6 best-selling business books like Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell

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Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

By: Bruce Caldwell

4.50

Format: 824 pages, Hardcover

A 2022 Economist Best Book of the Year. The definitive account of the distinguished economist’s for…

"The phrase “men of science"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

"The phrase “men of science"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

"Ayn Rand described Hayek’s book as “pure poison"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

"Ayn Rand described Hayek’s book as “pure poison"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

If you liked the business plot in Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Denationalisation of Money

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Friedrich A. Hayek's Denationalisation of Money book and Bruce Caldwell's Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
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2. Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

By: Jörg Guido Hülsmann

4.48

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Jörg Guido Hülsmann's Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism book and Bruce Caldwell's Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

  • history
  • economics
  • biography
  • nonfiction

3. Cryptonomicon

By: Neal Stephenson

4.26

Format: None pages, Paperback

Cryptonomicon zooms all over the world, careening conspiratorially back and forth between two time … read more

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4. The Road to Serfdom

By: Friedrich A. Hayek

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road … read more

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5. Shadows of the Empire

By: Steve Perry

3.62

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here is the untold story of the events that took place between the movies The Empire Strikes Backan… read more

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6. Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

By: Calder Walton

4.30

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, untold story of the hundred-year intelligence war between Russia and the West with le… read more

Similar categories in Calder Walton's Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West book and Bruce Caldwell's Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

  • nonfiction
  • history
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7. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

By: Irene Vallejo

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

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9. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

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"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

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10. Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

By: Ian Kershaw

4.19

Format: 666 pages, Hardcover

After the overwhelming horrors of the first half of the 20th century, described by Ian Kershaw in h… read more

Similar categories in Ian Kershaw's Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017 book and Bruce Caldwell's Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

  • nonfiction
  • history
"A continuing thread of Europe’s transformation over the seven decades since 1950 has been the central importance of Germany. Change here, in the country that did more than any other to destroy the co…"

-Ian Kershaw, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

"Most people in Europe in 1950 held views that seventy years later would be regarded as anathema. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (arising from their catastrophic breach during the Second Wo…"

-Ian Kershaw, Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

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11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By: Matthew Continetti

4.08

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism When most people t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of 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

13. 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
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World by Cade Metz

14. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By: Cade Metz

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • business
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"

-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

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15. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto

By: Kōhei Saitō

3.91

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
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16. Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe

By: Rachel Chrastil

3.84

Format: 485 pages, Hardcover

'Compassionate and thought-provoking history' Daily Telegraph'Superb on the human consequences of w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Chrastil's Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe book and Bruce Caldwell's Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
  • business
"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

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18. The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

By: Matthew L. Ball

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ― United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and China ( Wall Street Journal, … read more

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  • economics
  • nonfiction
  • business
Cover of Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times by Samuel Moyn

19. Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times

By: Samuel Moyn

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis     “[A] daring new book.”—Becca Rothfeld, Washin… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell

20. Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

By: Bruce Caldwell

4.50

Format: 824 pages, Hardcover

A 2022 Economist Best Book of the Year. The definitive account of the distinguished economist’s for… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Caldwell's Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 book and Bruce Caldwell's Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
"The phrase “men of science"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

"Ayn Rand described Hayek’s book as “pure poison"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

"Grandiose, pomp- ous, ever confident of his own brilliance (early in life he decided he had read enough, and thereafter practiced a “cerebral hygiene,"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

"Hayek was too polite to say so, but part of the problem was that Wick- sell wrote in German.6 In the Treatise Keynes had mentioned in passing his awareness of a “neo-Wicksell"

-Bruce Caldwell, Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950

12 Best history books like Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950 by Bruce Caldwell

Transform Your Habits

Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism

Jörg Guido Hülsmann

4.48

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Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West

Calder Walton

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Nellie Bowles

4.05

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El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

Irene Vallejo

4.26

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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

David Deutsch

4.18

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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

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Walter Isaacson

4.40

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The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There Is a Solution

Greg Lukianoff

3.93

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