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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
How humanity learned to measure the future.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Printer, scientist, diplomat, founder: the first American entrepreneur.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Wealth, inequality and the long return on capital.
Democracy in America
The best book ever written about America, by a Frenchman.
Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family
How family members and their advisers preserve human, intellectual and financial assets for generations.
Incerto
Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Antifragile, The Bed of Procrustes and Skin in the Game, as one work.
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
The six principles of why people say yes.
Medici Money
Banking, metaphysics and art in fifteenth-century Florence: the house's origin story.
The Essays of Warren Buffett
The shareholder letters, arranged as the book Buffett never wrote.
The Foundation: A Great American Secret
How private wealth is changing the world through foundations.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The book that invented macroeconomics.
The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
How institutions die; published, like Smith, in 1776.
The Innovator's Dilemma
Why great companies fail by doing everything right.
The Intelligent Investor
The best book on investing ever written, by the man who taught Buffett.
The Most Important Thing Illuminated
Second-level thinking about risk, from the Oaktree memos.
The Remains of the Day
A butler, a house, and a life in service to the wrong idea.
The Road to Serfdom
The case against central planning, made as it was happening.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The two systems of the mind, by the psychologist who won the economics Nobel.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The richest man who ever lived, and the foundation he built to give it away.
Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
The funniest book ever written about Wall Street, and still the truest.
