Essential Reading

Dont buy The Ascent of Money. It has a free fucking documentary covering the whole book on youtube.
The list of books typically posted is too much. No one has time to read 100+ books.
I think as a community we need to narrow it all down to less than 10

>>1230088
>/biz/
>caring about what Adam Smith said

all /biz/ seems to care about is Ayn Rand and whichever select passages from Hayek and Friedman that support their views.

>inb4 someone posts that shitty infograph with all the "git rich quick" books in it

>>1230094
I mean, I don't know.
Personally I'd go with as far and combined view of the things, but as a basis I'd go for;

The Essays of Warren Buffett
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
2-3 books on trade psychology and behaviourial things
2 books on Quality and Leading both (Juran is probably way too long for most people here, it's about 1800pages but it's a godtier book.)
Corporate Finance by Berk and DeMarzo or
(Corporate Finance by Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe), depending are you American or European.
Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond by Greenwald, Kahn, Sonkin, etc

Google a bit on economical schools, obviously unless you're the extreme edge Sartre loving faggot, you'll not be going with premodern or early modern and end up with one of the modern ones ((Post, New etc)Keynesian, Chicago, Carnegie, Austrian or whatever you feel like works)

Seriously, it all depends on what type of things you want to go for. You need to explore what kind of a risk taker you are and what you feel comfortable in, what works for me won't work for you.
Input is appreciated, maybe it's time to do a Wall of Text and send it to the mods for a Sticky.

>>1230094

I downloaded the Ferg's books for free.

Das Capital

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THE SAME FUCKING THING THAT'S POSTED EVERY SINGLE DAY

REEEE EJUST SEARCH FUCKING "BOOKS" IN ARCHIVE

>>1230088


Don't forget "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, I remember when a couple years back all the bankers and business men were so hyped for that book. It isn't a bad book, but how everybody was hyped for it, was just plain ridiculous.

>>1230088
The wolf of wall street and the big short

You can also watch these movies if you are not feeling like reading

Depends on how deep down the rabbit hole you want to go.

To be a top player you'd need to know all the people and agencies in charge of say $1B+ and what they do and why they do it.

Economics is pretty cool, but its soft not hard.
and the hard stuff mashes it back into place. pretty fucking fast.

>>1230088
The Art of the Deal
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Capitalism and Freedom

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>>1232748
>The Art of the Deal

>>1232755
"Don't believe every quote you read on the internet" - Roosevelt

>>1232748
art of the deal doesn't really teach you anything, though it's a fun read

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>>1230088

/thread

>>1232796

Also:

>The Millionaire Next Door
Savings is more powerful than earnings. American consumer culture is killing the middle class and the vast majority of millionaires are simple people who make decent money but saved hard and lived frugal.

>Common Sense on Mutual Funds
The financial services industry is a joke and you need to dispel all the stock bullshit that /biz/ falls for. Just buy Vanguard funds.

>Devil Take the Hindmost
A brief history of stock fads and manias so you can recognize it and know what to avoid (i.e. /biz/ falls for stupid fads like meme stocks and cryptocoins).

>Your Money and Your Brain
How to deal with your irrational instincts when it comes to your investments. The morons who cashed out in the 08 crash lost their savings, while the sensible who just held on saw all their value bounce back - which happens every single time.

Then just pick a lazy portfolio and stick with it:

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Lazy_portfolios

If you need practical advice on how to spend less and save more, here my two favorite blogs:

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/
http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/

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>Devil Take the Hindmost
>Your Money and Your Brain

Read "Deep Learning" if you want to learn how to make money by becoming extremely smart.

>>1232796
Read thinking fast and slow right now. This is one of the best book I've ever read. So many valuable lesson not only about money but for life in general too.

I even started using his ideas on my undergrad research so it already shaped my carrer (gonna be chemE in the future).

What book do I read if I know absolutely NOTHING about financing/investing/etc. and want to learn about becoming /biz/?

>>1232803
>the vast majority of millionaires are simple people who make decent money but saved hard and lived frugal.
i did this and now i'm a millionaire as i wanted to be as a child. too bad my millions are not worth shit by the time i had them. now i need hundreds of millions to get anywhere. and money just keeps on burning faster than i can save up.

>>1234711
Investments by Bodie, Kane and Marcus.

