Claremont McKenna College

Books Recommended by the FEI Board of Advisors

• Advances in Behavioral Finance
  Richard H. Thaler
• Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
  Peter L. Bernstein
• The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World was Created
  William J. Bernstein
• A Brief History of Economic Genius
  Paul Strathern
• The Business of America: Tales from the Marketplace-American Enterprise from the Settling of New England to the Breakup of AT&T
  John Steele Gordon
• Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street
  Peter L. Bernstein
• The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
  Gustave Le Bon
• Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Education of a Speculator
  Victor Niederhoffer
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
  Charles Mackay
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in the Markets and in Life
  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Great Salad Oil Swindle
  Norman C. Miller
• The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
  David Hackett Fischer
• A History of Interest Rates
  Sidney Homer & Richard Eugene Sylla
• Irrational Exuberance
  Robert J. Shiller
• Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises
  Charles P. Kindleberger
• A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market
  John Allen Paulos
• Minding Mister Market: Ten Years on Wall Street with Grant's Interest Rate Observer
  James Grant
• On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir
  Henry Kaufman
• The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
  Hernando de Soto
• The New Financial Order: Risk in the 21st Century
  Robert J. Shiller
• The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America
  Alex Berenson
• The Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
  Roger Lowenstein
• Practical Speculation
  Victor Niederhoffer and Laurel Kenner
• Real Options: Managing Strategic Investment in an Uncertain World
  Martha Amram & Nalin Kulatilaka
• Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting
  H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan
• Reminiscences of a Stock Market Operator
  Edwin Lefevre
• The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal
  James Franklin
• Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
  William Greider
• Security Analysis
  Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
• Seeing Tomorrow: Rewriting the Rules of Risk
  Ron S. Dembo & Andrew Freeman
• The Trouble with Prosperity: The Loss of Fear, the Rise of Speculation, and the Risk to American Savings
  James Grant
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
  Roger Lowenstein
• The Winner's Curse
  Richard H. Thaler
• The Wisdom of Crowds
  James Surowiecki

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