Papers & Books

- Mats Alvesson and André Spicer, “A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations“, Journal of Management Studies 49:7 November 2012
- Dan Ariely, Uri Gneezy, George Loewenstein, and Nina Mazar “Large Stakes and Big Mistakes“, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, WP No. 05-11, July 2005
- Kenneth J. Arrow, “A difficulty in the concept of social welfare“, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 328-346; 1950
- W. Brian Arthur, “The Second Economy“, McKinsey Quarterly, October 2011
- W. Brian Arthur, “Why do things become more complex?“, Scientific American, May 1993
- Albert-László Barabási, “Linked: The New Science of Networks“, 2002.
- Eric Beinhocker, “The Origin of Wealth“, Harvard Business School Press, 2006
- Yochai Benkler, “The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom“, 2006
- Luís Bettencourt,  José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert and Geoffrey B. West, “Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities“,  PNAS April 2007; vol. 104, no. 17; 7301–7306
- David G. Blanchflower, “Is Well-being U-Shaped over the Life Cycle?“, Social Science and Medicine, 2008 (draft)
- Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg, Luis Bettencourt, Ryan Chute, Marko A. Rodriguez, Lyudmila Balakireva, “Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science“ Library of Science ONE, March 11, 2009.
- Laura Brandimarte, Alessandro Acquisti, George Loewenstein, “Misplaced Confidences: Privacy and the Control Paradox“, Carnegie Mellon University (pre-print)
- Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine“, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems 30: 107–117, 1998
- Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee “Race Against The Machine“, Digital Frontier Press, October 2011
- Andrea Cavagna, Alessio Cimarelli, Irene Giardina, Giorgio Parisi, Raffaele Santagati, Fabio Stefanini, and Massimiliano Viale, “Scale-free correlations in starling flocks“, PNAS 107-16, June 2010
- Gregory Chaitin, “Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega“, 2005
- David J. Chalmers, “Facing up to the problem of consciousness“, Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (3), 1995
- David J. Chalmers, “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis“, Journal of Consciousness Studies 17:7-65, 2010
- Tylen Cowen, “The Great Stagnation“, Dutton Adult, January 2011
- Richard Dawkins, “The Selfish Gene” 1976
- Rubin I. M. Dunbar, “The Social Brain Hypothesis“, 1998
- The Economist, “The long march of everyman“, December 2005
- The Economist, “The Avuncular State, Report on the new paternalism“, April 2006
- The Economist, “The U-bend of Life“, December 2010
- The Economist, “The disposable academic“, December 2010
- The Economist, “Policy Failure on a massive scale“, Free Exchange, July 2011
- The Economist, “Body of Evidence: Is a concentration of wealth at the top to blame for financial crises?“, Marzo 2012
- Chris Eliasmith, Terrence C. Stewart, Xuan Choo, Trevor Bekolay, Travis DeWolf,, Charlie Tang, Daniel Rasmussen, “A Large-Scale Model of the Functioning Brain“, Science 30 Vol. 338 no. 6111 pp. 1202-1205; November 2012
- Richard Feynman, “There is plenty of room at the bottom“, 1959
- Richard Feynman, “The Feynman Lectures on physics”, 1964
- Richard Feynman, “Surely you are joking, Mr Feynman“, 1985
- Francis Fukuyama, “The Future of History“, Foreign Affairs, February 2012
- Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi, “Cognitive Democracy“, 2012
- M.V. Flinn, D.C. Geary, C.V. Ward, “Ecological dominance, social competition, and coalitionary arms races: Why humans evolved extraordinary intelligence“, Evolution and Human Behavior 26 (2005) 10 – 46
- Eugene Garfield, “Citation indexing for studying science“ Nature 227: 669–671; 1970
- Kurt Gödel, “Über formal unentscheidbare Sätze der Principia Mathematica und verwandter Systeme, I.” Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik 38: 173-98; 1931. English translation by Martin Hirzel ”On formally undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and related systems I
- Benjamin M. Good and Andrew I. Su, “Games with a scientific purpose“, Genome Biology 12:135 2011
- Google Inc. (Several authors) “Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database“, Proceedings of OSDI 2012
- Linda S. Gottfredson, “Why g Matters: The Complexity of Everyday Life“, INTELLIGENCE  24(1)  79-  132; 1997
- The Guardian, “Memory Loss can begin from age 45, scientist say“, January 2012
- Werner Güth, Rolf Schmittberger, Bernd Schwarze, “An experimental analysis of ultimatum bargaining“, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol 3-4, Pages 367–388; 1982
- John Hardy, “Why we have an appetite for gossip“, New Scientist, July 2011
- Vaclav Havel, “The Intellectual and Politics“, 1998
- Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine,  Ara Norenzayan, “The weirdest people in the world?“, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2010
- Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash and Robert Pollin, “Does High Public Debt Consistently Stifle Economic Growth? A critique of Reinhart and Rogoff”,  Political and Economy Research Institute, UMass Amherst, Working Paper 322
- Francis Heylighen, “Conceptions of a Global Brain: An Historical Review“ in: From Big Bang to Global Civilization: A Big History Anthology, eds: Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin, and Andrey Korotayev, University of California Press, 2012
- Crawford S. Holling, “Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems“, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4 (1973)
