Books about Markets

How do markets work? Why are common academic theories wrong in many occasions? If you engage yourself in the market you have to develop at least some basic understanding and this overview of books about markets will help you in that endeavour.

A Guide to Econometrics
Peter Kennedy
Amazon
A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market
Wilhelm Röpke
Amazon
A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market
Edward O. Thorp
Amazon
Bailouts or Bail-Ins?: Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies
Nouriel Roubini & Brad Setser
Amazon
Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004
Maggie Mahar
Amazon
Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Threat to American Leadership
Paul Volcker & Toyoo Gyohten
Amazon
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
Scott Patterson
Amazon
Chasing String in the Digital Era
Jaffer Ali
Amazon
Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modelling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy
Helyette Geman
Amazon
Economic Fundamentalism: A World Model for Structural Adjustment
Jane Kelsey
Amazon
Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China
Jin Xu
Amazon
Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion
P. T. Bauer
Amazon
False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism
John Gray
Amazon
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Amazon
Sources
If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise
Deirdre N. McCloskey
Amazon
Just Price in the Markets: A History
Charles R. Geisst
Amazon
Market Volatility
Robert J. Shiller
Amazon
Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
Jack D. Schwager
Amazon
Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
Emanuel Derman
Amazon
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events
Robert J. Shiller
Amazon
Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy
Richard Werner
Amazon
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
Amazon
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
Ernst F. Schumacher
Amazon
The Alchemy of Finance
George Soros
Amazon
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
Ricardo Hausmann, Cesar Hidalgo et al
Amazon
The Coal Question
William Stanley Jevons
Amazon
The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World
Mark Spitznagel
Amazon
The Economy of Cities
Jane Jacobs
Amazon
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics
William Easterly
Amazon
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes
Amazon
The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith
Amazon
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
Benoit Mandelbrot
Amazon
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The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy
Robert F. Bruner & Sean D. Carr
Amazon
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
Edward Chancellor
Amazon
The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets
Johannes Voit
Amazon
The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor
John Kay
Amazon
The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind
Dan Davies
Amazon
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Amazon
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
Jim Paul & Brendan Moynihan
Amazon
Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
Didier Sornette
Amazon

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Books about Markets

A Guide to Econometrics

A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market

A Man for All Markets: From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

Bailouts or Bail-Ins?: Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Economies

Bull: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004

Changing Fortunes: The World's Money and the Threat to American Leadership

Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis

Chasing String in the Digital Era

Commodities and Commodity Derivatives: Modelling and Pricing for Agriculturals, Metals and Energy

Economic Fundamentalism: A World Model for Structural Adjustment

Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China

Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion

False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

If You're So Smart: The Narrative of Economic Expertise

Just Price in the Markets: A History

Market Volatility

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders

Models.Behaving.Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

Princes of the Yen: Japan's Central Bankers and the Transformation of the Economy

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

The Alchemy of Finance

The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity

The Coal Question

The Dao of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World

The Economy of Cities

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

The Great Crash 1929

The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence

The Panic of 1907: Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy

The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

The Truth About Markets: Why Some Nations are Rich But Most Remain Poor

The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions - and How The World Lost its Mind

The Wealth of Nations

What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars

Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems

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