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Books like The Network State

The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan is about startup cities, political innovation, decentralization. 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.

  1. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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    Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · Business

    Zero to One began as notes from a Stanford course Thiel taught on startups in 2012, assembled into a book with co-author Blake Masters.

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  2. The Sovereign Individual
    The Sovereign Individual

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    The Sovereign Individual

    James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg · Economics

    The Sovereign Individual, published in 1997, is a sweeping argument that the rise of digital technology and cryptographic money will break the monopoly nation-states have held over taxation, violence, and the terms of economic life.

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  3. Political Order and Political Decay
    Political Order and Political Decay

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    Political Order and Political Decay

    Francis Fukuyama · History

    Political Order and Political Decay is the second volume of Francis Fukuyama's ambitious two-volume study of political development.

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  4. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
    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.

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  5. The Road to Serfdom
    The Road to Serfdom

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    The Road to Serfdom

    F. A. Hayek · Politics

    The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, is Friedrich Hayek's argument that central economic planning is incompatible with political freedom and will, regardless of intent, produce a form of totalitarianism.

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  6. Hate, Inc.
    Hate, Inc.

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    Hate, Inc.

    Matt Taibbi · Politics

    Hate, Inc.

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