Austrian Economic Reads of 2013
1. 
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by:
Clive Thompson
3.94 avg rating — 2,484 ratings 
4. 
Bully Nation: Why America's Approach to Childhood Aggression is Bad for Everyone
by:
Susan Eva Porter
3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings 
6. 
The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism
by:
Trevor Aaronson
4.02 avg rating — 215 ratings 7. 
10. 
Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future
by:
Samuel Gregg
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings 11. 
Priests of Our Democracy: The Supreme Court, Academic Freedom, and the Anti-Communist Purge
by:
Marjorie Heins
3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
13. 
Why Coolidge Matters: Leadership Lessons from America's Most Underrated President 3.83 avg rating — 105 ratings
14. 
Democracy of Sound: Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century 3.66 avg rating — 87 ratings
16. 
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
by:
Ramez Naam
3.95 avg rating — 570 ratings 17. 
18. 
Digital Disruption: Unleashing the Next Wave of Innovation
by:
James McQuivey
3.59 avg rating — 460 ratings 19. 
The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat
by:
Vali Nasr
3.75 avg rating — 485 ratings 
22. 
The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion
by:
Virginia Postrel
3.92 avg rating — 307 ratings 23. 
How Money Walks - How $2 Trillion Moved Between the States, and Why It Matters
by:
Travis H. Brown
3.32 avg rating — 28 ratings 
26. 
The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine
by:
Peter W. Huber
3.83 avg rating — 53 ratings 27. 
The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
by:
Nina Munk
3.93 avg rating — 1,450 ratings 28. 
The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling
by:
Jal Mehta
3.85 avg rating — 89 ratings 29. 
To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by:
Evgeny Morozov
3.67 avg rating — 1,412 ratings 30. 
How Everyone Became Depressed: The Rise and Fall of the Nervous Breakdown
by:
Edward Shorter
3.39 avg rating — 77 ratings 31. 
Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women
by:
Carol Dyhouse
3.91 avg rating — 265 ratings 32. 
The Manipulation of Choice: Ethics and Libertarian Paternalism
by:
Mark D. White
3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings 33. 
The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
by:
Fred Turner
3.98 avg rating — 60 ratings 34. 
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
by:
Robert Spoo
3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings 35. 
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country 4.06 avg rating — 501 ratings
37. 
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad
by:
Brett Martin
3.84 avg rating — 3,491 ratings 38. 
Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto
by:
Matt Kibbe
3.81 avg rating — 710 ratings 39. 
Drugs Unlimited: The Web Revolution That's Changing How the World Gets High
by:
Mike Power
4.09 avg rating — 207 ratings 40. 
The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis 3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
41. 
The Food Police: A Well-Fed Manifesto About the Politics of Your Plate
by:
Jayson Lusk
3.35 avg rating — 206 ratings