Economics Book Summaries

The Winner's Curse Summary
The Winner's Curse
Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life
by Richard H. Thaler 1991 240 pages
3.81
476 ratings
Economics
Finance
Psychology
The Green Collar Economy Summary
The Green Collar Economy
How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
by Van Jones 2008 256 pages
3.70
864 ratings
Economics
Environment
Sustainability
An Economist in the Real World Summary
An Economist in the Real World
by Kaushik Basu 2015 256 pages
4.04
219 ratings
Economics
India
Politics
The Lost Bank Summary
The Lost Bank
The Story of Washington Mutual-The Biggest Bank Failure in American History
by Kirsten Grind 2012 400 pages
4.12
1.1K ratings
Business
History
Finance
What Would the Great Economists Do? Summary
What Would the Great Economists Do?
How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
by Linda Yueh 2018 368 pages
3.67
961 ratings
Economics
History
Business
The Profit Paradox Summary
The Profit Paradox
How Thriving Firms Threaten the Future of Work
by Jan Eeckhout 2021 336 pages
3.94
262 ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Economics of Innocent Fraud Summary
The Economics of Innocent Fraud
Truth for Our Time
by John Kenneth Galbraith 2004 62 pages
3.62
508 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Development Economics Summary
Development Economics
by Debraj Ray 1998 872 pages
4.03
186 ratings
Economics
Textbooks
Academic
BOOM Summary
BOOM
Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
by Tony Horwitz 2014 116 pages
3.89
696 ratings
Travel
Politics
Environment
Rogue Trader Summary
Rogue Trader
by Nick Leeson 1996 365 pages
3.93
1.3K ratings
Finance
Biography
Business
What's Mine Is Yours Summary
What's Mine Is Yours
The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
by Rachel Botsman 2010
3.97
1.3K ratings
Business
Economics
Sociology
Open Innovation Results Summary
Open Innovation Results
Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business
by Henry Chesbrough 2020 224 pages
4.07
41 ratings
Business
Economics
Move Fast and Break Things Summary
Move Fast and Break Things
How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy
by Jonathan Taplin 2017 320 pages
3.59
1.5K ratings
Business
Technology
Politics
Broke, USA Summary
Broke, USA
From Pawnshops to Poverty, Inc. - How the Working Poor Became Big Business
by Gary Rivlin 2010 358 pages
3.71
1.1K ratings
Economics
Politics
Poverty
Too High to Fail Summary
Too High to Fail
Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution
by Doug Fine 2012 368 pages
3.75
260 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Start Your Own Corporation Summary
Start Your Own Corporation
Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them
by Garrett Sutton 2012 272 pages
4.15
822 ratings
Business
Finance
Money
The Happiness Equation Summary
The Happiness Equation
by Nattavudh Powdthavee 2010 256 pages
3.54
139 ratings
Personal Development
Economics
Social Science
Fire Your Boss Summary
Fire Your Boss
by Stephen M. Pollan 2004 288 pages
3.68
148 ratings
Business
Self Help
Psychology
Planet on Fire Summary
Planet on Fire
A Manifesto for the Age of Environmental Breakdown
by Mathew Lawrence 2021 289 pages
3.66
168 ratings
Environment
Politics
Climate Change
How to Actually Change Your Mind Summary
How to Actually Change Your Mind
by Eliezer Yudkowsky 2018 310 pages
4.30
268 ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Science
Not Working Summary
Not Working
Losing a Job in Today's Great Recession
by D.W. Gibson 2012 470 pages
3.69
58 ratings
Sociology
Economics
Universal Man Summary
Universal Man
The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
by Richard Davenport-Hines 2015 432 pages
3.69
202 ratings
Biography
Economics
History
Davos Man Summary
Davos Man
How the Billionaires Devoured the World
by Peter S. Goodman 2022 480 pages
3.92
1.3K ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
First Principles Summary
First Principles
Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity
by John Brian Taylor 2012 240 pages
3.64
106 ratings
Economics
Red Capitalism Summary
Red Capitalism
The Fragile Financial Foundation of China's Extraordinary Rise
by Carl E. Walter 2010 256 pages
3.85
453 ratings
China
Economics
History
101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy Summary
101 Things Everyone Needs to Know about the Global Economy
The Guide to Understanding International Finance, World Markets, and How They Can Affect Your Financial Future
by Michael Taillard 2012 256 pages
