Best Economics Books | Summaries & Audio

Economics Book Summaries

After the Music Stopped

by Alan S. Blinder • 2013

Two bubbles, forty-to-one leverage, and a rescue that saved the system but lost the public.

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📉 Financial Crises 📚 Economic History 🏠 Housing Bubbles ⚖️ Leverage And Risk 🦊 Regulatory Capture

After the Music Stopped

Two bubbles, forty-to-one leverage, and a rescue that saved the system but lost the public.

by Alan S. Blinder 2013 496 pages

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📉 Financial Crises 📚 Economic History 🏠 Housing Bubbles ⚖️ Leverage And Risk 🦊 Regulatory Capture

Crouching Tiger

by Peter Navarro • 2015

China's military buildup is a calculated plan to dominate Asia and choke off American power.

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🌏 Us-China Relations 🇨🇳 Chinese Military 🏯 Asian Geopolitics ⚓ Naval Strategy ☢️ Deterrence Theory

Crouching Tiger

China's military buildup is a calculated plan to dominate Asia and choke off American power.

by Peter Navarro 2015 336 pages

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🌏 Us-China Relations 🇨🇳 Chinese Military 🏯 Asian Geopolitics ⚓ Naval Strategy ☢️ Deterrence Theory

The Enlightenment

by John Robertson • 2015

It was never a single creed. The Enlightenment was three generations arguing how humans should live.

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Western Philosophy 📜 Enlightenment Studies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment 📈 Idea Of Progress

The Enlightenment

It was never a single creed. The Enlightenment was three generations arguing how humans should live.

by John Robertson 2015 147 pages

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🧠 Intellectual History 🏛️ Western Philosophy 📜 Enlightenment Studies 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Enlightenment 📈 Idea Of Progress

Adrift

by Scott Galloway • 2022

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

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💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

Adrift

Middle class collapsed, billionaires multiplied, young men stopped dating. Charts that explain why.

by Scott Galloway 2022 320 pages

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💰 Income Inequality 👁️ Attention Economy 📉 Middle Class Decline 💼 Shareholder Capitalism 📱 Social Media Harms

One Simple Idea

by Stephen Key • 2016

A simple tweak, a one-sentence pitch, and a $110 filing can earn lifelong royalties.

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📜 Product Licensing 🌐 Open Innovation 💰 Passive Income 💼 Side Hustle 📞 Cold Calling

One Simple Idea

A simple tweak, a one-sentence pitch, and a $110 filing can earn lifelong royalties.

by Stephen Key 2016

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📜 Product Licensing 🌐 Open Innovation 💰 Passive Income 💼 Side Hustle 📞 Cold Calling

Capitalist Punishment

by Vivek Ramaswamy • 2023

Your retirement money is voting on climate mandates and social policy. You were never asked.

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📋 Esg Investing 📊 Corporate Governance 🏦 Wall Street Critique ⚠️ Woke Capitalism 🏛️ Market Concentration

Capitalist Punishment

Your retirement money is voting on climate mandates and social policy. You were never asked.

by Vivek Ramaswamy 2023 240 pages

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📋 Esg Investing 📊 Corporate Governance 🏦 Wall Street Critique ⚠️ Woke Capitalism 🏛️ Market Concentration

The Elements of Choice

by Eric J. Johnson • 2021

Your choices feel free. But someone arranged the options, and that arrangement is doing the work.

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔬 Decision Science 🪤 Cognitive Biases 🎛️ Choice Design 🛒 Consumer Psychology

The Elements of Choice

Your choices feel free. But someone arranged the options, and that arrangement is doing the work.

by Eric J. Johnson 2021 400 pages

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🧠 Behavioral Economics 🔬 Decision Science 🪤 Cognitive Biases 🎛️ Choice Design 🛒 Consumer Psychology

Market Sense and Nonsense

by Jack D. Schwager • 2012

Expert predictions trail random chance. Here is what actually drives markets, risk, and returns.

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🧭 Investment Strategy 🎭 Market Myths ⚠️ Risk Management 🧠 Investor Psychology 🔬 Behavioral Economics

Market Sense and Nonsense

Expert predictions trail random chance. Here is what actually drives markets, risk, and returns.

by Jack D. Schwager 2012 368 pages

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🧭 Investment Strategy 🎭 Market Myths ⚠️ Risk Management 🧠 Investor Psychology 🔬 Behavioral Economics

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?

by Yong Zhao • 2014

China's schools ace tests and kill creativity. Western reformers now race to import the same trade.

