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The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve
G. Edward Griffin
Amer Media, 2002
The history of financial enslavement
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up ...
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Alice Schroeder
Bantam, 2008
Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, ...
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Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions
Ben Mezrich
Harper Perennial, 2005
Very interesting book on the industry in Japan.
This was a quick read that gave an inside look into the industry in Asia. I found the book well-written and informative, as well as entertaining. I highly recommend.
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Rules For Revolutionaries: The Capitalist Manifesto for Creating and Marketing New Products and Services
Guy Kawasaki, Michele Moreno
Collins Business, 2000
Valuable advice that stands the test of time
Guy Kawasaki is a genius. I mean it: here's a guy who wrote a book back in 1998, who is most famous for being the Chief Evangelist at Apple. Yet his book bypasses tech talk altogether as its focus and succeeds at presenting us with a volume that, even ten years later, ...
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
Vintage, 2004
An unbiased look
I was very impressed with the skill of Ron Chernow when I read "Alexander Hamilton". After such an impressive work I decided that I would take on "Titan" which deals with the life of John D. Rockefeller. Chernow did not disappoint, and in some ways this may be the ...
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Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed
Anders Aslund
Peterson Institute, 2007
An absolute "must-have" for modern Russian history shelves, very highly recommended.
Economist Anders Aslund presents Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed, a recounting of modern Russian political and economic history from the mid-1980s to the present. Examining statistical and historical evidence with a ...
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Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, New and Expanded Edition
Walter Lafeber
W. W. Norton & Company, 2002
Capital vs Culture
LaFeber was well-known and loved by his students at Cornell as a spell binding lecturer and is widely respected as an expert on the history U.S foreign relations. So at first I wondered what about Michael Jordan could possibly interest a distinguished and ...
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Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (Borzoi Books)
Robert B. Reich
Knopf, 2007
Reich changes my worldview
There are really three things I think I would've wanted to know about this book before reading it.
1. Reich's book treats us to a great many (quite persuasive) counterintuitve explanations. I'm a sucker for (good) explanations about phenomena that cut against ...
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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
Roger Lowenstein
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008
Excellent
Well researched, analyzed, and written.
I see why Buffett was silently acceptive in autographing it. Superb job in reporting both analytical economics and personal life. Truth.
I will read more from this author.
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The Myth of the Robber Barons
Burton W. Folsom
Young Amer Foundatio, 1987
Great Book for Introducing the Expansion of Industry
I used this book as the primary text for a high school class I taught: Monopolies: Necessity, Invention, and the Corporation. It is a great springboard to learning how the major indutries of the 19th century developed and helped shape this country. Folsom presents the ...
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The Winning Investment Habits of Warren Buffett & George Soros
Mark Tier
St. Martin's Griffin, 2006
an NLP approach: study the thinking of successful investors
Author Mark Tier applies Neuro-Linguistic Programming to investing. NLP is a discipline that says if you want to be good at something, emulate the thoughts of those who are masters and your own performance will follow. He collects all the information he can on Warren ...
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The Robber Barons
Matthew Josephson
Harcourt, 1962
This is the finest history of the Robber Barons
Judging by the attack "reviews" below there must be some right-wing campaign in progress to discredit Josephson. It's probably being organized by one of those propaganda machines they call "conservative think tanks".
That nonsense aside, the book itself is a ...
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Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip
Jim Rogers
Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2004
Great lessons from a true explorer--the Richard Feynman of finance
This book offers you an amazing learning experience from someone with a greater scope of knowledge and curiosity (could he possibly just sit still?) than just about anyone else I know. After finishing this book--I feel that I've absorbed the collective wisdom of 100's ...
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Good Guys and Bad Guys: Behind the Scenes with the Saints and Scoundrels of American Business (and Everything ...
Joe Nocera
Portfolio Hardcover, 2008
Great book
Joe Nocera's Good Guys and Bad Guys
Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks
and I've learned much from both of their styles.
-Jimmy Buffett
One of my favorite business books is Mark McCormick's What They Don't Teach You at Harvard ...
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Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East
Clyde V. Prestowitz
Basic Books, 2006
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Many Factors Currently Influencing the Global Economy
Going back to the 1400's and taking us through to modern times, Clyde Prestowitz provides the reader with a clear, comprehensive and very accurate analysis of the many factors currently influencing the global economy. If you read this extremely interesting book and, ...
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