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Reading is an essential part of our research process at Phoenix. Here, we share some of the books we have found useful.

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The Evolution of Co-operation

Robert Axelrod

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The Car

Bryan Appleyard

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The Everything Blueprint

James Ashton

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The Chocolate Wars: Inside The Secret Worlds of Mars & Hershey

Joel Glenn Brenner

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Business Adventures

John Brooks

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The Go-Go Years

John Brooks

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Losing My Virginity

Richard Branson

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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to be Great Instead of Big

Bo Burlington

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Against The Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

Peter Bernstein

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Once In Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938

John Brooks

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The Panic of 1907

Bruner & Carr

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The Rule of Law

Tom Bingham

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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble

Zac Bissonnette

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Gung Ho

Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles

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Execution: The discipline of getting things done

Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan

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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr

Ron Chernow

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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, And Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

David Carey & John E Morris

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The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family

Ron Chernow

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The Innovator’s Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

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Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies

Copeland et al

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Good to Great

James Collins

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How the Mighty Fall

James Collins

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Shaping The Industrial Century

Alfred D. Chandler

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The House of Morgan

Ron Chernow

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Quantitative Value: A Practitioner's Guide to Automating Intelligent Investment and Eliminating Behavioural Errors

Wesley Gray & Tobias Carlisle

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Dream Big: How Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira Acquired Anheuser-Busch, Burger King and Heinz and Revolutionized Brazilian Capitalism

Cristiane Correa

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The Panic of 1907

Bruner & Carr

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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk-taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

John Coates

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Fragile by Design – The Political Origins of Banking Crises & Scarce Credit

Charles W. Calomiris

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The Goal

Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox

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Bad Blood

John Carreyrou

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Let My People go Surfing

Yvon Chouinard

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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgement

D. Kahneman, O.Sibony, C.Sunstein

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Alibaba - The House that Jack Ma Built

Duncan Clark

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How Did You Do It, Truett?

S. Truett Cathy

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The Origin of Financial Crises

George Cooper

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The Price of Time

Edward Chancellor

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Execution: The discipline of getting things done

Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan

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Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

Ed Conway

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Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of General Electric

William D. Cohan

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Devil Take The Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation

Edward Chancellor

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Creativity, Inc: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way of True Inspiration

Ed Catmull

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Capital Returns: Investing Through The Capital Cycle

Edward Chancellor

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Capital Account

Edward Chancellor

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

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The Effective Executive

Peter Drucker

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Security Analysis

Graham & Dodd

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The Little Book That Builds Wealth: The Knockout Formula for Finding Great Investments

Pat Dorsey

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Templeton’s Way with Money: Strategies and Philosophy of a Legendary Investor

Jonathan Davies & Dr. Alasdair Nairn

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Measure What Matters

John Doerr

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Thinking In Bets

Annie Duke

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Ergodicity

Luca Dellanna

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Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

Angela Duckworth

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Conspiracy of Fools

Kurt Eichenwald

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The Smartest Guys in the Room

Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind

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Range

David Epstein

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Fooling Some of the People All of the Time

David Einhorn

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Think Lead Succeed: The Admiral Way

Henry Engelhardt

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Trillion Dollar Coach

Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle

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