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Finance books recommended most by investors, fund managers and entrepreneurs — valuation, markets, risk and personal finance. Plus the crash histories that explain the rules.

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Book cover for “Think and Grow Rich”
28 recommendations
Description

EXTREMELY USEFULL! IN EVERY chapter of this book, mention has been made of the money-making secret which has made fortunes for more than five hundred exceedingly wealthy men whom I have carefully analyzed over a long period of years.

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Book cover for “Antifragile”
Antifragile

Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)

24 recommendations
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Book cover for “Skin in the Game”
Skin in the Game

Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

16 recommendations
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Book cover for “The Changing World Order”
The Changing World Order

Why Nations Succeed and Fail

15 recommendations
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Book cover for “The Sovereign Individual”
The Sovereign Individual

Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

14 recommendations
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Book cover for “Economics in One Lesson”
Economics in One Lesson

The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics

13 recommendations
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Book cover for “Scale”
Scale

The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

13 recommendations
Description

The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks. The term ?complexity? can be misleading, however, because what makes West?s discoveries so beautiful is that he has found an underlying simplicity that unites the seemingly compl...

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No coverPoor Charlie's Almanack
Poor Charlie's Almanack

The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition

10 recommendations
Description

For the first time ever, the wit and wisdom of Charlie Munger is available in a single volume: all his talks, lectures and public commentary. And, it has been written and compiled with both Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett's encouragement and cooperation. So pull up your favorite reading chair and enjoy the unique humor, wit and insight that Charl...

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Book cover for “How to Lie with Statistics”
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Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way the results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform....

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Book cover for “The Bitcoin Standard”
The Bitcoin Standard

The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

8 recommendations
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No coverThe Price of Peace
The Price of Peace

Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

7 recommendations
Description

A pageturning biography of worldchanging economist John Maynard Keynes and the big ideas that outlived him.In the spring of 1934, Virginia Woolf sketched an affectionate biographical portrait of her great friend John Maynard Keynes. Writing a full two years before Keynes would revolutionize the economics world with the publication of The General ...

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Book cover for “Out of Control”
Out of Control

The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World

7 recommendations
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No coverBitcoin Billionaires
Bitcoin Billionaires

A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

7 recommendations
Description

The fascinating story of brothers Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss's big bet on cryptocurrency and its dazzling payoff.Planning to start careers as venture capitalists, the brothers quickly discover that no one will take their money after their fight with Zuckerberg. While nursing their wounds in Ibiza, they accidentally run into an eccentric charact...

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No coverAmericana
Americana

A 400Year History of American Capitalism

6 recommendations
Description

An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a fourhundredyear journey of this spirit of ...

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No coverMore Money Than God
More Money Than God

Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Council on Foreign Relations Books (Penguin Press))

6 recommendations
Description

"Splendid...the definitive history of the hedge fund, a compelling narrative full of largerthanlife characters and dramatic tales." The Washington Post Wealthy, powerful, and potentially dangerous, hedge fund moguls have become the It Boys of twenty-first century capitalism. Beating the market was long thought to be impossible, but hedge fund...

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No coverThe Future of Capitalism
The Future of Capitalism

Facing the New Anxieties

5 recommendations
Description

Bill Gates's Five Books for Summer Reading 2019From worldrenowned economist Paul Collier, a candid diagnosis of the failures of capitalism and a pragmatic and realistic vision for how we can repair it.Deep new rifts are tearing apart the fabric of the United States and other Western societies: thriving cities versus rural counties, the highly skil...

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No coverTriumph of the City
Triumph of the City

How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

5 recommendations
Description

A pioneering urban economist presents a mythshattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities.America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, ...

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5 recommendations
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How is it that the law enforcer itself does not have to keep the law How is it that the law permits the state to lawfully engage in actions which, if undertaken by individuals, would land them in jail These are among the most intriguing issues in political and economic philosophy. More specifically, the problem of law that itself violates law is ...

