Reviews
Here is a list of books that John believes are worth reading:
- Paul Samuelson: Foundations of Economic Analysis
- Aristotle: The Politics
- Isaiah Berlin: The Hedgehog and the Fox – an essay on Tolstoy’s view of history
- Adam Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society
- David Hume: Essays – Moral, Political and Literary
- John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism
- Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- Nicholas Nasim Taleb: Fooled by Randomness
- Dan Kahneman & Amos Tversky: Choices, values and frames
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy – Richard Rumelt
04 January 2012
Books: the good, the bad and the cheesy
28 May 2008, Financial Times
Ideas – even those about business – often find their best expression in fiction.
Shallow lesson of business books
28 August 2007, Financial Times
The mistake both authors and publishers of business books make is to confuse a book about “what I did” with a book about “how to do it”. (more…)
19 March 2008, Financial Times
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