Best Economics Books | Summaries & Audio

Economics Book Summaries

Sway

by Ori Brafman • 2008

Seven invisible biases that make rational people overpay, overstay, and reject free money.

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💰 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👀 Value Perception 🗣️ Groupthink 🎯 Incentive Design

Sway

Seven invisible biases that make rational people overpay, overstay, and reject free money.

by Ori Brafman 2008 206 pages

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19k+ ratings

💰 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👀 Value Perception 🗣️ Groupthink 🎯 Incentive Design

The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor

by Amanda Han • 2019

Real estate investors miss legal tax breaks in entity choice, depreciation, and retirement accounts.

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🏠 Real Estate Taxation 📋 Tax Deduction Strategies 🏢 Entity Structuring 🏦 Self-Directed Retirement Accounts 📜 Estate Tax Planning

The Book on Tax Strategies for the Savvy Real Estate Investor

Real estate investors miss legal tax breaks in entity choice, depreciation, and retirement accounts.

by Amanda Han 2019 198 pages

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1k+ ratings

🏠 Real Estate Taxation 📋 Tax Deduction Strategies 🏢 Entity Structuring 🏦 Self-Directed Retirement Accounts 📜 Estate Tax Planning

The small BIG

by Robert B. Cialdini • 2014

Persuasion runs on tiny levers: one sentence, a number, a name. Big arguments rarely move anyone.

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🤓 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Social Psychology 🧪 Persuasion Science 🤏 Nudge Theory 👥 Social Proof

The small BIG

Persuasion runs on tiny levers: one sentence, a number, a name. Big arguments rarely move anyone.

by Robert B. Cialdini 2014 288 pages

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🤓 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Social Psychology 🧪 Persuasion Science 🤏 Nudge Theory 👥 Social Proof

The One-Page Financial Plan

by Carl Richards • 2015

The financial plan that matters most fits on one page and starts before the numbers.

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📊 Financial Planning 🧠 Behavioral Finance 🪴 Financial Minimalism 💡 Values-Based Finance 📈 Evidence-Based Investing

The One-Page Financial Plan

The financial plan that matters most fits on one page and starts before the numbers.

by Carl Richards 2015 224 pages

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📊 Financial Planning 🧠 Behavioral Finance 🪴 Financial Minimalism 💡 Values-Based Finance 📈 Evidence-Based Investing

The Choice Factory

by Richard Shotton • 2018

Twenty-five behavioral biases steer every purchase. Here's what they are and how to use them.

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📢 Advertising Psychology 📊 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Consumer Behavior 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Proof

The Choice Factory

Twenty-five behavioral biases steer every purchase. Here's what they are and how to use them.

by Richard Shotton 2018 202 pages

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📢 Advertising Psychology 📊 Behavioral Economics 🛒 Consumer Behavior 🧠 Cognitive Biases 👥 Social Proof

The Great Displacement

by Jake Bittle • 2023

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

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🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration 💧 Water Crisis 🚒 Disaster Recovery

The Great Displacement

Climate disasters are displacing millions; housing markets and insurance can't keep up.

by Jake Bittle 2023 368 pages

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🌍 Climate Migration ⚖️ Environmental Justice 🇺🇸 American Migration 💧 Water Crisis 🚒 Disaster Recovery

Applied Economics

by Thomas Sowellm • 2003

Popular policies trade visible benefits for invisible costs. Applied economics reads the price tag.

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🗳️ Political Economy 🔮 Unintended Consequences 🧠 Economic Reasoning 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Immigration Economics

Applied Economics

Popular policies trade visible benefits for invisible costs. Applied economics reads the price tag.

by Thomas Sowellm 2003 348 pages

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🗳️ Political Economy 🔮 Unintended Consequences 🧠 Economic Reasoning 🏠 Property Rights 🌍 Immigration Economics

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

by Aaron Bastani • 2018

Technology is ending scarcity. The real question is who gets to own the abundance.

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌅 Post-Capitalism 🪐 Post-Scarcity Economics ⚡ Left Accelerationism 🤖 Future Of Work

Fully Automated Luxury Communism

Technology is ending scarcity. The real question is who gets to own the abundance.

by Aaron Bastani 2018 278 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 🌅 Post-Capitalism 🪐 Post-Scarcity Economics ⚡ Left Accelerationism 🤖 Future Of Work

Doyle Brunson's Super System

by Doyle Brunson • 2002

The original No Limit bible: why people beat cards, how aggression wins, when to risk everything.

