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Most Influential Books

This is the list of financial books that have had the greatest impact on David’s thinking about money, investing, and the economy in the past decade.

Investing 

  • Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought – Andrew W. Lo
  • The Wisdom Of Finance: Discovering Humanity in the World of Risk and Return – Mihir Desai
  • The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence – Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side – Howard Marks

Risk Management

  • An Economist Walks into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk – Allison Schrager
  • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts – Annie Duke
  • Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms – Mark Spitznagel 
  • Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Central Banks and Money

  • Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing – Jacob Goldstein
  • The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy – Mervyn King
  • The Money Problem: Rethinking Financial Regulation – Morgan Ricks
  • Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System – Barry Eichengreen

Economics

  • Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events – Robert Shiller
  • The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction – Richard Bookstaber

Retirement Planning

  • Safety-First Retirement Planning: An Integrated Approach for a Worry-Free Retirement – Wade Phau
  • Are You a Stock or a Bond?: Identify Your Own Human Capital for a Secure Financial Future – Moshe A. Milevsky

J. David Stein
Darby Creek Advisors LLC
P.O. Box 68544 • Tucson, AZ • 85737

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