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The mystery of the vanishing benefits : an introduction to impact evaluation
Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government
The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics
How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci
Justice, and Freedom is a 2015 book by Michael Sherme
The Moral Arc: How Science Leads Humanity Toward Truth
At the Existentialist Café
Modern Macroeconomics: Its Origins, Development and Current State

Readings on Public policy, state capability.

1. State capability in India - Gulzar Natarajan and TV Somananthan
2. Making Bureaucracy Work - Akshay Mangla.
3. Post-Office Paradox - Yamini Aiyar and Sharanya Bhattacharya
4. When the State meets the Street - Zacka
5. Solutions when the 'solution' is the problem - Y Aiyar in India Seminar
6. Rethinking Public Institutions in India - Devesh Kapur, Mehta, Vaishnav
7. Paper Tiger - Nayanika Mathur
8. Adding one more - India in the age of ideas - Sanjeev Sanyal
9. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask.
10. Oxford Companion to Indian Politics. Not exactly about State capability, but their discussion on nature of Indian State is helpful.
11. Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and how They Cope.
12. The medici effect