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.
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- 6Principles of Economics
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- 5Capitalism and Freedom
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- 4Economics
- 4The Road to Serfdom
- 4Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 4The Worldly Philosophers
- 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
- 4Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
- 4Corporate Finance
- 4The Affluent Society
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- 3Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- 3When Genius Failed
- 3Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Mostly Harmless Econometrics
Joshua D. Angrist, Jörn-Steffen Pischke
3 here · 4 all-time · #1918 overall
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- 2Trading and Exchanges
- 2Against the Gods
- 2Security Analysis
- 2Too Big to Fail
- 2Principles of Corporate Finance
Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen
2 here · 6 all-time · #1208 overall
- 2The Theory of Moral Sentiments
- 2Human Action
- 2One Up on Wall Street
- 2The New Industrial State
- 2New Ideas from Dead Economists
- 2Traders, Guns and Money
- 2Where Are the Customers Yachts?
- 2Capital Ideas
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- 1Flash Boys
- 1The Signal and the Noise
- 1Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- 1Seeking Wisdom
- 1The Origin of Wealth
- 1The Communist Manifesto
- 1The Everything Store
- 1Game Theory
- 1Microeconomics
- 1Free to Choose
- 1Hard Drive
- 1Naked Economics
- 1The Ascent of Money
- 1Venture Deals
- 1Progress and Poverty
- 1Small Is Beautiful
- 1The Computational Beauty of Nature
- 1Market Wizards
- 1Dark Pools
- 1Buffett
- 1The Conquest of Bread
- 1Macroeconomics
- 1Sources of Power
- 1Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity
- 1For a New Liberty
- 1How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
- 1Lords of Finance
- 1The Dollar Crisis
- 1Active Portfolio Management
- 1Investment Science
- 1You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
- 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
- 1Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
- 1Hedge Fund Market Wizards
- 1New Market Wizards
- 1Super Crunchers
- 1Sam Walton
- 1Why Stock Markets Crash
- 1All the Devils are Here
- 1The Great Transformation
- 1Value Investing
- 1Keynes
Keynes
1 here · 3 all-time · #2544 overall