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Books: Business, Finance, & Economics

How Randomness Masquerades as Luck and Skill
Nassim Taleb explores how traders confuse chance with skill, offering lessons on controlling emotion, avoiding excuses, and resisting crowd-driven…
 • Christopher Gerlacher
Speculation, Storytelling, and the Perils of Overconfidence
Emotional attitudes frequently overwhelm objective assessments, leading to risks disguised as opportunities in financial markets.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
This is How to Write Convincingly
A former New York Times op-ed editor explains how to put a persuasive piece of writing together.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
How to Tell Which Forecasters to Take Serously
Forecasting is a tricky business, and there are a few ways to tell which people are worth paying attention to and which are noisy pundits.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
How to Predict Unpredictable Events
Expanding your view of what could go wrong will prepare you for new emergencies, but trying to guess the next specific disaster is a fool’s errand.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
What Makes Even Experts Make Poor Judgments
Noise is the kind of information that diverts people from making their best decisions. It can also be harder to fix than bias.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
What the Story of Bitcoin Tells us About Politicians Today
Even after moving into the mainstream, some of the same politics behind Bitcoin's founding motivate its supporters today.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
How to Create Things that Get Stronger from Stress
Some systems can be undone by a single disaster, while others get stronger from stress-testing and adversity.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
Behind the Scenes of Fixing the 2008 Financial Crisis
One of the seminal figures tasked with solving the 2008 financial crisis brings readers behind the scenes of managing the worst financial meltdown in…
 • Christopher Gerlacher
How to Actually Save Money and Other Psych Hacks
Behavioral psychologists are obsessed with finding ways to help us help ourselves, and this book is full of ways to do it.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
What Billionaires, Celebrities, High Performers Have in Common
Tools for Titans is a long book of interviews in which high achievers talk about how they rose to the top of their fields.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
Marketers Use These Tricks to Sell Services
In a world crowded with ads, The Invisible Promise offers marketing tricks to make some services stand out more than others.
 • Christopher Gerlacher
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