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Obliquity Summary
Obliquity
Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly
by John Kay 2010 224 pages
3.63
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Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations" Summary
Adam Smith's The "Wealth of Nations"
A Modern-day Interpretation of an Economic Classic
by Karen McCreadie 2009 128 pages
3.35
133 ratings
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Digital Gold Summary
Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
by Nathaniel Popper 2015 416 pages
4.15
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The Wealth of Networks Summary
The Wealth of Networks
How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom
by Yochai Benkler 2006 528 pages
3.96
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Our Dollar, Your Problem Summary
Our Dollar, Your Problem
An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
by Kenneth Rogoff 2025 360 pages
4.20
290 ratings
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Money Summary
Money
Know More, Make More, Give More
by Rob Moore 2017 224 pages
3.70
1.3K ratings
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Homelessness Is a Housing Problem Summary
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
by Gregg Colburn 2022 284 pages
4.22
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Urbanism
Against the Grain Summary
Against the Grain
A Deep History of the Earliest States
by James C. Scott 2017 312 pages
4.13
4.5K ratings
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Technical Analysis for Dummies Summary
Technical Analysis for Dummies
by Barbara Rockefeller 2004 384 pages
3.78
490 ratings
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Chaos Kings Summary
Chaos Kings
How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
by Scott Patterson 2023 335 pages
3.76
1.0K ratings
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MegaThreats Summary
MegaThreats
Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them
by Nouriel Roubini 2022 320 pages
3.76
945 ratings
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Where the Money Is Summary
Where the Money Is
Value Investing in the Digital Age
by Adam Seessel 2022 265 pages
4.22
703 ratings
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Apocalypse Never Summary
Apocalypse Never
Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All
by Michael Shellenberger 2020 272 pages
4.17
6.0K ratings
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Environment
Blood and Oil Summary
Blood and Oil
Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
by Bradley Hope 2020 368 pages
4.25
9.3K ratings
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Judgment In Managerial Decision Making Summary
Judgment In Managerial Decision Making
by Max H. Bazerman 1986 241 pages
3.97
525 ratings
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Mathletics Summary
Mathletics
How Gamblers, Managers, and Sports Enthusiasts Use Mathematics in Baseball, Basketball, and Football
by Wayne L. Winston 2009 376 pages
3.78
501 ratings
Sports
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Stock Market 101 Summary
Stock Market 101
From Bull and Bear Markets to Dividends, Shares, and Margins—Your Essential Guide to the Stock Market
by Michele Cagan 2016 282 pages
4.01
630 ratings
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The New Map Summary
The New Map
Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
by Daniel Yergin 2020 512 pages
4.19
5.3K ratings
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False Alarm Summary
False Alarm
How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
by Bjørn Lomborg 2020 320 pages
4.17
2.6K ratings
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Climate Change
Simpler Summary
Simpler
The Future of Government
by Cass R. Sunstein 2013 272 pages
3.57
522 ratings
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Law
Why Information Grows Summary
Why Information Grows
The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
by Cesar A. Hidalgo 2015 256 pages
3.97
1.5K ratings
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The Logic of Life Summary
The Logic of Life
The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
by Tim Harford 2008 213 pages
3.81
5.8K ratings
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Design for a Better World Summary
Design for a Better World
Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
by Donald A. Norman 2023 376 pages
3.58
167 ratings
Design
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Environment
Average Is Over Summary
Average Is Over
Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation
by Tyler Cowen 2013 304 pages
3.64
2.2K ratings
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Liberalism Summary
Liberalism
The Classical Tradition
by Ludwig von Mises 1927 203 pages
4.16
1.9K ratings
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Philosophy
The Behavioral Investor Summary
The Behavioral Investor
by Doctor Daniel Crosby 2018 280 pages
4.04
725 ratings
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Sway Summary
Sway
The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by Ori Brafman 2008 206 pages
3.78
19.7K ratings
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Moneyland Summary
Moneyland
Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How To Take It Back
by Oliver Bullough 2018 305 pages
4.19
6.7K ratings
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The Manual of Ideas Summary
The Manual of Ideas
The Proven Framework for Finding the Best Value Investments
by John Mihaljevic 2013 336 pages
4.07
912 ratings
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The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Summary
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins 2016 384 pages
3.93
8.0K ratings
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History
The Happiness Industry Summary
The Happiness Industry
How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
by William Davies 2015 320 pages
3.65
1.3K ratings
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Getting Beyond Better Summary
Getting Beyond Better
How Social Entrepreneurship Works
by Roger L. Martin 2015 272 pages
3.92
353 ratings
Business
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Entrepreneurship
Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts Summary
Best Practices for Equity Research Analysts
Essentials for Buy-Side and Sell-Side Analysts
by James J. Valentine 2010 464 pages
4.22
468 ratings
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Business
Economics
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market Summary
A Mathematician Plays The Stock Market
by John Allen Paulos 2003 224 pages
3.45
804 ratings
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Economics
Humans Are Underrated Summary
Humans Are Underrated
What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
by Geoff Colvin 2015 248 pages
3.79
766 ratings
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Psychology
The Rise of the Creative Class Summary
The Rise of the Creative Class
And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life
by Richard Florida 2002 434 pages
3.68
3.3K ratings
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The Broken Ladder Summary
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
by Keith Payne 2018 256 pages
4.21
3.9K ratings
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Economics
The Value of Everything Summary
The Value of Everything
Making and Taking in the Global Economy
by Mariana Mazzucato 2018 384 pages
4.08
3.5K ratings
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The Day the World Stops Shopping Summary
The Day the World Stops Shopping
How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
by J.B. MacKinnon 2021 336 pages
4.17
4.3K ratings
Environment
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Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market Summary
Man, Economy, and State / Power and Market
Government and Economy
by Murray N. Rothbard 1962 1544 pages
4.48
1.2K ratings
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The Mystery of Capital Summary
The Mystery of Capital
Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
by Hernando de Soto 2000 288 pages
3.99
4.3K ratings
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Phishing for Phools Summary
Phishing for Phools
The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
by George A. Akerlof 2015 288 pages
3.43
2.3K ratings
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Sacred Economics Summary
Sacred Economics
Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
by Charles Eisenstein 2011 469 pages
4.22
1.8K ratings
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A World of Three Zeros Summary
A World of Three Zeros
The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Net Carbon Emissions
by Muhammad Yunus 2017 304 pages
3.69
1.6K ratings
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Business
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The Silo Effect Summary
The Silo Effect
The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers
by Gillian Tett 2014 304 pages
3.76
1.1K ratings
Business
Management
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Growth Summary
Growth
A Reckoning
by Daniel Susskind 2024
3.79
449 ratings
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History
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Risk Savvy Summary
Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
by Gerd Gigerenzer 2013 336 pages
4.02
1.8K ratings
Psychology
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Science
Going Infinite Summary
Going Infinite
The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
by Michael Lewis 2023 272 pages
3.82
32.7K ratings
Business
Biography
Finance
Critical Chain Summary
Critical Chain
by Eliyahu M. Goldratt 1997 246 pages
4.02
4.0K ratings
Business
Management
Leadership
The White Coat Investor's Financial Boot Camp Summary
The White Coat Investor's Financial Boot Camp
A 12-Step High-Yield Guide to Bring Your Finances Up to Speed
by James M. Dahle 2019 264 pages
4.59
394 ratings
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