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🃏 Poker Strategy ♠️ No Limit Hold'em 🧠 Poker Psychology 🏆 Tournament Poker 👀 Poker Tells

Doyle Brunson's Super System

The original No Limit bible: why people beat cards, how aggression wins, when to risk everything.

by Doyle Brunson 2002 605 pages

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🃏 Poker Strategy ♠️ No Limit Hold'em 🧠 Poker Psychology 🏆 Tournament Poker 👀 Poker Tells

Stone Age Economics

by Marshall Sahlins • 1974

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

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🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 🔗 Embedded Economies 🤝 Reciprocity

Stone Age Economics

Hunters and gatherers worked a few hours daily and wanted little. Scarcity is a modern invention.

by Marshall Sahlins 1974 362 pages

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500+ ratings

🏛️ Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 🏹 Hunter-Gatherer Societies 🔗 Embedded Economies 🤝 Reciprocity

Moneyland

by Oliver Bullough • 2018

Stolen wealth has a home: a borderless financial nation built by Western lawyers and accountants.

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🔒 Financial Secrecy 💰 Kleptocracy 🧺 Money Laundering 🌐 Global Corruption

Moneyland

Stolen wealth has a home: a borderless financial nation built by Western lawyers and accountants.

by Oliver Bullough 2018 413 pages

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🏝️ Offshore Finance 🔒 Financial Secrecy 💰 Kleptocracy 🧺 Money Laundering 🌐 Global Corruption

Uncommon Service

by Frances Frei • 2012

The counterintuitive rule of service: to be great, you must first decide where to be bad.

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🎨 Service Design 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Customer Experience ⚖️ Strategic Trade-Offs 🤝 Customer Co-Creation 📈 Scaling Operations

Uncommon Service

The counterintuitive rule of service: to be great, you must first decide where to be bad.

by Frances Frei 2012 272 pages

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🎨 Service Design 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Customer Experience ⚖️ Strategic Trade-Offs 🤝 Customer Co-Creation 📈 Scaling Operations

Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin • 2008

Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.

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🧠 Intellectual Property 💡 Innovation Economics 💸 Rent-Seeking 🔬 Multiple Discovery 🔓 Open Innovation

Against Intellectual Monopoly

Patents and copyrights were meant to fuel invention. The evidence shows they mostly slow it down.

by Michele Boldrin 2008 312 pages

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395 ratings

🧠 Intellectual Property 💡 Innovation Economics 💸 Rent-Seeking 🔬 Multiple Discovery 🔓 Open Innovation

A History of Bangladesh

by Willem van Schendel • 2009

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

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🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 📜 Longue DuréE History

A History of Bangladesh

A delta shaped by rivers and monsoons, not just by kings: the deep past of Bangladesh.

by Willem van Schendel 2009 374 pages

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🗺️ South Asian History 🌿 Environmental History ✂️ Partition Of India 🏛️ Colonial Legacies 📜 Longue DuréE History

Designing Regenerative Cultures

by Daniel Christian Wahl • 2016

Designing as separate from nature broke the planet. Regenerative cultures learn from living systems.

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🔄 Regenerative Design 🌍 Ecological Economics 🧠 Systems Thinking 🦎 Biomimicry 🌳 Deep Ecology

Designing Regenerative Cultures

Designing as separate from nature broke the planet. Regenerative cultures learn from living systems.

by Daniel Christian Wahl 2016 288 pages

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🔄 Regenerative Design 🌍 Ecological Economics 🧠 Systems Thinking 🦎 Biomimicry 🌳 Deep Ecology

Phishing for Phools

by George A. Akerlof • 2015

Your blind spots are a business model. Free markets reward deception as reliably as innovation.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔧 Market Failures 🎯 Consumer Manipulation ⚡ Cognitive Biases 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Phishing for Phools

Your blind spots are a business model. Free markets reward deception as reliably as innovation.

by George A. Akerlof 2015 288 pages

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2k+ ratings

🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔧 Market Failures 🎯 Consumer Manipulation ⚡ Cognitive Biases 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

