Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life

In no particular order, and some of these being more "highly underrated" as opposed to "unknown", with the notable exception of Smith's Wealth of Nations which is disturbingly un- and mis-read: 1. Grammatical Man, by Jeremy Campbell (1982) https://www.worldcat.org/title/grammatical-man-information-e... (https://www.worldcat.org/title/grammatical-man-information-entropy-language-and-life/oclc/856698430) My introduction to information theory and its diverse set of interrelated applications and phenomena. 2. Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, by William Ophuls (1977) https://www.worldcat.org/title/ecology-and-the-politics-of-s... (https://www.worldcat.org/title/ecology-and-the-politics-of-scarcity-revisited-the-unraveling-of-the-american-dream/oclc/872523631) Distills the Limits to Growth issue to its essence, and looks at the political implications, with a set of estimates of political developments which have played out closely. 3. An Inquiry to the Nature and Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith (1776) https://www.worldcat.org/title/inquiry-into-the-nature-and-c... (https://www.worldcat.org/title/inquiry-into-the-nature-and-causes-of-the-wealth-of-nations/oclc/1083940513)…

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.…