Scott Patterson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Big Short
Michael LewisChaos Kings is an “illuminating investigation…The author has a knack for translating complicated financial maneuvers into easily comprehensible terms…Detailed yet accessible, this will appeal to fans of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short.” —@PublishersWkly https://t.co/sCDIrZLi24
Paperback, 2011
$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Poker Face of Wall Street
Aaron Brown“Fast paced like a thriller...thought-provoking...Chaos Kings tracks the adventures of contrarian investors who, rather than hide from chaos and confusion seek it out.” -Aaron Brown, The Poker Face of Wall Street https://t.co/LVoKPnbrrA
Paperback, 2007
$22.95Member price:$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley RobinsonI caught up with Delton Chen, creator of the Global Carbon Reward that inspired the carbon coin concept in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future. https://on.wsj.com/3hQHjgI
Paperback, 2021
$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
Joan Didion@nntaleb @RupertRead Only Nassim could complain about sipping single malts in an East Anglia pub! And thanks Nassim...I may be a perpetrator of the narrative fallacy, but we all need our stories now and again. (Or as I quote Joan Didion in Chaos Kings: “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”)
Hardcover, 2006
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis
Scott PattersonCheck out this pod I did with @Clay_Finck on We Study Billionaires about my new book, Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis https://t.co/PZIWaUjCvM
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00Member price:$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book