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The Happiness Equation Summary
The Happiness Equation
The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset
by Nick Powdthavee 2010 320 pages
3.55
100+ ratings
Personal Development
Economics
Social Science
How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not? Summary
How Come That Idiot's Rich and I'm Not?
by Robert Shemin 2008 258 pages
3.50
100+ ratings
Business
Self Help
Finance
The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs Summary
The Truth About Retirement Plans and IRAs
by Ric Edelman 2014 355 pages
4
100+ ratings
Finance
Personal Finance
Money
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations Summary
Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
A modern-day interpretation of an economic classic
by Karen McCreadie 2009 126 pages
3.37
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
The Elephant And The Flea Summary
The Elephant And The Flea
New Thinking For A New World
by Charles Handy 2008 242 pages
4.07
100+ ratings
Business
Philosophy
Management
When McKinsey Comes to Town Summary
When McKinsey Comes to Town
The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich 2022 200 pages
3.8
7k+ ratings
Business
Politics
History
Wild Problems Summary
Wild Problems
A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us
by Russ Roberts 2022 224 pages
3.81
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Philosophy
Economics
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem Summary
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns
by Gregg Colburn 2022 284 pages
4.24
500+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Survival of the Richest Summary
Survival of the Richest
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires
by Douglas Rushkoff 2022 213 pages
3.87
1k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Technology
Chokepoint Capitalism Summary
Chokepoint Capitalism
by Rebecca Giblin 2022 398 pages
4.27
1k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Business
The Revenge of Geography Summary
The Revenge of Geography
What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate
by Robert D. Kaplan 2012 391 pages
3.78
5k+ ratings
History
Politics
Geography
Margin of Safety Summary
Margin of Safety
Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor
by Seth A. Klarman 1991 249 pages
4.33
6k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Trading Book Summary
The Trading Book
A Complete Solution to Mastering Technical Systems and Trading Psychology
by Anne-Marie Baiynd 2011 273 pages
3.98
50+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog Summary
Behavioural Economics Saved My Dog
by Dan Ariely 2015
3.46
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
Tax-Free Wealth Summary
Tax-Free Wealth
How to Build Massive Wealth by Permanently Lowering Your Taxes
by Tom Wheelwright 2018 387 pages
4.21
2k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Money
The Machine That Changed the World Summary
The Machine That Changed the World
The Story of Lean Production — Toyota's Secret Weapon in the Global Car Wars That Is Now Revolutionizing World Industry ... That Is Revolutionizing World Industry)
by James P. Womack 2007 327 pages
4.04
2k+ ratings
Business
Management
History
The Complete Guide to Option Selling Summary
The Complete Guide to Option Selling
How Selling Options Can Lead to Stellar Returns in Bull and Bear Markets, 3rd Edition
by James Cordier 2014 524 pages
3.9
100+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Nudge Summary
Nudge
The Final Edition
by Richard H. Thaler 2021 384 pages
3.84
87k+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Business
American Made Summary
American Made
What Happens to People When Work Disappears
by Farah Stockman 2021 395 pages
4.3
1k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Sociology
The Weirdest People In The World Summary
The Weirdest People In The World
by Joseph Henrich 2020 704 pages
4.13
3k+ ratings
Psychology
History
Science
Profit and Punishment Summary
Profit and Punishment
How America Criminalizes the Poor in the Name of Justice
by Tony Messenger 2021 260 pages
4.26
500+ ratings
Politics
Social Justice
History
Power and Prediction Summary
Power and Prediction
The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
by Ajay Agrawal 2022 288 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Business
Artificial Intelligence
Economics
Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money Summary
Dave Ramsey's Complete Guide to Money
by Dave Ramsey
4.36
6k+ ratings
Finance
Money
Self Help
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison Summary
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison
by Jeffrey Reiman 2020 408 pages
3.94
500+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
Social Justice
Raising Private Capital Summary
Raising Private Capital
Building Your Real Estate Empire Using Other People's Money
by Matt Faircloth 2018 191 pages
4.22
100+ ratings
Business
Finance
Economics
