The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel, 2020
A short, story-driven look at why smart people make strange money decisions—and how luck, fear, patience and ego shape what we do with what we have.
Economics & business: books to read
A page that shows it
The expensive thing is rarely the thing you're actually buying.
Be nicer and less flashy. No one is impressed with your possessions as much as you are. You might think you want a fancy car or a nice watch. But what you probably want is respect and admiration. And you’re more likely to gain those things through kindness and humility than horsepower and chrome. -
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Freakonomics
Steven D. Levitt, 2005
An economist’s case that the world is stranger than it looks: cheating teachers, sumo wrestlers, and why a backyard pool is more dangerous than a gun.
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The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell, 2000
Why do some ideas, products and habits explode while better ones vanish? Gladwell hunts for the small, surprising levers that make change contagious.
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Good to Great
Jim Collins, 2001
A five-year study of companies that jumped from good to great—and the surprising habits, hires and leaders behind the leap.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki, 1997
The book that sold a generation on the idea that a salary is a trap — blunt lessons on assets, risk and who really pays whom.
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Bad Blood
John Carreyrou, 2018
The reporter who broke the Theranos story reconstructs how a blood-testing startup sold a miracle it couldn’t deliver.
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Start with Why
Simon Sinek, 2009
For anyone who has followed a plan without knowing why: Sinek argues that purpose, not tactics, is what makes leaders and companies endure.
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Η γλώσσα του σώματος
Τζο Ναβάρο, 2008
Learn to notice the small, often overlooked signals in everyday encounters—and why body language is more complicated than a simple lie detector.
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Σύντομη ιστορία της οικονομίας
Andrew Leigh, 2018
A brisk tour of how farming, money, trade and power shaped everyday life—and why economic ideas still explain the world around us.
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Ουσιοκρατία
Γκρεγκ ΜακΚιόουν, 2014
A practical case for choosing fewer commitments and giving your best energy to the work and relationships that matter most.
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Σημασία δεν έχει τι λες αλλά πώς το λες
Μάικλ Πάρκερ, 2015
A practical guide to how the way you communicate can shape whether your ideas are heard.
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Χτίζοντας μια αυτοκρατορία
Φιλ Νάιτ, 2016
Phil Knight looks back on the uncertain beginnings of Nike and the restless idea that set him moving.
A taste of the feed
What a lottery ticket and a vote actually buy you.
After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the lottery is a bad investment. But it’s fun and relatively cheap: for the price of a ticket, you buy the right to fantasize how you’d spend the winnings - much as you get to fantasize that your vote will have some impact on policy.
Freakonomics · Steven D. Levitt
We think friendship grows from shared beliefs; the data says shared calendars.
A study at the University of Utah found that if you ask someone why he is friendly with someone else, he’ll say it is because he and his friend share similar attitudes. But if you actually quiz the two of them on their attitudes, you’ll find out that what they actually share is similar activities. We’re friends with the people we do things with, as much as we are with the people we resemble. We don’t seek out friends, in other words. We associate with the people who occupy the same small, physical spaces that we do.
The Tipping Point · Malcolm Gladwell
What if the destination matters less than who is sitting beside you?
For no matter what we achieve, if we don’t spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect, we cannot possibly have a great life. But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect – people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us – then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.
Good to Great · Jim Collins
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