What are the best books you’ve read on geopolitics, macroeconomics, and/or financial history?

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically differe
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A startling vision of what the cycles of history predict for the future."--USA Weekend William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world--and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reima
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Sir Cadbury 4 months ago

I just got into The Fourth Turning. Game changer for me. Lots of perspective and it explains my parents, grandparents and my younger siblings.

Bitcoin is the newest technology for money—find out how it fits in the future. Bitcoin is the digital age's novel, decentralized, and automated solution to the problem of money: accessible worldwide, controlled by nobody. Can this young upstart money challenge the global monetary order? Economist S
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human r
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genXbitcoin 4 months ago

Sapiens was amazing. Homo deus was mostly rehashing Sapiens. But definitely read Sapiens.

HyperValueInvesting 4 months ago

Sapiens, homo deus, it not very financial but it has some extremely interesting parts and it talks about money too

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Will Durant once wrote that "most history is guessing, & the rest is prejudice." Now, 33 years later, the Durants, in this peroration to their monumental "Story of Civilization," look back to record the lessons & conclusions of their 10-volume excursion into human folly & achievement--&, coincidenta
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Brandon Quittem 4 months ago

I could reread lessons of history annually for the rest of my life. So. Much. Wisdom.

2019 was the last great year for the world economy. For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made
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The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth and power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century
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Lex Backer 4 months ago

By far the best I’ve read was the wealth and poverty of nations by David Landes. The Prize, On China and Ganghis Khan were great as well.

Ghost@No.1 (ESG=CCP) 4 months ago

The sequel is probably as important. Both MUST reads for Bitcoiners.

Recommended by Lyn Alden, Mark Moss and Andrew Barisser
<b>With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of the four men whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century</b><br /><br /> It
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Andrew Barisser 4 months ago

Lords of finance is a must read. This book isn’t talked about enough imo

Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There’s not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David
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Steven M*chael 4 months ago

Amazing book, I also like BS jobs and loved “the dawn of everything” by the same author, but “debt” was for me the best.

Bran⚡️ 4 months ago

The cycles of history, multi-century transitions between credit-based money and commodity-based money, packed to the brim with examples throughout the last 5000 years of record: this book has it all.

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning journalist uses ten maps of crucial regions to explain the geo-political strategies of the world powers.All leaders of nations are constrained by geography. Their choices are limited by mountains, rivers,
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Mondsy 4 months ago

Anything by Tim Marshall for Geopolitics Prisoners of geography being the no1

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Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies nec
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Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked.
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