3.85
40 ratings
Economics
Defending the Free Market Summary
Defending the Free Market
The Moral Case for a Free Economy
by Robert Sirico 2012 256 pages
4.14
250 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
The New Elite Summary
The New Elite
Inside the Minds of the Truly Wealthy
by Jim Taylor 2008 245 pages
3.69
132 ratings
Business
Sociology
Economics
The Primal Prescription Summary
The Primal Prescription
Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole
by Doug McGuff 2015 463 pages
4.23
128 ratings
Health
Economics
Medicine
The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy Summary
The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy
How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
by Jim Marrs 2010 496 pages
3.91
729 ratings
Conspiracy Theories
History
Politics
Hall of Mirrors Summary
Hall of Mirrors
The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses - and Misuses - of History
by Barry Eichengreen 2014 520 pages
4.01
285 ratings
Economics
History
Finance
The Chief Financial Officer Summary
The Chief Financial Officer
What CFOs Do, the Influence they Have, and Why it Matters
by Jason Karaian 2014 160 pages
3.56
146 ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
A Beautiful Math Summary
A Beautiful Math
John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
by Tom Siegfried 2006 272 pages
3.60
379 ratings
Mathematics
Science
Economics
White Poverty Summary
White Poverty
How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy
by William J. Barber II 2024 270 pages
4.31
504 ratings
Politics
History
Social Justice
In an Uncertain World Summary
In an Uncertain World
Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
by Robert E. Rubin 2003 448 pages
3.70
654 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Freedomnomics Summary
Freedomnomics
Why the Free Market Works and Other Half-Baked Theories Don't
by John R. Lott Jr. 2007 275 pages
3.55
574 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Plutocrats Summary
Plutocrats
The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
by Chrystia Freeland 2012 352 pages
3.62
3.1K ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Meltdown Summary
Meltdown
A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and the Government Bailout Will Make Things Worse
by Thomas E. Woods Jr. 2009 194 pages
4.08
2.5K ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Amazon Summary
Amazon
How the World’s Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce
by Natalie Berg 2019 272 pages
3.76
190 ratings
Business
Biography
Economics
Innovation Summary
Innovation
A Very Short Introduction
by Mark Dodgson 2010 162 pages
3.30
185 ratings
Economics
Science
Psychology
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur Summary
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
by Philip Delves Broughton 2016 194 pages
3.76
202 ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Economics
Smarter Investing Summary
Smarter Investing
Simpler Decisions for Better Results
by Tim Hale 2006 301 pages
4.10
723 ratings
Finance
Personal Finance
Money
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
by Daniel Reingold 2006 368 pages
3.87
1.1K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Option of Urbanism Summary
The Option of Urbanism
Investing in a New American Dream
by Christopher B. Leinberger 2007 224 pages
3.89
185 ratings
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Cities
Default Summary
Default
The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring
by Gregory Makoff 2024 424 pages
4.37
193 ratings
Economics
Finance
Law
The Expertise Economy Summary
The Expertise Economy
How the smartest companies use learning to engage, compete, and succeed
by Kelly Palmer 2018 240 pages
3.98
170 ratings
Business
Economics
Education
How to Speak Money Summary
How to Speak Money
What the Money People Say — And What It Really Means
by John Lanchester 2014 288 pages
3.74
1.0K ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Aftermath Summary
Aftermath
by James Rickards 2019 336 pages
4.09
663 ratings
Economics
Finance
Money
The Theft of a Decade Summary
The Theft of a Decade
How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials' Economic Future
by Joseph C. Sternberg 2019 255 pages
3.39
208 ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Behind the Green Mask Summary
Behind the Green Mask
by Rosa Koire 2011 172 pages
4.27
363 ratings
Politics
Conspiracy Theories
History
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