Finance and investment books

Investment classics, books in French, personal finance, economics and the history of financial crises.

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This Time Is Different
Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff · 2009
EnglishFinancial history
Étude de huit siècles de crises financières, de défauts souverains et de crises bancaires.
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Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Charles P. Kindleberger · 1978
EnglishFinancial history
History of financial crises and the mechanisms of speculation, panic and crash.
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The Great Crash, 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith · 1955
EnglishFinancial history
Account of the speculation of the 1920s and the stock market crash of October 1929.
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When Genius Failed
Roger Lowenstein · 2000
EnglishFinancial history
History of the Long-Term Capital Management fund and its bailout organized in 1998.
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The Big Short
Michael Lewis · 2010
EnglishFinancial history
Investigation into the investors who bet against the subprime mortgage market before the 2008 crisis.
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Liar's Poker
Michael Lewis · 1989
EnglishFinancial history
Author's account of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s.
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Flash Boys
Michael Lewis · 2014
EnglishFinancial history
Investigation into high-frequency trading and the structure of U.S. equity markets.
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Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2009
EnglishFinancial history
Chronicle of the decisions made on Wall Street and in Washington during the 2008 financial crisis.
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Lords of Finance
Liaquat Ahamed · 2009
EnglishFinancial history
History of the four central bankers who led monetary policy between the two world wars.
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The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson · 2008
EnglishFinancial history
History of money, credit, markets and insurance since antiquity.
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Barbarians at the Gate
Bryan Burrough, John Helyar · 1989
EnglishFinancial history
Story of the 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco.
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay · 1841
EnglishFinancial history
Classic 19th-century work on collective manias, including Tulipomania and the South Sea Bubble.
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Where Are the Customers' Yachts?
Fred Schwed Jr. · 1940
EnglishFinancial history
Ironic take on Wall Street and its intermediaries after the 1929 crash.
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More Money Than God
Sebastian Mallaby · 2010
EnglishFinancial history
History of hedge funds since their creation.
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The Man Who Solved the Market
Gregory Zuckerman · 2019
EnglishFinancial history
Biography of Jim Simons and history of Renaissance Technologies, a pioneer in quantitative investing.
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Fortune's Formula
William Poundstone · 2005
EnglishFinancial history
History of the Kelly criterion, from Claude Shannon and Edward Thorp, between games of chance and financial markets.
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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre · 1923
EnglishTrading
Novel-style account of the career of speculator Jesse Livermore in the early 20th century.
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Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager · 1989
EnglishTrading
Interviews with U.S. market operators on their methods and risk management.
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Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
John J. Murphy · 1999
EnglishTrading
Technical analysis reference manual: trends, chart patterns, indicators and intermarket analysis.
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Trading in the Zone
Mark Douglas · 2000
EnglishTrading
Ouvrage consacré à la discipline et à la psychologie de l'opérateur de marché.
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Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques
Steve Nison · 1991
EnglishTrading
Introduction to Japanese candlestick charts and their use in technical analysis.
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Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives
John C. Hull
EnglishTrading
Leading university reference on derivatives and their valuation.
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Capital et idéologie
Thomas Piketty · 2019
FrenchEconomy
History of inequality regimes and the ideologies that justified them.
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Une brève histoire de l'égalité
Thomas Piketty · 2021
FrenchEconomy
Summary of Thomas Piketty's work on the evolution of inequality since the late 18th century.
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