The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
By: Scott Sumner
4.33
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The first book-length work on market monetarism, written by its leading scholar. Is it possible th…
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1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
By: Michael Lewis
4.30
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
The #1 New York Times bestseller: "It is the work of our greatest financial journalist, at the top … read more
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"Time is a variable continuum."-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the “originate and sell"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
"When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,"-Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
2. The Power of the Powerless
By: Václav Havel , John Keane
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, politica… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
3. Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
By: Barry Eichengreen
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
"Eichengreen's purpose is to provide a brief history of the international monetary system. In this,… read more
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- history
- politics
- finance
- nonfiction
- economics
- business
4. Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong
By: Eric Barker
4.11
Format: 224 pages, ebook
Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest…and downright wrong. In Ba… read more
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- nonfiction
- business
5. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
By: Liaquat Ahamed
4.19
Format: 144 pages,
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late … read more
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- history
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- nonfiction
- economics
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6. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
7. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
By: Ben Horowitz
3.61
Format: 8 pages, Hardcover
A lot of people talk about how great it is to start a business, but only Ben Horowitz is brutally h… read more
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8. The Communist Manifesto
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more
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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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- politics
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- history
- nonfiction
12. 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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- finance
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- economics
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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
13. 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
14. Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
By: Tyler Cowen
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The art and science of talent how to spot, assess, woo, and retain highly talented people. How do… read more
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- economics
- nonfiction
- business
15. 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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- politics
- nonfiction
- economics
- business
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
16. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- history
"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
17. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
By: Eric Jorgenson
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more
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- finance
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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
18. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
By: Abigail Shrier
4.06
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more
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"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
19. 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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- finance
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- economics
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20. The Matchmaker's Gift
By: Lynda Cohen Loigman
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From Lynda Cohen Loigman, the bestselling author of The Two-Family House and The Wartime Sisters, c… read more
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"A drop of love sometimes brings an ocean of tears."-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift
"If you can’t decide what you want to fight for, love is as good a cause as any."-Lynda Cohen Loigman, The Matchmaker's Gift
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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- nonfiction
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23. Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
By: Richard V. Reeves
4.07
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
"A landmark, one of the most important books of the year" - David Brooks, New York Times“Real, prac… read more
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- nonfiction
"True equality between groups that are different in any way can be attained only by providing for the differences". That´s Margaret Mead again, in 1974. Mead´s idea of true equality might now be label…"-Richard V. Reeves, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
24. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk
By: Billy Walters
3.84
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more
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25. Work: A History of How we spend our Time
By: James Suzman
3.85
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history of humankind through the prism of work by leading anthropologist James … read more
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- economics
- history
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"The equation of taxation and theft is as old as extortion"-James Suzman, Work: A History of How we spend our Time
26. The Shortest History of China
By: Linda Jaivin
4.01
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
From kung-fu to tofu, tea to trade routes, sages to silk, China has influenced cuisine, commerce, m… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
27. The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era
By: Gary Gerstle
4.19
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The most sweeping account of how neoliberalism came to dominate American politics for nearly a half… read more
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28. The Money Illusion: Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy
By: Scott Sumner
4.33
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
The first book-length work on market monetarism, written by its leading scholar. Is it possible th… read more
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29. Austerity: When It Works and When It Doesn't
By: Alberto Alesina
3.77
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
A timely and incisive look at austerity measures that succeed―and those that don’t Fiscal austerit… read more
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