>>1234804

inflation is neutral in the long run when rates are stable

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>>1232796
>Thinking: Fast & Slow
Monica. I'm thinking of rereading it

Also, pic related

>>1232755
http://www.snopes.com/1998-trump-people-quote/

not true!

>>1230376
Mate most people diet know an archive exists. Most think 4chan expires past the bottom of the board

>>1235005
anything by Thomas Sowell for that matter, take the ultimate red pill

How to win friends and influence people

The Politics - Aristotle (Author), Carnes Lord (Translator)
A Concise History of the French Revolution - Sylvia Neely
The Subjection of Women (1869) - J.S.Mill
Considerations on Representative Government (1861) - J.S.Mill
A Few Words on Non-Intervention (1859) - J.S.Mill
The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856) - Alexis de Tocqueville
Principles of Political Economy: and Chapters on Socialism (Oxford World's Classics) (1848) - J.S.Mill
Democracy in America (1840) - Alexis de Tocqueville
Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) - David Ricardo
Rights of Man (1791) - Thomas Paine
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) - Edmund Burke
Wealth of Nations (1776) - Adam Smith
The Social Contract (1762) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Discourse on Inequality (1754) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Spirit of the Laws (1748) - Montesquieu
Two Treatises of Government (1689) - John Locke
Leviathan (1652) - Thomas Hobbes
Afterward: Liberalism: A Counter-History - Domenico Losurdo (Author), Gregory Elliott (Translator)
The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics - Rod Hill & Anthony Myatt
Debunking Economics - Steve Keen
Economics for the Rest of Us: Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal - Moshe Adler
Selling the Free Market: The Rhetoric of Economic Correctness - James Arnt Aune
This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly - Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff
How They Got Away with It: White Collar Criminals and the Financial Meltdown - Susan Will, Stephen Handelman & David C. Brotherton
Us and Them: The Science of Identity - David Berreby
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View - Stanley Milgram
The Robbers Cave Experiment: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation - Muzafer Sherif (Author), O. J. Harvey (Contributor), William R. Hood (Contributor), Carolyn W. Sherif (Contributor), Jack White (Contributor)
Falsehood in Wartime: Propaganda Lies of the First World War - Arthur Ponsonby

>>1235714 contd
War is a Racket - Smedley D. Butler
Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann
Propaganda - Edward Bernays
Public Relations - Edward Bernays
All Art Is Propaganda - George Orwell (Author), Keith Gessen (Author), George Packer (Editor)
Governing With the News - Timothy E. Cook
The Press March to War: Newspapers Set the Stage for Military Intervention in Post-World War II America - Steve Hallock
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Neil Postman
Discourses On The First Decade Of Titus Livius - Niccolo Machiavelli (Author), Ninian Hill Thompson (Translator)
The Prince - Niccolo Machievelli (Author), Ninian Hill Thomson (Translator)
The Art of War - Niccolo Machievelli (Author), Christopher Lynch (Translator)
No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism - Daniel Guerin (Editor), Paul Sharkey (Translator)
New Libertarian Manifesto and Agorist Class Theory - Wally Conger (Author), Samuel Edward Konkin III (Author)
The Unknown Revolution - Voline
History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-1921 - P. Arshinov
My Visit To The Kremlin - Nestor Makhno
Kontrrazvedka: The Story of the Makhnovist Intelligence Service - V. Azarov
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin
The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
The Basic Bakunin: Writings 1869-1871 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (Author), Robert M. Cutler (Editor), Robert M. Baird (Editor)
Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) - Michael Bakunin (Author), Marshall Shatz (Editor)

