Decision Making

The Intelligent Investor 《聪明的投资者》 Benjamin Graham Graham separates investing from speculating, sets out defensive and enterprising frameworks built on intrinsic value, margin of safety, and… Investment Classic Index 97

History of the Peloponnesian War 《伯罗奔尼撒战争史》 Thucydides Thucydides’ account of the war between Athens and Sparta was written by a participant who aimed to record events precisely and to explain them by… World History Classic Index 95

Nicomachean Ethics 《尼各马可伦理学》 Aristotle Aristotle inquires into what makes a human life go well, developing the idea of happiness as activity in accordance with virtue, the doctrine of the… Philosophy Classic Index 95

Thinking, Fast and Slow 《思考，快与慢》 Daniel Kahneman Kahneman organizes decades of judgment-and-decision research as a dialogue between two cognitive systems: fast, automatic System 1, and slow… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 95

Poor Charlie's Almanack 《穷查理宝典》 Charlie Munger A collection of Munger’s speeches organized around a latticework of mental models: borrow reliable tools from psychology, mathematics, biology, and… Investment Classic Index 92

A Random Walk Down Wall Street 《漫步华尔街》 Burton Malkiel Malkiel uses the efficient-market hypothesis and random-walk theory to argue that most active managers cannot beat the market consistently, which… Investment Classic Index 92

The Effective Executive 《卓有成效的管理者》 Peter Drucker Drucker argues that effectiveness is a discipline that can be learned, and lays out practices: managing time, focusing on contribution, building on… Business Classic Index 92

Influence 《影响力》 Robert Cialdini Cialdini distills the research on persuasion into six principles: reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, liking, authority, and… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 92

Letters from a Stoic 《道德书简》 Seneca Written as letters to his friend Lucilius, the essays of Seneca take up time, fear, wealth, death, and self-discipline one at a time. Rather than… Philosophy Classic Index 91

Reinforcement Learning 《强化学习导论》 Richard Sutton This book distills “learning how to act” into a single problem: an agent improves its policy from a reward signal through repeated interaction with… Artificial Intelligence Classic Index 90

The Guns of August 《八月炮火》 Barbara Tuchman Tuchman narrates the first month of World War I, tracing how mobilization timetables, alliance commitments, and mutual misreading of intentions… World History Classic Index 90

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator 《股票作手回忆录》 Edwin Lefèvre A narrative based on Jesse Livermore, tracing a speculator’s rise and ruin in early twentieth-century American markets. Its subject is not technique… Investment Classic Index 89

Thinking in Systems 《系统之美》 Donella Meadows Meadows introduces the basic vocabulary of systems thinking in plain language: stocks and flows, feedback loops, delays, leverage points. Her… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 89

The Crowd 《乌合之众》 Gustave Le Bon Le Bon argues that once individuals merge into a crowd, their judgment and conduct change qualitatively: emotion becomes contagious, suggestion is… Society & Civilization Classic Index 89

Superforecasting 《超预测》 Philip Tetlock Based on a government-funded forecasting tournament, Tetlock compares the long-run accuracy of experts against amateurs and finds a small group of… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 87

Noise 《噪声》 Daniel Kahneman The three authors separate two kinds of error in judgment: bias, a systematic tilt shared across cases, and noise, the inconsistency that arises… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 86

Poor Economics 《贫穷的本质》 Abhijit Banerjee Banerjee and Duflo use randomized controlled trials to study how poor people actually decide — why their choices about food, schooling, health care… Economics Classic Index 85

Misbehaving 《“错误”的行为》 Richard Thaler Thaler recounts, largely autobiographically, how behavioral economics grew from heresy into a mainstream part of the discipline. The core claim: the… Economics Classic Index 85

What Are You Doing with Your Life? 《人生中不可不想的事》 Jiddu Krishnamurti Krishnamurti circles back to the links among education, ambition, fear, and freedom, arguing that real change begins with direct observation of how… Philosophy Classic Index 84

Predictably Irrational 《怪诞行为学》 Dan Ariely Through a series of cleverly designed experiments, Ariely shows that human irrationality is not random but predictable and repeatable. From the… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 84

Mindset 《终身成长》 Carol Dweck Dweck distinguishes a fixed mindset, which treats ability as a given trait, from a growth mindset, which treats ability as developable through… Psychology & Cognitive Science Classic Index 83

The Little Book That Beats the Market 《股市稳赚》 Joel Greenblatt Greenblatt lays out the “magic formula” in deliberately simple terms: rank companies by return on capital and by earnings yield, buy those that… US Stock Investment Classic Index 80

Economics Richard Easterlin 幸福经济学相关著作 《幸福经济学相关著作》 Richard Easterlin The Easterlin paradox: more income does not reliably buy more happiness. Economics XMS's list

Psychology & Cognitive Science 1994 Descartes' Error António Damásio Descartes' Error 《笛卡尔的错误》 António Damásio Emotion is not the opposite of reason but a necessary part of rational decision-making Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick

Psychology & Cognitive Science 2017 How Emotions Are Made Lisa Feldman Barrett How Emotions Are Made 《情绪》 Lisa Feldman Barrett Emotions are not triggered reactions but predictions the brain constructs: a neuroscience revolution that rewrites common sense Psychology & Cognitive Science Daily Pick