Ultimately, it covers a wide range of topics, so for now it would be a good idea to prioritise books that approach the subject from a broad perspective rather than focusing on a very specific aspect within one of these areas.
edit: If, as well as books, you know of any online resources for learning about these topics, we’d be delighted to hear about them
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Nassim Taleb: “The Black Swan” and “Antifragile” (in that order).
*Technofeudalism*. Covers most of what you’re talking about, because it’s about economics, so how could it not? It’s just the right amount of explanation plus trusting the reader to have a brain, unlike so many ‘pop’ economics books.
Maybe [Behave by Robert Sapolsky](https://hardcover.app/books/behave/reviews/@JDM_books?referrer_id=24134)?
It’s fairly heavy, though much of the challenge comes from the number of disciplines it uses to approach human behavior. You learn about everything from heavy metals and environmental factors like malnutrition to evolutionary influences, us vs them, etc, with enough background in each field to follow along. When you get to stuff like evolution, that’s necessarily less concrete than some biology (though even that’s inherently fuzzy because people are different and experiments are hard), but you do see reasonable perspectives from a number of diverse fields.
Manufacturing Consent by Herman and Chomsky for an understanding of how and why modern media is so manipulative.
The Ascent of Man by Bronowsky for an understanding of how we got to this level of civilization