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Books like Rational Ritual
The best books like Rational Ritual are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, and Predictably Irrational. Rational Ritual by Michael Chwe is about common knowledge, coordination, ritual and ceremony. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · Economics
Nudge is Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's argument that the way choices are presented — the default option, the order of items, the framing of a question — powerfully shapes what people decide, often more than their own stated preferences.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Predictably Irrational
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Dan Ariely · Psychology
Predictably Irrational is Dan Ariely's examination of how humans make decisions that are consistently, systematically irrational — not random or arbitrary, but irrational in ways that follow patterns.
A kindred economics read.
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- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology
Influence is Robert Cialdini's account of why people say yes, and how that agreement is manufactured.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior
Leonard Mlodinow · Psychology
Leonard Mlodinow is a theoretical physicist who writes accessible science for general audiences.
Both dig into social behavior.
Read the summary → - The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
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The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation
Matt Ridley · Science
The Origins of Virtue begins from a puzzle: humans cooperate extensively with non-relatives, a behavior that seems to contradict the logic of natural selection, which predicts that organisms should act in the interests of their genes and close kin.
Both dig into game theory.
Read the summary → - 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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Thomas Phelps · Economics
100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel · Economics
A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Burton Malkiel's argument that stock prices move in a way that is effectively unpredictable, that professional fund managers cannot consistently beat the market, and that the rational response for most investors is to buy and hold a diversified index fund.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - A Short History of Financial Euphoria
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A Short History of Financial Euphoria
John Kenneth Galbraith · Economics
A Short History of Financial Euphoria is John Kenneth Galbraith's compressed account of speculative bubbles from the tulip mania of 1630s Holland through the 1987 US stock market crash.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - A Wealth of Common Sense
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Ben Carlson · Economics
A Wealth of Common Sense is Ben Carlson's argument that individual investors outperform most professionals not by being smarter but by doing fewer things and making fewer mistakes.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - All About Asset Allocation
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Richard A. Ferri · Economics
All About Asset Allocation is Richard Ferri's systematic guide to building and maintaining a diversified investment portfolio.
A kindred economics read.
Read the summary → - Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
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Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell · Economics
Thomas Sowell published the first edition of Basic Economics in 2000 and has since revised and expanded it through five editions.
A kindred economics read.
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Books like Rational Ritual: quick answers
What are the best books like Rational Ritual?
The best books like Rational Ritual by Michael Chwe are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Rational Ritual, such as common knowledge, coordination, ritual and ceremony.
What should I read after Rational Ritual?
A natural next read after Rational Ritual is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. A kindred economics read. Other strong choices are Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini.
What books are similar to Rational Ritual by Michael Chwe?
Rational Ritual centers on common knowledge, coordination, ritual and ceremony. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini, Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior by Leonard Mlodinow, The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation by Matt Ridley — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
