The following is a list of books we have read that we have found to be especially insightful and influential to our thinking. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have and invite your comments and feedback!

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Investing/investment history

Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons from Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms by Russell Napier
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Equity Markets in Action: The Fundamentals of Liquidity, Market Structure & Trading by Robert A. Scwartz and Reto Francioni
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Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs
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House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi
Areté review     Link to Amazon

Investment Policy: How to Win the Loser's Game by Charles D. Ellis
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Stabilizing an Unstable Economy by Hyman Minsky
Areté review     Link to Amazon

Triumph of the Optimists: 101 Years of Global Investment Returns by Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh, and Mike Staunton
Areté review     Link to Amazon

When Markets Collide by Mohamed El-Erian
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Decision making

Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein
Areté review     Link to Amazon

Behavioral economics

Behavioral Investing: A Practitioner's Guide to Applying Behavioral Finance by James Montier
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Influence: Science and Practice by Robert B. Cialdini
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Mistakes were made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolsih Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
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Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage by Paul Ekman
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Managing knowledge workers

High Performing Investment Teams: How to Achieve Best Practices of Top Firms by Jim Ware and Jim Dethmer
Areté review     Link to Amazon

Post-Capitalist Society by Peter F. Drucker
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Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances and Results from Knowledge Workers by Thomas H. Davenport
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Valuation and equity analysis

Expectations Investing: Reading Stock Prices for Better Returns by Alfred Rappaport, Michael J. Mauboussin, and Peter L. Bernstein
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
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Learning and knowledge management

The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer Adler
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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past, by John Lewis Gaddis
Areté review     Link to Amazon

Entrepreneurship

The E-myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About it by Michael E. Gerber
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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
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Understanding our world

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Leavitt and Stephen J. Dabner
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The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity and the Radical Remaking of Economics by Eric D. Beinhocker
Areté review     Link to Amazon

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature  by Steven Pinker
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SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed by Roger Highfield and Martin Nowak
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
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The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
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