The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth Summary
The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me About Life and Wealth
by Richard Paul Evans 2006 122 pages
3.93
2k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Self Help
The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio Summary
The Warren Buffett Stock Portfolio
Warren Buffett Stock Picks: Why and When He Is Investing in Them
by Mary Buffett 2011 242 pages
3.58
100+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Not Working Summary
Not Working
People Talk About Losing a Job and Finding Their Way in Today's Changing Economy
by DW Gibson 2012 479 pages
3.71
50+ ratings
Sociology
Economics
Sold Out Summary
Sold Out
How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy
by James Rickards 2022 200 pages
3.57
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Buy Then Build Summary
Buy Then Build
How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
by Walker Deibel 2018 312 pages
4.29
1k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Finance
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition Summary
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd Edition
by John Perkins 2023 384 pages
3.87
37k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
How Big Things Get Done Summary
How Big Things Get Done
The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
by Bent Flyvbjerg 2023 293 pages
4.32
4k+ ratings
Business
Management
Economics
The Internet of Money Volume Two Summary
The Internet of Money Volume Two
A collection of talks by Andreas M. Antonopoulos
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos 2017 134 pages
4.28
500+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Business
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism Summary
It's OK to Be Angry About Capitalism
by Bernie Sanders 2023 297 pages
4.09
4k+ ratings
Politics
Economics
History
The Great Money Reset Summary
The Great Money Reset
Change Your Work, Change Your Wealth, Change Your Life
by Jill Schlesinger 2023 288 pages
3.52
500+ ratings
Finance
Personal Finance
Money
Safety-First Retirement Planning Summary
Safety-First Retirement Planning
An Integrated Approach for a Worry-Free Retirement (The Retirement Researcher Guide Series)
by Wade Donald Pfau 2019 366 pages
4.32
100+ ratings
Personal Finance
Economics
Finance
Design for a Better World Summary
Design for a Better World
Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
by Donald A. Norman 2023 376 pages
3.58
100+ ratings
Design
Economics
Sustainability
Poverty, by America Summary
Poverty, by America
by Matthew Desmond 2023 304 pages
4.27
40k+ ratings
Politics
Sociology
History
Can't We Just Print More Money? Summary
Can't We Just Print More Money?
by The Bank of England 2022 320 pages
4.03
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Politics
The Millionaire Real Estate Agent Summary
The Millionaire Real Estate Agent
by Gary Keller 2004 430 pages
4.23
3k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Money
The Day the World Stops Shopping Summary
The Day the World Stops Shopping
How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
by J.B. MacKinnon 2021 336 pages
4.19
3k+ ratings
Environment
Economics
Science
How Economics Can Save the World Summary
How Economics Can Save the World
Simple Ideas to Solve Our Biggest Problems
by Erik Angner 2023 277 pages
3.67
100+ ratings
Economics
Business
Society
For the Culture Summary
For the Culture
The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be
by Marcus Collins 2023 304 pages
4.04
100+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Cultural
How to Day Trade for a Living Summary
How to Day Trade for a Living
A Beginner’s Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management, Discipline and Trading Psychology
by Andrew Aziz 2016 366 pages
4.1
3k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Power and Progress Summary
Power and Progress
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
by Daron Acemoglu 2023 560 pages
3.91
500+ ratings
Economics
History
Politics
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin Summary
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin
by Pulak Prasad 2023 328 pages
4.6
1k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
Moneyball - The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Summary
Moneyball - The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
by Michael Lewis
4.26
100k+ ratings
Sports
Baseball
Business
Naked Economics Summary
Naked Economics
Undressing the Dismal Science (Fully Revised and Updated)
by Charles J. Wheelan 2010 385 pages
4.03
18k+ ratings
Economics
Business
Finance
The Millionaire Next Door Summary
The Millionaire Next Door
The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy
by Thomas J. Stanley 2010 272 pages
4.06
100k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Personal Finance
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
4.43
1k+ ratings
Politics
Technology
Government
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