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# Table of Contents

# Foundational Books
## Engineering Ethics
* Nancy Leveson (2011) _Engineering a Safer World: Systems Thinking Applied to Safety_ MIT Press, [ISBN 978-0-262-01662-9](https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25230772M/Engineering_a_safer_world)
* Paul Kofman & Clare Payne (2018) _A Matter of Trust: The Practice of Ethics in Finance_ Melbourne University Press [ISBN]()
* (**nominated**) Albert Borgmann (1984) _Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry_  University Of Chicago Press [ISBN 978-0-226-06629-5](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1958074W/Technology_and_the_character_of_contemporary_life)

## Decentralised Governance
* Daren Brabham (2013) _Crowdsourcing_ MIT Press [ISBN 978-0-262-51847-5](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/crowdsourcing)
* Laura DeNardis (2016) _Protocol Politics: The Globalization of Internet Governance_ MIT Press [ISBN 978-0-262-04257-4](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/protocol-politics)
* Lawrence Lessig (2001) _The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World_ Random House, [ISBN 978-0-375-50578-2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6037023W/The_Future_of_Ideas)

## Behaviour & Incentives
* Dan Ariely (2010) _Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions_ [ISBN 978-0-061-35324-6](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9302660W/Predictably_Irrational)
* Charles Mackay (1841) _Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds_ Richard Bentley [ISBN 978-0-517-54123-4](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2987334W/Memoirs_of_extraordinary_popular_delusions)
* Mancur Olson Jr (1971) _The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups_ Harvard University Press [ISBN 0-674-53750-5](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL108561W/The_logic_of_collective_action)

## Cryptography for Distributed Systems

## Augmented Intelligence

## Systems Thinking
* Jay Forester (1968) _Principles of Systems_ Pegasus Communications [ISBN 978-1-883-82341-2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4504426W/Principles_of_systems)
* Peter Senge (2006) _The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization_ Currency [ISBN 978-0-385-51725-6](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4440692W/The_Fifth_Discipline)
* Eric Beinhocker (2006) _The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity, And the Radical Remaking of Economics_ Harvard Business School Press [ISBN 978-1-578-51777-0](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8786151W/Origin_of_Wealth)

## Financial Technology
* Susanne Chisti & Janos Barberis (2016) _The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries_ [ISBN 978-1-119-21887-6](https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+FINTECH+Book%3A+The+Financial+Technology+Handbook+for+Investors%2C+Entrepreneurs+and+Visionaries-p-9781119218876#content-section)
* Carlota Perez (2003) _Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages_ Elgar [ISBN 978-1-843-76331-4](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL224128W/Technological_Revolutions_and_Financial_Capital)
* Paul Vigna & Michael Casey (2015) _The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order_ [ISBN 978-1-847-92344-8](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20702882W/Cryptocurrency)

## Game Theory
* John von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern (2007) _Theory of Games and Economic Behavior_ Princeton University Press [ISBN 978-0-691-13061-3](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1204974W/Theory_of_games_and_economic_behavior)
* (**deprecated**) Drew Fudenberg & Jean Tirole (1991) _Game Theory_ MIT Press [ISBN 978-0-262-06141-4](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2727409W/Game_Theory)
* Leonid Hurwicz & Stanley Reiter (2006) _Designing Economic Mechanisms_ Cambridge University Press [ISBN 0521836417](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4545729W/Designing_economic_mechanisms)
* Thomas Schelling (2006) _The Strategy of Conflict_ Harvard University Press [ISBN 978-0-674-84031-7](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2259845W/The_strategy_of_conflict)

# Papers & Repositories
* CoinResear.ch [Smart Contracts](https://www.coinresear.ch/papers/smart-contracts) citations
* CryptoEconomics [blog articles](https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics)
* Token Curated [Registries](https://medium.com/@tokencuratedregistry/the-token-curated-registry-whitepaper-bd2fb29299d6)
* [CryptoCannon](https://a16z.com/2018/02/10/crypto-readings-resources/)

# Reviews
* Cambridge [Handbook](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-handbook-of-smart-contracts-blockchain-technology-and-digital-platforms/BCDDFAAD7B661E6C268941ACA76B3A58#fndtn-information) of Smart Contracts, Blockchain Technology & Digital Platforms