Book Summaries

Economic/Political Philosophy

• Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (summary).  Avon Books, 1992.  The triumph of Western-style liberal democracy combined with capitalism is not an accident--it owes its success to trans-historical invariants.
• For a lighter take on a similar idea to Fukuyama's, try P.J. O'Rourke's hilarious (but insightful) Eat The Rich.

Software and System Design

• Nancy Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers. Addison-Wesley, 1995. AF
• Nathan Borenstein, Programming As If People Mattered. AF
• Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month.

Software Industry

• Jim McCarthy, Dynamics of Software Development. Seattle: Microsoft Press, 1996. AF
• Andy Grove, High Output Management.
• Geoffrey Moore, Inside the Tornado.

Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society

• Freeman Dyson, Imagined Worlds.  AF
• Larry Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace.  AF