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Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance? ↗

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2016-09-22 · 446 points · 269 comments · 89 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.

  1. 10

    The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith

    10 here · 27 all-time · #212 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,706 ratings on Amazon
  2. 9

    Economics in One Lesson

    Henry Hazlitt

    9 here · 45 all-time · #100 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 4,979 ratings on Amazon
  3. 8

    Capital

    Karl Marx

    8 here · 21 all-time · #307 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,644 ratings on Amazon
  4. 7

    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham

    7 here · 33 all-time · #169 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 52,344 ratings on Amazon
  5. 6Principles of Economics

    Principles of Economics

    Carl Menger

    6 here · 9 all-time · #779 overall

  6. 5

    Debt: The First 5000 Years

    David Graeber

    5 here · 41 all-time · #120 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,289 ratings on Amazon
  7. 5Capitalism and Freedom

    Capitalism and Freedom

    Milton Friedman

    5 here · 14 all-time · #470 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 2,994 ratings on Amazon
  8. 4

    A Random Walk Down Wall Street

    Burton Malkiel

    4 here · 38 all-time · #131 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 4,237 ratings on Amazon
  9. 4

    Liar's Poker

    Michael Lewis

    4 here · 23 all-time · #258 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 10,163 ratings on Amazon
  10. 4Economics

    Economics

    Ha-Joon Chang

    4 here · 16 all-time · #403 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 1,519 ratings on Amazon
  11. 4The Road to Serfdom

    The Road to Serfdom

    Friedrich Hayek

    4 here · 15 all-time · #436 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 3,104 ratings on Amazon
  12. 4Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    Thomas Piketty

    4 here · 15 all-time · #442 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 5,772 ratings on Amazon
  13. 4The Worldly Philosophers

    The Worldly Philosophers

    Robert Heilbroner

    4 here · 12 all-time · #553 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 891 ratings on Amazon
  14. 4The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

    John Maynard Keynes

    4 here · 11 all-time · #599 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.1 out of 5, 1,182 ratings on Amazon
  15. 4Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

    Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives

    John Hull

    4 here · 11 all-time · #616 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 670 ratings on Amazon
  16. 4Corporate Finance

    Corporate Finance

    Stephen Ross

    4 here · 8 all-time · #890 overall

  17. 4The Affluent Society

    The Affluent Society

    John Kenneth Galbraith

    4 here · 5 all-time · #1517 overall

  18. 3

    Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    3 here · 178 all-time · #6 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 48,679 ratings on Amazon
  19. 3

    Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    3 here · 110 all-time · #19 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 8,277 ratings on Amazon
  20. 3

    Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    3 here · 81 all-time · #41 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 6,682 ratings on Amazon
  21. 3

    Freakonomics

    Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

    3 here · 26 all-time · #225 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.2 out of 5, 7,647 ratings on Amazon
  22. 3

    The Big Short

    Michael Lewis

    3 here · 20 all-time · #324 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 17,192 ratings on Amazon
  23. 3Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

    Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

    Edwin Lefèvre

    3 here · 8 all-time · #865 overall

  24. 3When Genius Failed

    When Genius Failed

    Roger Lowenstein

    3 here · 6 all-time · #1207 overall

  25. 3Mostly Harmless Econometrics

    Mostly Harmless Econometrics

    Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke

    3 here · 4 all-time · #1918 overall

  26. 2

    The Prize

    Daniel Yergin

    2 here · 20 all-time · #314 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 2,705 ratings on Amazon
  27. 2Trading and Exchanges

    Trading and Exchanges

    Larry Harris

    2 here · 16 all-time · #412 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 117 ratings on Amazon
  28. 2Against the Gods

    Against the Gods

    Peter L. Bernstein

    2 here · 10 all-time · #642 overall

  29. 2Security Analysis

    Security Analysis

    Benjamin Graham, David Dodd

    2 here · 9 all-time · #772 overall

  30. 2Too Big to Fail

    Too Big to Fail

    Andrew Ross Sorkin

    2 here · 8 all-time · #874 overall

  31. 2Principles of Corporate Finance

    Principles of Corporate Finance

    Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen

    2 here · 6 all-time · #1208 overall

  32. 2The Theory of Moral Sentiments

    The Theory of Moral Sentiments

    Adam Smith

    2 here · 5 all-time · #1439 overall

  33. 2Human Action

    Human Action

    Ludwig von Mises

    2 here · 5 all-time · #1485 overall

  34. 2One Up on Wall Street

    One Up on Wall Street

    Peter Lynch

    2 here · 5 all-time · #1501 overall

  35. 2The New Industrial State

    The New Industrial State

    John Kenneth Galbraith

    2 here · 4 all-time · #1763 overall

  36. 2New Ideas from Dead Economists

    New Ideas from Dead Economists

    Todd Buchholtz

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2460 overall

  37. 2Traders, Guns and Money

    Traders, Guns and Money

    Satyajit Das

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2535 overall

  38. 2Where Are the Customers Yachts?

    Where Are the Customers Yachts?

    Fred Schwed Jr.

