Michael Mauboussin
Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global; adjunct professor at Columbia Business School.
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter L. Bernstein
And so Bernstein just brilliantly this out in Against the Gods, and he was a wonderful writer. It's a very interesting book.
on a podcast · 3 Mar 2023 · Report
Behave by Robert Sapolsky
And he wrote a book called Behave in 2017, which is, I would say, probably the best book I've ever read on human nature. It's not an easy read, but it's very well-written and very interesting.
on a podcast · 3 Mar 2023 · Report
Bionomics by Michael Rothschild
So I read this book Bionomics and I'm like, "This is so cool." And the guy sort of opens the book by saying, "Hey, you can't really understand economies unless you understand evolution and so forth," so I was very drawn to all that.
on a podcast · 3 Mar 2023 · Report
Capital Ideas by Peter Bernstein
By the way, he also wrote a book called Capital Ideas, which basically does the same thing for the history of finance. So Peter Bernstein, that is money.
on a podcast · 3 Mar 2023 · Report
Complexity by M. Mitchell Waldrop
And so why this book is so, I think still to this day, kind of exhilarating is because you read about these scientists and how they were coming up with ideas that were far from the mainstream, and when we look back on them now, many of them have become much more mainstream ideas. But it was super cool.
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Consilience by E.O. Wilson
So, I was very taken in the late 1990s by a book called Consilience by E.O. Wilson.
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Creating Shareholder Value by Alfred Rappaport
Guy in my training program gave me a copy of Al Rappaport's book called Creating Shareholder Value, which was published in 1986. So this is probably a year and a half or two years after that book was out. And he gave it to me for a completely different reason, it had nothing to do with the basic concept. But I read that book and the light bulbs all went off for me personally.
on a podcast · 3 Mar 2023 · Report
More Heat Than Light by Philip Mirowski
there's a wonderful book called More Heat Than Light by a professor named Phil Mirowski, which documents how economists literally, and I mean literally, mapped over equations from Newtonian physics to basically give economic street cred, right?
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The Difference by Scott E. Page
And Scott's written a number of great books. The Difference is his big book on this. And he wrote a smaller book called The Diversity Bonus, which a shorter treatment of same topic.
on a podcast · 3 Mar 2023 · Report
The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
The third way to think about things as complex adaptive systems, and I think the way that's easiest to understand this, is using some of the language from Jim Surowiecki's great book The Wisdom of Crowds, which came out probably 2004, 2005.
on a podcast · 3 Mar 2023 · Report
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky
And so he wrote a book called Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers in the mid 1990s, which it's a wonderful title and it's a wonderful book about the idea of stress.
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