Market History & Economics
Bubbles, crashes, panics and how financial systems work, told by people who studied or lived through them. Listed from beginner to advanced.
A short, sharp essay on speculative manias through the centuries and why they keep recurring.
A memoir of the author’s time as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s.
Follows the investors who bet against the US housing market before the 2008 financial crisis.
The story of the 1988 leveraged buyout battle for RJR Nabisco.
A short introduction to economic reasoning that urges looking at long-run and unseen effects of policies. Written from a free-market perspective.
A history of money, credit, bonds, stocks, insurance and property and how they shaped the world.
The rise and 1998 collapse of hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management and what leverage can do.
A history of how people came to understand and measure risk, from early probability to modern finance.
Examines how market valuations and psychology fed bubbles in stocks and housing.
A classic history of financial crises and the recurring pattern of boom, overextension and bust.
Soros sets out his theory of reflexivity, the feedback between market participants’ beliefs and reality.
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