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Order Without Design

How Markets Shape Cities

5 recommendations
Description

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the groundthe width of streets, the minimum size of land parcels, the heig...

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No coverGive People Money
Give People Money

How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World

4 recommendations
Description

A brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic incomea stipend given to every citizenand why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling Technology,. Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become...

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No coverThe House of Morgan
The House of Morgan

An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance

4 recommendations
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The winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty. Acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as "brilliantly researched and written," the book tells the rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms ...

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Free to Choose

A Personal Statement

4 recommendations
Description

The international bestseller on the extent to which personal freedom has been eroded by government regulations and agencies while personal prosperity has been undermined by government spending and economic controls. New Foreword by the Authors; Index....

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No coverDoughnut Economics
Doughnut Economics

Seven Ways to Think Like a 21stCentury Economist

4 recommendations
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A Financial Times "Best Book of 2017: Economics"800CEORead "Best Business Book of 2017: Current Events & Public Affairs"Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decisionmaking for the future, guides multibilliondollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and socia...

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Natural Capitalism

Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

4 recommendations
Description

This groundbreaking book reveals how today's global businesses can be both environmentally responsible and highly profitable....

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Book cover for “Capital”
Capital

A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1

3 recommendations
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Book cover for “The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need”
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No coverMemos from the Chairman
3 recommendations
Description

"Ace Greenberg did almost everything better than I dobridge, magic tricks, dog training, and arbitrageall the important things in life." WARREN BUFFETT Alan C. Greenberg, the former chairman of Bear, Stearns, and a celebrated philanthropist, was known throughout the financial world for his biting, quirky but invaluable and wise memos. Read by...

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Book cover for “Profit First”
Profit First

Transform Your Business from a CashEating Monster to a MoneyMaking Machine

3 recommendations
Description

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses ...

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No coverMisbehaving
Misbehaving

The Making of Behavioral Economics

3 recommendations
Description

Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans?predictable, errorprone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth?and change the way we think about economics, ourselves...

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No coverThe Case Against Socialism
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A recent poll showed 43% of Americans think more socialism would be a good thing. What do these people not know Socialism has killed millions, but its now the ideology du jour on American college campuses and among many leftists. Reintroduced by leaders such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria OcasioCortez, the ideology manifests itself in starryey...

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No coverThe Quest
The Quest

Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

3 recommendations
Description

A master storyteller as well as a leading energy expert, Daniel Yergin continues the riveting story begun in his Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Prize. In The Quest, Yergin shows us how energy is an engine of global political and economic change and conflict, in a story that spans the energies on which our civilization has been built and the new e...

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No coverThe Wealth of Networks
The Wealth of Networks

How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom

3 recommendations
Description

With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thoughtprovoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diver...

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Book cover for “The Success Equation”
The Success Equation

Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing

3 recommendations
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No coverEducational Economics
Educational Economics

Where Do School Funds Go?

2 recommendations
Description

Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go examines education finance from the school's vantage point, explaining how the varied funding streams can prevent schools from delivering academic services that mesh with their stated priorities. As government budgets shrink, linking expenditures to student outcomes will be imperative. Educational Ec...

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Book cover for “The Idealist”
The Idealist

Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty

2 recommendations
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Book cover for “The Physics of Wall Street”
The Physics of Wall Street

A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

2 recommendations
Description

“Weatherall probes an epochal shift in financial strategizing with lucidity, explaining how it occurred and what it means for modern finance.”—Peter Galison, author of Einstein’s Clocks, Poincare’s MapsAfter the economic meltdown of 2008, many pundits placed the blame on “complex financial instruments” and the physicists and mathematicians who drea...

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Book cover for “Dollars and Sense”
Dollars and Sense

How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter

2 recommendations
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No coverCashing in on the American Dream
2 recommendations
Description

A brilliant and practical five year plan for all who dream of retiring while they're young and healthy enough to enjoy it. Provides clear advice on how to overcome the personal, financial and psychological obstacles....