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📚 Education Systems 📝 Standardized Testing 🌍 Comparative Education 📜 Confucian Education 💡 Creativity Deficit

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?

China's schools ace tests and kill creativity. Western reformers now race to import the same trade.

by Yong Zhao 2014 272 pages

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📚 Education Systems 📝 Standardized Testing 🌍 Comparative Education 📜 Confucian Education 💡 Creativity Deficit

Let Me Speak

by Domitila Barrios de Chungara • 1978

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

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🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

Let Me Speak

Dead by 35, paid pennies: a Bolivian miner's wife on why women's liberation requires revolution.

by Domitila Barrios de Chungara 1978 236 pages

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🗣️ Testimonio ⛏️ Mining Communities ✊ Socialist Feminism 🪧 Worker Organizing ⚒️ Class Struggle

The Third Wave

by Steve Case • 2016

The Internet's next phase: health care, education, food. Disruptors need the disrupted as partners.

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📱 Digital Transformation 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🤝 Corporate Partnerships ⚖️ Regulatory Strategy 💚 Impact Investing

The Third Wave

The Internet's next phase: health care, education, food. Disruptors need the disrupted as partners.

by Steve Case 2016 240 pages

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📱 Digital Transformation 🚀 Tech Entrepreneurship 🤝 Corporate Partnerships ⚖️ Regulatory Strategy 💚 Impact Investing

The Wal-Mart Effect

by Charles Fishman • 2006

200,000 gallons of pickles a week: the hidden cost behind the lowest sticker price.

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🏬 Big-Box Retail 🔗 Supply Chain 💼 Corporate Power 🛒 Consumer Ethics 👷 Labor Exploitation

The Wal-Mart Effect

200,000 gallons of pickles a week: the hidden cost behind the lowest sticker price.

by Charles Fishman 2006 314 pages

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🏬 Big-Box Retail 🔗 Supply Chain 💼 Corporate Power 🛒 Consumer Ethics 👷 Labor Exploitation

The Power of Experiments

by Michael Luca • 2020

eBay's experiment killed $50 million in ads. Here's how to run yours.

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🧪 Experimental Methods 🧠 Behavioral Economics 📊 A/B Testing 🔍 Causal Inference 🤝 Nudge Theory

The Power of Experiments

eBay's experiment killed $50 million in ads. Here's how to run yours.

by Michael Luca 2020 211 pages

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🧪 Experimental Methods 🧠 Behavioral Economics 📊 A/B Testing 🔍 Causal Inference 🤝 Nudge Theory

Liberty and Tyranny

by Mark R. Levin • 2004

The Constitution was not repealed, it was reinterpreted: the conservative case for reversal.

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📜 Originalism ⚖️ Natural Law Theory 🔗 Limited Government 💸 Welfare State Critique

Liberty and Tyranny

The Constitution was not repealed, it was reinterpreted: the conservative case for reversal.

by Mark R. Levin 2004 245 pages

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🏛️ American Conservatism 📜 Originalism ⚖️ Natural Law Theory 🔗 Limited Government 💸 Welfare State Critique

Trading Options Greeks

by Dan Passarelli • 2012

Direction alone won't make you money in options. The five risk measures that will.

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📈 Options Trading 📊 Financial Derivatives 🌊 Volatility Trading 🧮 Option Pricing Models ⚖️ Position Management

Trading Options Greeks

Direction alone won't make you money in options. The five risk measures that will.

by Dan Passarelli 2012 372 pages

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📈 Options Trading 📊 Financial Derivatives 🌊 Volatility Trading 🧮 Option Pricing Models ⚖️ Position Management

A Patriot's History of the United States

by Larry Schweikart • 2004

The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🦅 Patriotic History 📈 Economic History 📜 Founding Era ⚖️ Limited Government

A Patriot's History of the United States

The conservative reply to Zinn: America's record, from Columbus to 9/11, earns its patriotism.

by Larry Schweikart 2004 932 pages

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🇺🇸 American Exceptionalism 🦅 Patriotic History 📈 Economic History 📜 Founding Era ⚖️ Limited Government

A Short History of the World

by Christopher Lascelles • 2011

Thirteen billion years in one short book: why empires fall, ideas spread, and everything connects.

