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A list of book reviews on the Psy-Fi Blog:

John Kay's Obliquity: Why trying to solve problems directly isn't a good idea and why economic models are always bound to be wrong.

Models. Behaving Badly. by Emanuel Derman; models in finance aren't the same as theories in physics.

Robert Cialdini and the Weapons of Influence: Psychology trumps rationality when it comes to being separated from our hard earned cash.

Stuart Sutherland's Irrationality: 100 ways of losing your money, and a couple to help keep it.

Strings Attached: Untangling the Ethics of Incentives by Ruth W. Grant; power and persuasion.

Self-Organizing the Investment Blogosphere by Tadas Viskanta; intelligent investing in the modern world