Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems? ↗
The books people recommended
2020-03-14 · 527 points · 204 comments · 47 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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- 5The Ascent of Money
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- 4Security Analysis
- 4Macroeconomics
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- 3Trading and Exchanges
- 2The Road to Serfdom
- 2The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes
2 here · 11 all-time · #599 overall
- 2Lords of Finance
- 2Crashed
- 2Value Investing
- 2Keynes
Keynes
2 here · 3 all-time · #2544 overall
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- 1Snowball
- 1Flash Boys
- 1Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
- 1Money: The Unauthorised Biography
- 1Naked Economics
- 1Too Big to Fail
- 1Corporate Finance
- 1The Good Earth
- 1When Genius Failed
- 1Principles of Corporate Finance
Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen
1 here · 6 all-time · #1208 overall
- 1Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
1 here · 5 all-time · #1399 overall
- 1One Up on Wall Street
- 1Making Money
- 1SuperFreakonomics
- 1You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
- 1Meltdown
- 1Why Stock Markets Crash
- 1The Four Pillars of Investing
- 1Wages of Destruction
- 1The Deluge
- 1The End of Alchemy
- 1All the Devils are Here
- 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
1 here · 3 all-time · #2396 overall
- 1Traders, Guns and Money
- 1Where Are the Customers Yachts?
- 1Stress Test