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🗺️ World History 🌌 Big History 📚 Concise History 🔄 Civilization Cycles ⚔️ Empire And Conquest

A Short History of the World

Thirteen billion years in one short book: why empires fall, ideas spread, and everything connects.

by Christopher Lascelles 2011 241 pages

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🗺️ World History 🌌 Big History 📚 Concise History 🔄 Civilization Cycles ⚔️ Empire And Conquest

How to Read a Financial Report

by John A. Tracy • 1980

Three reports, one story. Trace the numbers to see if a business thrives or deteriorates.

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🧾 Financial Statements 📖 Financial Accounting 📊 Ratio Analysis 💧 Cash Flow Analysis 📃 Annual Reports

How to Read a Financial Report

Three reports, one story. Trace the numbers to see if a business thrives or deteriorates.

by John A. Tracy 1980 240 pages

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🧾 Financial Statements 📖 Financial Accounting 📊 Ratio Analysis 💧 Cash Flow Analysis 📃 Annual Reports

A New Foreign Policy

by Jeffrey D. Sachs • 2018

The world became multipolar. America didn't notice. Here is the cost and the way out.

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🦅 American Exceptionalism 🏛️ Us Foreign Policy 🌐 Multipolarity ☮️ Anti-Interventionism 🎯 Regime Change

A New Foreign Policy

The world became multipolar. America didn't notice. Here is the cost and the way out.

by Jeffrey D. Sachs 2018 274 pages

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🦅 American Exceptionalism 🏛️ Us Foreign Policy 🌐 Multipolarity ☮️ Anti-Interventionism 🎯 Regime Change

The Yellow Pad

by Robert E. Rubin • 2023

A yellow pad and honest odds: the method that steered Goldman Sachs and the White House.

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📊 Decision Frameworks ⚠️ Risk Management 🎲 Thinking In Probabilities 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🚨 Crisis Leadership

The Yellow Pad

A yellow pad and honest odds: the method that steered Goldman Sachs and the White House.

by Robert E. Rubin 2023 336 pages

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📊 Decision Frameworks ⚠️ Risk Management 🎲 Thinking In Probabilities 🧠 Cognitive Biases 🚨 Crisis Leadership

The Aristocracy of Talent

by Adrian Wooldridge • 2021

How talent beat inheritance: the 2,500-year rise of meritocracy, and why it now faces revolt.

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🏆 Meritocracy 📈 Social Mobility 💡 History Of Ideas 🧠 Intelligence And Society 📝 Standardized Testing

The Aristocracy of Talent

How talent beat inheritance: the 2,500-year rise of meritocracy, and why it now faces revolt.

by Adrian Wooldridge 2021

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🏆 Meritocracy 📈 Social Mobility 💡 History Of Ideas 🧠 Intelligence And Society 📝 Standardized Testing

A Planet to Win

by Kate Aronoff • 2019

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

A Planet to Win

What if fighting climate change meant universal housing, public power, and a four-day week?

by Kate Aronoff 2019 208 pages

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📗 Green New Deal 🌍 Climate Justice 🌱 Ecosocialism 🌹 Democratic Socialism ⚡ Energy Transition

Bad Company

by Megan Greenwell • 2025

Private equity buys hospitals, newspapers, and homes with debt that falls on everyone except them.

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🏢 Private Equity 📉 Economic Inequality ⚖️ Corporate Accountability 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Bad Company

Private equity buys hospitals, newspapers, and homes with debt that falls on everyone except them.

by Megan Greenwell 2025 294 pages

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🏢 Private Equity 📉 Economic Inequality ⚖️ Corporate Accountability 🔍 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Regulatory Capture

Volatility Trading, + website

by Euan Sinclair • 2008

Options profit from the size of the move, not direction. How to isolate and trade volatility.

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📊 Options Trading 🔢 Quantitative Trading 📈 Volatility Modeling 🧠 Behavioral Finance 💭 Trading Psychology

Volatility Trading, + website

Options profit from the size of the move, not direction. How to isolate and trade volatility.

by Euan Sinclair 2008 224 pages

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199 ratings

📊 Options Trading 🔢 Quantitative Trading 📈 Volatility Modeling 🧠 Behavioral Finance 💭 Trading Psychology

Silent Coup

by Claire Provost • 2023

Companies sue nations in secret tribunals, run private cities, command armies. Voters never agreed.

