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Fire Your Boss Summary
Fire Your Boss
by Stephen M. Pollan 2004 288 pages
3.68
148 ratings
Business
Self Help
Psychology
Exile on Wall Street Summary
Exile on Wall Street
One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves
by Mike Mayo 2011 208 pages
3.69
260 ratings
Finance
Business
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
The Givers Summary
The Givers
Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
by David Callahan 2017 352 pages
3.74
474 ratings
Politics
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Dignity in a Digital Age Summary
Dignity in a Digital Age
Making Tech Work for All of Us
by Ro Khanna 2022 368 pages
3.70
146 ratings
Technology
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The Elephant and the Dragon Summary
The Elephant and the Dragon
The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
by Robyn Meredith 2007 256 pages
3.73
1.4K ratings
China
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Politics
The Paradox of Generosity Summary
The Paradox of Generosity
Giving We Receive, Grasping We Lose
by Christian Smith 2014 280 pages
3.87
111 ratings
Psychology
Money
Economics
The Accidental Investment Banker Summary
The Accidental Investment Banker
Inside the Decade that Transformed Wall Street
by Jonathan A. Knee 2006 288 pages
3.59
830 ratings
Finance
Business
Biography
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
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Inside Money Summary
Inside Money
Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power
by Zachary Karabell 2021 448 pages
4.10
380 ratings
History
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The Origins of Happiness Summary
The Origins of Happiness
The Science of Well-Being over the Life Course
by Andrew E. Clark 2018 339 pages
3.71
59 ratings
Economics
Psychology
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The Happiness Equation Summary
The Happiness Equation
by Nattavudh Powdthavee 2010 256 pages
3.54
139 ratings
Personal Development
Economics
Social Science
Managing in the Next Society Summary
Managing in the Next Society
Lessons from the Renown Thinker and Writer on Corporate Management
by Peter F. Drucker 1980 352 pages
3.90
174 ratings
Business
Management
Leadership
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
How We Decide Summary
How We Decide
by Jonah Lehrer 2009 259 pages
3.84
41.2K ratings
Psychology
Science
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
573 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
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
Modern Money Theory Summary
Modern Money Theory
A Primer on Macroeconomics for Sovereign Monetary Systems
by L. Randall Wray 2012 294 pages
4.22
327 ratings
Economics
Finance
Money
How Progress Ends Summary
How Progress Ends
Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations
by Carl Benedikt Frey 2025 552 pages
4.32
68 ratings
Economics
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History
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst Summary
Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst
A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market
by Daniel Reingold 2006 384 pages
3.88
1.2K ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Shortest History of Economics Summary
The Shortest History of Economics
by Andrew Leigh 2024 241 pages
3.94
1.1K ratings
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History
Business
Cloudmoney Summary
Cloudmoney
Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets
by Brett Scott 2022 304 pages
3.68
464 ratings
Economics
Finance
Technology
9 Lessons in Brexit Summary
9 Lessons in Brexit
by Ivan Rogers 2019 46 pages
4.07
538 ratings
Politics
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British Literature
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
Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws Summary
Economics in Three Lessons and One Hundred Economics Laws
Two Works in One Volume
by Hunter Lewis 2017 425 pages
3.80
10 ratings
Economics
The Dollar Trap Summary
The Dollar Trap
How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance
by Eswar S. Prasad 2013 432 pages
4.06
199 ratings
Economics
Finance
History
Bagehot Summary
Bagehot
The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
by James Grant 2019 368 pages
3.68
154 ratings
Biography
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History
Bad Company Summary
Bad Company
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
by Megan Greenwell 2025 294 pages
4.06
2.9K ratings
Business
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Politics
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
The Caesars Palace Coup Summary
The Caesars Palace Coup
How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street
by Sujeet Indap 2021 352 pages
4.05
3.5K ratings
Business
Finance
History
First Principles Summary
First Principles
Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity
by John Brian Taylor 2012 240 pages
3.64
106 ratings
Economics
Guide to Economic Indicators Summary
Guide to Economic Indicators
Making Sense of Economics - Sixth Edition
by The Economist 1998 244 pages
3.67
139 ratings
Economics
Finance
Reference
Next Summary
Next
The Future Just Happened
by Michael Lewis 2001 240 pages
3.70
2.0K ratings
Business
Technology
Economics
Grave New World Summary
Grave New World
The End of Globalization, the Return of History
by Stephen D. King 2017 304 pages
3.66
217 ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
How Not to Invest Summary
How Not to Invest
The ideas, numbers, and behaviors that destroy wealth―and how to avoid them
by Barry Ritholtz 2025 496 pages
4.18
833 ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
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
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money Summary
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money
by Woody Tasch 2008 240 pages
3.56
195 ratings
Economics
Food
Sustainability
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
The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing Summary
The Little Book of Venture Capital Investing
Empowering Economic Growth and Investment Portfolios
by Louis C. Gerken 2013 288 pages
3.29
49 ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
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
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
Gendernomics Summary
Gendernomics
by Carl Adaugeo 2017 288 pages
4.30
37 ratings
Relationships
Psychology
Self Help
The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy Summary
The 7 Deadly Innocent Frauds of Economic Policy
by Warren Mosler 2010 117 pages
3.86
214 ratings
Economics
Politics
In Mistrust We Trust Summary
In Mistrust We Trust
by Ivan Krastev 2013 71 pages
3.94
72 ratings
Politics
Economics
Capital Wars Summary
Capital Wars
The Rise of Global Liquidity
by Michael J. Howell 2020
4.21
97 ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Collusion Summary
Collusion
How Central Bankers Rigged the World
by Nomi Prins 2018 384 pages
3.69
319 ratings
Economics
Finance
History
Beyond Bitcoin Summary
Beyond Bitcoin
Decentralised Finance and the End of Banks
by Simon Dingle 2022 260 pages
3.95
112 ratings
Economics
Finance
The Motley Fool Investment Guide Summary
The Motley Fool Investment Guide
How the Fools Beat Wall Street's Wise Men and How You Can Too
by Tom Gardner 2017 304 pages
4.19
641 ratings
Finance
Business
Money
The Org Summary
The Org
The Underlying Logic of the Office
by Ray Fisman 2013 320 pages
3.35
382 ratings
Business
Management
Economics
Context Summary
Context
Further Selected Essays on Productivity, Creativity, Parenting, and Politics in the 21st Century
by Cory Doctorow 2011 238 pages
3.66
363 ratings
Essays
Technology
Politics
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