Debt: The First 5000 Years

The Making of the Atomic Bomb is in my top three non-fiction books I have ever read. Will I like The Dawn of Everything if I didn't like Harari's Sapiens? (I loved Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years)

All the books below have shaped my thought process to a significant degree. I started reading late but I'm fortunate enough to have stumbled upon these gems. "Debt: The First 5000 Years": This is truly a magnum opus. Until I read this I had taken money, economy, market etc., for granted. And I had held onto the widely accepted, but naive, view that economic systems somehow grew out of barter systems. The range of topics discussed, and the way author shows how seemingly independent concepts are intertwined, is truly astonishing. I'm on my 2nd read. "Thinking, Fast and Slow": This book made me truly appreciate the value of psychology. I didn't even know the existence of a vast domain called behavioral science until I read this book. Now I'm deliberately conscious about the decisions I take and retrace my thought process multiple times just to make sure that I haven't fallen pray to some of the cognitive biases.…

Debt: The First 5000 Years [1] Anthropological analysis of finance. With Each & Every Breath [2] Highly practical primer on meditation and how it works, from a Thai Forest tradition perspective. [1] https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf [2] http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/EachAndEveryBrea... (http://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/EachAndEveryBreath_v130123.pdf)