Anti-Bolshevik Communism - Paul Mattick
Libertarian Communism: Marx, Engels and the Political Economy of Freedom - Ernesto Screpant
Ten Days that Shook the World - John Reed
Notes of a Red Guard - Eduard Dune (Author), Diane P Koenker (Editor), S A Smith (Translator)
A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924 - Orlando Figes
Prelude to Revolution - Alexander Rabinowitch
The Bolsheviks Come to Power - Alexander Rabinowitch
The Bolsheviks in Power - Alexander Rabinowitch
The Russian Anarchists - Paul Avrich
Stalin As Revolutionary - Robert C. Tucker
Stalin in Power: The Revolution from Above, 1928-1941 - Robert C. Tucker
The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932-1939 - Mr. J. Arch Getty (Author), Oleg V. Naumov (Author), Mr. Benjamin Sher (Translator)
The Bolsheviks and Workers' Control [OR] For Workers' Power - Maurice Brinton
The Economic Organization of War Communism, 1918-1921 - Silvana Malle
The Making of the Soviet System: Essays in the Social History of Interwar Russia - Moshe Lewin
The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within (Second Enlarged Edition) - Geoffrey Hosking
Stalin's Peasants: Resistance and Survival in the Russian Village after Collectivization - Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States - Ronald Suny
Revolutionary Dreams: Utopian Vision and Experimental Life in the Russian Revolution - Richard Stites

The Road to Serfdom (1944) - F. A. Hayek
The Constitution of Liberty (1960) - F. A. Hayek
Capitalism and Freedom (1962) - Milton Friedman
Defending the Undefendable - Walter Block
The Enterprise of Law: Justice Without the State - Bruce Benson
Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism - Chris Matthew Sciabarra
The Lenin Anthology - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Author), Robert C. Tucker (Editor)
Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23 - V.I.Lenin [2nd Ed]
Lenin and the Revolutionary Party - Paul Le Blanc
Marx, Lenin, and the Revolutionary Experience - Paul Le Blanc
Lenin's Political Thought: Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Revolutions - Neil Harding
Lenin Rediscovered: What Is to Be Done? In Context - Lars T. Lih
The Accessible Hegel - Michael Allen Fox
Hegel's Shorter Logic
The Red Flag: A History of Communism - David Priestland
Anti-Capitalism: A Marxist Introduction - Alfredo Saad-Filho
Marx for Beginners - Rius
How To Read Karl Marx - Ernst Fischer (Author), Franz Marek (Author)
An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory - Ernest Mandel
The Marx-Engels Reader (Second Edition) by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Robert C. Tucker
Wage Labour and Capital (1847)

Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon 1852)
Grundrisse (1857)
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
Theories of Surplus Value, 3 volumes (1862)
Value, Price and Profit (1865)
Capital, Volume I (Das Kapital) (1867)
Critique of the Gotha Program (1875)
Capital, Volume II (1885)
Capital, Volume III (1894)
Secret Intelligence: A Reader - Christopher Andrew (Editor), Richard J. Aldrich (Editor), Wesley K. Wark (Editor)
Handbook of Intelligence Studies - Loch K. Johnson (Editor)
Democratic Oversight of Intelligence Services - Daniel Baldino (editor)
A Terrible Revenge: The Ethnic Cleansing of the East European Germans - Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order - Benn Steil
The Color Revolutions - Lincoln A. Mitchell
The Prague Spring and its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968-1970 - Kieran Williams
The Gulf War: Its Origins, History and Consequences - John Bulloch (Author), Harvey Morris (Author)
The Collapse of Yugoslavia 1991-1999 - Alastair Finlan
Chechnya: From Nationalism to Jihad - James Hughes
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Daniel Yergin
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers - Paul Kennedy
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East - Robert Fisk

If you give a mouse a cookie

>>1235728


Good

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 - William Dalrymple
The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and Lost - Lester W. Grau (Translator), Michael A. Gress (Translator)
The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahideen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War - Ali Ahmad Jalali (Author), Lester W. Grau (Author)
Hell In A Very Small Place: The Siege Of Dien Bien Phu - Bernard Fall
War of the Running Dogs: Malaya, 1948-1960 - Noel Barber
The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism - Neville Morley
The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System, 1830-1970 - John Darwin
For the Common Defense: A Military History of the United States from 1607 to 2012 - Allan R. Millett (Author), Peter Maslowski (Author), William B. Feis (Author)
Lords of the Sea: The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy - John R. Hale
The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization - Barry Strauss
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides (Author), Thomas Hobbes (Translator)
The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War - Robert B. Strassler (Editor)
The Landmark Arrian: The Campaigns of Alexander - James Romm (Editor), Robert B. Strassler (Series Editor)
The Anabasis of Cyrus - Xenophon (Author), Wayne Ambler (Translator)
The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika - Robert B. Strassler (Editor)
The Roman Revolution - Ronald Syme
Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization - Richard Miles
Memphis Under the Ptolemies (Second Edition) - Dorothy J. Thompson