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No coverThe Third Pillar
The Third Pillar

How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind

2 recommendations
Description

A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and farseeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization.Raghuram Rajan, distinguished University of Chicago professor, former IMF chief economist, head of India's central bank, and author of the 2010 FTGoldmanSach...

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No coverCapital Returns
Capital Returns

Investing Through the Capital Cycle

2 recommendations
Description

We live in an age of serial asset bubbles and spectacular busts. Economists, policymakers, central bankers and most people in the financial world have been blindsided by these busts, while investors have lost trillions. Economists argue that bubbles can only be spotted after they burst and that market moves are unpredictable. Yet Marathon Asset Man...

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No coverBureaucracy
2 recommendations
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Originally published by Yale University Press in 1944, Bureaucracy is a classic fundamental examination of the nature of bureaucracies and free markets in juxtaposition to various political systems. Bureaucracy contrasts the two forms of economic management—that of a free market economy and that of a bureaucracy. In the market economy entrepreneurs...

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Book cover for “Sacred Economics”
Sacred Economics

Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition

2 recommendations
Description

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme—but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity ...

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Poor Economics

A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

2 recommendations
Description

Why do the poor borrow to save Why do they miss out on free lifesaving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called ?marvelous, rewarding,? the au...

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No coverThe Road to Serfdom
2 recommendations
Description

An unimpeachable classic work in political philosophy, intellectual and cultural history, and economics, The Road to Serfdom has inspired and infuriated politicians, scholars, and general readers for half a century. Originally published in 1944when Eleanor Roosevelt supported the efforts of Stalin, and Albert Einstein subscribed lock, stock, and ba...

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Book cover for “The Dhandho Investor”
The Dhandho Investor

The LowRisk Value Method to High Returns

2 recommendations
Description

A comprehensive value investing framework for the individual investor In a straightforward and accessible manner, The Dhandho Investor lays out the powerful framework of value investing. Written with the intelligent individual investor in mind, this comprehensive guide distills the Dhandho capital allocation framework of the business savvy Patels f...

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Book cover for “The Infidel and the Professor”
The Infidel and the Professor

David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

2 recommendations
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendshipsand how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his religious skepticism and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith, now hailed as...

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No coverThe Great Convergence
The Great Convergence

Information Technology, and the New Globalization

2 recommendations
Description

An Economist Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Economics Book of the YearA Fast Company "7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter"Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today's wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1...

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No coverSmart Women Finish Rich
2 recommendations
Description

Updated and revised for a new generation, David Bach's classic money guide teaches women how to build stable financial wealth that lasts.With hundreds of thousands of copies in print around the world, Smart Women Finish Rich, by renowned financial adviser David Bach, has shown women of all ages and backgrounds how to take control of their financial...

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No coverThe Emotionally Intelligent Investor
The Emotionally Intelligent Investor

How self-awareness, empathy and intuition drive performance

2 recommendations
Description

The Emotionally Intelligent Investor challenges several longheld assumptions and beliefs, by asserting that a good investment approach starts with introspection. Too many investment gurus tell you to emulate their techniques despite the fact that you may have very different personality traits, motivations and biases. Would Shaquille O'Neal tell a ...

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Book cover for “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World”
Description

Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen.” This is one of those times when history has sped up. CNN host and bestselling author Fareed Zakaria helps readers to understand the nature of a postpandemic world: the political, social, technological, and economic impacts that may take years to unfold.In the...

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No coverGlobal Asset Allocation
Global Asset Allocation

A Survey of the World's Top Asset Allocation Strategies

1 recommendation
Description

With all of our focus on assets and how much and when to allocate them are we missing the bigger picture Our book begins by reviewing the historical performance record of popular assets like stocks, bonds, and cash. We look at the impact inflation has on our money. We then start to examine how diversification through combining assets, in this ...

