Against the Gods

Against the Gods

By
Peter L. Bernstein
Peter L. Bernstein
1996 • 400 pages

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17 books

Quant And Finance

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Pedro Amorim
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
A World of Chance
Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind Sports and How Games Are Won
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
When Genius Failed
The Big Short
Moneyball

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Finance

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Michael
The Intelligent Investor
Against the Gods
The Rationality Quotient: Toward a Test of Rational Thinking
Fortune's Formula
Distant Force
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
Master of the Game

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16 books

Economics

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Henrique
How an economy grows and why it crashes
Individualism and Economic Order
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
The Wealth of Nations
The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
Principles of Economics

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72 books

Tr Economics

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Luiz Gonzaga
The tyranny of experts
The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph
Saga Brasileira
One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth
The Economics of Discrimination
The Great Escape
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor

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117 books

Priority

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Sarah
Today Will Be Different
Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess
Get Your Sh*t Together
The Facefaker's Game
Normal
Lockdown : A Novel of Suspense
The Boy on the Bridge

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55 books

Business

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Why Most Things Fail
A World Without "Whom"
World Class Learners
When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle
The Devil's Casino
Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek
Data Smart

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Owned

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Marcos Moret
The Toyota Way
The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
The Art of Agile Development
Isaac Newton
Nudge: The Final Edition
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

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86 books

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Surabhi--A Discovery of India
Raffles and the Golden Opportunity
Think Stats
Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies
The Silmarillion
The Long Walk

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1st Reference

Diogenes
Diogenes
Shadowstorm
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Beatles Anthology
The Startup Owner's Manual
Hard to be a god
Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition

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31 books

History

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The Histories
The Bully Pulpit
The Western Way of War
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Napoleon
John Adams

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Business

Diogenes
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The Millionaire Next Door
Liar's Poker
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Numbers Guide: The Essentials of Business Numeracy, Fifth Edition

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Serious

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The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow
20 Brainteaser für Scrum-Masterinnen
Coaching und Supervision
A year with Peter Drucker

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Prof G Sprint Strategy

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
The Power of Human: How Our Shared Humanity Can Help Us Create a Better World
Orbiting the Giant Hairball
High Output Management
The Connected Company
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
So You've Been Publicly Shamed

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Non Fiction

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Ryan Linton
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology
The Selfish Gene
How To Win Friends and Influence People
How to Read a Book
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology
The Age of Spiritual Machines

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Economics

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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Rent Is Too Damn High
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
The Winner's Curse

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60 books

Business

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Ryan Linton
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Facebook Effect
Talking to Humans
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers

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34 books

Finance

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Ryan Linton
The Intelligent Investor
Security Analysis: Principles and Technique
Think and Grow Rich
Rational Investing in Irrational Times
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes - And How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
The Winner's Curse

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25 books

Investing

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Ryan Linton
The Intelligent Investor
Security Analysis: Principles and Technique
Rational Investing in Irrational Times
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes - And How to Correct Them: Lessons from the New Science of Behavioral Economics
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
All about asset allocation
The Little Book of Safe Money: How to Conquer Killer Markets, Con Artists, and Yourself

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49 books

History

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Ryan Linton
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Man's Search for Meaning
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
Against the Gods
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

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17 books

Philosophy

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Marcus
Gorilla Mindset
Meditations
The Three-Body Problem
Against the Gods
Don't Give Guns to Robots
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos / Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief

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48 books

Economy

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Pensionsbluffen : tryggheten som gick upp i rök
The Millionaire Fastlane
The Thank You Economy
The Millionaire Booklet
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86 books

Deep Backlog

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The Grid
The Myth of the Strong Leader: Political Leadership in the Modern Age
How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality
White Trash
Idiot Brain
Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved
After Life

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47 books

Science

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The Grid
How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
The Human Eye: Structure and Function
Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved
Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life