books
“Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.” ―
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Civilizational Foundations of Wealth
How societies define, justify, and moralize wealth
Adam Smith — The Wealth of Nations
Max Weber — The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Georg Simmel — The Philosophy of Money
Karl Polanyi — The Great Transformation
Thomas Piketty — Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Amartya Sen — Development as Freedom
John Rawls — A Theory of Justice
Hannah Arendt — The Human Condition
Power, Capital & Systemic Dynamics
How wealth concentrates, destabilizes, and reshapes societies
Hyman Minsky — Stabilizing an Unstable Economy
Charles Kindleberger — Manias, Panics, and Crashes
Mariana Mazzucato — The Value of Everything
Ray Dalio — Principles: Life and Work
Jack D. Schwager — Market Wizards
Behavioral Wealth & Decision Intelligence
How humans actually behave under uncertainty, risk, and pressure
Daniel Kahneman — Thinking, Fast and Slow
George Kohlrieser — Hostage at the Table (2nd edition)
Richard H. Thaler — Misbehaving
Peter L. Bernstein — Against the Gods
Nassim Nicholas Taleb — Fooled by Randomness; Antifragile
Gerd Gigerenzer — Risk Savvy
Philip Tetlock — Superforecasting
Wealth as Human Drama
Ambition, inheritance, desire, illusion, collapse
F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck — The Pearl
Charles Dickens — Great Expectations
Guy de Maupassant — The Necklace
William Shakespeare — Macbeth
Ayn Rand — Atlas Shrugged
Myth, Fairy Tale & Archetypal Wealth
The original wealth education system
The Fisherman and His Wife
The Golden Fleece
The Myth of Croesus
The Treasure of the Nibelungen
The Tale of the Three Brothers
Jack and the Beanstalk
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Grimm Brothers — selected tales
Hesiod — Works and Days
Meaning, Legacy & the Wealth of Life
Why wealth exists beyond accumulation
Viktor Frankl — Man’s Search for Meaning
Erich Fromm — To Have or To Be?
Joseph Campbell — The Hero with a Thousand Faces
James Hollis — Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
Otto Scharmer — Theory U
Intergenerational Wealth & Stewardship
Inheritance, responsibility, and transmission
James E. Hughes Jr. — Family Wealth, Complete Family Wealth
Dennis Jaffe — Borrowed from Your Grandchildren
Thomson & McLennan — Wealth in Families