The Color of Law

by Richard Rothstein • 2017

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

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🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Planning ⚖️ Systemic Racism

The Color of Law

Federal policy, not private prejudice, segregated America. The proof is in the mortgage manuals.

by Richard Rothstein 2017 368 pages

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🏘️ Residential Segregation 🔴 Redlining 🏛️ Housing Policy 🏙️ Urban Planning ⚖️ Systemic Racism

The Fish That Ate the Whale

by Rich Cohen • 2012

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

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🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

The Fish That Ate the Whale

Penniless at fourteen, he built a banana empire that toppled governments and coined banana republic.

by Rich Cohen 2012 288 pages

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🍌 Banana Republics 🏛️ Corporate Imperialism 🧳 Immigrant Entrepreneurs 🇺🇸 American Imperialism 💼 Corporate Power

The Infinite Machine

by Camila Russo • 2020

What happens when a decentralized revolution turns out to depend on one 23-year-old?

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⛓️ Cryptocurrency History 🤖 Smart Contract Platforms 🏦 Decentralized Finance 🌐 Internet Governance 📰 Tech Journalism

The Infinite Machine

What happens when a decentralized revolution turns out to depend on one 23-year-old?

by Camila Russo 2020 320 pages

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⛓️ Cryptocurrency History 🤖 Smart Contract Platforms 🏦 Decentralized Finance 🌐 Internet Governance 📰 Tech Journalism

Profit and Punishment

by Tony Messenger • 2021

When courts depend on fines to stay open, the poor become the revenue.

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🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration ⚖️ Systemic Inequality 💰 Policing Poverty 🔍 Investigative Journalism

Profit and Punishment

When courts depend on fines to stay open, the poor become the revenue.

by Tony Messenger 2021 260 pages

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🏛️ Criminal Justice Reform 🔗 Mass Incarceration ⚖️ Systemic Inequality 💰 Policing Poverty 🔍 Investigative Journalism

The Uncertainty Solution

by John M. Jennings • 2023

Ditch prediction. Invest with a simple, psychology-backed plan for an unknowable future.

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📈 Investing 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🌪️ Market Uncertainty ⏲️ Market Timing 🔮 Market Prediction

The Uncertainty Solution

Ditch prediction. Invest with a simple, psychology-backed plan for an unknowable future.

by John M. Jennings 2023 288 pages

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📈 Investing 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🌪️ Market Uncertainty ⏲️ Market Timing 🔮 Market Prediction

The Art of Risk

by Kayt Sukel • 2016

Risk is a brain calculation, not a character trait. The neurobiology of better decisions.

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🧐 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Neuroscience Of Choice 🔍 Cognitive Biases ❤️ Emotional Regulation 📈 Stress And Performance

The Art of Risk

Risk is a brain calculation, not a character trait. The neurobiology of better decisions.

by Kayt Sukel 2016 288 pages

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141 ratings

🧐 Behavioral Economics 🧠 Neuroscience Of Choice 🔍 Cognitive Biases ❤️ Emotional Regulation 📈 Stress And Performance

80,000 Hours

by Benjamin Todd • 2016

The counterintuitive math of doing good: why a corporate paycheck often beats a charity job.

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🧭 Career Strategy 🌍 Social Impact Careers 🎓 Effective Altruism 🌐 Global Problems 🧪 Career Experiments

80,000 Hours

The counterintuitive math of doing good: why a corporate paycheck often beats a charity job.

by Benjamin Todd 2016 276 pages

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🧭 Career Strategy 🌍 Social Impact Careers 🎓 Effective Altruism 🌐 Global Problems 🧪 Career Experiments

Elliott Wave Principle

by A.J. Frost • 1978

Market patterns driven by crowd mood: a method for reading them and forecasting the next turn.

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📈 Technical Analysis 🔄 Market Cycles 🧠 Crowd Psychology 🔢 Fibonacci Trading 🎭 Socionomics

Elliott Wave Principle

Market patterns driven by crowd mood: a method for reading them and forecasting the next turn.

by A.J. Frost 1978 244 pages

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500+ ratings

📈 Technical Analysis 🔄 Market Cycles 🧠 Crowd Psychology 🔢 Fibonacci Trading 🎭 Socionomics

Game Theory

by Ken Binmore • 2007

Auctions, bargains, and why evolution sometimes favors cooperation: a concise tour of game theory.

