Favorite Books
Academic books that had the greatest impact on me (in approximate descending order)
Administrative Behavior by Herbert Simon
Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy by Avner Greif
Bureaucracy by James Q. Wilson
The Ownership of Enterprise by Henry Hansmann
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap by Yuen Yuen Ang
Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in Comparitive Perspective by Steven Levitsky
A Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Richard Cyert and James March
Why Parties? by John Aldrich
Repeated Games and Reputations: Long-Run Relationships by George Mailath and Larry Samuelson
A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Coalition Formation by Debraj Ray
Economic Theory of Teams by Jacob Marschak and Roy Radner
Violence and Social Orders by Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast
The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern the American Penal System by David Skarbek
A Course in Game Theory by Martin Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein
Exit, Voice, and Loyalty by Albert Hirschman
Political Organizations by James Q. Wilson
The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas Schelling
The Co-operative Game Theory of the Firm by Masahiko Aoki
Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas Schelling
Population Games and Evolutionary Behavior by Bill Sandholm
The Economic Institutions of Capitalism by Oliver Williamson
Understanding Institutional Diversity by Elinor Ostrom
Notes on the Theory of Choice by David Kreps
The Logic of Governance in China by Xueguang Zhou
Principles of Mathematical Analysis by Walter Rudin
Topology by James Munkres
The Party and the People by Bruce Dickson
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor
Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party by Xiaobo Lü
The Impact of Incomplete Contracts on Economics by Philippe Aghion, Mathias Dewatripont, Patrick Legros, and Luigi Zingales
The Limits of Organizations by Ken Arrow
Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance by Douglass North
Positive Political Theory I by David Austen-Smith and Jeffrey Banks
Positive Political Theory II by David Austen-Smith and Jeffrey Banks
Cadre Country by John Fitzgerald
The Conversational Firm by Catherine Turco
The Firm as a Nexus of Treaties by Masahiko Aoki, Bo Gustafsson, and Oliver Williamson
Challenges of Party Building in Latin America by Steven Levitsky, James Loxton, Brandon Van Dyck, and Jorge DomÃnguez
Sadam Hussein's Ba'th Party by Joseph Sassoon
The Theory of Learning in Games by Drew Fudenberg and David K. Levine
From Protest to Parties by Adrienne LeBas
Organizations by Herbert Simon and James March
Bargaining and Markets by Martin Osborne and Ariel Rubinstein
The Lobster Gangs of Maine by James M. Acheson