Recommended Books

Here are some books I’ve found insightful, thought-provoking, or just beautifully written β€” across finance, economics, blockchain, and beyond.


The Most Important Thing
The Most Important Thing
Howard Marks
Broken Money
Broken Money
Lyn Alden
Investing from Darwin
What I Learned about Investing from Darwin
Pulak Prasad
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Javier Blas and Jack Farchy
How to Listen When Markets Speak
Lawrence McDonald
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
John Galbraith
A Short History of Financial Euphoria
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
Yuen Yuen Ang
Poor Economics
Poor Economics
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
Edward Fishman
Debt: The First 5000 Years
Debt: The First 5000 Years
David Graeber
How Asia Works
Joe Studwell
Naked Economics – Undressing the Dismal Science
Naked Economics – Undressing the Dismal Science
Charles Wheelan
The Economics Book
The Economics Book: Big Ideas Explained Simply
DK
Check Your Financial Privilege
Check Your Financial Privilege
Alex Gladstein
The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
The Bitcoin Standard
Saifedean Ammous
The Internet of Money: A collection of talks
The Internet of Money: A collection of talks
Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains
Antony Lewis
The Book Of Satoshi
The Book Of Satoshi: The Collected Writings of Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto
Phil Champagne
Logicomix: An epic search for truth
Logicomix: An epic search for truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou
Dopamine Nation
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Anna Lembke
I, Robot
I, Robot
Issac Asimov
Logicomix: An epic search for truth
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
Meditations
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose
Refaat Alareer