SuperFreakonomics (by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner)
SuperFreakonomics is a thought provoking sequel to Freaknomics. This book takes forward the core theme from the first book – People respond to incentives in myriad ways. Unlike other books on economics, SuperFreakonomics has no big concepts or frameworks. It … Continue reading
This book tracks the history of credit derivatives market from their roots in J.P.Morgan to their eventual role in Wall Street collapse in 2008. ABS and MBS have been around for sometime that allowed banks to offload credit risk to … Continue reading
Too big to fail (by Andrew Ross Sorkin)
This book is a definitive account of the events leading up to the crash of 2008. The narration of the events starts from March of that fateful year when Bear Stearns agreed to be sold to JPM at dirt cheap … Continue reading
Imagining India : The idea of a renewed nation (by Nandan Nilekani)
This is one of the most well researched books written about India and about our success and failures since independence in economic and social spheres. While India could be proud of our democracy, science and technological advances, innovations at the … Continue reading
Indira: The life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (by Katherine Frank)
This book is an interesting read about the personal life of Indira Gandhi. It is difficult for most of us Indians to talk impassively about the life of Indira Gandhi as a person and not as the prime minister of … Continue reading
Outliers: The story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
Outliers tries to debunk the theory of “self-made-men”; about how we often associate success with just the personal qualities of individual like intelligence, hard work, courage. The point in the book is that there are many men with same qualities … Continue reading
The Black Swan – The impact of the highly improbable (by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)
It is hard to keep this book in any one category, particularly so when the author is a philosopher, a literary essayist and most interestingly a quant trader. The message of this book is the futility of creating complex mathematical … Continue reading
The One Percent Doctrine (by Ruskin Bond)
If there is even a one percent chance that America will be attacked by any organization in the world, America considers it as credible threat and acts now. Whether the threat is real or not is not important. This is … Continue reading
Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald
This book goes in great detail on the collapse of Enron. One of the best books on Corporate Scandals and probably the best after Barbarians at the Gate. It is hard to believe that a Fortune 50 company could ever … Continue reading
Blue Ocean Strategy (W Chan Kim , Renee Mauborgne)
Authors define Blue oceans as unchartered territories where existing competition is made irrelevant. As we have read in marketing stories and acknowledged by authors too, the term “Blue Oceans” is new but not the existence of it. Every day new … Continue reading