Favourite Papers

A collection of my favourite academic papers in computer science and economics.

Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I

The original paper from John McCarthy, published in 1960.

The Roots of LISP

Paul Graham's (more digestible) 2002 summary of the former.

Ideal Money

John Nash's prescient musings about Bitcoin.

Parallel Control

John Nash, 1954.

Bitcoin: A Peer to Peer Electronic Cash System

Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008.