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🧮 Game Theory ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🤝 Cooperation And Conflict 🧬 Evolutionary Game Theory 🔢 Rational Choice Theory

Game Theory

Auctions, bargains, and why evolution sometimes favors cooperation: a concise tour of game theory.

by Ken Binmore 2007 208 pages

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🧮 Game Theory ♟️ Strategic Thinking 🤝 Cooperation And Conflict 🧬 Evolutionary Game Theory 🔢 Rational Choice Theory

The Way to Wealth

by Benjamin Franklin • 1757

Work harder, owe nothing, and make every minute pay: Franklin's three-part formula for wealth.

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💰 Thrift And Frugality ⏳ Time Management 🗽 Financial Independence 🔓 Debt Freedom 📈 Compound Interest

The Way to Wealth

Work harder, owe nothing, and make every minute pay: Franklin's three-part formula for wealth.

by Benjamin Franklin 1757 40 pages

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💰 Thrift And Frugality ⏳ Time Management 🗽 Financial Independence 🔓 Debt Freedom 📈 Compound Interest

The People vs. Democracy

by Yascha Mounk • 2018

Populists dismantle institutions; unelected courts rule from above; split tearing democracy apart.

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🏛️ Liberal Democracy 🗳️ Populism 📉 Democratic Backsliding 💰 Economic Inequality 💻 Technology And Democracy

The People vs. Democracy

Populists dismantle institutions; unelected courts rule from above; split tearing democracy apart.

by Yascha Mounk 2018 400 pages

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🏛️ Liberal Democracy 🗳️ Populism 📉 Democratic Backsliding 💰 Economic Inequality 💻 Technology And Democracy

Your Future Self

by Hal Hershfield • 2023

Your brain registers your future self as another person. The science of making that self matter.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🤝 Future Self ⏳ Present Bias 🍬 Delayed Gratification ⏰ Procrastination

Your Future Self

Your brain registers your future self as another person. The science of making that self matter.

by Hal Hershfield 2023 304 pages

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🤝 Future Self ⏳ Present Bias 🍬 Delayed Gratification ⏰ Procrastination

Platform Scale

by Sangeet Paul Choudary • 2015

Pipes make and sell. Platforms let others create the value. The blueprint for building one.

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🏗️ Platform Economy 🕸️ Network Effects 🚀 Startup Strategy 🎯 Two-Sided Markets 📊 Data-Driven Business

Platform Scale

Pipes make and sell. Platforms let others create the value. The blueprint for building one.

by Sangeet Paul Choudary 2015 336 pages

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🏗️ Platform Economy 🕸️ Network Effects 🚀 Startup Strategy 🎯 Two-Sided Markets 📊 Data-Driven Business

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power

by Rajiv Malhotra • 2021

Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.

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🌍 Ai Geopolitics 🛡️ Digital Sovereignty 🏭 Job Displacement 📱 Digital Addiction 💰 Surveillance Capitalism

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power

Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.

by Rajiv Malhotra 2021 520 pages

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🌍 Ai Geopolitics 🛡️ Digital Sovereignty 🏭 Job Displacement 📱 Digital Addiction 💰 Surveillance Capitalism

The Oil Kings

by Andrew Scott Cooper • 2011

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

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🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

The Oil Kings

Secret U.S. deals armed the Shah and quadrupled oil prices. The world never recovered.

by Andrew Scott Cooper 2011 546 pages

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500+ ratings

🛢️ Oil Politics 🕌 Middle Eastern History 🤝 Secret Diplomacy 💰 Economic Warfare 🔫 Arms Trade

Unconventional Success

by David F. Swensen • 2005

Six index funds, strict rebalancing, and the case against every mutual fund you own.

