, Bruno S. Frey y Alois Stutzer, Princeton University Press, 2002.

- THE ECONOMICS OF ENOUGH, How to run the economy as if the future matters, Diane Coyle, 2011, Princeton University Press

- SITUATIONS MATTER, Sam Sommers, Riverhead Books, 2011.

- THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS – A natural history of economic life, Revised edition, Paul Seabright, Princeton University Press, 2010.

- AT HOME IN THE UNIVERSE, The search for laws of complexity, Stuart Kauffman, Penguin Books, 1995.

- NEXUS, Mark Buchanan, Norton & Company, 2002.

- THE GEOGRAPHY OF THOUGHT, Richard E. Nisbett, Free Press, 2003.

- FOOLED BY RANDOMNESS. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Thomson Texere, 2004.

- THE LONG TAIL, Chris Anderson, RH Business Books, 2006.

- LIVING WITH OUR GENES, Dean Hammer & Peter Copeland, Pan Books, 2000.

- THE PARADOX OF CHOICE, Why more is less, Barry Schwartz, HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.

- UNA IZQUIERDA DARWINIANA. Política, evolución y cooperación. Peter Singer, Crítica, 1999.

- LUXURY FEVER. Why money fails to satisfy in an era of excess. Robert H. Frank, The Free Press, 1999.

- ARMS, GERMS AND STEEL, Jared Diamond, Vintage, 1998. (Traducido al español.)

- BUTTERFLY ECONOMICS, Paul Ormerod, Faber and Faber, 1998.

- WHY MOST THINGS FAIL, Evolution, Extinction & Economics, Paul Ormerod, Pantheon Books – New York, 2005.

- ANIMAL SPIRITS, How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism, George A. Akerlof & Robert J. Schiller, Princeton, 2009.

- HERE ON EARTH, A Twin Biography of the Planet and the Human Race. Tim Flannery, Penguin Books, 2012.

- THE ECONOMICS OF LIFE, Gary S. Becker, McGraw Hill, 1996.

- CONSILIENCE, Edward O. Wilson, Knopf, 1998.

- ZOMBIE ECONOMICS. How dead ideas still walk among us, John Quigging, Princeton University Press, 2010.

- BLINK, Malcolm Gladwell, Back Bay Books, 2005. (Véase más abajo THINK)

- GENES, PEOPLES and LANGUAGES, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, North Point Press, 2000

- YOU ARE NOT A GADGET, A manifesto, Jaron Lanier, Knopf, 2010

- FREEDOM EVOLVES, Daniel C. Dennett, Penguin Books, 2003.

- CLONES, GENES, AND IMMORTALITY, John Harris, Oxford University Press, 1998.

- STUMBLING ON HAPPINESS, Daniel Gilbert, Harper Press, 2006. (Cómo nos autoengañamos)

- SNOOP, What your stuff says about you, Sam Gosling, Profile Books, 2008.

- THE (MIS)BEHAVIOUR OF MARKETS, Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Profile Books, 2005.

- SURVIVAL OF THE PRETTIEST, Nancy Etcoff, Abacus, 1999.

- AGAINST BIOETHICS, Jonathan Baron, The MIT Press, 2006. (Bioética utilitarista).

- THE BIRTH OF THE MIND, Gary Marcus, Basic Books, 2004

- POLITICAL NUMERACY, Michel Meyerson, Norton & Company, 2002.

- A PERFECT MESS, Eric Abrahamson and David H. Freedman, Little, Brown and Company, NY, 2006.

- SIMPLY COMPLEXITY, Neil Johnson, oneworld, 2007.

- MADE TO STICK, Chip and Dan Heath, RH Books, 2007.

- LE PREMIER SEXE, Éric Zemmour, Editions Denoël, 2006.

- REFLETS DANS UN OEIL D'HOMME, Nancy Huston, Actes Sud, 2012. (Complemento del anterior.)

- HAPPINESS, Lessons fron a new science, Richard Layard, Penguin Books, 2006

- THINK, Why crucial decisions can’t be made in the blink of an eye, Michael R. LeGault Threshold editions, 2006. (Réplica a las tesis de BLINK)

- SEX, SLEEP, EAT, DRINK, DREAM, Jennifer Ackerman; Houghton Mifflin, 2007.

