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Books like The High Cost of Free Parking
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup is about urban planning, parking policy, transportation economics. 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.
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs · Economics
The Death and Life of Great American Cities is Jane Jacobs's 1961 argument against the dominant urban planning orthodoxy of her era, and one of the most influential works of urban theory ever written.
Read the summary → - Freakonomics
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · Economics
Freakonomics is economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner's argument that economics — properly understood as the study of incentives — can explain things that look, on the surface, like they have nothing to do with money.
Read the summary → - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein · Economics
Nudge is Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's argument that the way choices are presented — the default option, the order of items, the framing of a question — powerfully shapes what people decide, often more than their own stated preferences.
Read the summary → - The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro · Biography
Robert A.
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.
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.
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