This is a list of books that I should read...

Business and Economics
James Surowiecki: The Wisdom of Crows
Joe Batten: Tough-Minded Management
Steven Pinker: The Blank State
Jill Jonnes: Empires of Light

Brandel, Fernand: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th - 18th centuries (Harper&Row 1984, NY)
Pollard, Sidney: Peaceful conquest: the industrialization of Europe (Oxford UP 1981)
Chandler, Alfred: the visible hand: the managerial revolution in american business (Harvard UP 1977)
Schon, Donald A.: the reflective practitioner: how professionals think in action (Basic Books 1983, NY)
Resnik, Lauren: Edicuation and Learning to think (National Academy Press 1987, D.C.)
Drucker, Peter (1980): Managing in turbulent times, New York, Harper & Row
Galbraith, J (1977): Organizational Design, Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley
Galbraith, J. (1973): Designing complex organizations, Reading MA, Addison-Wesley
Mintzberg, H. (1983): Structure in Fives, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice Hall
Sproull, L. and Kiesler, S. (1991): Connections-New Ways of working in the networked organization, Cambridge, MIT Press
Coase, R. (1937): The nature of the firm, Economica, 4, 386-405
Chandler, A.D., Jr.(1976): The visible hand, Cambridge, Harvard UP

History
J.B. Bury, History of the Later Roman Empire, 2 vols., London and New York (reprint of 1923 ed.). A
rther Ferrill, The Fall of the Roman Empire: The Mil- itary Explanation, London and New York 1986
Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Introduction, Notes and Appendices by J.B. Bury, 7 vols., London 1909-14.
Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and Her Invaders, 2 vols., 2nd ed., Oxford 1892.
A.H.M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire 284-602, 4 vols., Oxford 1964.
Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns, Berkeley 1973.
E.A. Thompson, A History of Attila and the Huns, Oxford 1948.

Literature
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "Die Wahlverwandtschaften"
E.T.A. Hoffmann: "Die Elixiere des Teufels"
Gottfried Keller: "Der grüne Heinrich"
Theodor Fontane: "Frau Jenny Treibel"
Theodor Fontane: "Effi Briest"
Thomas Mann: "Die Buddenbrooks"
Thomas Mann: "Der Zauberberg"
Heinrich Mann: "Professor Unrat"
Hermann Hesse: "Unterm Rad"
Robert Musil: "Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß"
Franz Kafka: "Der Proceß"
Alfred Döblin: "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
Joseph Roth: "Radetzkymarsch"
Anna Seghers: "Das siebte Kreuz"
Heimito von Doderer: "Die Strudlhofstiege"
Wolfgang Koeppen: "Tauben im Gras"
Günter Grass: "Die Blechtrommel"
Max Frisch: "Montauk"
Thomas Bernhard: "Holzfällen"