Books (mostly)
Interesting Books, Articles and Online Web Content
A Few Favorite Reference Books for Economics
“Competition Policy” by Massimo Motta
“The Theory of Incentives” by Jean-Jacques Laffont and David Martimort
“A Primer in Game Theory” by Robert Gibbons
“Microeconomic Theory” by Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston and Jerry R. Green
“A Guide to Econometrics” by Peter Kennedy
“Econometric Analysis of Panel Data” by Badi H. Baltagi
“Innovation and Incentives” by Suzanne Scotchmer
“Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization” by Ran Spiegler
“Nudge” by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
Tips and Advice for Economists
Thomson, W. (1999): “The young person’s guide to writing economic theory”, Journal of Economic Literature, 37(1), pp.157-183
Choi, K. (2002): “How to publish in top journals”, http://www.roie.org/how.htm
Hamermesh, D.S. (1992): “The young economist’s guide to professional etiquette”, Journal of Economic Perspective, 6(1), pp. 169-179
Varian, H.R. (1997): “How to build an economic model in your spare time”, http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/how.pdf
Politics / Philosophy / Ethics / History
“A Theory of Justice” by John Rawls
“Between Past and Future” by Hannah Arendt
“The Constitution of Liberty” by Friedrich Hayek
“The Theory of Communicative Action” by Jürgen Habermas
“The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000″ by Paul M. Kennedy
Feminism
“The Second Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir
“Women who run with Wolves” by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood
Thailand
“Very Thai” by Philip Cornwel-Smith
“Bangkok Eight” by John Burdett
“Thailand, a Short History” by D.K. Wyatt
“Thailand: True Stories of Life on the Road”, Travelers’ Tales Guide, edited by James O’Reilly and Larry Habegger
Yoga, Buddhism and Meditation
“Light on Yoga” by BKS Iyengar
“Focusing” by Eugene T. Gendlin
“Buddhist Scriptures”, Penguin Classics, edited by Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
“Awakening the Buddha Within” by Lama Surya Das
“The Foundations of Mindfulness” (Satipatthana Sutta)
“The Wheel of Sharp Weapons” (A Mahayana Training of the Mind)
Other
“Postmodern American Poetry” edited by Paul Hoover
“The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales” by Bruno Bettelheim
Novels
“How The Dead Live” by Will Self
“The Silent Cry” by Kenzaburo Oe
“The Satanic Verses” by Salman Rushdie
“The Heart is Deceitful Above all Things” by JT Leroy
“The Famished Road” by Ben Okri
“Soul Mountain” by Gao Xingjian
“The War of the End of the World” by Mario Vargas Llosa
“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides
“The Infinite Plan” by Isabel Allende
“Cancer Ward” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“Autofiction” by Hitomi Kanehara
“Piercing” by Ryu Murakami
“Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer
“The Master and Margarita” by Mikhail Bulgakov
“La Nuit des Temps” (The Ice People) by René Barjavel
“The Skull Mantra” by Eliot Pattison
Favorite Books as a Child
“Jonathan Livingston Seagull” by Richard Bach
“White Fang” by Jack London
“Tistou Les Pouces Verts” by Maurice Druon
“Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Movies
“Into the Wild” directed by Sean Penn
“Let the Right One In” directed by Tomas Alfredson
“Central Station” (Central do Brasil) directed by Walter Salles
“The Squid and the Whale” directed by Noah Baumbach
“My Life as a Dog” directed by Lasse Hallström
“The Fisher King” directed by Terry Gilliam
“Rain Man” directed by Barry Levinson
“Platoon” directed by Oliver Stone
“L.A. Crash” directed by Paul Haggis
“Ong-Bak” directed by Prachya Pinkaew
“I am a Cyborg, but that’s OK” directed by Chan-wook Park
“Salaam Bombay!” directed by Mira Nair
“Avatar” directed by James Cameron
Chess
“How Not to Play Chess” by Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
“Improve Your Opening Play” by Chris Ward
