Modular

Reading List

Author
AEco
Date
March 27, 2026

Below is the full reading/reference list of writings that underlie AEco.

(1) Cybernetics

  • Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in The Animal and the Machine
  • Design For a Brain
  • The Human Use of Human Beings

(2) Systems Theory

  • General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
  • The Fifth Discipline

(3) Complexity & Emergence

  • Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World
  • The Limits to Growth

(4) Economic Critique

  • Economyths
  • Capital In the Twenty-First Century

(5) Hardware & Compute Economics

  • Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
  • How the World Really Works

(6) Labor & Automation

  • Automation and the Future of Work

(7) Miscellaneous

  • Seeing Like a State
  • Atlas of AI