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Jelly Beans

Every jar of jelly beans has a few really good ones worth digging for. This is ours - a small, handpicked mix of books, documentaries and courses on markets, money and behaviour that shaped how we think about investing.

23 books, 50 documentaries, 16 free courses

1

Manias, Panics, and Crashes

Charles P. Kindleberger

The classic history of financial bubbles and crashes, from tulip mania to the modern era.

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2

The New Market Wizards

Jack D. Schwager

Interviews with elite traders on how they actually think about risk, discipline and edge.

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3

Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations

David Warsh

A history of the economic idea that knowledge and ideas, not just capital, drive growth.

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4

Stabilizing an Unstable Economy

Hyman P. Minsky

The economist behind the “Minsky Moment” on why financial systems are inherently prone to crisis.

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5

Flash Boys

Michael Lewis

How high-frequency traders quietly rewired the stock market - and who finally noticed.

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6

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Why rare, unpredictable events shape markets and history far more than we like to admit.

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7

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

The Nobel laureate’s map of the two systems in your head that quietly run every financial decision you make.

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8

Barbarians at the Gate

Bryan Burrough & John Helyar

The definitive account of the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout and the excesses of 1980s Wall Street.

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9

The Origin of Financial Crises

George Cooper

A short, sharp explanation of why central banks and credit cycles keep producing boom and bust.

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10

My Life as a Quant

Emanuel Derman

A physicist-turned-Wall-Street-quant on what mathematical models can and can’t tell you about markets.

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11

Liar's Poker

Michael Lewis

A funny, cynical insider's account of 1980s Wall Street bond trading culture.

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12

Black Edge

Sheelah Kolhatkar

The rise and fall of hedge fund titan SAC Capital and the insider-trading case that chased it.

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13

Den of Thieves

James B. Stewart

The inside story of the 1980s insider-trading scandals that took down Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken.

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14

The Greatest Trade Ever

Gregory Zuckerman

How John Paulson made billions betting against the housing market before anyone else saw it coming.

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15

Pit Bull

Martin “Buzzy” Schwartz

A trading-floor memoir on the psychology and grit behind a career of consistent winning.

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16

The Chastening

Paul Blustein

How the IMF and global finance handled - and mishandled - the 1990s emerging-market crises.

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17

Traders, Guns & Money

Satyajit Das

A former derivatives trader's witty, unsettling look at how complex financial products actually work.

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18

Lords of Finance

Liaquat Ahamed

How four central bankers' decisions in the 1920s helped set up the Great Depression.

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19

Too Big to Fail

Andrew Ross Sorkin

A blow-by-blow account of the frantic deal-making during the 2008 financial crisis.

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20

When Genius Failed

Roger Lowenstein

The rise and spectacular collapse of Long-Term Capital Management, and what it revealed about risk.

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21

Good to Great

Jim Collins

The research-backed case for what separates merely good companies from truly great, enduring ones.

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22

Confessions of a Wall Street Analyst

Dan Reingold

A telecom analyst's inside account of research, conflicts of interest and the dot-com bust.

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23

Investing in REITs

Ralph L. Block

A practical guide to understanding and investing in real estate investment trusts.

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