For those who are interested in Estonia, state capacity, and government innovation, I have put together a recommended reading list to supplement Rebooting a Nation. All of these books and papers were hugely influential in shaping my thinking about Estonia and the future of the nation state.

Estonia: A Modern History by Neil Taylor

The Small States Club: How Small Smart Powers Can Save the World by Armen Sarkissian

Twenty Years of Building Digital Societies by Peeter Vihma for the e-Governance Academy

Estonia’s Digital Transformation: Mission Mystique and the Hiding Hand by Rainer Kattel and Ines Mergel

Digital Government Excellence: Lessons from Effective Digital Leaders by Siim Sikkut

Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka

The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg 

The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths by Mariana Mazzucato

How to Make an Entrepreneurial State: Why Innovation Needs Bureaucracy by Rainer Kattel, Wolfgang Drechsler, and Erkki Karo

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

Estonia, The Digital Republic by Nathan Heller for The New Yorker

The Road to Freedom: Estonia’s Rise from Soviet Vassal State to One of the Freest Nations… by Matthew D. Mitchell, Peter J. Boettke, and Konstantin Zhukov

From Third World to First: Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom by Lee Kuan Yew

The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence by Anatol Lieven

The Forest Brotherhood: Baltic Resistance Against the Nazis and Soviets by Dan Kaszeta

Infomocracy (Centenal Cycle) by Dr. Malka Older

Culture eats policy by Jennifer Pahlka for the Niskanen Center

The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments, and Warps our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

The State in the Third Millennium by Prince Hans-Adam II