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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.

We update our reading room regularly, so come back to see new additions.

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Economics

Making a Market For Acts of God

Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek and Paul Spee

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Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd & Laurie Macfarlane

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The Price of Time

Edward Chancellor

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The Great Beanie Baby Bubble

Zac Bissonnette

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How Asia Works

Joe Studwell

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Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don't Make Sense

Rory Sutherland

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Benjamin Franklin, An American Life

Walter Isaacson

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Safe as Houses?

Neil Monnery

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

Charles W. Calomiris

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British Banking - Continuity and Change from 1694 to the Present

Ranald C. Michie

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The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

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The Great Crash

JK Galbraith

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Thank You For Being Late

Thomas Friedman

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Superforecasting - The Art and Science of Prediction

Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner

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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics

Richard Thaler

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The Art of Thinking Clearly

Rolf Dobelli

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Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius

Sylvia Nasar

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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Marc Levinson

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An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith

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A Short History of Financial Euphoria

JK Galbraith

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Capital Account

Edward Chancellor

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The Man Who Knew

Sebastian Mallaby

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