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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

If you loved The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

Books like The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

If you loved The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

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Guns, Germs, and Steel

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No. 3

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No. 4

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

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No. 5

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No. 7

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World

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No. 10

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Freakonomics, #1)

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No. 11

The Prince

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No. 12

Zero to One

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No. 13

Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves

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No. 14

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No. 15

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

Richard Feynman

No. 16

What Do You Care What Other People Think?

Richard Feynman

No. 17

Fooled by Randomness

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No. 18

Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All

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No. 19

The Intelligent Investor

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No. 20

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

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No. 21

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

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No. 22

Good to Great

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No. 23

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt

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No. 24

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