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📈 Personal Investing 📊 Asset Allocation 🧘 Passive Investing 💸 Investment Costs 📐 Modern Portfolio Theory

Unconventional Success

Six index funds, strict rebalancing, and the case against every mutual fund you own.

by David F. Swensen 2005 416 pages

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📈 Personal Investing 📊 Asset Allocation 🧘 Passive Investing 💸 Investment Costs 📐 Modern Portfolio Theory

Alibaba

by Duncan Clark • 2016

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

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🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

Alibaba

China's e-commerce didn't follow Amazon's script. Alibaba wrote its own from an apartment.

by Duncan Clark 2016 304 pages

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🀄 Chinese Business 🛒 E-Commerce Platforms 🚀 Startup Founding Stories 🌏 Local Market Adaptation 📚 Business Biography

Social Physics

by Alex Pentland • 2014

Idea flow through social networks predicts team output and city GDP better than individual talent.

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🕸️ Network Science 💻 Computational Social Science 🧠 Social Learning 🦠 Behavioral Contagion 🐝 Collective Intelligence

Social Physics

Idea flow through social networks predicts team output and city GDP better than individual talent.

by Alex Pentland 2014 320 pages

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🕸️ Network Science 💻 Computational Social Science 🧠 Social Learning 🦠 Behavioral Contagion 🐝 Collective Intelligence

The Uninhabitable Earth

by David Wallace-Wells • 2019

Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.

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🧪 Climate Science ⚠️ Worst-Case Scenarios 🏃 Climate Migration 🌪️ Extreme Weather 🌽 Food And Water Security

The Uninhabitable Earth

Climate change is not slow. Heat, hunger, drought, and mass displacement are already here.

by David Wallace-Wells 2019 310 pages

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🧪 Climate Science ⚠️ Worst-Case Scenarios 🏃 Climate Migration 🌪️ Extreme Weather 🌽 Food And Water Security

Michael Jackson, Inc.

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg • 2014

He bought the Beatles' catalog against all advice. It's now worth a billion dollars.

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🎵 Music Business 🎩 Music Moguls 📜 Music Publishing ⚖️ Intellectual Property ⭐ Celebrity Branding

Michael Jackson, Inc.

He bought the Beatles' catalog against all advice. It's now worth a billion dollars.

by Zack O'Malley Greenburg 2014 306 pages

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🎵 Music Business 🎩 Music Moguls 📜 Music Publishing ⚖️ Intellectual Property ⭐ Celebrity Branding

In This Economy?

by Kyla Scanlon • 2024

Memes, moods, and manic panics: what really moves markets and your money.

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📉 Pop Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 💵 Money Mechanics 🎢 Market Psychology 📊 Economic Indicators

In This Economy?

Memes, moods, and manic panics: what really moves markets and your money.

by Kyla Scanlon 2024 279 pages

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2k+ ratings

📉 Pop Economics 🧠 Behavioral Economics 💵 Money Mechanics 🎢 Market Psychology 📊 Economic Indicators

The Success Equation

by Michael J. Mauboussin • 2012

The ratio of skill to luck shapes every outcome. Most people misread it and pay dearly.

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📈 Investment Strategy 🔍 Decision Analysis 🎲 Skill And Luck 📊 Statistical Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases

The Success Equation

The ratio of skill to luck shapes every outcome. Most people misread it and pay dearly.

by Michael J. Mauboussin 2012 320 pages

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📈 Investment Strategy 🔍 Decision Analysis 🎲 Skill And Luck 📊 Statistical Thinking 🧠 Cognitive Biases

How to Change

by Katy Milkman • 2021

Impulsivity, procrastination, laziness: each has a science-backed fix that needs zero willpower.

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🔄 Behavior Change 🎯 Goal Achievement 📊 Behavioral Economics ⏳ Present Bias 🔒 Commitment Devices

How to Change

Impulsivity, procrastination, laziness: each has a science-backed fix that needs zero willpower.

by Katy Milkman 2021 268 pages

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🔄 Behavior Change 🎯 Goal Achievement 📊 Behavioral Economics ⏳ Present Bias 🔒 Commitment Devices

The Good-Enough Life

by Avram Alpert • 2022

Greatness culture exhausts us, shreds communities, and devours the planet. Sufficiency is the exit.

