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In Our Hands Summary
In Our Hands
A Plan To Replace The Welfare State
by Charles Murray 2006 214 pages
3.74
289 ratings
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Financial Literacy for Managers Summary
Financial Literacy for Managers
Finance and Accounting for Better Decision-Making
by Richard A. Lambert 2012 172 pages
3.54
135 ratings
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Other People's Money Summary
Other People's Money
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by John Kay 2015 336 pages
3.92
1.4K ratings
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Made in the USA Summary
Made in the USA
The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
by Vaclav Smil 2013 263 pages
3.77
475 ratings
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The Power of Passive Investing Summary
The Power of Passive Investing
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by Richard A. Ferri 2010 288 pages
3.82
148 ratings
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Financial Modeling and Valuation Summary
Financial Modeling and Valuation
A Practical Guide to Investment Banking and Private Equity
by Paul Pignataro 2013
4.27
153 ratings
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A Planet to Win Summary
A Planet to Win
Why We Need a Green New Deal
by Kate Aronoff 2019 208 pages
4.08
677 ratings
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دروس مبسطة في الاقتصاد Summary
دروس مبسطة في الاقتصاد
by Robert P. Murphy 2010 383 pages
3.97
649 ratings
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The Battle for Paradise Summary
The Battle for Paradise
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by Naomi Klein 2018 88 pages
4.23
2.8K ratings
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The Conscience of a Liberal Summary
The Conscience of a Liberal
by Paul Krugman 2007 296 pages
3.97
6.3K ratings
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Drawdown Summary
Drawdown
The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken 2017 240 pages
4.40
4.3K ratings
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Principles of Corporate Finance Summary
Principles of Corporate Finance
by Richard A. Brealey 1980 1120 pages
3.93
891 ratings
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The Next Africa Summary
The Next Africa
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by Jake Bright 2015 304 pages
3.88
85 ratings
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The Color of Money Summary
The Color of Money
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by Mehrsa Baradaran 2017 371 pages
4.47
2.3K ratings
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How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes Summary
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
by Peter D. Schiff 2010 256 pages
4.15
5.2K ratings
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The Flaw of Averages Summary
The Flaw of Averages
Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
by Sam L. Savage 2009 416 pages
3.85
562 ratings
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The Value of Debt in Building Wealth Summary
The Value of Debt in Building Wealth
Creating Your Glide Path to a Healthy Financial L.I.F.E.
by Thomas J. Anderson 2016 272 pages
3.74
173 ratings
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Big Money Thinks Small Summary
Big Money Thinks Small
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by Joel Tillinghast 2017 320 pages
4.00
432 ratings
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Trading for Dummies Summary
Trading for Dummies
by Michael Griffis 2004 368 pages
3.38
192 ratings
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Irrationally yours Summary
Irrationally yours
On Missing Socks, Pick-up Lines and Other Existential Puzzles
by Dan Ariely 2015 219 pages
3.47
2.1K ratings
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Has the West Lost It? Summary
Has the West Lost It?
A Provocation
by Kishore Mahbubani 2018 112 pages
3.70
931 ratings
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How Migration Really Works Summary
How Migration Really Works
A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics
by Hein de Haas 2023 436 pages
4.38
1.6K ratings
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Retirement Planning Guidebook Summary
Retirement Planning Guidebook
Navigating the Important Decisions for Retirement Success
by Wade Pfau 2021 476 pages
4.32
195 ratings
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Predator Nation Summary
Predator Nation
Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America
by Charles Ferguson 2012 368 pages
4.11
489 ratings
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The Essays of Warren Buffett Summary
The Essays of Warren Buffett
Lessons for Corporate America
by Warren Buffett 1998 256 pages
4.33
8.0K ratings
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How the Other Half Banks Summary
How the Other Half Banks
Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
by Mehrsa Baradaran 2015 336 pages
4.11
611 ratings
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Politics
Enshittification Summary
Enshittification
Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
by Cory Doctorow 2025 352 pages
4.18
1.2K ratings
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Manage Your Money like a F*cking Grownup Summary
Manage Your Money like a F*cking Grownup
The Best Money Advice You Never Got
by Sam Beckbessinger 2018 315 pages
4.35
1.1K ratings
Finance
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Self Help
After the Music Stopped Summary
After the Music Stopped
The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
by Alan S. Blinder 2013 496 pages
4.11
2.1K ratings
Economics
History
Finance
Hedge Hogging Summary
Hedge Hogging
by Barton Biggs 2005 308 pages
3.75
1.6K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Buy It, Rent It, Profit! Summary
Buy It, Rent It, Profit!
