What books are worth reading?

KingOfNothing2012-05-16 21:12:00

Books

KingOfNothing, 2012-05-16 21:12:00

Please advise books in these areas - a book that everyone should read:
1. Economist
2. Financier
3. Manager
4. Politician
5. Businessman
Why is this needed? I want to find worthwhile literature to broaden my horizons in other areas that interest me, in addition to IT.

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diGreez, 2012-05-17
@diGreez

A few good books that I remembered (the order is random):
Serge Moscovici - The Age of Crowds. The Science of the Masses
Charles McKay - The Most Common Misconceptions and Madness of the Crowd Sun Tzu
- The Art of War by accident. The Hidden Role of Chance in Business and Life Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the Black Swan. Under the Sign of Unpredictability Murray Rothbard - The Ethics of Freedom (and his other books) Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom Margrit Kennedy - Money Without Interest and Inflation
John Maynard Keynes - The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Warren Buffett - Essays on Investment, Corporate Finance and Company Management
William Bonner - Doomsday of American Finance. Mild Depression of the 21st Century
Alan Greenspan - The Age of Upheaval. Problems and Perspectives of the Global Financial System
Barton Biggs - A Hedger Out of the Fog
Vera Smith - The Origin of Central Banks
George Soros - The Alchemy of Finance (and his other books)
Steven Levitt - Freakonomics. super freakonomics

gorets, 2012-05-17
@gorets

Rework

Vyacheslav Golovanov, 2012-05-16
@SLY_G

Eliyahu Goldratt, The Purpose.

ash_kgd, 2012-05-16
@ash_kgd

Peter Drucker Encyclopedia of Management.

ergil, 2012-05-16
@ergil

Books everyone should read simply
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml
www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top200.shtml

Yakhnev, 2012-05-16
@Yakhnev

33 war strategies

Vyacheslav Golovanov, 2012-05-16
@SLY_G

A Book for Heroes
The Way of the Samurai
Despite the epic titles, these are books for everyone.

un1t, 2012-05-17
@un1t

Phil Rosenzweig "The Halo Effect...and Eight Other Illusions That Mislead Managers"

MikhailEdoshin, 2012-05-17
@MikhailEdoshin

We have several thick American textbooks in the department of foreign literature on various subjects - business correspondence, finance, management. They are all about the same format - they are square, large - this is probably the standard. I somehow looked through a few - and to the manager, financier, etc. I would strongly advise you to study such a textbook in your specialty :)
In general, I will say a banality - all people are different, what is useful to one will not help another. I have had several major shifts in worldview that started with a single phrase in a random book.

vajadhava, 2012-05-17
@vajadhava

> In the spring of 1847, having filed a letter of resignation from the university “due to frustrated health and domestic circumstances”, Tolstoy left for Yasnaya Polyana with the firm intention of studying the entire course of legal sciences (in order to pass the exam as an external student), “practical medicine”, languages, agriculture, history , geographical statistics, write a dissertation and "achieve the highest degree of perfection in music and painting."
The scope of expanding horizons is amazing! Are you a relative of the great Russian writer for an hour? :)

Ivan Zhuravlev, 2012-05-19
@InteractiveTechnology

I’ll be a little off topic, but I just advise Radislav Gandapas trainings, and I know only one book of him: “Kama Sutra for a speaker. Ten chapters on how to get and give maximum pleasure when speaking in public.

Roman Spiridonov, 2012-05-19
@sir06Will

I would recommend Brian Tracy's books and especially "The Psychology of Sales" - there is a lot of useful information not only for salespeople and sales managers, but also for everyday situations.

Ilya Chernichkin, 2012-05-27
@INCWADRA

Sovereign (Machiavelli)