Michael McNair
@michaeljmcnair
My bookshelf section of some of @michaelxpettis recommendations over the years. What I admire about his intellectual curiosity is he values authors who offer even one brilliant insight, regardless of how much he disagrees with their other views. Most of these authors align with my thinking, but even those I often disagree with (Lardy, Hudson) have taught me a great deal. The lesson is to approach reading with enough humility to recognize that valuable insights can exist alongside views you contest. Please add any books/authors I am missing.
A non-comprehensive selection of @michaelxpettis’s recommendations over the years: 1. Red Capitalism – Walter & Howie 2.The Volatility Machine – Michael Pettis 3.Avoiding the Fall – Michael Pettis http://4.International capital movements - Charles Kindleberger 5.The Great Rebalancing – Michael Pettis http://6.Trade Wars Are Class Wars – Matthew C. Klein & Michael Pettis 7.The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions - Irving Fisher 8.Stabilizing an Unstable Economy – Hyman Minsky 9.Can “It” Happen Again? – Hyman Minsky 10.The Rise of Private Business in China – Nicholas Lardy 11.The Deluge – Adam Tooze 12.The Wages of Destruction - @adam_tooze 13.Manias, Panics, and Crashes – Charles Kindleberger 14.A Financial History of Western Europe – Charles Kindleberger 15.Who Adjusts? – Beth A. Simmons 16.Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression – Barry Eichengreen http://17.Finance Capitalism and Its Discontents – Michael Hudson 18.Development and Foreign Debt – Michael Hudson http://19.Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century – Jeffry Frieden 20. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy – Joseph Schumpeter Not pictured: 21.The United States in the Orient: The Nature of the Economic Problem - Charles Arthur Conant http://22.Trading Freedom: How Trade with China Defined Early America - @DealNorwood 23.J.A. Hobson 24.Alexander Gerschenkron