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🏛️ Corporate Capture ⚖️ Trade Tribunals 🛡️ Privatized Security 🌍 Development Critique 🏴 Colonial Legacies

Silent Coup

Companies sue nations in secret tribunals, run private cities, command armies. Voters never agreed.

by Claire Provost 2023 296 pages

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🏛️ Corporate Capture ⚖️ Trade Tribunals 🛡️ Privatized Security 🌍 Development Critique 🏴 Colonial Legacies

The Years That Matter Most

by Paul Tough • 2019

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

The Years That Matter Most

Getting into an elite college depends more on your parents’ income than your SAT score.

by Paul Tough 2019 400 pages

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🎓 Higher Education 📝 College Admissions 📈 Social Mobility ⚖️ Educational Inequality 🏛️ Meritocracy Critique

I Don't Want to Die Poor

by Michael Arceneaux • 2020

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

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💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

I Don't Want to Die Poor

Student debt trapped him. Being Black and gay meant the escape routes were already closed.

by Michael Arceneaux 2020 240 pages

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💰 Student Debt 🏚️ Poverty Memoirs 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Black Identity 📝 Essay Collections 🧬 Generational Trauma

El libro negro del emprendedor

by Fernando Trías de Bes • 2008

Most ventures fail not from bad ideas but from the self-deception founders bring to the launch.

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💀 Entrepreneurial Failure 💰 Bootstrapping 🤝 Business Partnerships 🧠 Founder Psychology 📐 Business Model Design

El libro negro del emprendedor

Most ventures fail not from bad ideas but from the self-deception founders bring to the launch.

by Fernando Trías de Bes 2008 192 pages

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💀 Entrepreneurial Failure 💰 Bootstrapping 🤝 Business Partnerships 🧠 Founder Psychology 📐 Business Model Design

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

by Robert C. Allen • 2009

Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.

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🕰️ Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution ⚙️ Technological Change ⛏️ Energy History 📊 Cliometrics

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

Britain's Industrial Revolution was an accident of wages and coal prices, not genius or empire.

by Robert C. Allen 2009 342 pages

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🕰️ Economic History 🏭 Industrial Revolution ⚙️ Technological Change ⛏️ Energy History 📊 Cliometrics

For the New Intellectual

by Ayn Rand • 1961

Intellectuals sabotaged the mind for a morality of sacrifice. This is the manifesto to reclaim it.

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🧠 Objectivism ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 💰 Capitalist Ethics 🤝 Ethical Egoism

For the New Intellectual

Intellectuals sabotaged the mind for a morality of sacrifice. This is the manifesto to reclaim it.

by Ayn Rand 1961 224 pages

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🧠 Objectivism ⚖️ Moral Philosophy 🏛️ Political Philosophy 💰 Capitalist Ethics 🤝 Ethical Egoism

2052

by Jørgen Randers • 2012

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

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🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning ⚡ Energy Transition 👶 Demographic Decline

2052

A Limits to Growth update: population shrinks, growth slows, yet 2°C warming still hits by 2052.

by Jørgen Randers 2012 416 pages

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🧠 Systems Thinking 📉 Limits To Growth 🔮 Scenario Planning ⚡ Energy Transition 👶 Demographic Decline

Everything for Everyone

by Nathan Schneider • 2018

The cooperative model that electrified rural America is being rebuilt to challenge Uber and Amazon.

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🏘️ Cooperative Economics 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🤝 Solidarity Economy 🫂 Mutual Aid 🏡 Community Wealth

Everything for Everyone

The cooperative model that electrified rural America is being rebuilt to challenge Uber and Amazon.

by Nathan Schneider 2018 304 pages

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140 ratings

🏘️ Cooperative Economics 🗳️ Economic Democracy 🤝 Solidarity Economy 🫂 Mutual Aid 🏡 Community Wealth

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

by Rawls • 2007

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy

How Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, and Marx each tried to solve the problem of political legitimacy.

by Rawls 2007 496 pages

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🏛️ Political Philosophy 📜 History Of Political Thought 🤝 Social Contract Theory ⚖️ Natural Law Tradition 😌 Utilitarian Ethics

Fibershed

by Rebecca Burgess • 2019

Your closet is an emissions machine. A 150-mile wardrobe turns it into a carbon sink.

