Core reading recommendations

• Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science by Charles Wheelan
• Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
• The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't by Nate Silver
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
• The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Work, Love and Act the Way You Do by John Oldham and Lois Morris
• The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker.
• The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
• The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer
• Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction by Timothy Gowers
• Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif
• Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat