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a list of books and articles mentioned by professor Scott E. Page during the Model Thinking course by Coursera
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Why Models ?

  1. Response Surface Methodology by George E. P. Box
  2. Expert Political Judgment by Philip E. Tetlock

Segregation and Peer Effects

  1. Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling
  2. The Big Sort by Bill Bishop
  3. Connected by Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler

Aggregation

  1. More is different by Philip Anderson
  2. A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram

Decision Models

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Thinking Electrons: Modeling People

  1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  2. Nudge by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Categorical and Linear Models

  1. The Robust Beauty of Improper Linear Models in Decision Making by Robyn Dawes

Tipping Points

  1. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Economic Growth

  1. Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson

Diversity and Innovation

  1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
  2. The Gifts of Athena by Joel Mokyr

Markov Processes

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Lyapunov Functions

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Coordination and Culture

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Path Dependence

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Networks

  1. Networks: An Introduction by Mark Newman
  2. The strength of weak ties by Mark Granovetter

Randomness and Random Walks

  1. The Success Equation by Michael Mauboussin
  2. Good to Great by James C. Collins
  3. A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel

Colonel Blotto

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Prisoners' Dilemma and Collective Action

  1. SuperCooperators by Martin Nowak and Roger Highfield
  2. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond

Mechanism Design

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Learning Models: Replicator Dynamics

  1. High and Mighty by Keith Bradsher
  2. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Prediction and the Many Model Thinker

  1. The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
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