Make Money as a Landlord in ANY Real Estate Market
by Bryan M. Chavis 2009 272 pages
3.74
432 ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Aid on the Edge of Chaos Summary
Aid on the Edge of Chaos
Rethinking International Cooperation in a Complex World
by Ben Ramalingam 2013 480 pages
3.88
149 ratings
International Development
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Portfolios of the Poor Summary
Portfolios of the Poor
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
by Daryl Collins 2009 296 pages
3.95
1.2K ratings
Economics
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Poverty
Modernising Money Summary
Modernising Money
Why Our Monetary System is Broken and How it Can be Fixed
by Andrew Jackson 2012 336 pages
4.31
54 ratings
Economics
Wealth and Power Summary
Wealth and Power
China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century
by Orville Schell 2013 478 pages
4.24
1.1K ratings
China
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Adrift Summary
Adrift
America in 100 Charts
by Scott Galloway 2022 320 pages
3.89
2.3K ratings
Politics
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Why Minsky Matters Summary
Why Minsky Matters
An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
by L. Randall Wray 2015 288 pages
4.20
185 ratings
Economics
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History
The Economics Book Summary
The Economics Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Niall Kishtainy 2012 352 pages
4.02
2.3K ratings
Economics
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Reference
The Necessary Revolution Summary
The Necessary Revolution
How individuals and organizations are working together to create a sustainable world.
by Peter M. Senge 2008 416 pages
3.84
516 ratings
Sustainability
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Market Sense and Nonsense Summary
Market Sense and Nonsense
How the Markets Really Work
by Jack D. Schwager 2012 368 pages
3.64
223 ratings
Finance
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Half Lion Summary
Half Lion
How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India
by Vinay Sitapati 2016 371 pages
4.43
2.3K ratings
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GDP Summary
GDP
A Brief but Affectionate History
by Diane Coyle 2014 168 pages
3.65
783 ratings
Economics
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The Business Book Summary
The Business Book
Big Ideas Simply Explained
by Sam Atkinson 2014 352 pages
4.15
1.1K ratings
Business
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Silent Coup Summary
Silent Coup
How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
by Claire Provost 2023 296 pages
4.36
188 ratings
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The Penguin and the Leviathan Summary
The Penguin and the Leviathan
How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
by Yochai Benkler 2011 272 pages
3.70
348 ratings
Business
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Psychology
WTF? Summary
WTF?
What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly 2017 448 pages
4.08
1.9K ratings
Business
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A Splendid Exchange Summary
A Splendid Exchange
How Trade Shaped the World
by William J. Bernstein 2008 477 pages
4.16
3.3K ratings
History
Economics
Business
The Invisible Hands Summary
The Invisible Hands
Hedge Funds Off the Record - Rethinking Real Money
by Steven Drobny 2010 444 pages
3.88
396 ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
On Social Justice Summary
On Social Justice
St. Basil the Great
by Basil the Great 2009 111 pages
4.50
596 ratings
Theology
Christianity
Religion
The Coming China Wars Summary
The Coming China Wars
Where They Will Be Fought And How They Can Be Won
by Peter Navarro 2006 263 pages
3.32
211 ratings
China
Politics
History
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