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Book cover for “Land of Promise”
Land of Promise

An Economic History of the United States

1 recommendation
Description

A sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of Americas leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story of Americas rise to become the worlds dominant economy. As ideological free marketers continue to square off against Keynesians in Congress and the press, economic policy remains at the center of political...

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Book cover for “Trend Following”
Trend Following

How to Make a Fortune in Bull, Bear and Black Swan Markets (Wiley Trading)

1 recommendation
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Want to take the financial journey to a new investing philosophy that might very well affect the rest of your moneymaking life No one can guarantee the yellow brick road, but Michael Covel promises the red pill will leave you wide freaking awake.Trend Following reveals the truth about a trading strategy that makes money in up, down and surprise ma...

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No coverThe Little Book of Market Wizards
The Little Book of Market Wizards

Lessons from the Greatest Traders

1 recommendation
Description

An accessible look at the art of investing and how to adopt the practices of top professionals What differentiates the highly successful market practitionersthe Market Wizardsfrom ordinary traders What traits do they share What lessons can the average trader learn from those who achieved superior returns for decades while still maintaining stri...

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No coverHedge Fund Market Wizards
Hedge Fund Market Wizards

How Winning Traders Win

1 recommendation
Description

Fascinating insights into the hedge fund traders who consistently outperform the markets, in their own wordsFrom bestselling author, investment expert, and Wall Street theoretician Jack Schwager comes a behindthescenes look at the world of hedge funds, from fifteen traders who've consistently beaten the markets. Exploring what makes a great trade...

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No coverRed Plenty
1 recommendation
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Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous. The Times (London)Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentiethcentury magic called the planned economy, which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism cou...

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Book cover for “The Daily Trading Coach”
1 recommendation
Description

Every trader is an entrepreneur. And just as a new business must capitalize upon the strengths of its founders, a career in the markets crucially hinges upon the assets?personal and monetary?of the trader. As an active trader and a coach of traders in hedge funds, proprietary trading groups, and investment bank settings, author Brett Steenbarger ha...

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Book cover for “This Changes Everything”
This Changes Everything

Capitalism vs. The Climate

1 recommendation
Description

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon ? it's about capitalism. The good news is that we can seize this crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better.In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers Shock Doctrine and No Logo, exposes the ...

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Book cover for “Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant”
Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant

Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom

1 recommendation
Description

The Cashflow Quadrant is the followup guide to finding the financial fast track that best works for you. It reveals the strategies necessary for moving beyond just job security to greater financial security by generating wealth from four selective financial quadrants. This work will reveal why some people work less, earn more, pay less in taxes, a...

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No coverThe Economists' Hour
The Economists' Hour

False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

1 recommendation
Description

The Economists' Hour is the biography of a revolution: The story of how economists who believed in the power and the glory of free markets transformed the business of government, the conduct of business and, as a result, the patterns of everyday life. In the four decades between 1969 and 2008, these economists played a leading role in reshaping tax...

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No cover23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism
Description

The acclaimed HaJoon Chang is a voice of sanityand witin this lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists have spun since the Age of Reagan. 23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism uses twentythree short essays (a few great example...

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No coverEconomics
1 recommendation
Description

Samuelson's text was first published in 1948, and it immediately became the authority for the principles of economics courses. The book continues to be the standardbearer for principles courses, and this revision continues to be a clear, accurate, and interesting introduction to modern economics principles. Bill Nordhaus is now the primary author ...

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Book cover for “Cryptoassets”
Cryptoassets

The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond

1 recommendation
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No coverThe Index Card
The Index Card

Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be Complicated

Description

TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated and if you don?t follow their guidance, you?ll end up in the poorhouse. They?re wrong. When University of Chicago professor Harold Pollack interviewed Helaine Olen, an awardwinning financial journalist and the author of the bestselling Pound Foolish, he ...

