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Think Twice Summary
Think Twice
Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
by Michael J. Mauboussin 2009 224 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Finance
The Education of a Value Investor Summary
The Education of a Value Investor
My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
by Guy Spier 2015 224 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Keeping Up with the Quants Summary
Keeping Up with the Quants
Your Guide to Understanding and Using Analytics
by Thomas H. Davenport 2013 229 pages
3.57
500+ ratings
Business
Science
Finance
Why Most Things Fail Summary
Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
by Paul Ormerod 2005 272 pages
3.48
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Science
Scarcity Summary
Scarcity
Why Having Too Little Means So Much
by Sendhil Mullainathan 2013 304 pages
3.94
7k+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Business
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
50+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas Summary
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014 288 pages
3.14
100+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Conspiracy Theories
The Zero Marginal Cost Society Summary
The Zero Marginal Cost Society
The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin 2014 368 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Rock Breaks Scissors Summary
Rock Breaks Scissors
A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
by William Poundstone 2014 320 pages
3.49
500+ ratings
Psychology
Science
Economics
Bitcoin Summary
Bitcoin
The Future of Money?
by Dominic Frisby 2014 192 pages
3.87
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
This Changes Everything Summary
This Changes Everything
Capitalism vs. The Climate
by Naomi Klein 2014 566 pages
4.16
26k+ ratings
Politics
Environment
Science
Start Day Trading Now Summary
Start Day Trading Now
A Quick and Easy Introduction to Making Money While Managing Your Risk
by Michael Sincere 2011 224 pages
3.53
100+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
The Automatic Customer Summary
The Automatic Customer
Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
by John Warrillow 2015 224 pages
4.09
1k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Psychology
The Age of Cryptocurrency Summary
The Age of Cryptocurrency
How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna 2015 368 pages
3.83
2k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Summary
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
by Joel Greenblatt 1997 285 pages
4.22
8k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew
by Lee Kuan Yew 1998 680 pages
4.28
3k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
Irrational Exuberance Summary
Irrational Exuberance
by Robert J. Shiller 2000 304 pages
3.98
8k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Cool Summary
Cool
How the Brain’s Hidden Quest for Cool Drives Our Economy and Shapes Our World
by Steven Quartz 2015 304 pages
3.59
100+ ratings
Psychology
Sociology
Economics
The Most Good You Can Do Summary
The Most Good You Can Do
How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
by Peter Singer 2015 211 pages
3.81
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Self Help
Economics
The Little Book of Economics Summary
The Little Book of Economics
How the Economy Works in the Real World
by Greg Ip 2010 250 pages
3.72
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Accidental President of Brazil Summary
The Accidental President of Brazil
A Memoir
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2006 291 pages
4.14
100+ ratings
History
Brazil
Biography
When to Rob a Bank Summary
When to Rob a Bank
...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
by Steven D. Levitt 2015 387 pages
3.52
14k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Psychology
Rise of the Robots Summary
Rise of the Robots
Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
by Martin Ford 2015 352 pages
3.97
9k+ ratings
Technology
Economics
Business
The Happiness Industry Summary
The Happiness Industry
How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being
by William Davies 2015 320 pages
3.65
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Politics
Sociology
Misbehaving Summary
Misbehaving
The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler 2016 358 pages
4.16
22k+ ratings
Economics
Psychology
Business
Irrationally yours Summary
Irrationally yours
On Missing Socks, Pick-up Lines and Other Existential Puzzles
by Dan Ariely 2015 219 pages
3.47
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
Universal Man Summary
Universal Man
The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
by Richard Davenport-Hines 2015 432 pages
3.68
100+ ratings
Biography
Economics
History
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership Summary
The Toyota Way to Lean Leadership
Achieving and Sustaining Excellence Through Leadership Development
by Jeffrey K. Liker 2011 320 pages
4.07
1k+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Management
The Great Divide Summary
The Great Divide
Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 464 pages
3.82
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
Who Gets What ― and Why Summary
Who Gets What ― and Why
The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
by Alvin E. Roth 2015 260 pages
3.86
3k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Science
How Music Got Free Summary
How Music Got Free
The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy
by Stephen Richard Witt 2015 296 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Music
History
Business
Antifragile Summary
Antifragile
Things That Gain from Disorder
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012 426 pages
4.10
54k+ ratings
Philosophy
Business
Economics
The Age of Dignity Summary
The Age of Dignity
Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
by Ai-jen Poo 2015 176 pages
3.89
100+ ratings
Economics
Social Work
Sociology
The Wisdom of Crowds Summary
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki 2004 306 pages
3.82
24k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Economics
Risk Savvy Summary
Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
by Gerd Gigerenzer 2013 336 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Science
Humans Are Underrated Summary
Humans Are Underrated
What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will
by Geoff Colvin 2015 248 pages
3.79
500+ ratings
Business
Technology
Psychology
Charlie Munger Summary
Charlie Munger
The Complete Investor
by Tren Griffin 2015 224 pages
3.98
3k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Biography
Superforecasting Summary
Superforecasting
The Art and Science of Prediction
by Philip E. Tetlock 2015 352 pages
4.08
21k+ ratings
Business
Science
Psychology
The Corrosion of Character Summary
The Corrosion of Character
The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism
by Richard Sennett 1996 176 pages
3.94
1k+ ratings
Sociology
Economics
Politics
Platform Scale Summary
Platform Scale
How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment
by Sangeet Paul Choudary 2015 338 pages
4.20
500+ ratings
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Rock, Paper, Scissors Summary
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Game Theory in Everyday Life
by Len Fisher 2000 278 pages
3.42
1k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
Wealth Secrets of the One Percent Summary
Wealth Secrets of the One Percent
A Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich
by Sam Wilkin 2015 432 pages
3.70
100+ ratings
Business
Finance
Money
Phishing for Phools Summary
Phishing for Phools
The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
by George A. Akerlof 2015 288 pages
3.42
2k+ ratings
Economics
Psychology
Business
Good Profit Summary
Good Profit
How Creating Value for Others Built One of the World's Most Successful Companies
by Charles G. Koch 2015
3.87
1k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Leadership
Markets Never Forget (But People Do) Summary
Markets Never Forget (But People Do)
How Your Memory Is Costing You Money—and Why This Time Isn’t Different
by Kenneth L. Fisher 2011 240 pages
3.89
100+ ratings
Finance
Psychology
Economics
The Evolution of Everything Summary
The Evolution of Everything
How New Ideas Emerge
by Matt Ridley 2015 368 pages
3.92
3k+ ratings
Science
History
Philosophy
Economics Rules Summary
Economics Rules
The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science
by Dani Rodrik 2015 272 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Saving Capitalism Summary
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
by Robert B. Reich 2004 219 pages
4.19
5k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Capital Ideas Summary
Capital Ideas
The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
by Peter L. Bernstein 1991 368 pages
3.99
500+ ratings
Finance
Economics
History
Damned Lies and Statistics Summary
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
by Joel Best 1998 190 pages
3.74
500+ ratings
Politics
Science
Mathematics
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