Central banks come in for a bashing in the book that Amazon.com lists as the best business and leadership book so far this year.
Nomi Prins, a former Goldman Sachs banker and adviser to Bernie Sanders on how to reform the Federal Reserve, has long been critical of the financial system. In her latest book, published in May, she takes a hard look at how central bankers have behaved in the wake of the 2007-2008 financial crisis and how they are changing the world with a decade of “manufactured money.” Others say she goes too far in her conclusions.
Amazon AMZN, -0.64% book editors put “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World” at the top of their midyear list of the best business and leadership books.
The list includes one by Yanis Varoufakis, the former Greek finance minister who took on European governments and bankers as Greece bargained over terms of its financial bailouts, and Robert Reich, a secretary of labor during the Clinton administration. The choices also include a deeper look at Silicon Valley as well as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and their space race.
None of the 20, however, made the broader list of Amazon editors’ top 20 books so far this year.
Here’s the full list of Amazon’s business picks:
• “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World” by Nomi Prins
• “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” by John Carreyrou (Carreyrou is a Wall Street Journal reporter. The Wall Street Journal, like MarketWatch, is owned by News Corp.)
• “Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs” by John Doerr and Larry Page
• “The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters” by Priya Parker
• “Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• “Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business” by Ken Auletta
• “When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing” by Daniel H. Pink
• “On Grand Strategy” by John Lewis Gaddis
• “Energy: A Human History” by Richard Rhodes
• “Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More” by Morten Hansen
• “The Myth of the Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate” by Fran Hauser
• “The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos” by Christian Davenport
• “Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works — and How It Fails” by Yanis Varoufakis
• “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley” by Emily Chang
• “The Common Good” by Robert B. Reich
• “My Morning Routine: How Successful People Start Every Day Inspired” by Benjamin Spall, Michael Xander
• “Alive at Work: The Neuroscience of Helping Your People Love What They Do” by Daniel M. Cable
• “We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights” by Adam Winkler
• “The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups” by Daniel Coyle
• “Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World” by Joshua B. Freeman