Personal favorites for giving new perspectives on old explanations for how the world works (book of genesis, macroecon)

niftynei

Thanks for the recs -- I've read parts of 

 but didn't even know the one you recommended existed.

Could you say more about why you picked those two?  What did they mean to you / do for you?

mostly_harmless

A request for non-correlated inputs

elvismercury

Thanks for the recs -- I've read parts of [the more famous JJ book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities) but didn't even know the one you recommended existed.

Could you say more about why you picked those two?  What did they mean to you / do for you?