On War - Carl von Clausewitz (Author), Michael Eliot Howard (Translator), Peter Paret (Translator)
The Art of War - Sun- tzu [trans Lionel Giles, edition 2008 hardback - including chinese characters]
Roots of Strategy: Books 1-4 - Brig.Gen. Thomas R. Phillips (ed), Curtis Brown (ed), Wilhelm Leeb (Author), Hugo Friedrich P. J. Freytag-Loringhoven (Author), Waldemar Erfurth (Author), Col. David Jablonsky (Author)
Masters of War: Classical Strategic Thought - Michael I. Handel
Modern Strategy - Colin S. Gray
Another Bloody Century: Future Warfare - Colin S. Gray
The Causes of War - Geoffrey Blainey
The Origins of Major War - Dale C. Copeland
The Remnants of War - John Mueller
War and the Engineers: The Primacy of Politics over Technology - Keir A. Lieber
Revolution and War - Stephen M. Walt
Theorizing Revolutions - John Foran (Editor)
The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 - Jack L. Snyder
Philosophers of Peace and War: Kant, Clausewitz, Marx, Engles and Tolstoy - W. B. Gallie
Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism - Michael W. Doyle
Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations - Michael Walzer
The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme - John Keegan
The Mask of Command - John Keegan
The War of the World - Niall Ferguson
The Shaping of Grand Strategy: Policy, Diplomacy, and War - Williamson Murray (Editor), Richard Hart Sinnreich (Editor), James Lacey (Editor)

The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present - Beatrice Heuser
The Second Sexism: Discrimination Against Men and Boys - David Benatar
The Myth of Male Power - Warren Farrell
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression - Terrence Real
Self-Made Man: One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man - Norah Vincent
Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences - David C. Geary
Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition - Tim Birkhead
Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb - Richard Avramenko
Messy Morality: The Challenge of Politics - C. A. J. Coady
Morality and Political Violence - C. A. J. Coady
Political Evil: What It Is and How to Combat It - Alan Wolfe
Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields: Power, Paradigm Controls, Peer Review, and Scholarly Communication - Gordon Moran
Holy Scriptures as Justifications for War: Fundamentalist Interpretations of the Torah, The New Testament, and The Qur'an - Albert B. Randall
The Underground Empire: Where Crime and Governments Embrace - James Mills
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Max Weber
The Division of Labor in Society - Emile Durkheim (Author), Lewis A. Coser (Author)
A Theory of Justice (1999, 1971) - John Rawls
Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1977) - Robert Nozick
The State and Justice: An Essay in Political Theory (1989) - Milton Fisk

Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber - Anthony Giddens
Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism - Sheldon S. Wolin
Political Representation - Ian Shapiro (Editor), Susan C. Stokes (Editor), Elisabeth Jean Wood (Editor), Alexander S. Kirshner (Editor)
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage: How Parties Organize Democracy - Russell J. Dalton (Author), David M. Farrell (Author), Ian McAllister (Author)
Democratic Theory: The Philosophical Foundations - James L. Hyland
Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government - Adam Przeworski
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse - Steven D. Smith
Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision-Makers - Richard E. Neustadt & Ernest R. May
Leadership and Social Movements - Colin Barker (Editor), Alan Johnson (Editor), Michael Lavalette (Editor)
Small Unit Leadership: A Commonsense Approach - Dandridge M. Malone
The Three Meter Zone: Common Sense Leadership for NCOs - J.D. Pendry
The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience: Essay in the Critique of Political Economy - Paresh Chattopadhyay
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union: A Survey of Critical Theories and Debates Since 1917 - Marcel van der Linden
Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical - Richard D. Wolff & Stephen A. Resnick
The Political Economy of Stalinism: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives - Paul R. Gregory
The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism - Janos Kornai
Contradictions and Dilemmas: Studies on the Socialist Economy and Society - Janos Kornai
Alienation and the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era - Paul Craig Roberts

