 | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Buy new: $17.16 / Used from: $8.95 Out in April 2008 - Thaler suggests that we can greatly assist many decisions that affect the health, wealth and happiness of citizens by adjusting the "decision architecture" in favour of good outcomes. Provocative, and in view of the recent failures in the free-market economy - extremely well-timed.
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 | Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
Buy used from: $12.98 Why we are less rational than we believe. A fun read that converts deep behavioural economics into an easy, witty read. Excellent.
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 | Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Buy new: $52.30 / Used from: $38.45 Pioneering studies that culminated in a Nobel. How we make decisions when the outcomes are uncertain, and in the future. Our estimation is less accurate than we might think.
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 | Choices, Values, and Frames
Buy new: $47.10 / Used from: $38.50 Another pioneering work by Kahneman and Tversky: focuses more on how we frame decisions. Framing determines what factors matter most.
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 | Decision Management: How to Assure Better Decisions in Your Company by J. Frank Yates
Buy new: $21.75 / Used from: $15.00 A practical and very well structured look at how we can break business decisions down into a rational process - first by asking whether a decision even NEEDS to be made. Recommended.
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 | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $2.48 Malcolm Gladwell shows how we make gut decisions in the blink of an eye - a good companion with Ariely's book.
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 | Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.99 Risk - or more precisely a history of how mankind has understood risk. A marvellous read.
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 | The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations by Dietrich Dorner
Buy new: $13.68 / Used from: $3.96 Self-explanatory. Helps underline the point that the complexity of the environment in which decisions are made (think Cuba Missile Crsis - which is what David Welch, below, draws on) can have a profound effect on the process.
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 | The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making by Scott Plous
Buy new: $53.71 / Used from: $24.98 An awesome little book that reveals a lot about our biases and inabilities to make really clear decisions. Fascinating to dip into. Beautifully written.
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 | Winning Decisions: Getting It Right the First Time by J. Edward Russo
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $12.60 Excellent guidebook that will help you break decisions down into chunks - to be less emotive, and to be more clear-headed. A gem.
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 | Harvard Business Review on Decision Making
Buy new: $13.82 / Used from: $9.00 Drucker is one of the Gods of business academia, and this volume is a pretty handy, well considered - perhaps not cutting edge look. A call to keep your feet on the ground.
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 | Decisions, Decisions: The Art of Effective Decision Making by David A. Welch
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $4.90 Like Frank Yates, Welch breaks decisions into a smaller chunks: a 9-step process which may seem laborious, but on big decisions provides a lot more assurance. An historian, Welch draws on a wide range of political an military examples as well as business.
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 | Making Great Decisions in Business and Life by David R. Henderson
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $3.08 Really practical book that uses Economics as the foundation for a decision-making approach. Good examples, clear thinking - helps train you in a more decision-focused way of thinking.
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 | Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein
Buy new: $18.48 / Used from: $11.95 Very interesting volume - Klein loves to promote his own consultancy just a little too heavily, but ignoring that, his argument to promote Naturalistic Decision Making approaches - less of the super-rational - is persuasive and thoughtful.
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