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🧵 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies 🔗 Textile Supply Chains 🌍 Carbon Sequestration

Fibershed

Your closet is an emissions machine. A 150-mile wardrobe turns it into a carbon sink.

by Rebecca Burgess 2019 288 pages

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421 ratings

🧵 Sustainable Fashion 🌱 Regenerative Agriculture 🏘️ Local Economies 🔗 Textile Supply Chains 🌍 Carbon Sequestration

A Pragmatist's Guide to Leveraged Finance

by Robert S. Kricheff • 2012

A framework for analyzing high-yield bonds and leveraged loans, from ratios to covenants.

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🏦 Leveraged Finance 🔍 Credit Analysis 📊 Fixed Income Analysis 📈 Financial Modeling ⚡ Event-Driven Analysis

A Pragmatist's Guide to Leveraged Finance

A framework for analyzing high-yield bonds and leveraged loans, from ratios to covenants.

by Robert S. Kricheff 2012 268 pages

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🏦 Leveraged Finance 🔍 Credit Analysis 📊 Fixed Income Analysis 📈 Financial Modeling ⚡ Event-Driven Analysis

Blowout

by Rachel Maddow • 2019

Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.

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🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry 🌏 Energy Geopolitics 💎 Resource Curse 🇷🇺 Russian Oligarchs 🏛️ Political Corruption

Blowout

Fracking, oligarchs, and a 50-kiloton bomb in Colorado: how the oil industry broke global democracy.

by Rachel Maddow 2019 400 pages

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🛢️ Oil And Gas Industry 🌏 Energy Geopolitics 💎 Resource Curse 🇷🇺 Russian Oligarchs 🏛️ Political Corruption

When More Is Not Better

by Roger L. Martin • 2020

Treating the economy like a machine broke the link between growth and shared prosperity.

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💰 Economic Inequality 🏛️ Political Economy 🦋 Complex Adaptive Systems ⚠️ Efficiency Traps 🎯 Perverse Incentives

When More Is Not Better

Treating the economy like a machine broke the link between growth and shared prosperity.

by Roger L. Martin 2020 243 pages

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292 ratings

💰 Economic Inequality 🏛️ Political Economy 🦋 Complex Adaptive Systems ⚠️ Efficiency Traps 🎯 Perverse Incentives

The Crypto Book

by Siam Kidd • 2018

The crypto bubble hasn't peaked yet. A three-phase plan to ride it without getting wrecked.

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🪙 Cryptocurrency Investing ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 📈 Investment Strategy 🛡️ Risk Management

The Crypto Book

The crypto bubble hasn't peaked yet. A three-phase plan to ride it without getting wrecked.

by Siam Kidd 2018 220 pages

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150 ratings

🪙 Cryptocurrency Investing ⛓️ Blockchain Technology 🫧 Speculative Bubbles 📈 Investment Strategy 🛡️ Risk Management

Environmental Economics

by Stephen Smith • 2011

Why unregulated markets destroy the environment, and how the same market logic can save it.

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🏛️ Environmental Economics 📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis 💨 Emissions Trading 💰 Carbon Pricing 🌳 Environmental Valuation

Environmental Economics

Why unregulated markets destroy the environment, and how the same market logic can save it.

by Stephen Smith 2011 136 pages

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239 ratings

🏛️ Environmental Economics 📊 Cost-Benefit Analysis 💨 Emissions Trading 💰 Carbon Pricing 🌳 Environmental Valuation

Grow Rich While You Sleep

by Ben Sweetland • 1962

A nightly instruction to your sleeping mind that builds wealth and solves problems while you rest.

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🧠 Subconscious Programming 💤 Sleep Suggestion 💰 Prosperity Consciousness 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🌊 Abundance Mindset

Grow Rich While You Sleep

A nightly instruction to your sleeping mind that builds wealth and solves problems while you rest.

by Ben Sweetland 1962 229 pages

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🧠 Subconscious Programming 💤 Sleep Suggestion 💰 Prosperity Consciousness 🧘 Mind-Body Connection 🌊 Abundance Mindset

Ideas Have Consequences

by Richard M. Weaver • 1948

A 14th-century philosophical error unraveled the West. Fixing it demands harder medicine.

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🏛️ Western Civilization 🧠 Cultural Criticism ⚖️ Traditionalist Conservatism 📜 Thomism 📰 Mass Media Criticism

Ideas Have Consequences

A 14th-century philosophical error unraveled the West. Fixing it demands harder medicine.

by Richard M. Weaver 1948 190 pages

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🏛️ Western Civilization 🧠 Cultural Criticism ⚖️ Traditionalist Conservatism 📜 Thomism 📰 Mass Media Criticism

Look Before You LIRP

by David McKnight • 2016

The checklist for a life insurance retirement plan that actually delivers on its tax-free promise.