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No coverBroke Millennial
Broke Millennial

Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Description

Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck and Get Your Financial Life Together (#GYFLT)! If you're a cashstrapped 20 or 30something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping by and take control of your money and your life with this savvy and smart...

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No coverSoccernomics
Description

Soccernomics' applies highpowered analytical tools to everyday football topics. It's about looking at data in new ways, revealing counterintuitive truths about football and explaining all manner of things about the game which newspapers just can't see....

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No coverAccounting Made Simple
Accounting Made Simple

Accounting Explained in 100 Pages or Less

Description

Find all of the following explained in PlainEnglish with no technical jargon: The Accounting Equation and why it's so significant How to read and prepare financial statements How to calculate and interpret several different financial ratios The concepts and assumptions behind Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Preparing journal entrie...

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No coverThe Art of Strategy
The Art of Strategy

A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life

Description

?I am hard pressed to think of another book that can match the combination of practical insights and reading enjoyment.??Steven LevittGame theory means rigorous strategic thinking. It?s the art of anticipating your opponent?s next moves, knowing full well that your rival is trying to do the same thing to you. Though parts of game theory involve sim...

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No coverMastering the VC Game
Mastering the VC Game

A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Startup to IPO on Your Terms

Description

"Read this book right now so you can look your potential VC in the eye with confidence." David Meerman Scott, author of The New Rules of Marketing & PR Finding the right venture capitalist to back your startup is a challenge. Even if you manage to get backing, you want your VC to be a partner, not some dictator who will undermine your vision and ...

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Book cover for “Financially Fearless”
Financially Fearless

The LearnVest Program for Taking Control of Your Money

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Book cover for “The Armchair Economist”
The Armchair Economist

Economics and Everyday Life

Description

The extensively revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg?s hugely popular book, The Armchair Economist??a delightful compendium of quotidian examples illustrating important economic and financial theories? (The Journal of Finance).In this revised and updated edition of Steven Landsburg?s hugely popular book, he applies economic theory to tod...

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Book cover for “The Dragon's Gift”
The Dragon's Gift

The Real Story of China in Africa

Description

Is China a rogue donor, as some media pundits suggest Or is China helping the developing world pave a pathway out of poverty, as the Chinese claim In the last few years, China's aid program has leapt out of the shadows. Media reports about huge aid packages, support for pariah regimes, regiments of Chinese labor, and the ruthless exploitation of ...

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No coverA Beginner's Guide to Day Trading Online
Description

The national bestseller?updated for the new stock market!"Read the book if you want to know how the market works and how to make it work for you." ?Greg Capra, president of Pristine.com, coauthor of Tools and Tactics for the Master Day Trader"By using the tools, trading tactics and strategies revealed in...A Beginner's Guide to Day Trading Online, ...

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No coverOverdressed
Overdressed

The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

Description

Until recently, Elizabeth Cline was a typical American consumer. She?d grown accustomed to shopping at outlet malls, discount stores like T.J. Maxx, and cheap but trendy retailers like Forever 21, Target, and H&M. She was buying a new item of clothing almost every week (the national average is sixtyfour per year) but all she had to show for it was...

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Book cover for “Buy It, Rent It, Profit!”
Buy It, Rent It, Profit!

Make Money as a Landlord in ANY Real Estate Market

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Available recommendation signals cluster around Finance, NonFiction, Business lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for business judgment, leadership, or practical strategy. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.
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No coverGetting Started in Technical Analysis
Description

Technical analysis is the art and science of deciphering chart patterns in order to better analyze and predict prices of a given security. Jack Schwager demystifies technical analysis for investors, introducing them to oscillators, priceandtime charts, online charting applications, and much more....

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Book cover for “EvidenceBased Technical Analysis”
EvidenceBased Technical Analysis

Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals

Description

EvidenceBased Technical Analysis examines how you can apply the scientific method, and recently developed statistical tests, to determine the true effectiveness of technical trading signals. Throughout the book, expert David Aronson provides you with comprehensive coverage of this new methodology, which is specifically designed for evaluating the ...