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🧘 Sufficiency Philosophy 🔨 Anti-Perfectionism 🏛️ Critique Of Meritocracy 🌿 Degrowth Economics 🧬 Human Nature Debate

The Good-Enough Life

Greatness culture exhausts us, shreds communities, and devours the planet. Sufficiency is the exit.

by Avram Alpert 2022 327 pages

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390 ratings

🧘 Sufficiency Philosophy 🔨 Anti-Perfectionism 🏛️ Critique Of Meritocracy 🌿 Degrowth Economics 🧬 Human Nature Debate

A Short History of Financial Euphoria

by John Kenneth Galbraith • 1990

The 20-year rule: financial genius is really amnesia, and the crash is never the last.

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📜 Financial History 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 👥 Mass Psychology 🔄 Market Cycles

A Short History of Financial Euphoria

The 20-year rule: financial genius is really amnesia, and the crash is never the last.

by John Kenneth Galbraith 1990 113 pages

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📜 Financial History 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 👥 Mass Psychology 🔄 Market Cycles

Salt

by Mark Kurlansky • 2002

Salt was the oil of the ancient world, and the battle for it built empires.

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🧂 Commodity Histories 🍽️ Food History 🔍 Microhistory 🧾 Taxation History 🚢 Trade Routes

Salt

Salt was the oil of the ancient world, and the battle for it built empires.

by Mark Kurlansky 2002 484 pages

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77k+ ratings

🧂 Commodity Histories 🍽️ Food History 🔍 Microhistory 🧾 Taxation History 🚢 Trade Routes

The Happiness Industry

by William Davies • 2015

The push to measure your happiness was never about your well-being. It was about control.

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🏛️ Political Economy 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🧪 Behaviorism 🧠 Behavioral Economics

The Happiness Industry

The push to measure your happiness was never about your well-being. It was about control.

by William Davies 2015 320 pages

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🏛️ Political Economy 👁️ Surveillance Capitalism ⚖️ Utilitarianism 🧪 Behaviorism 🧠 Behavioral Economics

What We Owe The Future

by William MacAskill • 2022

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

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🌍 Future Generations 👥 Population Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety 🦠 Biosecurity

What We Owe The Future

Most humans who will ever live aren't born yet. Their fate belongs to this century.

by William MacAskill 2022 494 pages

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🌍 Future Generations 👥 Population Ethics ⚠️ Existential Risk 🤖 Ai Safety 🦠 Biosecurity

Great Escape

by Angus Deaton • 2013

Life expectancy doubled, incomes soared, and inequality became the price of progress.

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🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Income Inequality 🌍 Global Health 📈 Poverty Reduction 📊 Measuring Wellbeing

Great Escape

Life expectancy doubled, incomes soared, and inequality became the price of progress.

by Angus Deaton 2013 360 pages

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🏛️ Economic History ⚖️ Income Inequality 🌍 Global Health 📈 Poverty Reduction 📊 Measuring Wellbeing

Easy Money

by Ben McKenzie • 2023

The crypto boom was a Ponzi scheme with celebrity marketing, and the bill has arrived.

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🪙 Cryptocurrency 🔺 Ponzi Schemes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 👔 White Collar Crime

Easy Money

The crypto boom was a Ponzi scheme with celebrity marketing, and the bill has arrived.

by Ben McKenzie 2023 304 pages

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3k+ ratings

🪙 Cryptocurrency 🔺 Ponzi Schemes 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 👔 White Collar Crime

Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.

by Bronisław Malinowski • 1922

A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.

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🏦 Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork 👁️ Participant Observation 🔄 Ceremonial Exchange

Argonauts of the Western Pacific; An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea.

A Pacific ceremonial shell ring reveals an economy driven by honor, not self-interest.

by Bronisław Malinowski 1922 614 pages

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🏦 Economic Anthropology 🎁 Gift Economies 📝 Ethnographic Fieldwork 👁️ Participant Observation 🔄 Ceremonial Exchange

Obliquity

by John Kay • 2010

The goals that matter most are best achieved by aiming for something else entirely.

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📈 Business Strategy 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔗 Complexity Theory 🌱 Evolutionary Economics 🤫 Tacit Knowledge

Obliquity

The goals that matter most are best achieved by aiming for something else entirely.

by John Kay 2010 224 pages

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📈 Business Strategy 🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔗 Complexity Theory 🌱 Evolutionary Economics 🤫 Tacit Knowledge

Studies in Tape Reading

by Richard D. Wyckoff • 2009

The tape speaks the market's next move. Learn to read it in real time.

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