20/20 Money: See the Markets Clearly and Invest Better Than the Pros

Selected Bibliography and Further Reading

For your perusal, a (rather lengthy) selected bibliography that also may serve as a guide for further reading. 20/20 Money has a decidedly interdisciplinary approach—it's psychology, mathematics, systems theory, science, to name a few. So the list is long and various—more like a chronicle of influential books I have come across and that inform the views of this book. Some books will have apparently little to do with investing and markets; some deal with it directly. Some are esoteric, turgid research papers, others accessible, lighthearted discourses. However, anything directly referenced in the book can be found here.

Part of the intended lesson of 20/20 Money is to break conventional categories and see things differently. Thus, these books are not categorized by topic but merely organized alphabetically. I invite you to make the associations. A book on neuroscience might directly follow a study on the method of weather forecasting, or a book about narrative composition might be juxtaposed with a philosophical discourse on logic. And so on. The point is to not only study the topics that can make you a better investor, but also conjure new connections and associations we otherwise wouldn't think of.

Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (New York: Scribner Press, 2004).

Nancy Andreasen, The Creative Brain (New York: Penguin Press, 2005).

Karen Armstrong, A History of God (New York: Gramercy Books, 1993).

Rudolf ...