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Armchair Economist Summary
Armchair Economist
Economics & Everyday Life
by Steven E. Landsburg 1993 256 pages
3.74
3k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Undoing Project Summary
The Undoing Project
A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by Michael Lewis 2016 368 pages
3.99
61k+ ratings
Psychology
Biography
Science
Stock Market 101 Summary
Stock Market 101
From Bull and Bear Markets to Dividends, Shares, and Margins—Your Essential Guide to the Stock Market
by Michele Cagan 2016 282 pages
4.02
500+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Summary
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins 2016 384 pages
3.93
7k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
Getting Beyond Better Summary
Getting Beyond Better
How Social Entrepreneurship Works
by Roger L. Martin 2015 272 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Business
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Nation of Rebels Summary
Nation of Rebels
Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture
by Joseph Heath 2004 368 pages
3.84
1k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Philosophy
The Price of Admission Summary
The Price of Admission
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
by Daniel Golden 2006 336 pages
3.66
500+ ratings
Education
Politics
Sociology
A Man for All Markets Summary
A Man for All Markets
From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
by Edward O. Thorp 2016 416 pages
4.24
7k+ ratings
Finance
Biography
Business
Narrative and Numbers Summary
Narrative and Numbers
The Value of Stories in Business
by Aswath Damodaran 2017 296 pages
4.08
500+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Airbnb Story Summary
The Airbnb Story
How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy
by Leigh Gallagher 2017 256 pages
3.86
3k+ ratings
Business
Biography
Entrepreneurship
The Content Trap Summary
The Content Trap
A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change
by Bharat Anand 2016 413 pages
4.18
500+ ratings
Business
Technology
Writing
Pioneering Portfolio Management Summary
Pioneering Portfolio Management
An Unconventional Approach to Institutional Investment
by David F. Swensen 2000 364 pages
4.17
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
How to Read a Financial Report Summary
How to Read a Financial Report
Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers
by John A. Tracy 1980 192 pages
3.92
4k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Accounting
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School Summary
What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School
Notes from a Street-smart Executive
by Mark H. McCormack 1984 288 pages
3.60
5k+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Leadership
Glass House Summary
Glass House
The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
by Brian Alexander 2017 336 pages
3.91
1k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
Knowledge and Power Summary
Knowledge and Power
The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World
by George Gilder 2013 400 pages
3.92
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
The Membership Economy Summary
The Membership Economy
by Robbie Kellman Baxter 2015 272 pages
3.73
500+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Economics
Investing All-in-One for Dummies Summary
Investing All-in-One for Dummies
by Eric Tyson 2017 552 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
Redefining Health Care Summary
Redefining Health Care
Creating Value-Based Competition on Results
by Michael E. Porter 2006 528 pages
3.91
100+ ratings
Health Care
Business
Economics
The Trouble With Billionaires Summary
The Trouble With Billionaires
Why Too Much Money At The Top Is Bad For Everyone
by Linda McQuaig 2010 272 pages
4.00
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Canada
The New Urban Crisis Summary
The New Urban Crisis
How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class—and What We Can Do About It
by Richard Florida 2017 336 pages
3.50
1k+ ratings
Urban Planning
Urbanism
Politics
Get a Financial Life Summary
Get a Financial Life
Personal Finance in Your Twenties and Thirties
by Beth Kobliner 1996 352 pages
3.90
3k+ ratings
Finance
Personal Finance
Money
The Wisdom Of Finance Summary
The Wisdom Of Finance
Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return
by Mihir Desai 2017 223 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
Choices, Values, and Frames Summary
Choices, Values, and Frames
by Daniel Kahneman 2000 860 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
The Unusual Billionaires Summary
The Unusual Billionaires
by Saurabh Mukherjea 2016 454 pages
4.01
1k+ ratings
Business
Finance
India
Mismeasuring Our Lives Summary
Mismeasuring Our Lives
Why GDP Doesn't Add Up
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2009 136 pages
3.74
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Social Science
Requiem for the American Dream Summary
Requiem for the American Dream
The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power
by Noam Chomsky 2017 192 pages
4.20
3k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
80,000 Hours Summary
80,000 Hours
Find a fulfilling career that does good
by Benjamin Todd 2016 276 pages
3.95
1k+ ratings
Self Help
Business
Philosophy
The Science of Selling Summary
The Science of Selling
Proven Strategies to Make Your Pitch, Influence Decisions, and Close the Deal
by David Hoffeld 2016 288 pages
4.00
500+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Self Help
The Retreat of Western Liberalism Summary
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce 2017 234 pages
4.01
2k+ ratings
Politics
History
Economics
The Broken Ladder Summary
The Broken Ladder
How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
by Keith Payne 2018 256 pages
4.21
3k+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Economics
The Fourth Industrial Revolution Summary
The Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Klaus Schwab 2016 198 pages
3.58
4k+ ratings
Business
Economics
Technology
Private Government Summary
Private Government
How Employers Rule Our Lives
by Elizabeth S. Anderson 2017 196 pages
3.98
500+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Economics
Machine, Platform, Crowd Summary
Machine, Platform, Crowd
Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee 2017 416 pages
4.03
2k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Science
IIM Ahmedabad Business Books Summary
IIM Ahmedabad Business Books
Day to Day Economics
by Satish Y. Deodhar 2012 232 pages
4.24
2k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
Incerto 4-Book Bundle Summary
Incerto 4-Book Bundle
Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2011 1596 pages
4.57
100+ ratings
Philosophy
Business
Economics
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
500+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
How to Run a Government Summary
How to Run a Government
So That Citizens Benefit and Taxpayers Don't Go Crazy
by Michael Barber 2015 368 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Philosophy
The Smarter Screen Summary
The Smarter Screen
Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behavior
by Shlomo Benartzi 2015 256 pages
3.96
100+ ratings
Design
Psychology
Business
Don't Count on It! Summary
Don't Count on It!
Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, "Mutual" Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes
by John C. Bogle 2010 603 pages
3.75
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Money
Free Market Revolution Summary
Free Market Revolution
How Ayn Rand's Ideas Can End Big Government
by Yaron Brook 2012 272 pages
4.22
500+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Philosophy
The FINTECH Book Summary
The FINTECH Book
The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries
by Susanne Chishti 2016 320 pages
3.46
100+ ratings
Business
Finance
Technology
Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully Summary
Jim Cramer's Get Rich Carefully
by Jim Cramer 2013 418 pages
3.81
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Personal Finance
The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide Summary
The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide
by Robert H. Frank 2009 241 pages
3.47
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Personal Development
Them And Us Summary
Them And Us
Changing Britain - Why We Need a Fair Society
by Will Hutton 2010 434 pages
3.90
100+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Second Chance Summary
Second Chance
by Robert T. Kiyosaki 2015 400 pages
3.92
1k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Self Help
The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them Summary
The 5 Mistakes Every Investor Makes and How to Avoid Them
Getting Investing Right
by Peter Mallouk 2014 208 pages
4.31
500+ ratings
Finance
Personal Finance
Money
The Primal Prescription Summary
The Primal Prescription
Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole
by Doug McGuff 2015 463 pages
4.23
100+ ratings
Health
Economics
Medicine
Platform Revolution Summary
Platform Revolution
How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You
by Geoffrey G. Parker 2016 352 pages
4.05
4k+ ratings
Business
Technology
Economics
The Road Taken Summary
The Road Taken
The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
by Henry Petroski 2016 322 pages
3.45
500+ ratings
History
Engineering
Economics
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