- QUIET, The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, Susan Cain, Penguin Viking, 2012. (Léase como complemento de The Temperamental Thread, citado más arriba.)

- MIND, LIFE AND UNIVERSE, Conversations with great scientists of our time. Edited by Lynn Margulis and Eduardo Punset, Chelsea Green, 2007.

- WHAT IS INTELLIGENCE?, James R. Flynn, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

- WHY NOT, How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small, Barry Nalebuff & Ian Ayres, harvard Bussiness School Press, 2003.

- LA ORGANIZACIÓN ESPONTÁNEA DE LA ECONOMÍA, Paul Krugman, Antoni Bosh editor, 1997

- WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT, Edited by John Brockman. (Several authors - Third Culture). Simon & Schuster, 2007.

- ENOUGH, Breaking from the world of more, John Naish. Hodder & Stoughton, 2008.

- PULSE, How nature is inspiring the technology of the 21st century, Robert Frenay; Little Brown, 2006. El capítulo 11, “The real conservatives” es una lectura imprescindible como introducción a la econofísica en estos tiempos turbulentos de restricción del crédito.

- THE FINGER BOOK, John Manning, Faber and Faber, 2008.

- THE DIFFERENCE – How the power of diversity creates better groups, firms, schools, and societies (Matemáticas para entender la “sabiduría de las multitudes”). Scott E. Page, Princenton University Press, 2007.

- LA APUESTA POR EL DECRECIMIENTO, Serge Latouche. Icaria/Antrazyt, 2008. (Aviso: texto bastante panfletario, pero da ideas)

- ECONOMÍA CANALLA, Loretta Napoleoni. Paidós, 2008 (panfletario también, pero contiene información que puede ser útil. El capítulo 2 permite entender algo mejor la crisis financiera del momento).

- THE ECONOMIC NATURALIST, Why economics explains almost everything, Robert H. Frank. Virgin Books, 2008.

- THE RETURN OF THE ECONOMIC NATURALIST, Robert H. Frank. Virgin Books, 2009.

- GUT FEELINGS, Short cuts to better decision making. Gerd Gigerenzer. Penguin Books, 2008.

- NUDGE. Improving decisions about health, wealth and happiness. Thaler & Sunstein, Penguin Books, 2008. (Libro que ha aconsejado Obama, y que Zapatero no entendería si lo leyera, de modo que seguiría gobernando con el culo) .

- THE ART INSTINCT, Beauty, pleasure and human evolution, Denis Dutton, Bloomsbury Press, 2009.

- PHILOSOPHY BITES, David Edmonds & Nigel Warburton, Oxford, 2010.

- FREE MARKET MADNESS, Peter A. Ubel, Harvard Business Press, 2009. (Libro que se podía haber resumido, la verdad, en 50 páginas).

- IN PURSUIT OF ELEGANCE, Matthew E. May, Broadway Books, 2009.

- LA CIENCIA DE LA BELLEZA, Ulrich Renz. Destino, Imago Mundi, 2006.

- SEE WHAT I'M SAYING, The extraordinary powers of our five senses, Lawrence D. Roseblum, Norton, 2011.

- DRIVE, The surprising truth about what motivates us. Daniel H. Pink, Canongate, 2009.

- WHAT'S MINE IS YOURS, How collaborative consumption is changing the way we live, Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers, Revised and updated edition, Collins, 2011.

- LOS ULTRAS DE LAS LUCES, Michael Onfray, Anagrama, 2010

CONTRA ESPAÑA Y SUS NACIONALISMOS:

- LA DICTADURA DE LA INCOMPETENCIA, Xavier Roig, Gestion 2000, 2008.

- EL DESPILFARRO – La sangría de la España autonómica, Espasa, 2011.

- ARQUITECTURA MILAGROSA, Llatzer Moix, Anagrama, 2010.

- EL MANICOMIO CATALÁN, Ramón de España, 2013.

- VOTARÉ NO A LA SECESIÓN DE CATALUÑA, Juan Carlos Girauta, B, 2013.

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