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Butler to the World Summary
Butler to the World
How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything
by Oliver Bullough 2022 288 pages
4.00
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Rare Metals War Summary
The Rare Metals War
The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies
by Guillaume Pitron 2018 288 pages
4.04
1k+ ratings
Science
Technology
Economics
A Beautiful Math Summary
A Beautiful Math
John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature
by Tom Siegfried 2006 272 pages
3.59
100+ ratings
Mathematics
Science
Economics
What Has Government Done to Our Money? Summary
What Has Government Done to Our Money?
by Murray N. Rothbard 2018 116 pages
4.32
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Modern Times Summary
Modern Times
The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
by Paul Johnson 1983 880 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
History
Politics
World History
BOOM Summary
BOOM
Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever. A Long, Strange Journey Along the Keystone XL Pipeline
by Tony Horwitz 2014 116 pages
3.89
500+ ratings
Travel
Politics
Environment
A Century of War Summary
A Century of War
Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order
by F. William Engdahl 1992 312 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Truth About Crypto Summary
The Truth About Crypto
A Practical, Easy-to-Understand Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain, NFTs, and Other Digital Assets
by Ric Edelman 2022 385 pages
3.64
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Technology
Monopoly Capital Summary
Monopoly Capital
An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
by Paul A. Baran 1966 416 pages
4.20
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Money Kings Summary
The Money Kings
The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America
by Daniel Schulman 2023 592 pages
4.13
100+ ratings
History
Biography
Business
Attention and effort Summary
Attention and effort
by Daniel Kahneman 1973 240 pages
4.10
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Economics
Unsettled Summary
Unsettled
What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters
by Steven E. Koonin 2021 320 pages
4.26
3k+ ratings
Science
Climate Change
Politics
Trader Vic II Summary
Trader Vic II
Principles of Professional Speculation
by Victor Sperandeo 1994 304 pages
3.80
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Great Divergence Summary
The Great Divergence
China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
by Kenneth Pomeranz 2000 392 pages
3.69
500+ ratings
History
Economics
China
The Race between Education and Technology Summary
The Race between Education and Technology
by Claudia Goldin 2008 496 pages
3.84
100+ ratings
Economics
Education
History
Investing the Templeton Way Summary
Investing the Templeton Way
The Market-Beating Strategies of Value Investing's Legendary Bargain Hunter
by Lauren C. Templeton 2008 296 pages
3.99
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Biography
Economies and Cultures Summary
Economies and Cultures
Foundations of Economic Anthropology
by Richard R. Wilk 1996 252 pages
3.80
100+ ratings
Anthropology
Economics
Social Science
Bull by the Horns Summary
Bull by the Horns
Fighting to Save Main Street from Wall Street and Wall Street from Itself
by Sheila Bair 2012 432 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Collusion Summary
Collusion
How Central Bankers Rigged the World
by Nomi Prins 2018 384 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
Sons of Wichita Summary
Sons of Wichita
How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
by Daniel Schulman 2014 432 pages
3.85
2k+ ratings
Biography
Politics
Business
Crash Course Summary
Crash Course
The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster
by Paul Ingrassia 2009 320 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Business
History
Economics
The Sellout Summary
The Sellout
How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
by Charles Gasparino 2009 553 pages
3.88
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
An Empire of Wealth Summary
An Empire of Wealth
The Epic History of American Economic Power
by John Steele Gordon 2004 460 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
History
Economics
Business
The Firm Summary
The Firm
The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
by Duff McDonald 2013 400 pages
3.75
3k+ ratings
Business
History
Management
Maestro Summary
Maestro
Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom
by Bob Woodward 2000 288 pages
3.41
500+ ratings
Economics
Biography
Politics
The Age of Turbulence Summary
The Age of Turbulence
by Alan Greenspan 2007 575 pages
3.65
7k+ ratings
Economics
Biography
Business
Bagehot Summary
Bagehot
The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian
by James Grant 2019 368 pages
3.68
100+ ratings
Biography
Economics
History
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
100+ ratings
Economics
History
Finance
Psychopolitics Summary
Psychopolitics
Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
by Byung-Chul Han 2014 96 pages
4.09
5k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
The Last Tycoons Summary
The Last Tycoons
The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co.
by William D. Cohan 2007 752 pages
3.86
1k+ ratings
Business
Finance
History
Multiple Streams of Income Summary
Multiple Streams of Income
How to Generate a Lifetime of Unlimited Wealth
by Robert G. Allen 1998 336 pages
4.04
5k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Money
Lombard Street Summary
Lombard Street
A Description of the Money Market
by Walter Bagehot 1873 188 pages
3.89
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve Summary
The Power and Independence of the Federal Reserve
by Peter Conti-Brown 2016 368 pages
4.22
100+ ratings
Economics
Banking
Finance
Tulipomania Summary
Tulipomania
The Story of the World's Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused
by Mike Dash 2000 273 pages
3.66
2k+ ratings
History
Economics
Microhistory
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance Summary
Fischer Black and the Revolutionary Idea of Finance
by Perry G. Mehrling 2005 400 pages
3.98
100+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Biography
Capital Ideas Evolving Summary
Capital Ideas Evolving
by Peter L. Bernstein 2007 282 pages
3.75
100+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
The Robber Barons Summary
The Robber Barons
by Matthew Josephson 1934 496 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
History
Business
American History
The End of Wall Street Summary
The End of Wall Street
by Roger Lowenstein 2010 368 pages
3.91
2k+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
Reckless Endangerment Summary
Reckless Endangerment
How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
by Gretchen Morgenson 2011 331 pages
3.96
1k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Global Capitalism Summary
Global Capitalism
Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century
by Jeffry A. Frieden 2007 576 pages
3.88
500+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Summary
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
by Benoît B. Mandelbrot 1997 352 pages
4.09
5k+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
The Age of Addiction Summary
The Age of Addiction
How Bad Habits Became Big Business
by David T. Courtwright 2019 336 pages
3.64
100+ ratings
Psychology
History
Economics
The Big Three in Economics Summary
The Big Three in Economics
Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes
by Mark Skousen 2007 264 pages
3.59
500+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
Devil Take the Hindmost Summary
Devil Take the Hindmost
A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor 1996 400 pages
3.99
2k+ ratings
Finance
History
Economics
Bull Summary
Bull
A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
by Maggie Mahar 2003 528 pages
4.06
500+ ratings
Finance
Economics
History
The Volatility Machine Summary
The Volatility Machine
Emerging Economies and the Threat of Financial Collapse
by Michael Pettis 2001 272 pages
4.52
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
More Than You Know Summary
More Than You Know
Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
by Michael J. Mauboussin 2006 268 pages
4.08
2k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Hedge Hogging Summary
Hedge Hogging
by Barton Biggs 2005 308 pages
3.75
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
A Short History of Financial Euphoria Summary
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
by John Kenneth Galbraith 1990 113 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Big Change Summary
The Big Change
America Transforms Itself, 1900-50
by Frederick Lewis Allen 1952 324 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
History
American History
Economics
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