This is a place to consolidate book recommendations.
I'm reading The Logic of Failure and enjoying it quite a bit. I wasn't sure whether I'd heard of it here, and I found a post here called Great Books of Failure, an article which hadn't crossed my path before.
There's a recent thread about books for a gifted young teen and a slightly less recent discussion of books on cogsci thread which might or might not be found by someone looking for good books.
So, what books or lists of books do you recommend?
That might be a hard sell, especially to libertarians. I'm not sure if I missed a relevant post of yours on it. While I accept that in the sense that you're concerned about it, the norms favoring IP screen off other factors, that still leaves room for libertarians to say, "Well, I'm in favor of the good outcomes from respecting IP, but I'm not in favor of people making me respect IP at gunpoint".
There are plenty of things that I don't do that I nonetheless don't want there to be laws against.
Yes, I was only saying it screens off one set of factors with respect to some what potential creators plan to do; that doesn't deny that someone could still dislike some of the screened off factors.
Also, I'm not sure that being "pro-good outcomes" is a political position, at least not a meaningful one. Besides, the people I'm arguing against don't even seem to seem to regard it as good, even on the level of "this would be polite" to honor IP claims, although they eventually shift back and forth on this.