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How We Got to Now Summary
How We Got to Now
Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson 2014 304 pages
4.11
14k+ ratings
History
Science
Technology
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life Summary
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
by Russ Roberts 2014 272 pages
3.93
3k+ ratings
Philosophy
Economics
Self Help
Think Twice Summary
Think Twice
Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
by Michael J. Mauboussin 2009 224 pages
3.93
1k+ ratings
Psychology
Business
Finance
Why Most Things Fail Summary
Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
by Paul Ormerod 2007 272 pages
3.47
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 1600 336 pages
4.31
50+ ratings
Economics
Money
Finance
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas Summary
Conspiracy Theories and Other Dangerous Ideas
by Cass R. Sunstein 2014 288 pages
3.13
100+ ratings
Politics
Psychology
Conspiracy Theories
BITCOIN Summary
BITCOIN
by Dominic Frisby 2014 304 pages
3.87
500+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Automatic Customer Summary
The Automatic Customer
Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry
by John Warrillow 2015 224 pages
4.10
1k+ ratings
Business
Entrepreneurship
Psychology
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 1999 304 pages
4.22
8k+ ratings
Finance
Business
Economics
The Singapore Story Summary
The Singapore Story
Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1
by Kuan Yew Lee 1998 680 pages
4.27
2k+ ratings
Biography
History
Politics
Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition Summary
Irrational Exuberance 3rd edition
by Robert J. Shiller 2015 392 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 Little Book of Economics Summary
The Little Book of Economics
by Greg Ip 2010 272 pages
3.72
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
The Accidental President of Brazil Summary
The Accidental President of Brazil
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso 2007 496 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 400 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
Misbehaving Summary
Misbehaving
The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler 2015 432 pages
4.16
21k+ ratings
Economics
Psychology
Business
IRRATIONALLY YRS Summary
IRRATIONALLY YRS
by Dan Ariely 2015 240 pages
3.47
2k+ ratings
Psychology
Economics
Science
The Great Divide Summary
The Great Divide
Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by Joseph E. Stiglitz 2015 448 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 272 pages
3.85
2k+ 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 Witt 2015 304 pages
4.24
6k+ ratings
Music
History
Business
Antifragile Summary
Antifragile
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 2012 544 pages
4.1
52k+ 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
3.92
100+ ratings
Economics
Social Work
Sociology
The Wisdom of Crowds Summary
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki 2005 336 pages
3.82
24k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Economics
Risk Savvy Summary
Risk Savvy
How to Make Good Decisions
by Gerd Gigerenzer 2014 336 pages
4.03
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 256 pages
3.79
500+ ratings
Business
Technology
Psychology
Charlie Munger Summary
Charlie Munger
The Complete Investor (Columbia Business School Publishing)
by Tren Griffin 2015 224 pages
3.98
3k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Biography
Superforecasting Summary
Superforecasting
The Art and Science of Prediction
by Philip E. Tetlock 2015 352 pages
4.08
20k+ 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 1998 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 336 pages
4.21
500+ ratings
Business
Technology
Entrepreneurship
Rock, Paper, Scissors Summary
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Game Theory in Everyday Life
by Len Fisher 2008 278 pages
3.42
1k+ ratings
Science
Mathematics
Psychology
Phishing for Phools Summary
Phishing for Phools
The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
by George A. Akerlof 2015 288 pages
3.43
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 288 pages
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 Ken Fisher 2011 240 pages
3.88
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
Finance
Business
Saving Capitalism Summary
Saving Capitalism
For the Many, Not the Few
by Robert B. Reich 2015 304 pages
4.19
5k+ ratings
Economics
Politics
Business
Damned Lies and Statistics Summary
Damned Lies and Statistics
Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists
by Joel Best 2012 224 pages
3.75
500+ ratings
Politics
Science
Mathematics
The Two Percent Solution Summary
The Two Percent Solution
Fixing America's Problems In Ways Liberals And Conservatives Can Love
by Matthew Miller 2003 304 pages
3.99
50+ ratings
Politics
Economics
Trouble in Paradise Summary
Trouble in Paradise
From the End of History to the End of Capitalism
by Slavoj Zizek 2015 272 pages
3.74
1k+ ratings
Philosophy
Politics
Sociology
Obliquity Summary
Obliquity
Why Our Goals are Best Achieved Indirectly
by John Kay 2010 224 pages
3.64
1k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Economics
Investing in ETFs For Dummies Summary
Investing in ETFs For Dummies
by Russell Wild 2015 288 pages
3.87
100+ ratings
Finance
Economics
Hidden Order Summary
Hidden Order
The Economics of Everyday Life
by David D. Friedman 1996 352 pages
3.74
500+ ratings
Economics
Business
Politics
Killing the Host Summary
Killing the Host
How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
by Michael Hudson 2015 400 pages
4.33
100+ ratings
Economics
Politics
History
The Only Game in Town Summary
The Only Game in Town
Central Banks, Instability, and Avoiding the Next Collapse
by Mohamed A. El-Erian 2016 320 pages
3.57
1k+ ratings
Economics
Finance
Business
Thou Shall Prosper Summary
Thou Shall Prosper
Ten Commandments for Making Money
by Rabbi Daniel Lapin 2009 384 pages
4.26
3k+ ratings
Business
Finance
Money
Small Data Summary
Small Data
The Tiny Clues That Uncover Huge Trends
by Martin Lindstrom 2016 256 pages
3.79
2k+ ratings
Business
Psychology
Economics
Why Minsky Matters Summary
Why Minsky Matters
An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
by L. Randall Wray 2015 288 pages
4.19
100+ ratings
Economics
Finance
History
Thinking in Systems Summary
Thinking in Systems
International Bestseller
by Donella H. Meadows 2008 240 pages
4.21
17k+ ratings
Business
Science
Design
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