Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Classic economic thought and economists

Economics

The founding texts of economics by Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, Marx, Keynes, Hayek, Mises and Schumpeter, with histories of economic ideas and biographies of economists.

Books 25Experts 1Recommenders 18
On the Principles of Political Economy and TOn the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
T1 On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
David Ricardo · 1817
Open LibraryGoodreads

Rent, wages, profit and comparative advantage, reasoned from first assumptions.

The Economic Consequences of the PeaceThe Economic Consequences of the Peace
T1 The Economic Consequences of the Peace
John Maynard Keynes · 1919
Open LibraryGoodreads

Why Germany could not pay the 1919 reparations, and what they would do to Europe.

Capitalism, Socialism and DemocracyCapitalism, Socialism and Democracy
T1 Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter · 1942
Goodreads

Capitalism runs on creative destruction, and its success may lead it to socialism.

Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian EconoMarginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
T3 Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
Janek Wasserman · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

History of the Vienna school as a network, including its financing and its export to the US.

The Road to SerfdomThe Road to Serfdom
T3 The Road to Serfdom
F. A. Hayek
Goodreads

Hayek's 1944 warning that central economic planning corrodes political freedom alongside economic efficiency. Written for a British Left audience, it argued that the path to socialism and the path to fascism share structural features. Its critics say it proves too much; its admirers say history vindicated it.

Recommended by: Li Lu, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel

The Wealth of NationsThe Wealth of Nations
T3 The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith · 1776
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the division of labour and free markets make a nation rich.

Recommended by: Naval Ravikant, Patrick Collison and 7 others

The Theory of Moral SentimentsThe Theory of Moral Sentiments
T4 The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith · 1759
Open LibraryGoodreads

How moral judgement grows from sympathy and an imagined impartial spectator.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

An Essay on the Principle of PopulationAn Essay on the Principle of Population
T4 An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Robert Malthus · 1798
Open LibraryGoodreads

The original population-versus-resources argument that still frames the debate

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Das KapitalDas Kapital
T4 Das Kapital
Karl Marx · 1867
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Elon Musk

Essays in PersuasionEssays in Persuasion
T4 Essays in Persuasion
John Maynard Keynes · 1931
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
T4 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
John Maynard Keynes · 1935
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Eric Weinstein and 1 other

The Great TransformationThe Great Transformation
T4 The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi · 1944
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the Industrial Revolution's self-regulating market upended society.

Recommended by: Satya Nadella

Human ActionHuman Action
T4 Human Action
Ludwig von Mises · 1949
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Charles Koch

The Fatal ConceitThe Fatal Conceit
T4 The Fatal Conceit
F.A. Hayek · 1988
Open LibraryGoodreads

A critique of socialism: why morality and markets are not products of reason.

Recommended by: Nick Szabo

A History of Economic TheoryA History of Economic Theory
T4 A History of Economic Theory
Jurg Niehans · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Eric Weinstein

More Heat Than LightMore Heat Than Light
T4 More Heat Than Light
Philip Mirowski · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

How economics copied the maths of 19th-century physics, and what that cost it.

“there's a wonderful book called More Heat Than Light by a professor named Phil Mirowski, which documents how economists mapped over equations from Newtonian physics” — Michael Mauboussin

Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #659 — official transcript

Recommended by: Michael Mauboussin, Eric Weinstein

Where Keynes Went WrongWhere Keynes Went Wrong
T4 Where Keynes Went Wrong
Hunter Lewis · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Polemic against Keynesian policy from an Austrian-leaning investor

“This is another timely classic given the present condition. The outline structure of the book is brilliant.” — Christopher Bloomstran

Source: Semper Augustus 2020 Letter to Clients, 'To Read or Not to Read', p. 57

Recommended by: Christopher Bloomstran

Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic GeniusGrand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
T4 Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
Sylvia Nasar · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

How Adam Smith Can Change Your LifeHow Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
T4 How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Tim O’Reilly

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Volume 1
T4 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Volume 1
Adam Smith · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Books One to Three: division of labour, money, prices, wages, profit and capital.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of theAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Volume 2
T4 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: Volume 2
Adam Smith · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Books Four and Five: the case against mercantilism, and the role of the state.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard KeyUniversal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
T4 Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
Richard Davenport-Hines · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

An Apology for the Builder
T4 An Apology for the Builder
Nicholas Barbon
Goodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, PJohn Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
T4 John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Keynes: The Return of the MasterKeynes: The Return of the Master
T4 Keynes: The Return of the Master
Robert Skidelsky
Goodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

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