HERMES SOCRATICUSIndependent books · connected ideas
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A library of books and essays examining the systems that reshape markets, technology, belief, and human life.
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Four fields.
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Economics
Money, markets, institutions, digital assets, and the forces that organize production, wealth, and financial power.
Money & finance
Money and the Financial System
A clear, integrated account of the institutions and mechanisms behind modern money and finance.
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Economics & power
Economics and Power
A broad account of how wealth, resources, institutions, and strategic dependence shape economic power.
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Markets & growth
Markets and the Economy
An integrated explanation of how decentralized choices become prices, production, employment, investment, and growth.
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Digital finance
CRYPTO: Far Beyond Bitcoin
A connected view of the technologies, incentives, and risks beneath crypto markets.
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Geopolitics
States, institutions, resources, technology, and the changing structures through which political and global power is exercised.
Geopolitics & world order
Geopolitics and World Order
A comprehensive guide to the forces reshaping global power and the emerging world order.
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Politics & institutions
State and Power
A clear account of how political authority is acquired, exercised, limited, contested, and preserved.
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Politics & digital power
Politics and Technocracy
An examination of how algorithms, platforms, data, and artificial intelligence are reshaping government and democracy.
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Technology
The physical and computational systems behind artificial intelligence, digital infrastructure, and the next era of computing.
Digital infrastructure
The Architecture of the Digital World
A guide to the chips, networks, data centers, cloud systems, software, and resources behind the digital world.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence: From Machines that Learn to Machines that Act
A clear account of how AI learns, generates content, uses tools, acts autonomously, and transforms work and society.
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Quantum & computing
Quantum Computing and the Future of Computers
A broad guide to quantum, photonic, neuromorphic, and next-generation computing beyond the limits of conventional chips.
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Philosophical Essays
Essays on contingency, merit, belief, meaning, and the questions technology raises about what it means to be human.
