Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
By: Dan Davies
4.01
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out …
Want to Read $ 13.99"Denial, when you are not part of it, is actually quite a terrifying thing. One watches one’s fellow human beings doing things that will damage themselves, while being wholly unable to help."-Dan Davies, Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
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1. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
By: Bethany McLean , Peter Elkind
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Mengave readers the full s… read more
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2. Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
By: Charles T. Munger , None
4.42
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
EXPANDED THIRD EDITION includes Charlie's 2007 USC Law School Commencement address. Edited by Peter… read more
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"What are the secret of success? -one word answer :"rational"-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
"The best armour of old age is a well spent life preceding it."-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
"The best armour of old age is a well spent life perfecting it."-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
"How to find a good spouse? -the best single way is to deserve a good spouse."-Charles T. Munger, Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
3. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- nonfiction
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- history
- sociology
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
4. 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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5. 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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6. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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7. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter
By: Zoë Schiffer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more
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8. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
By: Bent Flyvbjerg
4.32
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more
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- economics
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9. The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
By: Duncan Mavin
4.07
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The inside story of one of the superstars of global FinTech, Lex Greensill, and his dramatic fall f… read more
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10. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth
By: Dan McCrum
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more
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11. Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
By: Scott J. Shapiro
3.96
Format: 420 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining account of the philosophy and technology of hacking--and why we all need to underst… read more
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- audiobook
"The problem with solutionism... It assumes that rationality has the tools to solve every problem. ... We think problems are decidable because we only see the decidable ones. We don't see the infinite…"-Scott J. Shapiro, Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
12. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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13. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency
By: Andy Greenberg
4.50
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrenc… read more
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14. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans
By: Jane Marie
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more
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15. The Missing Billionaires: A Guide to Better Financial Decisions
By: Victor Haghani
3.90
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Over the past century, if the wealthiest families had spent a reasonable fraction of their wealth, … read more
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16. 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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17. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever
By: Joseph Cox
4.12
Format: None pages, None
The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more
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18. Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
By: Dan Davies
4.01
Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition
Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out … read more
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"Denial, when you are not part of it, is actually quite a terrifying thing. One watches one’s fellow human beings doing things that will damage themselves, while being wholly unable to help."-Dan Davies, Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
19. 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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20. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
By: Nate Silver
3.84
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more
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