The following is a collection of books which I have discovered over the years to be useful in helping us manage and protect money. These books stand out in the wide sea of investment tomes which are too often “vapid in content and repugnant in form” (as John Galbraith once quipped) and worse–potentially damaging to real life people and their capital.
In my experience, wise, unbiased books can be critical in helping us to develop disciplined rules and habits for lasting success with money. With the long-always investment industry having bought so many of today’s investment “experts”, academics and scholars, learning to recognize and avoid the sales puff junk is key. Happy reading…
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter L. Bernstein (Paperback – Sep 14, 1998)
- Intermarket Analysis: Profiting from Global Market Relationships John J. Murphy (Hardcover – Jan 28, 2004)
- Bull’s Eye Investing: Targeting Real Returns in A Smoke And Mirrors Market John Mauldin (Paperback – May 19, 2005)
- Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst: A True Story of Inside Information and Corruption in the Stock Market Daniel Reingold, Jennifer Reingold (Paperback – May 29, 2007)
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Hardcover – Apr 17, 2007)
- Mean Markets and Lizard Brains: How to Profit from the New Science of Irrationality Terry Burnham (Hardcover – Feb 8, 2005)
- Capital Ideas Evolving Peter L. Bernstein (Hardcover – May 4, 2007)
- Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004 Maggie Mahar (Paperback – Oct 12, 2004)
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay (Paperback – Jul 25, 1995)
- Unexpected Returns: Understanding Secular Stock Market Cycles Ed Easterling (Hardcover – Apr 30, 2005)
- The Great Crash of 1929 John Kenneth Galbraith (Paperback – Apr 2, 1997)
- Yes, You Can Time the Market! Ben Stein, Phil DeMuth (Paperback – Sep 29, 2004)
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing Benjamin Graham (Paperback – Feb 21, 2006)
- Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises Charles P. Kindleberger (Paperback – Dec 4, 2000)
- The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession Peter L. Bernstein (Hardcover – Sep 13, 2000)
- Ahead of the Curve: A Commonsense Guide to Forecasting Business And Market Cycle Joseph H. Ellis (Hardcover – Oct 11, 2005)
- Investment Psychology Explained: Classic Strategies to Beat the Markets Martin J. Pring (Paperback – Nov 3, 1995)
- Irrational Exuberance Robert J. Shiller (Paperback – May 9, 2006)
- Probable Outcomes: Secular Stock Mark Insights Ed Easterling (Hardcover – Jan 14, 2011)
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management Roger Lowenstein (Paperback – Oct 9, 2001)
- Endgame: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How it Changes Everything John Mauldin, Jonathan Tepper (Hardcover – Mar 8, 2011)
- The Age of Deleveraging: Investment Strategies for a Decade of Slow Growth and Deflation A. Gary Shilling (Hardcover – Nov 9, 2010)
- The High-Beta Rich: How the Manic Wealthy Will Take Us to the Next Boom, Bubble, and Bust Robert Frank (Hardcover – Nov 1, 2011)
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Hardcover – Nov 27, 2012)
- In Bed with Wall Street: The Conspiracy Crippling Our Global Economy Larry Doyle (Hardcover – Jan 7, 2014)
- The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance Michael Perino (Paperback – Sep 27, 2011)
- Fed Up: An Insider’s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America Danielle DiMartino Booth (Hardcover – Feb 14, 2017)
- Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business Rana Foroohar (Hardcover – May 17, 2016)
- Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy Johathan Taplin (Paperback – May 15, 2018)
- Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Liaquat Ahamed (Paperback – Dec 29, 2009)
- The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands Chris Turner (Hardcover – Sept 19, 2017)
- The Other Half of Macroeconomics and the Fate of Globalization Richard C. Koo (Hardcover – Apr 9, 2018)
- Thinking, Fast & Slow Daniel Kahneman (Paperback – Apr 2, 2013)
- Wilful Blindness: How a network of narcos, tycoons and CCP agents infiltrated the West Sam Cooper, Professor Charles Burton Dr. PHD PHD, et al. (Paperback – May 18,2021)
- A Short History of Financial Euphoria John Kenneth Galbraith (Paperback – July 1, 1994)
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