-  Bernd Irlenbusch, Dirk Sliwka, “Incentives, Decision Frames, and Motivation Crowding Out – An Experimental Investigation“, The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Discussion Paper No. 1758, September 2005
- Arthur R. Jensen. “Speed of Information Processing in a Calculating Prodigy“, INTELLIGENCE 14, 259-274 (1990)
- Dominic Johnson and Simon Levin,  ”The tragedy of cognition: psychological biases and environmental inaction“, Current Science, 97(11), pp 1593-1603, December 2009
- Bill Joy, “Why the future doesn’t need us“, Wired 2000
- Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, “Prospect Theory“, Econometrica, 47(2), pp. 263-291, March 1979
- David Kaiser, “Physics and Feynman’s Diagrams“, American Scientist 93, 2005
- John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren“, 1930
- John Maynard Keynes, “General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Money“, 1936
- Thomas Kuhn, “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions“, 1962
- Raymond Kurzweil, “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology New York“, Penguin Books, 2005
- Jaron Lanier, “You are not a Gadget“, Vintage, 2011
- Mark Lemley, “The Myth of the Sole Inventor“, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1856610, July 2011
- John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, 1690
- Jing Lu, Dan Wu, Hua Yang, Cheng Luo, Chaoyi Li, Dezhong Yao, “Scale-Free Brain-Wave Music from Simultaneously EEG and fMRI Recordings“, PLoS One, November 2012
- Christian K. Machens, “Building the Human Brain“, Science 30 Vol. 338 no. 6111 pp. 1156-1157; November 2012:
- Peter Marber, “Brave New Math“, World Policy Journal, Spring 2012
- Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Delete: The virtue of forgetting in the digital age, Princeton University, Press (September 2009; ISBN: 9780691138619
- Jane McGonigal, “Reality is Broken“, 2011
- McKinsey Global Institute, “Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity” May 2011
- Thomas Nagel, “What is it like to be a bat“, The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4; October 1974
- Ola Olson, “Knowledge as a Set in Idea Space: An Epistemological View on Growth“, Journal of Economic Growth, 5: 253–275, September 2000
- Ola Olson, “The Appearance of Knowledge in Growth Theory“, Economic Issues, 6(1): 1-20, March 2001
- Eli Parisier, “The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding from You”, Penguin Press, May 2011
- Carlota Pérez, “Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital“, Edward Elgar Pub, April 2003
- John L. Petersen, “Out of the Blue, Wild Cards and Other Big Surprises“, 1997
- Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff, “Growth in a time of debt” NBER Working Paper 15639, January 2010
- Paul Romer, “Endogenous Technological Change“, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 98, No. 5, 1990
- Paul Romer, “Idea gaps and object gaps in economic development“, Journal  of  Monetary  Economics  32,  543-573, 1993
- Pamela Samuelson, “Privacy As Intellectual Property?“ 52 Stanford Law Review 1125 (2000) (this link leads to a draft paper; the final version can be accessed in the SLR)
- Mark Schrope, “Solving Tough Problems with Games“, PNAS 110-18, aPRIL 2013
- John Searle, “Minds, Brains and Programs“, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3 (3): 417-457; 1980
- Archana Singh-Manoux, Mika Kivimaki, Maria Glymour, Alexis Elbaz, Claudine Berr, Klaus P Ebmeier, Jane E Ferrie, Aline Dugravot statistician, “Timing of onset of cognitive decline: results from Whitehall II prospective cohort study“ British Medical Journal 344, January 2012
- Alexei A. Sharov and Richard Gordon, “Life Before Earth“, arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381; April 2013
- Robert Solow, “A contribution to the theory of economic growth” Quarterly Journal of Economics 70,65-94, 1956
- Robert Solow, ”Technical change and the aggregate production function” Review of Economics and Statistics 39, 312-320, 1957
- Arthur Stone, Joseph Schwartz, Joan Broderick and Angus S. Deaton, “A snapshot of the age distribution of psycological well-being in the United States“, No 1230, Working Papers, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Health and Wellbeing
- James Surowiecki, “The Wisdom of Crowds“, 2005
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disosder“, November 2012
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, “The Black Swan: The Impact of the highly improbable“, April 2007
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Raphael Douady, “Mathematical Definition, Mapping, and Detection of (Anti)Fragility“, SSRN August 2012
- A.M. Turing, “On Computable Numbers with and Application to the Entscheidengsproblem“, 1936
- A.M. Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence“, Mind, New Series, Vol. 59, No. 236. (Oct., 1950), pp. 433-460.
- Peter Thiel, “The End of the Future“, National Review Online, October 2011
- Luis von Ahn, “Games with a Purpose“, IEEE Computer Magazine, jUNE 2006
- Anita William Woolley, Christopher F. Chabris, Alex Pentland, Nada Nashmi and Thomas W. Malone, “Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups“, Science 330 (2010): 686–688[
- Dan Wu, Chao-Yi Li, De-Zhong Yao, “Scale-Free Music of the Brain“, PLoS One, June 2009
- George F. Young, Luca Scardovi, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Naomi E. Leonard, “Starling Flock Networks Manage Uncertainty in Consensus at Low Cost“, PLoS Comput Biol 9(1), January 2013

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