Global Finance is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a special Spring/Summer 2012 issue.
Inside the magazine there is a list of 25 most influential business & finance books for over 25 years:
1. Too Big to Fail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, by Andrew Ross Sorkin
2. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, by Michael Lewis
3. The Great Crash: 1929. By John Kenneth Galbraith (edited by James Galbraith)
4. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis
5. The Subprime Solution: How today’s Financial Crisis Happened, What to do about it, by Robert Shiller.
6. The Warren Buffet Way, by Robert Hagstrom
7. The World is flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Friedman
8. Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street’s Four Great Bottoms, by Russell Napier
9. When Money Dies: The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse, by Adam Fergusson.
10. Civilization: The Six Killer Apps of Western Power, by Niall Ferguson.
11. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell.
12. The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, by Clayton Christensen
13. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century, by Paul Krugman
14. End This Depression Now! by Paul Krugman
15. Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World economy, by Joseph Stiglitz
16. Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, by Raghuram Rajan.
17. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley.
18. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, by David Kirkpatrick.
19. Doing Business with China: Avoiding the Pitfalls, by Stewart Hamilton and Jinxuan Zhang,
20. Breakout Nations: In Search of the Next Economic Miracle, by Ruchir Sharma.
21. Greece’s ‘Odious’ Debt: the Looting of the Hellenic Republic by the Euro, the Political Elite and the Investment Community, by Jason Manolopoulos.
22. Extreme Money: Mater of the Universe and the Cult of Risk, by Satyajit Das.
23. The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World, by Daniel Yergin.
24. Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson.
25. The Ascent of Money: A financial History of the World and Civilization, by Niall Ferguson
I would be interested to read The Warren Buffer Way if I could only choose one book. How about you?
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With books from both Stiglitz and Krugman, no wonder we are in a mess. I would put Murray Rothbard on top of my list.
ReplyDeleteHappy 25th Anniversary! The team must be really having a good teamwork. You already have reached that year and that's already impressive. Thanks for sharing those influential business & finance books.
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