4.16 avg rating — 24,209 ratings

"Beharioural economics. Focus on financial market anomalies is particularly useful."

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"Readable and worth your time."

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"Still important. "

3.85 avg rating — 5,857 ratings

"The classic. Still very readable."

4.16 avg rating — 51,471 ratings

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"The classic on the dangers of the State. Got to admit, though, it's a real slog to read."

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,162 ratings

"This is one of my favourite books. The discussion of moving from a world of subsistence consumption to "

3.75 avg rating — 7,505 ratings

"Obviously the 90% debt-to-GDP threshold has been trashed, but still a whole lot of valuable historical insights"

4.17 avg rating — 610,384 ratings

"Behavioural economics made very readable."

4.11 avg rating — 9,928 ratings

"A great history of the hedge fund industry. "

4.04 avg rating — 469,519 ratings

"you should learn more from this than any straight Econ book."

4.21 avg rating — 183 ratings

"Enron seems like old history after 2008/2009, but corporate malfeasance during 90s bubble was just as eye-opening"

4.20 avg rating — 32,228 ratings

"The collapse of LTCM almost triggered a financial crisis. It's a really well written book"

4.31 avg rating — 174,066 ratings

4.14 avg rating — 114,590 ratings

"The insights into IB culture are entertaining, but also a good background to evolution of IB after end of Bretton-Woods."

3.91 avg rating — 12,126 ratings

"The upside case for technological change"

4.16 avg rating — 44,685 ratings

"THE book on the financial crisis"

3.96 avg rating — 124,295 ratings

3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings

"20 years old, but think about how the main arguments still apply today - i.e. central banks, china, inf exp, etc."

3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings

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"THE book on the 1980s debt leveraged buyout frenzy. alternatively, watch the HBO movie starring James Garner!!"

4.21 avg rating — 28,112 ratings

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"Boring and I don't agree with the main conclusions. But I can't leave it off the list"

4.12 avg rating — 2,127 ratings

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"I read this for the first time the day after Lehman collapsed. "

4.06 avg rating — 2,506 ratings

"Kindleberger is more well known on bubbles but, for me, Galbraith is better."

4.04 avg rating — 54 ratings

"Looooooooong and expensive, but worth your time. The evolution of central banking is all here in minute detail"

4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings

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3.88 avg rating — 440 ratings

"This is still readable and helps with the evolution of money markets"

3.95 avg rating — 1,627 ratings

"Some bits are nonsense, but the discussion of monetary economics is great"

3.87 avg rating — 8,281 ratings

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"Very readable."

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"The pessimistic case for technological change"