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The Quants Summary
The Quants
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3.89
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Innumeracy Summary
Innumeracy
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by John Allen Paulos 1988 180 pages
3.78
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Human Action Summary
Human Action
A Treatise on Economics
by Ludwig von Mises 1940 924 pages
4.34
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The Secret Life of Groceries Summary
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age Summary
HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age
by Harvard Business Review 2019 238 pages
3.87
569 ratings
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The Little Book of Valuation Summary
The Little Book of Valuation
How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock and Profit
by Aswath Damodaran 2011 256 pages
3.98
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Money Summary
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4.19
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How Big Things Get Done Summary
How Big Things Get Done
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by Bent Flyvbjerg 2023 304 pages
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Payoff Summary
Payoff
The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
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3.70
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Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth Summary
Simple Wealth, Inevitable Wealth
by Nick Murray 1999 183 pages
4.32
907 ratings
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Profit from the Core Summary
Profit from the Core
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by Chris Zook 2010 192 pages
3.79
319 ratings
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Exponential Organizations Summary
Exponential Organizations
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4.07
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The War Below Summary
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3.92
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Overdressed Summary
Overdressed
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3.82
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The Candlestick Course Summary
The Candlestick Course
by Steve Nison 2003 219 pages
4.23
336 ratings
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Your Money and Your Brain Summary
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Rise of the Robots Summary
Rise of the Robots
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by Martin Ford 2015 352 pages
3.97
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Limitarianism Summary
Limitarianism
The Case Against Extreme Wealth
by Ingrid Robeyns 2023 336 pages
4.03
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Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings Summary
Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings
by Philip A. Fisher 1957 320 pages
4.14
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Layered Money Summary
Layered Money
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by Nik Bhatia 2021 180 pages
4.30
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Hedge Fund Market Wizards Summary
Hedge Fund Market Wizards
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by Jack D. Schwager 2012 549 pages
4.37
3.1K ratings
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In This Economy? Summary
In This Economy?
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by Kyla Scanlon 2024 279 pages
3.88
841 ratings
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man Summary
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by John Perkins 2004 303 pages
3.87
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Beauty Pays Summary
Beauty Pays
Why Attractive People Are More Successful
by Daniel S. Hamermesh 2011 224 pages
3.15
137 ratings
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Expectations Investing Summary
Expectations Investing
Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns, Revised and Updated
by Michael J. Mauboussin 2021 272 pages
4.05
508 ratings
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Recoding America Summary
Recoding America
Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
by Jennifer Pahlka 2023 336 pages
4.41
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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
2.0K ratings
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The End of the World Is Just the Beginning Summary
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
by Peter Zeihan 2022 512 pages
4.17
12.2K ratings
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Dollars and Sense Summary
Dollars and Sense
How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
by Dan Ariely 2017 288 pages
3.79
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The Laws of Trading Summary
The Laws of Trading
A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone
by Agustin Lebron 2019 304 pages
4.03
356 ratings
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The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter Summary
The WSJ Guide to the 50 Economic Indicators That Really Matter
From Big Macs to "Zombie Banks," the Indicators Smart Investors Watch to Beat the Market
by Simon Constable 2011 281 pages
3.92
268 ratings
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The Art of Currency Trading Summary
The Art of Currency Trading
A Professional's Guide to the Foreign Exchange Market
by Brent Donnelly 2019 400 pages
4.45
247 ratings
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Quality Investing Summary
Quality Investing
Owning the Best Companies for the Long Term
by Torkell T. Eide 2016 227 pages
4.35
1.1K ratings
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The Grid Summary
The Grid
The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future
by Gretchen Bakke 2016 384 pages
3.87
4.4K ratings
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Poor Charlie's Almanack Summary
Poor Charlie's Almanack
The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger, Expanded Third Edition
by Peter D. Kaufman 2022 501 pages
4.33
347 ratings
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On the Edge Summary
On the Edge
The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver 2024 576 pages
3.68
4.1K ratings
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High probability trading Summary
High probability trading
take the steps to become a successful trader
by Link 2003 416 pages
3.90
524 ratings
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Skin in the Game Summary
Skin in the Game
The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2018 272 pages
3.91
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The WEIRDest People in the World Summary
The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
by Joseph Henrich 2020 706 pages
4.12
3.8K ratings
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Summary
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
by Joseph A. Schumpeter 1942 460 pages
3.99
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The Anarchy Summary
The Anarchy
The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
by William Dalrymple 2019 544 pages
4.20
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The Winner-Take-All Society Summary
The Winner-Take-All Society
Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank 1995 288 pages
3.70
254 ratings
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The Hidden Wealth of Nations Summary
The Hidden Wealth of Nations
The Scourge of Tax Havens
by Gabriel Zucman 2015 129 pages
3.96
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments Summary
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
by Adam Smith 1759 368 pages
4.07
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The House of Rothschild, Vol 1 Summary
The House of Rothschild, Vol 1
Money's Prophets, 1798-1848
by Niall Ferguson 1998 544 pages
3.88
1.7K ratings
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Swing Trading for Dummies Summary
Swing Trading for Dummies
by Omar Bassal 2008 360 pages
3.94
272 ratings
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Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders Summary
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
by Warren Buffett 2016 730 pages
4.63
2.5K ratings
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How Economics Explains the World Summary
How Economics Explains the World
A Short History of Humanity
by Andrew Leigh 2024 240 pages
3.96
772 ratings
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Net Positive Summary
Net Positive
How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
by Paul Polman 2021 256 pages
3.87
815 ratings
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Talent Summary
Talent
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by Tyler Cowen 2022 288 pages
3.59
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