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Books like Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor is about financial speculation, market bubbles, financial history. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Peter L. Bernstein · History
Against the Gods is Peter Bernstein's intellectual history of how humanity learned to measure, quantify, and manage risk — a story he traces from ancient gambling in the Mediterranean through the development of modern probability theory, statistics, and financial derivatives.
Read the summary → - When Genius Failed
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Roger Lowenstein · Economics
When Genius Failed is Roger Lowenstein's account of Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund that almost took down the global financial system in 1998.
Read the summary → - The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis · Economics
The Big Short is Michael Lewis's account of the 2008 financial crisis as seen through the eyes of a handful of contrarians who saw the collapse coming, bet against the American housing market, and were right.
Read the summary → - Liar's Poker
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Michael Lewis · Business
Liar's Poker is Michael Lewis's account of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, the decade when Wall Street stopped being a gentleman's club and became something closer to a casino.
Read the summary → - Irrational Exuberance
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Robert J. Shiller · Economics
Irrational Exuberance is Robert Shiller's argument that stock and real estate markets are driven not just by rational calculation but by feedback loops, stories, and crowd psychology.
Read the summary → - 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann · History
Charles Mann's 1491 sets out to correct a widespread misconception: that the Americas before Columbus were a mostly empty wilderness populated by small, isolated bands of hunter-gatherers living in gentle harmony with an untouched nature.
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