Gordian Knots

Books

Here is a list of books that I have read over the past many years.

1. Capital Ideas Evolving by Peter L. Bernstein
2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
3. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford
4. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
5. The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros
6. The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World by Tim Harford
7. Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age by Lori Andrews
8. Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition (The Economist Series) by Richard Stutely
9. The Monk and the Riddle : The Education of a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur by Randy Komisar
10. What Management Is: How It Works and Why It’s Everyone’s Business by Joan Magretta
11. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics) by Charles P. Kindleberger
12. Capital Ideas Evolving by Peter L. Bernstein
13. The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth, Second Edition by Stephen Jay Gould
14. Biotechnology: An Introduction (with InfoTrac) by Susan R. Barnum
15. In Search of Excellence: Lessons from Americas Best Run Companies by Jr., Robert H Waterman
16. Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World’s Best Market by Jim Rogers
17. Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture by Joseph Heath
18. Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets by Frank Partnoy
19. A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation by Richard Bookstaber
20. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
21. Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration by Bert Holldobler and Edward O. Wilson
22. Cracking the Genome: Inside the Race to Unlock Human DNA by Kevin Davies
23. The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession by Peter L. Bernstein
24. Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip by Jim Rogers
25. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
26. Fiasco: The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader by Frank Partnoy
27. House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time by Martin Kihn
28. Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andrew S. Grove
29. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Perez
30. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto
31. Monkey Business: Swinging Through the Wall Street Jungle by John Rolfe
32. The Mayor of Casterbridge (Bantam Classics) by Thomas Hardy
33. The Commanding Heights : The Battle for the World Economy by Daniel Yergin
34. The Machine That Changed the World : The Story of Lean Production by James P. Womack
35. Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton
36. Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions by Ben Mezrich
37. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
38. The Story of My Life (Bantam Classic) by Helen Keller
39. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition–with a new Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins
40. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
41. Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series) by Robert Louis Stevenson
42. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne
43. Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern by Douglas Hofstadter
44. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
45. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
46. The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford
47. Sherlock Holmes : The Complete Novels and Stories (Bantam Classic) Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle
48. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics) by Eric Hoffer
49. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
50. 1984 by George Orwell
51. Animal Farm by George Orwell
52. What Would Machiavelli Do? The Ends Justify the Meanness by Stanley Bing
53. The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli
54. Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman

Here is a list of books that is in my reading list. Sometime in the future, I want to read each one of them.

1. Edward Tufte’s “Visual Display of Quantitative Information,”
2. The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals by Frank Partnoy
3. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm by Robert F. Bruner
4. Guide to Financial Markets, Third Edition (The Economist Series) by Marc Levinson
5. Guide to Economic Indicators: Making Sense of Economics, Fifth Edition (The Economist Series) by Economist
6. The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
7. Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller
8. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
9. Guide to Financial Management (Economist (Hardcover)) by John Tennent
10. Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity by Michael Lewis
11. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
12. The Go-Go Years : The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish 60s (Wiley Investment Classic) by John Brooks
13. The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson
14. Currency Strategy: A Practitioner’s Guide to Currency Trading, Hedging and Forecasting by Callum Henderson
15. When Markets Collide: Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change by Mohamed El-Erian
16. New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America by Richard S. Tedlow
17. Chance and necessity;: An essay on the natural philosophy of modern biology by Jacques Monod
18. The Princeton Companion to Mathematics by Unknown
19. The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street’s Bullish 60s (Wiley Investment Classics) by John Brooks
20. The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge by William Poundstone
21. Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales by Theoni Pappas
22. Morgan: American Financier by Jean Strouse
23. Guide to Business Modelling, Second Edition (Economist Series) by John Tennent
24. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers by Tom Standage
25. Once in Golconda (Wiley Investment Classics) by John Brooks
26. Chance and Necessity: Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (Penguin Press Science) by Jacques Monod
27. The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library) by Adam Smith
28. In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
29. The Birth Of The Mind: How A Tiny Number of Genes Creates the Complexities of Human Thought by Gary F. Marcus
30. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture: A Novel of Mathematical Obsession by Apostolos Doxiadis
31. Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
32. Feynman Lectures on Computation by Tony Hey
33. Persuasion by Jane Austen
34. Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up by Stanley Bing
35. The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling
36. Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Xenophon
37. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by F. A. Hayek
38. River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Science Masters Series) by Richard Dawkins
39. Puzzles of Finance: Six Practical Problems and Their Remarkable Solutions by Mark P. Kritzman
40. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation (Dover Value Editions) by David Ricardo
41. Plato: Republic by Plato
42. Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
43. Ethernet: The Definitive Guide by Charles Spurgeon
44. The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin
45. Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
46. The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
47. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy by Joseph A. Schumpeter
48. The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition (The Collected Works of F. A. Hayek) by F. A. Hayek
49. Five Dialogues by Plato
50. Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
51. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Marc Reisner
52. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series) by John Maynard Keynes
53. The Wealth of Nations (Modern Library Classics) by Adam Smith
54. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley Investment Classics) by Edwin Lefevre
55. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
56. The Blind Watchmaker (Penguin Science) by Richard Dawkins
57. Elementary Particles and the Laws of Physics: The 1986 Dirac Memorial Lectures by Richard P. Feynman
58. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
59. The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics) by Aristotle
60. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
61. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
62. The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore
63. Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition by Milton Friedman
64. The Road to Serfdom Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek
65. The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene (Popular Science) by Richard Dawkins
66. Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
67. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
68. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
69. Plato Complete Works by Plato
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher by Richard Phillips Feynman
72. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
73. Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
74. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
75. Emma by Jane Austen
76. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
77. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
78. Hacker’s Delight by Henry S. Warren Jr.
79. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
80. What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Phillips Feynman
81. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman
82. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger