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Prospect Magazine's 2014 World Thinkers
1.
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
by:
Nick Bostrom
3.85 avg rating — 20,390 ratings
2.
Human Enhancement
by:
Julian Savulescu
3.95 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Reasons and Persons
by:
Derek Parfit
4.27 avg rating — 1,839 ratings
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Global Catastrophic Risks
by:
Nick Bostrom
3.97 avg rating — 269 ratings
5.
Equality and Partiality
by:
Thomas Nagel
4.06 avg rating — 78 ratings
6.
On What Matters: Volumes 1 & 2 (2 Volumes)
by:
Derek Parfit
4.23 avg rating — 94 ratings
6.
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation
by:
Amartya Sen
4.19 avg rating — 323 ratings
8.
Sex and Social Justice
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
4.20 avg rating — 261 ratings
9.
The Quantum Story: A history in 40 moments
by:
Jim Baggott
4.04 avg rating — 750 ratings
10.
Classics: A Very Short Introduction
by:
Mary Beard
3.57 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
10.
The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
by:
Mary Beard
4.10 avg rating — 5,117 ratings
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Classical Art: From Greece to Rome
by:
Mary Beard
4.08 avg rating — 348 ratings
13.
Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech
by:
Talal Asad
3.97 avg rating — 171 ratings
14.
Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies
by:
Wendy Carlin
3.88 avg rating — 40 ratings
15.
Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation, and the Exchange Rate
by:
Wendy Carlin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
16.
Selected Papers of Partha Dasgupta: Volume I: Institutions, Innovations, and Human Values and Volume II: Poverty, Population, and Natural Resources
by:
Partha Dasgupta
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
17.
Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment
by:
Partha Dasgupta
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
18.
Economics: A Very Short Introduction
by:
Partha Dasgupta
3.25 avg rating — 1,228 ratings
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by:
Partha Dasgupta
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
20.
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 1 (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Partha Dasgupta
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
21.
The Environment and Emerging Development Issues: Volume 2 (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Partha Dasgupta
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
22.
The Economics of Transnational Commons (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Partha Dasgupta
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
23.
Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification
by:
Rae Langton
4.09 avg rating — 43 ratings
24.
Kantian Humility: Our Ignorance of Things in Themselves
by:
Rae Langton
4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
25.
Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
by:
Thomas Nagel
3.59 avg rating — 1,982 ratings
26.
Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008
by:
Thomas Nagel
3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings
27.
What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy
by:
Thomas Nagel
3.62 avg rating — 6,025 ratings
28.
The View From Nowhere
by:
Thomas Nagel
3.98 avg rating — 1,177 ratings
29.
The Last Word
by:
Thomas Nagel
3.82 avg rating — 217 ratings
30.
Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994
by:
Thomas Nagel
3.73 avg rating — 30 ratings
31.
Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays
by:
Thomas Nagel
4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings
32.
On Economic Inequality
by:
Amartya Sen
4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings
33.
Commodities and Capabilities
by:
Amartya Sen
4.02 avg rating — 88 ratings
34.
Indian Development: Selected Regional Perspectives (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Jean Drèze
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
35.
Hunger and Public Action (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Jean Drèze
4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
36.
India: Development and Participation
by:
Jean Drèze
3.74 avg rating — 57 ratings
37.
The Quality of Life (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
3.91 avg rating — 44 ratings
38.
The Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 1: Entitlement and Well-Being (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Jean Drèze
2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
39.
The Political Economy of Hunger (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Jean Drèze
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
40.
The Political Economy of Hunger (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Jean Drèze
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
41.
India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity
by:
Jean Drèze
3.41 avg rating — 34 ratings
42.
The Political Economy of Hunger: Selected Essays
by:
Mihaly Simai
3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
43.
Public Health, Ethics, and Equity
by:
Sudhir Anand
4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
44.
Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics: Box Set (Vols I-IV)
by:
Kaushik Basu
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
45.
An Economist's Miscellany
by:
Kaushik Basu
3.72 avg rating — 32 ratings
46.
Prelude to Political Economy: A Study of the Social and Political Foundations of Economics
by:
Kaushik Basu
4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
47.
The Concise Oxford Companion to Economics in India
by:
Kaushik Basu
4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings
48.
The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India
by:
Kaushik Basu
4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen: Volume I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement and Volume II: Development, Society, and Institutions
by:
Kaushik Basu
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
50.
The Role of the State in Economic Change (WIDER Studies in Development Economics)
by:
Ha-Joon Chang
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
51.
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?
by:
Daniel C. Dennett
3.42 avg rating — 240 ratings
52.
International Differences in Well-Being (Oxford Positive Psychology Series)
by:
Ed Diener
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
53.
Equalizing Access: Affirmative Action in Higher Education: India, US, and South Africa
by:
Zoya Hasan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
54.
Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
55.
Responsibility for Justice
by:
Iris Marion Young
4.18 avg rating — 234 ratings
56.
Philosophical Interventions: Reviews 1986-2011
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings
57.
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
4.06 avg rating — 242 ratings
58.
From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
4.02 avg rating — 231 ratings
59.
American Guy: Masculinity in American Law and Literature
by:
Saul Levmore
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating
60.
Subversion and Sympathy: Gender, Law, and the British Novel
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
61.
Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions
by:
Cass R. Sunstein
3.74 avg rating — 117 ratings
62.
Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature
by:
David M. Estlund
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
63.
Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse
by:
Saul M. Olyan
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
64.
Essays on Aristotle's De Anima (Clarendon Aristotle Series)
by:
Martha C. Nussbaum
4.28 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Top Incomes over the Twentieth Century: A Contrast between European and English-Speaking Countries
by:
Anthony B. Atkinson
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
66.
Top Incomes: A Global Perspective
by:
Anthony B. Atkinson
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
67.
The Economics of Rising Inequalities
by:
Daniel Cohen
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
68.
Careless Thought Costs Lives: The Ethics of Transplants
by:
Janet Radcliffe Richards
4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
69.
The Philosophy of Jürgen Habermas: A Critical Introduction
by:
Uwe Steinhoff
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
70.
Žižek and Politics: A Critical Introduction
by:
Matthew Sharpe
3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
71.
Zizek and Communist Strategy: On the Disavowed Foundations of Global Capitalism
by:
Chris McMillan
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
72.
Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta
by:
Scott Barrett
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
73.
Higgs: The invention and discovery of the 'God Particle'
by:
Jim Baggott
3.85 avg rating — 664 ratings
74.
Choice, Welfare, and Development: A Festschrift in Honour of Amartya K. Sen
by:
Kaushik Basu
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
75.
Poverty and Human Rights: Sen's 'Capability Perspective' Explored
by:
Polly Vizard
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
76.
The Catholic Church: What Everyone Needs to Know®
by:
John L. Allen Jr.
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 62 ratings