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The Fibbler Library

The Fibbler Library is a curated collection of books that explain how power works, how institutions shape outcomes, and why systems succeed or fail. Each book is included because it offers lasting insight into leadership, conflict, economics, and the forces that shape the modern world.

Leadership and Institutions | Power, Incentives, Outcomes

The Outsiders - William Thorndike Jr.

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Albert O. Hirschman

The Outsiders - William Thorndike Jr.

Included for its explanation of how disciplined capital allocation, not public leadership theatrics, often drives long-term institutional success.

The Power Broker - Robert A. Caro

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Albert O. Hirschman

The Outsiders - William Thorndike Jr.

Included for its examination of how institutional power is built, sustained, and rarely surrendered.

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Albert O. Hirschman

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Albert O. Hirschman

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Albert O. Hirschman

Included for its explanation of how institutions respond to decline and why leadership often misreads internal warning signs.

The Failure of Nerve - Edwin H. Friedman

Exit, Voice, and Loyalty - Albert O. Hirschman

Included for its examination of how leadership breaks down when institutions become driven by anxiety rather than responsibility.

Moral Mazes - Robert Jackall

 Included for its examination of how institutional incentives distort ethical decision making inside large organizations.

Organizations - James March | Herbet Simon

Included for its explanation of how decisions are actually made inside institutions.

Power and Governance | Who Decides and Why

Why Nations Fail - Daron Acemoglu | James A. Robinson

The Dictators Handbook - Bruce Bueno De Mesquita | Alastair Smith

The Dictators Handbook - Bruce Bueno De Mesquita | Alastair Smith

Included for its explanation of how institutional design, not culture or chance, determines national success or collapse.

The Dictators Handbook - Bruce Bueno De Mesquita | Alastair Smith

The Dictators Handbook - Bruce Bueno De Mesquita | Alastair Smith

The Dictators Handbook - Bruce Bueno De Mesquita | Alastair Smith

Explains why leaders stay in power and how systems reward loyalty over outcomes.

The Origins of Political Order - Francis Fukuyama

The Dictators Handbook - Bruce Bueno De Mesquita | Alastair Smith

The Strongman - Vladmir Putin and the Struggle for Russia - Angus Roxburgh

Cover of The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, a political history book on governance

Included for its analysis of how political institutions form, stabilize, and break down over time.

The Strongman - Vladmir Putin and the Struggle for Russia - Angus Roxburgh

The Strongman - Vladmir Putin and the Struggle for Russia - Angus Roxburgh

The Strongman - Vladmir Putin and the Struggle for Russia - Angus Roxburgh

Included for its examination of how modern strongmen sustain power behind formal institutions.

The Strategy of Conflict - Thomas Schilling

The Strongman - Vladmir Putin and the Struggle for Russia - Angus Roxburgh

The Strategy of Conflict - Thomas Schilling

Included for its explanation of how governments use bargaining, deterrence, and credibility to influence outcomes in conflict and negotiation.

Strategy: A History - Lawrence Freedman

The Strongman - Vladmir Putin and the Struggle for Russia - Angus Roxburgh

The Strategy of Conflict - Thomas Schilling

Included for its examination of how strategy has shaped political power, conflict, and governance across history.

War and Conflict|Force, Fear and Escalation

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics | John J. Mearsheimer

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics | John J. Mearsheimer

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics | John J. Mearsheimer

Included for its explanation of how disciplined capital allocation, not public leadership theatrics, often drives long-term institutional success.

The Prince | Niccolo Machiavelli

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics | John J. Mearsheimer

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics | John J. Mearsheimer

Included for its explanation of how disciplined capital allocation, not public leadership theatrics, often drives long-term institutional success.

The Sleepwalkers - Christopher Clark

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics | John J. Mearsheimer

The Sleepwalkers - Christopher Clark

Included for its account of how wars begin through miscalculation, escalation, and failed judgment rather than deliberate intent.

On War - Carl Von Clausewitz

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution - Robert Jervis

The Sleepwalkers - Christopher Clark

Included for its explanation of war as a political instrument shaped by uncertainty, friction, and human decision making.

The Guns of August - Barbara W. Tuchman

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution - Robert Jervis

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution - Robert Jervis

Included for its account of how early war decisions and rigid planning quickly produce irreversible outcomes.

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution - Robert Jervis

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution - Robert Jervis

The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution - Robert Jervis

Included for its analysis of how nuclear weapons reshaped conflict by constraining escalation and altering strategic decision making.

Economics and Markets | Capital and Risk

The Simple Path to Wealth - J.L. Collins

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

Included for its explanation of how simple, low-cost systems quietly outperform complexity over time, and why discipline often matters more than prediction.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

Included for its analysis of how capital accumulation shapes markets, inequality, and long-term economic power.

The Great Transformation - Karl Polanyi

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

Manias, Panics, and Crashes - Charles Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber

Included for its explanation of how market systems reshape society and provoke political reaction.

Manias, Panics, and Crashes - Charles Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber

Manias, Panics, and Crashes - Charles Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber

Manias, Panics, and Crashes - Charles Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber

Included for its account of why financial markets repeatedly cycle through excess and collapse.

The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson

Manias, Panics, and Crashes - Charles Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber

The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson

Included for its examination of how financial systems influence political and global power.

Lords of Finance - Liaquat Ahamed

Manias, Panics, and Crashes - Charles Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber

The Ascent of Money - Niall Ferguson

Included for its analysis of how monetary policy decisions can destabilize global markets.

Systems and Strategy|Complexity and Outcomes

Seeing Like a State - James C. Scott

Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows

The Logic of Failure - Dietrich Dorner

Included for its explanation of how disciplined capital allocation, not public leadership theatrics, often drives long-term institutional success.

The Logic of Failure - Dietrich Dorner

Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows

The Logic of Failure - Dietrich Dorner

Included for its analysis of why strategies collapse when feedback and consequences are misunderstood.

Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows

Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows

Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

Included for its framework on how feedback loops and incentives shape system behavior over time.

Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

Included for its distinction between real strategy and performative planning.

Complexity: A Guided Tour

Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Included for its explanation of why complex systems resist prediction and control.

Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Good Strategy Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Included for its analysis of how systems benefit from stress, disorder, and decentralization.

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