Hedge Hogs: A Cautionary Tale
By: Barbara T. Dreyfuss
3.84
Format: None pages, ebook
At its peak, the hedge fund Amaranth had almost ten billion dollars in assets. A few weeks later it…
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1. Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
By: Ben Mezrich
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Ben Mezrich, author of the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House, returns with an aston… read more
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2. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
By: Scott Patterson
3.88
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
“Beware of geeks bearing formulas.” --Warren Buffett In March of 2006, the world’s richest men si… read more
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3. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)
By: Steven D. Levitt , Stephen J. Dubner
4.58
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have i… read more
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4. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
By: Robert B. Cialdini
4.22
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how … read more
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"Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do."-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
"The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable final offer from the opponent, yet is not so ou…"-Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
5. The Fall
By: Albert Camus , Justin O'Brien
4.01
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searin… read more
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6. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
By: Annie Duke
3.83
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made one of the most controversial calls in footbal… read more
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7. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
8. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more
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9. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
10. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
By: Sebastian Mallaby
4.43
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Ec… read more
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"The first notable spinout was Kathy Xu, another woman who managed to flourish in China's venture industry. Rather than studying in the United States, Xu had experienced U.S. instruction at Nanjing Un…"-Sebastian Mallaby, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
11. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
By: Zeke Faux
4.26
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more
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12. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
By: Michael Lewis
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 best-selling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, the story of FTX’s spectacular col… read more
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13. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
By: Sujeet Indap
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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15. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
By: Nicole Perlroth
4.34
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
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16. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future
By: Raghuram G. Rajan
4.08
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
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17. Hedge Hogs: A Cautionary Tale
By: Barbara T. Dreyfuss
3.84
Format: None pages, ebook
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18. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
By: Matthew Campbell
4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more
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19. The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers
By: Alex Banayan
4.16
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to t… read more
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20. Geopolitical Alpha: An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future
By: Marko Papić
4.08
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Forecast geopolitics and markets with this clear and insightful resource Geopolitical Alpha – An In… read more
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21. Quality Investing: Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term
By: Torkell T. Eide
4.36
Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition
The concept of quality is familiar. People make judgments about it every day. Yet articulating a cl… read more
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