Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
By: Jennifer Burns
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside J…
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1. Capitalism and Freedom
By: Milton Friedman
3.97
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Selected by the Times Literary Supplementas one of the "hundred most influential books since the wa… read more
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2. Troubled
By: Rob Henderson
4.26
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more
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"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"-Rob Henderson, Troubled
3. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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4. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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5. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
6. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
By: Keith O'Brien
4.43
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more
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7. Social Justice Fallacies
By: Thomas Sowell
4.45
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this instant New York Times bestseller, renowned economist Thomas Sowell demolishes the myths th… read more
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8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
By: Steve Coll
4.44
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more
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9. The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
By: Stuart A. Reid
4.40
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the US-sanctioned plot… read more
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10. Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
By: Gary J. Bass
4.29
Format: 800 pages, Hardcover
A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlo… read more
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11. GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of All Time?
By: Tyler Cowen
3.81
Format: 349 pages, ebook
Inspired by Bill Simmons' epic The Book of Basketball, Tyler Cowen translates a lifelong passion fo… read more
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12. Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
By: Jennifer Burns
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography of America's most renowned economist. Milton Friedman was, alongside J… read more
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13. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
By: Zachary D. Carter
4.43
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A page-turning biography of world-changing economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that out… read more
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14. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport
By: Joshua Robinson
4.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more
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15. The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results
By: Andrew McAfee
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this "handbook for disruptors" (Eric Schmidt), The Geek Way reveals a new way to get big thing… read more
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16. The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
By: Johan Norberg
4.31
Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition
A vital exploration of capitalism and the benefits it brings to global society. Marx and Engels we… read more
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"Kinas övergång till kapitalism var med andra ord ett resultat av gräsrötternas initiativ och mod. Det fanns ingen plan för det – allt som gjorde Kina rikt hände utanför femårsplanerna."-Johan Norberg, The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World
17. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration
By: Peter Turchin
4.04
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more
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18. The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism
By: Sebastian Edwards
4.16
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
How Chile became home to the world’s most radical free-market experiment―and what its downfall sugg… read more
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19. Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality
By: Angus Deaton
3.80
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair… read more
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20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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21. The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind
By: Melissa S. Kearney
3.88
Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest econ… read more
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