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On the Brink
On the Brink
Henry M. Paulson
Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
A Philosophical Tale About the Failures of Government Coercion
20 min
3.7
The Promise of Bitcoin
The Promise of Bitcoin
Bobby C. Lee
The Future of Money and How It Can Work for You
26 min
4.2
House of Huawei
House of Huawei
Eva Dou
The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
18 min
4.1
The New Map
The New Map
Daniel Yergin
Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
18 min
4.3
The Great Mental Models, Volume 4
The Great Mental Models, Volume 4
Shane Parrish
Economics and Art
18 min
4.1
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
The “Keynesian Revolution”—the Masterpiece That Changed Economics
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Money
Money
David McWilliams
The Story Of Humanity
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The Almightier
The Almightier
Paul Vigna
How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin
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Scaling Up Compensation
Scaling Up Compensation
Verne Harnish
Turning Your Largest Expense Into a Strategic Advantage
17 min
Power and Progress
Power and Progress
Daron Acemoglu
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
19 min
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The Longevity Imperative
The Longevity Imperative
Andrew J Scott
Building a Healthier, Productive Society to Support Longer Lives
17 min
The Future of Work
The Future of Work
Darrell M. West
Robots, AI, and Automation
20 min
3.9
Competition Demystified
Competition Demystified
Bruce C. N. Greenwald
A Radically Simplified Approach to Business Strategy
18 min
The Insight-Driven Leader
The Insight-Driven Leader
Jenny Dearborn
How High-Performing Companies Use Analytics to Unlock Value
16 min
The Next Crisis
The Next Crisis
Danny Dorling
What We Think About the Future
20 min
4.1
Thinking in Systems
Thinking in Systems
Donella H. Meadows
A Primer
17 min
4.2
How Countries Go Broke
How Countries Go Broke
Ray Dalio
The Big Cycle
31 min
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
5 min
3.9
Moneyland
Moneyland
Oliver Bullough
Why Thieves and Crooks Now Rule the World and How to Take It Back
19 min
4.4
Growth
Growth
Daniel Susskind
A History and a Reckoning
19 min
4.1
Value(s)
Value(s)
Mark Carney
Building a Better World for All
19 min
4.4
The Black Swan
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Impact of the Highly Improbable
18 min
4.3
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
Peter Zeihan
Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
21 min
4.4
Continuous-Time Finance
Continuous-Time Finance
Robert C. Merton
Mastering Financial Strategies with Math, Models, and Insights
18 min
The AI-fication of Jobs
The AI-fication of Jobs
Huy Nguyen Trieu
Preparing Ourselves for the Future of Work
17 min
4.2
Platformland
Platformland
Richard Pope
An Anatomy of Next-Generation Public Services
19 min
Trading in the Zone
Trading in the Zone
Mark Douglas
Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude
11 min
4.0
Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order
Principles For Dealing With the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
Why Nations Succeed and Fail
19 min
4.0
My Life as a Quant
My Life as a Quant
Emanuel Derman
Reflections on Physics and Finance
23 min
4.2
This Time Is Different
This Time Is Different
Carmen M. Reinhart
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
19 min
4.6
Money in the Twenty-First Century
Money in the Twenty-First Century
Richard Holden
Cheap, Mobile, and Digital
19 min
4.0
2030
2030
Mauro F. Guillén
How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
27 min
4.2
Antifragile
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Things That Gain from Disorder
20 min
4.5
The New Silk Roads
The New Silk Roads
Peter Frankopan
The Present and Future of the World
19 min
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