From Marx to the Market: Socialism in Search of an Economic System - Wlodzimierz Brus & Kazimierz Laski
Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy: The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Policy - Ann-Mari Satre Ahlander
The Socialist Corporation and Technocratic Power: The Polish United Workers' Party, Industrial Organisation and Workforce Control 1958-80 - Jean Woodall
What Is Ancient Philosophy - Pierre Hadot & Michael Chase
Antiquity and Modernity - Neville Morley
The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography - Martin W. Lewis & Kären E. Wigen
Rethinking the Power of Maps - Denis Wood
Geopolitics: The Geography of International Relations - Saul Bernard Cohen
Making Political Geography - John Agnew & Luca Muscarà
Geoproperty: Foreign Affairs, National Security and Property Rights - Geoff Demarest
Mastering Space: Hegemony, Territory and International Political Economy - John Agnew, Stuart Crobridge
A Companion to Political Geography - John A. Agnew (Editor), Katharyne Mitchell (Editor), Gerard Toal (Editor)
Modern Geographical Thought - Richard Peet
Geopolitics, Geography and Strategy - Colin S. Gray (Editor), Geoffrey Sloan (Editor)
America's Strategy in World Politics: The United States and the Balance of Power - Nicholas J. Spykman
The Problem of Asia: Its Effect upon International Politics - Alfred Thayer Mahan
Great Powers and Geopolitical Change - Jakub J. Grygiel
Geography and Politics in a World Divided - Saul B. Cohen
Geography and World Power - James Fairgrieve
The Geography of the Peace - Nicholas John Spykman
U.S. War Aims - Walter Lippmann
Geopolitics: The Struggle for Space and Power - Strausz-Hupe
The Geopolitics of Super Power - Colin S. Gray
The Geopolitics of Power and Conflict: Superpowers in the International System 1945-1992 - Jan Nijman
The World Island: Eurasian Geopolitics and the Fate of the West - Alexandros Petersen

China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change - Gregory Veeck (Author), Clifton W. Pannell (Author), Christopher J. Smith (Author), Youqin Huang (Author)
The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge - Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann
Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Science - Paul Mattick
Philosophy and the Social Problem: The Annotated Edition - Will Durant (Author), James Bishop (Editor)
Social Theory as Science - Russell Keat & John Urry
The Political Economy of Work - David Spencer
Property Relations: Renewing the Anthropological Tradition - C. M. Hann
History and Theory in Anthropology - Alan Barnard
Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World - Barrington Moore
Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction - Gary B. Ferngren (Editor)
The Blind Spot: Science and the Crisis of Uncertainty - William Byers
The History of Childhood - Lloyd deMause

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition - Thomas S. Kuhn (Author), Ian Hacking (Introduction)
Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions": A Reader's Guide - John Preston
Philosophy and Mystification - Guy Robinson
The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science - Arun Bala
Chasing Reality: Strife over Realism - Mario Bunge
Scientific Realism: Selected Essays of Mario Bunge - Mario Bunge (Author), Martin Mahner (Editor)
Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics - Gary L. Drescher
World without Design: The Ontological Consequences of Naturalism - Michael C. Rea

>>1235714
>>1235716
>>1235721
>>1235722
>>1235728
>>1235743
>>1235746
>>1235748
>>1235749
>>1235751
>>1235753
>>1235754
So how many of these books are actually good?

>>1235714
>>1235716
>>1235721
>>1235722
>>1235728
>>1235743
>>1235746
>>1235748
>>1235749
>>1235751
>>1235753
>>1235754
I consider this the minimum for any /biz/fellows

>>1235757
it's a pretty choice list.
90% are good
8% are okay
2% are meh

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>>1235763
where'd you get this list?
Also, there seems to be a lot of historical books, ones that have been on my list for a long time.

What do they have to do with business? I can definitely see that historical sources are great for learning about economic and political relations, but are these particular books all about the economic and political implications of historical events, or are they just general historical knowledge?

you don't have to read any books:

Save money instead of spending it. Invest it in simple stocks instead of derivatives.

It is as simple as that. Everything else is BS.

>>1230088
There is a lot more on 18th cen corn prices than I expected

>>1235763
Lol you wont get anywhere with those books.
Great for a political science, but shit for making money
Investments by Bodie, Kane and Marcus.
This one trumps them all.
Its a real finance textbook.

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>>1230095
Fuck you nigger. Hayek is the man.

