The world has too many choices. Books are no exception, and it can be difficult for readers to decide what to read and what to avoid. 2022 is approaching its end.
Below is a list of 6 must-read books on business, economics and finance, hand-picked by Mint, and released throughout the year. Dear Reader, each of these books is presented in no particular order to help you better understand the complex world we live in.
The cashless revolution
Martin Chorzempa details how China has made the leap from a primitive cash-based system to a seamless digital payment system in less than a decade. Actors were a limited number of innovative companies. The result was the fintech revolution.
As a result, “the financial life of the Chinese people no longer revolves around the government and banks, but around the technology ecosystem.” This revolution has already changed China and, in some ways, seems to change the world as well. This book is a must-read for people interested in finance.
Slouching towards Utopia
“In 1870, a change took place in human civilization. With the advent of industrial laboratories, modern corporations, and very cheap sea and land transportation and communications, we have moved from a world shaped against the backdrop of mass poverty with semi-stable economic patterns to a world in which the economy was constantly changing. We have moved into a revolutionary world. He J Bradford DeLong, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, tells this amazing story powerfully through this book.
The capital order
Anyone who believes in the relationship between the market economy and democracy should read this book for a powerful critique. In this thought-provoking book, Clara E. Mattei of the New School for Social Research traces the origins of “austerity” in attempts to restore capitalist order after World War I. In a broader sense, she is quite right in pointing out that economic policies that appear to be technocratic are fundamentally political.
The nowhere office
This book is an expression of force with distributive consequences. The economy is politics. However, writing in the Marxist tradition, she also seems to believe in the now credible argument that democratic capitalism has a distinctly superior alternative. If owned and controlled, politics will inevitably become a dictatorship and the economy will stagnate at best.
Cleverly timed to her one of the great post-pandemic debates, this book is a short, vibrant introduction to the future of work, suddenly accelerated into the present by Covid-19. It’s too early to say which of Hobsbawm’s predictions will come true, but she makes a compelling case for seizing opportunities to transform old ways and places of work. A cutting-edge and original exploration of refugee entrepreneurial prowess, based on three case studies from Syria. Hannah weaves the novel narrative of her story into a broader analysis of the grim extent of the global refugee crisis, which has only been exacerbated by the war in Ukraine since the book’s completion.
Rich dad poor dad
As any investor knows, it’s not how much money you make that matters, but how much you keep. An important article on Rich Dad, Poor Dad, now published in the 20th-anniversary issue. This interactive book believes that financial literacy is essential to gaining wealth and is described as a ‘rich father’, a friend’s father who rose from humble beginnings to found a lucrative business and capitalist, and a ‘poor father’. ”, citing a chapter from Robert T. Kiyosaki. His father was a well-educated civil servant, a socialist, and worked all his life.
The basics of bitcoins and blockchains
You can judge this book by its cover. It lives up to its title and is a comprehensive, vibrant, and must-have cryptocurrency reference book. Anthony Lewis, a former technologist at Credit Suisse in Singapore and London, quit banking to join his iBit startup, where customers buy and sell bitcoins, and has never looked back.
His nine-chapter book begins with a definition of money, followed by definitions of digital money, cryptography, cryptocurrencies, digital tokens, and blockchain, complete with photographs, graphs, tables, pie charts, and infographics. shows the point. For example, he suggests calling Bitcoin an “electronic asset.”
