Novels about Wall Street, companies and money, business novels that teach a management method, Ayn Rand's novels, and short fables written to carry a lesson.
A plant manager learns that a system's output is set by its bottleneck.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 5 others
A novel in which an IT manager rescues a failing project using lessons from The Goal.
Novel, but the standard introduction to how ship finance actually works.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Short-story collection; his first Wall Street fiction.
A novel in which industrialists vanish from an economy run by government directives.
Recommended by: Brian Armstrong, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 18 others
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday
A novel of an architect who will build only by his own judgment, whatever it costs.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams, Iman Gadzhi and 5 others
A satire of ambition, race, class and greed around a 1980s New York bond trader.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ev Williams
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason, Daniel Ek and 9 others
A novel of an adventure in pursuit of a spiritual mystery and its predictions.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason
A writer's fifty-year path from Trappist monk to a forgotten universal religion.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Melanie Perkins, Terrance McArthur and 1 other
Economics argued through a novel; markets and their moral defence
“there is a book called The Invisible Heart which explains basic economics to most people” — Joel Greenblatt
Source: Masters in Business transcript: Joel Greenblatt (2018)
Recommended by: Joel Greenblatt, Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Tim Ferriss
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan
A novel of a mindfulness-app founder, a tech-blog reporter and a stray text message.
Recommended by: Audrey Gelman, Bill Gurley
Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake
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