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24 alternatives to More Heat Than Light

Mirowski on the history of economic science

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. More Heat Than Light launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Misfit Economy▲81

   Innovation on the fringe...

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Light▲58

   A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Politics and Economics of the Future

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Too Big To Know▲70

   Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Cool▲67

   How the brain's hidden quest for cool drives our economy

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Naked Economics▲103

   A book about economics that won’t put you to sleep

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Sapiens▲185

   A brief history of humankind

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Revisionist History by Malcolm Gladwell▲64

   Reinterpreting something overlooked from the past

   2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    The Rational Optimist▲77

    How prosperity evolves

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Saving Capitalism▲57

    For the many, not the few

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    A History of Silicon Valley▲71

    The greatest creation of wealth in the history of the planet

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Predictably Irrational▲96

    The hidden forces that shape our decisions

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital▲70

    The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to▲66

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    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood▲67

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    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Signal and the Noise▲73

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    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Shape of Time▲62

    Remarks on the history of things

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Knowledge▲62

    A too close to true novel

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Black Swan▲80

    The impact of the highly improbable

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Scarcity▲71

    Why having too little means so much

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Diamond Age▲81

    Confucian Law, Neo-Victorian values and nano-technology

    2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions▲71

    Kuhn challenged linear notions of scientific progress

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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