>>1235873
should i actually order this book on amazon? i plan on getting my CFA. Only like $20 used

>>1235936
nah dont pay for books
http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=9B287C606188BC933CDF62A77FDB2409
Im studying for the level 2, any questions on the cfa programs?

>>1235936
>>1235992
Wrong book, this one
http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=7BA4A7FF3ABB9CB5639CFC8245E420C0

>>1235936
Just type cfa into thepiratebay

If youre serious about passing the CFA exams, give yourself a chance and at least get the lastest materials.
Which isnt on TPB.

>>1235800
I've compiled this list over the decades, starting in a little journal, later moving to a text document on a PC. I've read every one of these books cover to cover. Many of the older ones were just on the bookshelves at home growing up and had notes written in them. Some of the books were so good that I bought my own copy part way through to take my own notes and build up my own shelves. I highly recommend that you download/checkout/buy these books and take your own notes along side or in the margins as you read.

These books have everything to do with business. Business, Politics, Economics, History, they are all deeply intertwingled. Within the pages of these books you will find a wealth of knowledge. The ideas, events, analysis, and commentary contained in these books shaped every aspect of the world in which business is done.

>>1236243
No financial mathematics, no corporate finance, no accounting textbooks.
Yeah nah, its just political science, not business

>>1236243

I have very limited free time, which books are the most important and I should read first?

>>1230088
Methods and Uses of KNPD

>>1236541
Interested in this as well.

>>1236541
>>1236597

Read this
>>1235994

>>1236613
The link's not working ya dingus.

>>1236617
Works here, upgrade your toaster.

>>1236597
>>1236541
I really want to stress how important it is to just read and take notes. Do a little bit every day. Make it a habit. Start now.
Even one hour spent reading any of the books on this list is more valuable than spending 8 hours doing equity/stock analysis.
If you really want to be wealthy you can't afford to not be reading. While the mechanics, mathematics, and fundamentals of finance are important, not everyone can be sufficiently proficient and lucky to build wealth with that knowledge alone (I can post a list of finance related writings if there is interest).
This list is already distilled down from the much larger list of books I have read in Economics, Business, Politics, and History.
But if you want some of the top choices that are probably /biz/ approved:

Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (1817) - David Ricardo
Wealth of Nations (1776) - Adam Smith
Public Opinion - Walter Lippmann
All Art Is Propaganda - George Orwell
The Prince - Niccolo Machievelli (Author), Ninian Hill Thomson (Translator)
The Road to Serfdom (1944) - F. A. Hayek
The Art of War - Sun- tzu

>>1236665
Those are great books.
But you wont know how to invest.
I highly recommend those book also.
Its great general knowledge.

>>1236665
finance books would be interesting

I feel like this list is very good for general business, but not the pure investing that many people here are into. Reading is really important for anyone to be successful. Having in-depth background knowledge about many subjects is incredibly useful in business and in life. That is why Warren Buffett can understand all the business ventures of BRK, and ultimately why he is so successful.

>>1235763
read >>1236737 and >>1236739 if you haven't

>>1236665
>I can post a list of finance related writings if there is interest
Please do

>>1236665
Can you give advice on note taking?

>>1236665

Thank you very much for your reply.

However, have you personally got wealthy by implementing the knowledge acquired from these books? Be honest. I have absolutely no doubts that these books are at least somewhat useful. However, we are on 4chan, and as far as I am aware, you might very well be a 17 y.o. neet living in his mom's basement parroting information you have found on blogs, messageboards, etc. (if that's not the case please don't take it personally, it's just that this kind of stuff happens ALL THE TIME, especially on the Internet).
Can you please provide some sort of evidence for your wealth, or at least write a /concrete/ example of how the information from these books has helped you in real life?

Thank you!

>>1236613
What makes it better than others?
Also, everyone else the link is working well.

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Has anyone read this? My professor said it's worth the time

Reminder that books aren't work.

https://youtu.be/_qSzTQScywo?t=202

>>1238920
Its a textbook about the financial market
Not a feel good self help book.
Not a discourse on political science.
Read it, and do the exercises, and apply what you have learned.
Its a finance 101 textbook tho.

Bump. I want my reply from Readinglistbrah.

>>1239667
I actually wanted something like that. Thanks!