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2543 overall

  39. 2Capital Ideas

    Capital Ideas

    Peter L. Bernstein

    2 here · 3 all-time · #2546 overall

  40. 1

    Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

    Harold Abelson

    1 here · 316 all-time · #2 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 742 ratings on Amazon
  41. 1

    Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    1 here · 100 all-time · #29 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 8,430 ratings on Amazon
  42. 1

    Predictably Irrational

    Dan Ariely

    1 here · 35 all-time · #144 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 11,450 ratings on Amazon
  43. 1

    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    Thomas S. Kuhn

    1 here · 33 all-time · #167 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 2,045 ratings on Amazon
  44. 1

    Basic Economics

    Thomas Sowell

    1 here · 33 all-time · #172 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.9 out of 5, 5,209 ratings on Amazon
  45. 1

    The Innovator's Dilemma

    Clayton Christensen

    1 here · 30 all-time · #185 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 4,076 ratings on Amazon
  46. 1

    The Elements of Statistical Learning

    Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman

    1 here · 30 all-time · #191 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 1,362 ratings on Amazon
  47. 1

    Why Nations Fail

    Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson

    1 here · 19 all-time · #329 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 10,898 ratings on Amazon
  48. 1Flash Boys

    Flash Boys

    Michael Lewis

    1 here · 17 all-time · #368 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 18,690 ratings on Amazon
  49. 1The Signal and the Noise

    The Signal and the Noise

    Nate Silver

    1 here · 17 all-time · #372 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.4 out of 5, 3,922 ratings on Amazon
  50. 1Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

    Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

    Ayn Rand

    1 here · 16 all-time · #411 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.7 out of 5, 791 ratings on Amazon
  51. 1Seeking Wisdom

    Seeking Wisdom

    Peter Bevelin

    1 here · 14 all-time · #460 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.6 out of 5, 405 ratings on Amazon
  52. 1The Origin of Wealth

    The Origin of Wealth

    Eric Beinhocker

    1 here · 11 all-time · #565 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 135 ratings on Amazon
  53. 1The Communist Manifesto

    The Communist Manifesto

    Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

    1 here · 11 all-time · #581 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.5 out of 5, 255 ratings on Amazon
  54. 1The Everything Store

    The Everything Store

    Brad Stone

    1 here · 9 all-time · #709 overall

  55. 1Game Theory

    Game Theory

    Maschler, Solan & Zamir

    1 here · 9 all-time · #755 overall

  56. 1Microeconomics

    Microeconomics

    Arthur J. Lewbel and David A. Malueg

    1 here · 9 all-time · #777 overall

  57. 1Free to Choose

    Free to Choose

    Milton Friedman

    1 here · 8 all-time · #832 overall

  58. 1Hard Drive

    Hard Drive

    James Wallace, Jim Erickson

    1 here · 8 all-time · #852 overall

  59. 1Naked Economics

    Naked Economics

    Charles Wheelan

    1 here · 8 all-time · #862 overall

  60. 1The Ascent of Money

    The Ascent of Money

    Niall Ferguson

    1 here · 8 all-time · #891 overall

  61. 1Venture Deals

    Venture Deals

    Brad Feld

    1 here · 7 all-time · #932 overall

  62. 1Progress and Poverty

    Progress and Poverty

    Henry George

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1077 overall

    Buy on Amazon4.3 out of 5, 173 ratings on Amazon
  63. 1Small Is Beautiful

    Small Is Beautiful

    E. F. Schumacher

    1 here · 6 all-time · #1083 overall

  64. 1The Computational Beauty of Nature

    The Computational Beauty of Nature

    William Flake

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1268 overall

  65. 1Market Wizards

    Market Wizards

    Jack D. Schwager

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1319 overall

  66. 1Dark Pools

    Dark Pools

    Scott Patterson

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1333 overall

  67. 1Buffett

    Buffett

    Roger Lowenstein

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1442 overall

  68. 1The Conquest of Bread

    The Conquest of Bread

    Peter Kropotkin

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1449 overall

  69. 1Macroeconomics

    Macroeconomics

    Olivier Blanchard

    1 here · 5 all-time · #1527 overall

  70. 1Sources of Power

    Sources of Power

    Manfred Weissenbacher

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1655 overall

  71. 1Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity

    Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity

    William Ophuls

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1657 overall

  72. 1For a New Liberty

    For a New Liberty

    Murray Rothbard

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1708 overall

  73. 1How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

    How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

    Peter D. Schiff

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1769 overall

  74. 1Lords of Finance

    Lords of Finance

    Robert G. Brown, John H. D. Scoville

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1815 overall

  75. 1The Dollar Crisis

    The Dollar Crisis

    Richard Duncan

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1838 overall

  76. 1Active Portfolio Management

    Active Portfolio Management

    Frank J. Jones, Richard C. Grinold

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1846 overall

  77. 1Investment Science

    Investment Science

    David G. Luenberger

    1 here · 4 all-time · #1929 overall

  78. 1You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

    You Can Be a Stock Market Genius

    Joel Greenblatt

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2115 overall

  79. 1The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

    The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America

    Warren Buffett

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2116 overall

  80. 1Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

    Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits

    Philip Fisher

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2213 overall

  81. 1Hedge Fund Market Wizards

    Hedge Fund Market Wizards

    Jack D. Schwager

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2215 overall

  82. 1New Market Wizards

    New Market Wizards

    Jack D. Schwager

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2216 overall

  83. 1Super Crunchers

    Super Crunchers

    Ian Ayres

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2286 overall

  84. 1Sam Walton

    Sam Walton

    Sam Walton

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2287 overall

  85. 1Why Stock Markets Crash

    Why Stock Markets Crash

    Didier Sornette

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2297 overall

  86. 1All the Devils are Here

    All the Devils are Here

    Bethany McLean

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2361 overall

  87. 1The Great Transformation

    The Great Transformation

    Karl Polanyi

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2395 overall

  88. 1Value Investing

    Value Investing

    Bruce Greenwald

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2534 overall

  89. 1Keynes

    Keynes

    1 here · 3 all-time · #2544 overall