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No coverThe Great Surge
The Great Surge

The Ascent of the Developing World

Description

The untold story of the global poor: ?Powerful, lucid, and revelatory, The Great Surge?offers indispensable prescriptions about sustaining global economic progress into the future? (George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management).We live today at a time of great progress for the global poor. Never before have so many people, in so many developing ...

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No coverBuy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat
Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat

The BRRRR Rental Property Investment Strategy Made Simple

Description

Over 30,000 units sold of David Greene's first bestseller, LongDistance Real Estate Investing!Invest in real estate and never run out of money using the hottest strategy in the real estate world!For years, investors have built wealth through real estate the hard way: saving money slowly and sacrificing their current happiness for a future reward. ...

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No coverThe Book on Flipping Houses
The Book on Flipping Houses

How to Buy, Rehab, and Resell Residential Properties (FixandFlip (1))

Description

Entirely revised and updated!Are you inspired to leave your 9to5 job and start flipping houses Written by expert real estate fixandflipper J Scott, this book details everything you need to know to successfully flip a house in one single handbook: Find a great investment, learn how to fix it up, and walk away with profit. In this completely rev...

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No coverEconomic Facts and Fallacies
Description

Economic Facts and Fallacies exposes some of the most popular fallacies about economic issuesand does so in a lively manner and without requiring any prior knowledge of economics by the reader. These include many beliefs widely disseminated in the media and by politicians, such as mistaken ideas about urban problems, income differences, malefemal...

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No coverOptions, Futures, and Other Derivatives
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For graduate courses in business, economics, financial mathematics, and financial engineering; for advanced undergraduate courses with students who have good quantitative skills; and for practitioners involved in derivatives markets Practitioners refer to it as ?the bible;? in the university and college marketplace it?s the best seller; and now it...

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No coverTaxes Made Simple
Taxes Made Simple

Income Taxes Explained in 100 Pages or Less

Description

Find all of the following, explained in plainEnglish with no legal jargon: The difference between deductions and credits Itemized deductions vs. the standard deduction Several moneysaving deductions and credits and how to make sure you qualify for them How to calculate your refund How to know which tax forms to fill out State income taxes Alterna...

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Book cover for “Advances in Financial Machine Learning”
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Machine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today ML algorithms accomplish tasks that until recently only expert humans could perform. As it relates to finance, this is the most exciting time to adopt a disruptive Technology, that will transform how everyone invests for generations. Readers will learn how to structure Big ...

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No coverThe ABCs of Real Estate Investing
The ABCs of Real Estate Investing

The Secrets of Finding Hidden Profits Most Investors Miss (Rich Dad's Advisors (Paperback))

Description

This book will teach you how to:? Achieve wealth and cash flow through real estate? Find property with real potential? Show you how to unlock the myths that are holding you back? Negotiating the deal based on the numbers? Evaluate property and purchase price? Increase your income through proven property management tools...

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Book cover for “A Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market”
A Beginner's Guide to the Stock Market

Everything You Need to Start Making Money Today

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Learn to make money in the stock market, even if you've never traded before.The stock market is the greatest opportunity machine ever created.Are you ready to get your piece of itThis book will teach you everything that you need to know to start making money in the stock market today.Don't gamble with your hardearned money.If you are going to mak...

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Book cover for “All Your Worth”
All Your Worth

The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan

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No coverNarrative and Numbers
Narrative and Numbers

The Value of Stories in Business (Columbia Business School Publishing)

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How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation Why do some startups attract large investments while others do not Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take ri...

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No coverThe Real Estate Game
The Real Estate Game

The Intelligent Guide To Decisionmaking And Investment

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The Real Estate Game is a comprehensive guide to successful real estate investment from one of the masters in the field. Drawing upon four decades of experience developing, owning, and managing properties and on almost thirty years of teaching at the Harvard Business School, William J. Poorvu offers an insider's perspective on how to make smart dec...

