"I'm wondering which other books have you read that have had the most impact on you professionally or even personally?" Professionally: Peter F. Drucker's books. Personally: "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, "A Treatise of Human Nature" by David Hume, "The Law" by Frédéric Bastiat, "Autobiography" by Benjamin Franklin, "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, "Gespräche mit Goethe" by Johann Peter Eckermann, "The Old Regime and the Revolution" Alexis de Tocqueville, "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill, "The Man Versus the State" by Herbert Spencer, "The Revolt of the Masses" by José Ortega y Gasset, "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" by Karl Popper, "On Power" Bertrand de Jouvenel, "1984" by George Orwell, "The State" by Anthony de Jasay, "Sketched With the Quill" by Andrzej Bobkowski, "Metaphysical Horror" by Leszek Kolakowski, "Rationality in Economics" by Vernon L. Smith, "The Machinery of Freedom" by David Friedman.
Also recommended in this reply
- Meditations
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- The Law
- On Liberty
- The Revolt of the Masses
- A Treatise of Human Nature
- Common Sense
- On Power
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery
- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- The Machinery of Freedom
- The Man Versus the State
- The Old Regime and the Revolution
- The State
- Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten Jahren seines Lebens