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Books like Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
The best books like Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk are Thinking, Fast and Slow, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts, and The Psychology of Money. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein is about risk, probability, financial history. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke · Psychology
Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's argument that most decisions in life share a fundamental feature with poker hands: you're choosing under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and luck will affect the outcome regardless of how well you reasoned.
Shares risk and probability with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Read the summary → - The Psychology of Money
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Morgan Housel · Economics
The Psychology of Money is Morgan Housel's argument that financial success depends less on technical knowledge than on behavior — specifically, on understanding how your personal history, emotions, and cognitive biases shape every financial decision you make.
A kindred history read.
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- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths · Psychology
Brian Christian is a writer and Tom Griffiths is a cognitive scientist, and together they argue that computer science has worked out rigorous solutions to many of the problems humans face every day — when to stop searching for a better option, how to manage your schedule, how to sort your memory — and that these solutions are both interesting and useful.
Both dig into decision-making.
Read the summary → - A Random Walk Down Wall Street
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A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel · Economics
A Random Walk Down Wall Street is Burton Malkiel's argument that stock prices move in a way that is effectively unpredictable, that professional fund managers cannot consistently beat the market, and that the rational response for most investors is to buy and hold a diversified index fund.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Fooled by Randomness
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Psychology
Fooled by Randomness is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that humans are wired to misread luck as skill, noise as signal, and random outcomes as the product of ability or effort.
Shares risk and probability with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Read the summary → - The Price of Time
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Edward Chancellor · History
The Price of Time is Edward Chancellor's history of interest rates — what they are, how they have been set, and what happens when they are persistently pushed below their natural level.
Shares risk and financial history with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Read the summary → - How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
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How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Jordan Ellenberg · Science
Jordan Ellenberg is a research mathematician who writes as if mathematics is something you would want to think about over dinner.
Shares probability and mathematics with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Read the summary → - Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky · Psychology
Judgment Under Uncertainty is the academic anthology that launched a research program.
Shares probability and decision-making with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Read the summary → - More Money Than God
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Sebastian Mallaby · Economics
Sebastian Mallaby's history of hedge funds begins with Alfred Winslow Jones, who in 1949 invented the basic structure that still defines the industry: borrow money to buy what you think will go up, sell short what you think will go down, take a 20 percent cut of the profits.
Shares risk and financial history with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Read the summary → - Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Philosophy
Skin in the Game is Taleb's argument that people who don't bear the consequences of their decisions should not be trusted, respected, or given power over others.
Shares risk and decision-making with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
Read the summary → - The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
Niall Ferguson · Economics
Niall Ferguson published The Ascent of Money in 2008, with timing that turned out to be acute: the book appeared just as the global financial crisis was unfolding, making its subject matter suddenly urgent for readers who had barely thought about the mechanics of credit default swaps or mortgage securitization.
Shares risk and financial history with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk.
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Books like Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk: quick answers
What are the best books like Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk?
The best books like Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein are Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, such as risk, probability, financial history.
What should I read after Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk?
A natural next read after Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk is Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. Both dig into decision-making. Other strong choices are Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.
What books are similar to Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein?
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk centers on risk, probability, financial history. Books with a similar feel include Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke, The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel, Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
