Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
By: Robert J. Shiller
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbr…
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1. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
By: Robert J. Shiller , George A. Akerlof
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are impe… read more
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2. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
By: Edward Chancellor
4.00
Format: 371 pages,
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3. The Peter Principle
By: Laurence J. Peter , Raymond Hull
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Why is the human race foundering in a morass of occupational, academic, and administrative ineffici… read more
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4. The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
By: Benoît B. Mandelbrot , Richard L. Hudson
5.00
Format: None pages,
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5. The Great Crash of 1929
By: John Kenneth Galbraith
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Of Galbraith's classic examination of the 1929 financial collapse, the Atlantic Monthly said:"Econo… read more
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6. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
By: Ron Chernow
3.48
Format: None pages, Paperback
The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morganis the most … read more
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7. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
By: Richard H. Thaler
4.16
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central … read more
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8. The Four Pillars of Investing
By: William J. Bernstein , None
3.80
Format: 212 pages, Hardcover
Explains how independent investors can construct a superior investment portfolio by learning the fo… read more
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9. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.67
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more
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10. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4.40
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more
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11. Mastering 'Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
By: Joshua D. Angrist , Jörn-Steffen Pischke
4.21
Format: None pages,
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12. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
By: Tim Harford
3.44
Format: 330 pages,
Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mu… read more
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13. Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
By: Ben McKenzie
None
Format: None pages, None
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR… read more
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14. 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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15. Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
3.90
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan, a bold new work that challenges many … read more
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"The “persecution"-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Courage is the only virtue you cannot fake."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you're nothing."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
"Freedom is always associated with risk taking, whether it leads to it or comes from it."-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
16. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
17. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
By: Daron Acemoğlu
3.90
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The bestselling co-author of Why Nations Fail and the bestselling co-author of 13 Bankers deliver a… read more
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18. How to Invest: Masters on the Craft
By: David M. Rubenstein
3.95
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A master class on investing featuring conversations with the biggest nam… read more
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19. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
By: Mary Childs
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inv… read more
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20. The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
By: Martin Wolf
3.97
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From the chief economics commentator of the Financial Times, a magnificent reckoning with how and w… read more
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21. 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19
By: Ben S. Bernanke
4.21
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics and former chair of the Federal Reserve explains th… read more
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22. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
By: Daniel Kahneman
3.66
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow and the co-author of Nudge, a groundbreaking… read more
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23. Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
By: Robert J. Shiller
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times bestselling author Robert Shiller, a groundbr… read more
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24. Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
By: Scott Patterson
3.78
Format: 336 pages, ebook
A Wall Street Journal bestseller Written by a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter, this is a fasci… read more
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25. The New China Playbook: Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
By: Keyu Jin
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy China's… read more
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26. Capital and Ideology
By: Thomas Piketty
4.28
Format: 1104 pages, Hardcover
The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global… read more
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"Change comes when the short-term logic of events, intersects with the long term evolution of ideas."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"Billionaires think that anything goes, are enamored of geoengineering, and detest nothing so much as simple but unpleasant solutions (such as paying taxes and living quietly)."-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
"We find the same pattern in virtually every region of the world: the identity cleavage deepened and conflicts over boundaries intensified while the wealth cleavage weakened and criticism of wealth be…"-Thomas Piketty, Capital and Ideology
27. The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society
By: Binyamin Appelbaum
4.10
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
The Economists' Hour is the biography of a revolution: The story of how economists who believed in … read more
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28. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
By: Anne Case
3.81
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the f… read more
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"As Bertrand Russell once noted, among the strongest advocates that the poor should work more are the idle rich, who have never done any."-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"At a time when the American military was bombing the opium supply in Helmand province in Afghanistan, Johnson & Johnson was legally growing the raw material for the nation’s opioid supply in Tasma…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"It would be a tragedy if the profits of the drug trade were allowed to corrupt America and were later seen, as was the case in China a century and a half ago, as the beginning of a hundred years …"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
"As is often noted, and only partially in jest, economists seek to explain why people choose to commit suicide, while sociologists explain why they have no such choice. On suicide, the sociologists ha…"-Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
29. Medicine Wheel for the Planet: A Journey Toward Personal and Ecological Healing
By: Jennifer Grenz
4.26
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
A personal journey of bringing together Western science and Indigenous ecology to transform our und… read more
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