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Books like Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises

The best books like Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises are The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, and Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio is about debt cycles, macroeconomics, financial crises. 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.

  1. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
    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.

    A kindred economics read.

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  2. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Science

    The Black Swan is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that the most consequential events in history — financial crashes, technological breakthroughs, wars, pandemics — are not predictable outliers but structurally unpredictable ones.

    A kindred economics read.

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  3. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

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    Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Philosophy

    Antifragile is Nassim Nicholas Taleb's argument that the opposite of fragile is not robust or resilient — it is antifragile.

    A kindred economics read.

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  1. The Intelligent Investor
    The Intelligent Investor

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    The Intelligent Investor

    Benjamin Graham · Economics

    The Intelligent Investor is Benjamin Graham's case that successful investing has less to do with picking the right stocks than with managing your own behavior.

    A kindred economics read.

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  2. Manias, Panics, and Crashes
    Manias, Panics, and Crashes

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    Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    Charles P. Kindleberger · Economics

    Manias, Panics, and Crashes is Charles Kindleberger's analysis of financial crises across five centuries of history, first published in 1978 and updated in several subsequent editions.

    Both dig into financial crises.

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  3. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
    Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

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    Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity

    ed. Michael Lewis · Economics

    Panic is an anthology edited by Michael Lewis, collecting journalism, essays, and firsthand accounts about five major financial crises from 1987 to 2007: the Black Monday crash, the emerging markets panics of the 1990s, the Long-Term Capital Management collapse, the dot-com bust, and the early signals of the subprime mortgage crisis.

    Both dig into financial crises.

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  4. The Price of Time
    The Price of Time

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    The Price of Time

    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.

    Both dig into central banking.

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  5. 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

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    100 to 1 in the Stock Market

    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.

    A kindred economics read.

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  6. A Random Walk Down Wall Street
    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 economics read.

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  7. A Short History of Financial Euphoria
    A Short History of Financial Euphoria

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    A Short History of Financial Euphoria

    John Kenneth Galbraith · Economics

    A Short History of Financial Euphoria is John Kenneth Galbraith's compressed account of speculative bubbles from the tulip mania of 1630s Holland through the 1987 US stock market crash.

    A kindred economics read.

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  8. A Wealth of Common Sense
    A Wealth of Common Sense

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    A Wealth of Common Sense

    Ben Carlson · Economics

    A Wealth of Common Sense is Ben Carlson's argument that individual investors outperform most professionals not by being smarter but by doing fewer things and making fewer mistakes.

    A kindred economics read.

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  9. All About Asset Allocation
    All About Asset Allocation

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    All About Asset Allocation

    Richard A. Ferri · Economics

    All About Asset Allocation is Richard Ferri's systematic guide to building and maintaining a diversified investment portfolio.

    A kindred economics read.

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Books like Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises: quick answers

What are the best books like Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises?

The best books like Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio are The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Charles P. Kindleberger, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises, such as debt cycles, macroeconomics, financial crises.

What should I read after Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises?

A natural next read after Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises is The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis. A kindred economics read. Other strong choices are The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham.

What books are similar to Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises by Ray Dalio?

Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises centers on debt cycles, macroeconomics, financial crises. Books with a similar feel include The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Manias, Panics, and Crashes by Charles P. Kindleberger, Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by ed. Michael Lewis — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.

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