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No coverBuilding Wealth One House at a Time
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Make your first million and earn a steady income with this updated, essential guide to real estate investingThe collapse in real estate prices from 2007 through 2012 was the most significant event in the real estate industry since the Great Depression. But today, with the real estate market rebounding, a new generation of investors is entering the ...

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No coverIrrational Exuberance
Irrational Exuberance

Revised and Expanded Third Edition

Description

In this revised, updated, and expanded edition of his New York Times bestseller, Nobel Prizewinning economist Robert Shiller, who warned of both the tech and housing bubbles, cautions that signs of irrational exuberance among investors have only increased since the 20089 financial crisis. With high stock and bond prices and the rising cost of hou...

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Book cover for “Radicals for Capitalism”
Radicals for Capitalism

A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement

Description

On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many books talk about libertarian ideas, none unti...

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No coverA Wealth of Common Sense
A Wealth of Common Sense

Why Simplicity Trumps Complexity in Any Investment Plan (Bloomberg)

Description

A simple guide to a smarter strategy for the individual investor"A Wealth of Common Sense" sheds a refreshing light on investing, and shows you how a simplicitybased framework can lead to better investment decisions. The financial market is a complex system, but that doesn't mean it requires a complex strategy; in fact, this false premise is the d...

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Book cover for “Mastering the Trade, Third Edition”
Mastering the Trade, Third Edition

Proven Techniques for Profiting from Intraday and Swing Trading Setups

Description

The essential guide to launching a successful career in tradingupdated for today's turbulent markets"Mastering the Trade is an excellent source for a basic understanding of market action, be it day and/or longerterm trend trading. A programmer will have a field day with the many ideas that are in this book. It is highly recommended."John Hill,...

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No coverThe LIBERTARIAN READER
The LIBERTARIAN READER

Classic & Contemporary Writings from LaoTzu to Milton Friedman

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The first collection of seminal writings on a movement that is rapidly changing the face of American politics, The Libertarian Reader links some of the most fertile minds of our time to a centuriesold commitment to freedom, selfdetermination, and opposition to intrusive government. A movement that today counts among its supporters Steve Forbes, N...

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Book cover for “Technical Analysis Explained, Fifth Edition”
Technical Analysis Explained, Fifth Edition

The Successful Investor's Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points by Pring, Martin J. (2014) Paperback

Description

The guide technicians turn to for answerstuned upto provide an advantage in today's global economy The face of investing has significantly changed in the 30 years since this book's first publication, but one essential component of the markets has nothuman behavior. Whether you're trading cornerstone commodities or innovative investment products...

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Book cover for “One Good Trade”
One Good Trade

Inside the Highly Competitive World of Proprietary Trading

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An inside look at what it really takes to become a better trader A proprietary trading firm consists of a group of professionals who trade the capital of the firm. Their income and livelihood is generated solely from their ability to take profits consistently out of the markets. The world of prop trading is mentally and emotionally challenging, but...

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No coverThe Little Book That Beats the Market
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Two years in MBA school won't teach you how to double the market's return. Two hours with The Little Book That Beats the Market will. In The Little Book, Joel Greenblatt, Founder and Managing Partner at Gotham Capital (with average annualized returns of 40% for over 20 years), does more than simply set out the basic principles for successful stock ...

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No coverGod of the Machine
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The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943, Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered American belief in individual rights, limited government, and economic freedom. The crisis of to...

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No coverThe Wealthy Barber
The Wealthy Barber

Everyone's Commonsense Guide to Becoming Financially Independent

Description

" . . . quite simply the best financial selfhelp book."Money Book Club, BookoftheMonth ClubIn this new and updated edition of one of the biggestselling financialplanning books ever, David Chilton simplifies the complex puzzles of personal finance and helps you achieve financial independence. With the help of his fictional barber, Roy, and a...

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