Ask HN: What are the must-read books about economics/finance? ↗
The books people recommended
2016-09-22 · 446 points · 269 comments · 26 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.
- 3The Intelligent Investor
- 2Liar's Poker
- 2A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- 2Economics: The User's Guide
- 1The Black Swan
- 1Fooled by Randomness
- 1Basic Economics
- 1Freakonomics
- 1The Innovator's Dilemma
- 1Trading and Exchanges
- 1Economics in One Lesson
- 1Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
- 1Signal and the Noise
- 1The Wealth of Nations
- 1Capital
- 1Progress and Poverty
- 1The Elements of Statistical Learning
The Elements of Statistical Learning
Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman
1 here · 5 all-time · #299 overall
- 1The Origin of Wealth
- 1Principles of Corporate Finance
Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen
1 here · 4 all-time · #413 overall
- 1Seeking Wisdom
- 1Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
- 1The Prize
- 1The Big Short
- 1Capitalism and Freedom
- 1Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- 1Corporate Finance