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Books like Seeing Like a State
Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott is about legibility, state power, modernism and planning. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Philosophy
Antifragile is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that the opposite of fragile is not robust or resilient — it is antifragile.
Read the summary → - Thinking in Systems
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Donella H. Meadows · Science
Thinking in Systems is Donella Meadows's introduction to the discipline of systems thinking — a way of understanding why complex things behave the way they do.
Read the summary → - The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction
Ivan Ilyich Golovin is a respectable judge who has lived a decent, conventional, socially approved life — not bad, not good, simply correct.
Read the summary → - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · Economics
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that the fundamental difference between rich and poor countries is not geography, culture, or bad luck.
Read the summary → - The Origins of Totalitarianism
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The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt · History
Hannah Arendt published The Origins of Totalitarianism in 1951, just six years after the end of World War II.
Read the summary → - Hate, Inc.