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🧮 Retirement Tax Planning 📋 Indexed Universal Life 💰 Cash Value Life Insurance 🏦 Tax-Free Income 🛡️ Downside Protected Investing

Look Before You LIRP

The checklist for a life insurance retirement plan that actually delivers on its tax-free promise.

by David McKnight 2016 102 pages

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🧮 Retirement Tax Planning 📋 Indexed Universal Life 💰 Cash Value Life Insurance 🏦 Tax-Free Income 🛡️ Downside Protected Investing

Start Day Trading Now

by Michael Sincere • 2011

The technical, risk, and mental rules that separate pro day traders from the 90% who quit.

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📈 Day Trading 📊 Technical Analysis 🧠 Trading Psychology 🛡️ Risk Management 🌱 Beginner Traders

Start Day Trading Now

The technical, risk, and mental rules that separate pro day traders from the 90% who quit.

by Michael Sincere 2011 224 pages

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149 ratings

📈 Day Trading 📊 Technical Analysis 🧠 Trading Psychology 🛡️ Risk Management 🌱 Beginner Traders

How the Other Half Banks

by Mehrsa Baradaran • 2015

Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.

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🏦 Banking History 📜 Financial Regulation 🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy 🎣 Predatory Lending 🚫 Financial Exclusion

How the Other Half Banks

Banks get public support but exclude the poor. The public option that restores the social contract.

by Mehrsa Baradaran 2015 336 pages

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500+ ratings

🏦 Banking History 📜 Financial Regulation 🇺🇸 Us Economic Policy 🎣 Predatory Lending 🚫 Financial Exclusion

All the Presidents' Bankers

by Nomi Prins • 2014

A century of backroom deals: how bankers, not presidents, drove America's rise to global power.

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🏦 Banking History 💰 Political Economy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises 🗽 American Empire

All the Presidents' Bankers

A century of backroom deals: how bankers, not presidents, drove America's rise to global power.

by Nomi Prins 2014 544 pages

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500+ ratings

🏦 Banking History 💰 Political Economy 🏛️ Regulatory Capture 📉 Financial Crises 🗽 American Empire

Fundamentals Of Currency Trading

by Karen Foo • 2021

Strategy barely matters. Survival depends on psychology, risk discipline, and cutting losses early.

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💱 Forex Trading 🧠 Trading Psychology 📈 Technical Analysis 🏛️ Fundamental Analysis 🛡️ Risk Management

Fundamentals Of Currency Trading

Strategy barely matters. Survival depends on psychology, risk discipline, and cutting losses early.

by Karen Foo 2021 345 pages

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89 ratings

💱 Forex Trading 🧠 Trading Psychology 📈 Technical Analysis 🏛️ Fundamental Analysis 🛡️ Risk Management

Social Media Is Bullshit

by B.J. Mendelson • 2012

Viral success is mostly fake. The boring alternative costs less and actually works.

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📱 Social Media Criticism 🕵️ Marketing Skepticism 🎈 Debunking Hype 📰 Traditional PR 🌐 Internet History

Social Media Is Bullshit

Viral success is mostly fake. The boring alternative costs less and actually works.

by B.J. Mendelson 2012 240 pages

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350 ratings

📱 Social Media Criticism 🕵️ Marketing Skepticism 🎈 Debunking Hype 📰 Traditional PR 🌐 Internet History

The Natashas

by Victor Malarek • 2011

Post-Soviet women became a global commodity. The traffickers who trade them wear badges, not masks.

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🔗 Sex Trafficking 🕴️ Organized Crime 🗣️ Survivor Testimony ⚠️ Gender Violence 🏛️ Institutional Failure

The Natashas

Post-Soviet women became a global commodity. The traffickers who trade them wear badges, not masks.

by Victor Malarek 2011 320 pages

3.90

500+ ratings

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Thinking like an Economist

How efficiency-driven economics took over US policy, even from liberals, and what it left behind.

by Elizabeth Popp Berman 2022 344 pages

3.93

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خون و نفت خاطرات یک شاهزاده ایرانی

A Qajar prince's childhood in a seven-hundred-person harem. Forty years in oil. Then the revolution.

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🇮🇷 Iranian History 👑 Royal Memoir 🛢️ Oil Politics 🌍 Cultural Collision ✈️ Exile Narratives

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