Business / History
Author(s): Clay Shirky
Short book about Xiaomi and their business model in China. The book also includes information about the technology sector and related companies.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Little Rice
Business / History
Author(s): Clay Shirky
Short book about Xiaomi and their business model in China. The book also includes information about the technology sector and related companies.
On China
Politics / History
Author(s): Henry Kissinger
I've not read many books about China so far but I'm sure there is nobody in a better position to write a book about the opening of China to the world as Henry Kissinger. The book starts with a good introduction of the history and values of China up to the 18th century and then proceeds with great detail to describe the many wars of China with other countries, Mao's communist revolution and the changes implemented by Deng Xiaoping where he was a very important figure as a diplomatic in behalf of the United States.
China's Second Continent
Politics / Economics / History
Author(s): Howard French
The author travels around many countries in Africa narrating the new economic ties that all of those countries now have with China, most of them in the form of deals that involve the building of infrastructure by chinese companies in exchange of natural resources.
Ali Baba
Business / History
Author(s): Duncan Clark
The life of Jack Ma, the founding of Ali Baba and the development of the internet sector in China including other companies like baidu and tencent.
The Deal of the Century
Business / History
Author(s): Steve Coll
The history of AT&T, their monopoly of the telecommunications sector in the united states and a case that lasted many years in court to finally breakup AT&T in many companies that still exist today.
The Everything Store
Business / History
Author(s): Brad Stone
This book is pretty straightforward: the history of Jeff Bezos and Amazon in chronological order. The author has access to a lot of details about the founding of Amazon and its impressive expansion in a lot of sectors.
The Firm
Business / History
Author(s): Duff McDonald
The best book about the consulting world. McKinsey is the main subject but the author also includes a lot of information about other consulting firms like Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company and most important of all: the evolution of the consulting profession since the 20s and how powerful these firms really are.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
The Box
Business / History
Author(s): Marc Levinson
My favorite book about globalization. It explains with great detail how the container helped reshape the world economy making it viable to transport products across the world and change the supply chain as we know it.
The Taking of Getty Oil
Business History
Author(s): Steve Coll
The battle to take over Getty Oil and everyone involved including the children of Jean Paul Getty Jr, the board of the company, Pennzoil, Texaco, many banks, and a long trial.
The Man Who Knew
Biography
Author(s): Sebastian Mallaby
One of the best books about modern central bank policy history through the eyes of Alan Greenspan. It also features the policies of the Fed chairmen before him, his entire tenure and how he also affected white house policy, not only in financial subjects.
The Great Leveler
Economics / History
Author(s): Walter Scheidel
Very dense book but in my opinion the best about economic inequality because it uses no conjectures or hypotheses, just a look at history and facts of how destruction has been the strongest force to reduce economic inequality in a drastic way.
Lucifer's Banker
Finance / History
Author(s): Bradley Birkenfeld
Autobiographical book that describes the importance of the swiss bank secrecy and how the author after working in the industry for years became a whistleblower and ended it.
The Spider Network
Finance / History
Author(s): David Enrich
The creation of LIBOR, how it became the most important interest rate in the world, and the rigging by traders in the worldwide largest banks.
Hack Attack
Journalism
Author(s): Nick Davies
The full story of the scandal where Rupert Murdoch's News Of The World was found guilty of listening to thousands of private voicemails including movie starts, the royalty and all the effort to cover it up.
GDP
Business History
Author(s): Diane Coyle
How is GDP, one of the most important numbers for each country in the world, measured? How was it measured in the past? Why is it important to include or exclude certain services or products? This short book tries to answer this questions.
Black Edge
Business History
Author(s): Sheelah Kolhatkar
The book explores Wall Street's approach to insider trading and in the middle of it is Steven Cohen and his hedge fund S.A.C Capital.
The Quest
Industry History
Author(s): Daniel Yergin
Another gem by Daniel Yergin. This one does not talk only but oil, it also includes the rise of electricity, the shale gas revolution, climate change policies and biofuels development.
Commodity Trade and Finance
Business / Commodities
Author(s): Michael Tamvakis
Analysis of the fundamental variables like supply/demand, transportation and pricing, that affect different commodities (energy, agriculture and metals).
Titan
Biography
Author(s): Ron Chernow
Best book about Rockefeller and Standard Oil in my opinion. The story starts with the life of Rockefeller and the building of the company, how it gained power thanks to its size, the break up, and the last years of Rockefeller as a philanthropist.
Conspiracy of Fools
Business History
Author(s): Kurt Eichenwald
The rise and fall of Enron. The book features a lot of details about the grow of enron, their corporate policies, how they approached projects, the financial tricks and their slow and painful crash.
Computational Finance
Finance / Programming
Author(s): Argimiro Arratia
Financial methods in R including time series analysis, monte carlo simulations, technical trading and portfolio optimization.
Private Empire
Business History
Author(s): Steve Coll
History of ExxonMobil including the merger between the two companies, the exxon valdez incident, their power inside the white house, the fight against climate change evidence and much more.
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