How Big Things Get Done

By Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner (2023) Pages: 304, Final verdict: Great-read If I told you that your next project has a 99.5% chance of failing, would you still do it? Read How Big Things Get Done, and you will. After more than two decades researching why most projects... Read more

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Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

By J. Bradford DeLong (2022) Pages: 546, Final verdict: Should-read To most of us, the twentieth century feels both intimately familiar and immensely complex. Two world wars, the emergence and collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of the CPC in China and multiple economic recessions. It doesn't seem like... Read more

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How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

By Tim Harford (2020) Pages: 352, Final verdict: Great-read I first came across Tim Harford's writing more than a decade ago, when he wrote of the most popular economics books of the 00's - The Undercover Economist. Since then, Harford become a leading figure in Economics, wrote seven books, and... Read more

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Good Economics for Hard Times

By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo (2019) Pages: 417, Final verdict: Should-read Growth has been the watchword of this century in economics. It has been promoted as the magic recipe for a proper wealth distribution and one of the biggest challenges of modern societies. But growth is also one... Read more

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The Intelligent Investor

By Benjamin Graham (1973) Pages: 578,Final verdict: Should-read "By far the best book on investing ever written" - according to Warren Buffett and many other followers of Benjamin Graham's ideas. The Intelligent Investor is definitely the classic book on an investment philosophy called value investing and I wanted to... Read more

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