9 best-selling finance books like Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou

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Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

By: Brendan Ballou

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme…

If you liked the finance plot in Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swisher's Burn Book: A Tech Love Story book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
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2. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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3. 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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4. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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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

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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6. Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

By: Brendan Ballou

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The authoritative exposé of private what it is, how it kills businesses and jobs, how the governme… read more

Similar categories in Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • cultural
  • american history
  • history
  • americana
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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7. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

By: Henry Grabar

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly infl… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
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9. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

By: Dana Mattioli

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Michael Lewis's Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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11. 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

Similar categories in Rob Copeland's The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • history
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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12. 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

Similar categories in Zoë Schiffer's Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
  • audiobook
Cover of Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win by Sachin Khajuria

13. Two and Twenty: How the Masters of Private Equity Always Win

By: Sachin Khajuria

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first true insider’s account of private equity, revealing what it takes to thrive among the wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • finance
  • business
Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

14. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Brendan Ballou's Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America

  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market by Naomi Oreskes

15. The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market

By: Naomi Oreskes

4.42

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling authors of Merchants of Doubt offer a profound, startling history of one of America… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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16. Private Equity: A Memoir

By: Carrie Sun

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indict… read more

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  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
"A gift weighed down by the imposition of gratitude becomes an expectation; over time, it becomes debt."

-Carrie Sun, Private Equity: A Memoir

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17. These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

By: Gretchen Morgenson

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times bestselling financial jour… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • finance
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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18. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present

By: Fareed Zakaria

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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19. Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream

By: David Leonhardt

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the decline of the American D… read more

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  • cultural
  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook
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20. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

By: Ernest Scheyder

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Reuters reporter Ernest Scheyder reveals the trillion-dollar battle for the resources to … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • business
  • audiobook

18 must-read audiobook books like Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America by Brendan Ballou

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

Zeke Faux

4.26

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21 Top audiobook books like Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

Transform Your Habits

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

Brian Klaas

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

Transform Your Habits

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Becca Rothfeld

3.76

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