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Books like Free to Choose: A Personal Statement
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman is about free markets, individual liberty, government intervention. 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.
- Capitalism and Freedom
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Milton Friedman · Economics
Capitalism and Freedom was published in 1962, and the ideas it contains had been circulating even longer — the book grew from lectures Friedman gave at a 1956 conference.
Read the summary → - The Road to Serfdom
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F. A. Hayek · Politics
The Road to Serfdom, published in 1944, is Friedrich Hayek's argument that central economic planning is incompatible with political freedom and will, regardless of intent, produce a form of totalitarianism.
Read the summary → - Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson · Economics
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that the fundamental difference between rich and poor countries is not geography, culture, or bad luck.
Read the summary → - The Wealth of Nations
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Adam Smith · Economics
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, published in 1776, is Adam Smith's comprehensive account of how modern commercial economies work and what policies promote prosperity.
Read the summary → - 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.
Read the summary → - 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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Thomas Phelps · Economics
100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.
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