Pues eso, el titulo es bastante descri ptivo, cuales son los libros que todo el mundo debería leer?
No solo para entender el mundo, si no para anticiparse a el futuro que viene.

En otro hilo me han recomendado este:

Amazon.com: Wealth, War and Wisdom (9780470474792): Barton Biggs: Books

Añado a la lista dos en castellano:


"La doctrina del shock", de Naomi Klein



"Desinformación: Cómo los medios ocultan el mundo", de Pascual Serrano

te escribo aqui una pequeña lista de los que me faltan por conseguir (de gratis, claro):


AMERICA, EMPIRES DECLINE & DEBT SOCIETIES
Noreena Hertz - The Debt Threat - How Debt Is Destroying the Developing World and Threatening Us All.
Frederick Man - The Economic Rape of America.
Sheldon Emry - Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People.
Edward Gibbon - The Decline and Fall of the American Empire.
Michael Grant - The Fall of the Roman Empire.
James Medoff, Andrew Harless - The Indebted Society.
James Macdonald - A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy.
Robert Manning - Credit Card Nation.
Rodney Shakespeare - The Modern Universal Paradigm [2007].
Betty Reid Mandell - Selling Uncle Sam.
James Robertson - Monetary Reform: Making it Happen [2003].
Gabor Steingart - World War for Wealth: The Global Grab for Power and Prosperity.
Homer Hoyt - One Hundred Years of Land Values in Chicago.
Henry Simon - Economic Policy for a free Society.
George Anders - Merchants of Debt [KKR and the Mortgaging of American Business]
Angus Maddison - The World Economy A Millennial Perspective
Jacques Attali [European collapse]
James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg - The Sovereign Individual
Henry Paulson - On the Brink, inside the race to stop the collapse of the global financial system
Greg Farrell - Crash of the Titans
Robert Reich – Aftershock *
Chalmers Johnson - The Sorrows of Empire
David Spiro - The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony
Paul Kennedy - The Rise and Fall of Great Powers
Maryann Keller’s - Rude Awakening
Donella Meadows & Jorgen Randers. Chelsea Green - Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
Peter Warburton - Debt and Delusion. Central Bank Follies that Threaten Economic Disaster
Roger Lowenstein - When Genius Failed, The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber - The American Challenge


MONEY, DOLLAR & ECONOMY
Tarek El Diwany - The Problem with Interest.
Bernard Lietaer - The Future of Money.
Henry Carey - The Harmony of Interests.
Henry Carey - The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign.
Stephen Zarlenga - The Lost Science of Money.
Hjalmar Schacht - The Magic Of Money.
Michael Bolser - Midas [2004].
Addison Wiggin - The Demise of the Dollar.
William Hummel - Money: What it is, How it works.
Irving Fisher - The Purchasing Power of Money.
Daniel Roth - The Future of Money, It’s Flexible, Frictionless and (Almost) Free
Michael Lewis - Money Ball
Niall Feguson – Empire
Melchior Palyi – The dollar dilemma: perpetual aid to Europe?
Melchior Palyi – An inflation primer
Melchior Palyi – The twilight of gold, 1914-1936: myths and realities
Melchior Palyi – The Chicago credit market


OIL, ENERGY & ECOLOGY
Stephen Pelletiere - Iraq and the International Oil System.
Zbigniew Brzezinski - The Grand Chessboard. GAS
Colin Campbell - The Coming Oil Crisis.
Jean Laherrere [article] The End of Cheap Oil.
Paul Roberts- The End of Oil.
Paul Roberts- Oil Companies in Iraq.
Coilin Nunan- Petro-Dollar or Petro-Euro.
Jeremy Rifkin - The Hydrogen Economy
Vladimir Vernadsky - Biosfera [1926]
James Lovelock - The Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
Travis Bradford - Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry


SOCIOLOGY, PSICOLOGY, POLITICS & EDUCATION
Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell - The Narcissism Epidemic [Living in the Age of Entitlement]
George Akerlof - Behavioral Economics
Gabriel Sala - Panfleto contra la estupidez contemporánea
Jean Claude Michea - L'Enseignement de l'ignorance
Daniel Kahneman on Behaviour Psycology
Mancur Olson: The Logic of Collective Action.
Mark Granovetter - [sociologist] [mob’s behavior]
Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Cooperation [political scientist]
John Mueller - Capitalism, Democracy and Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery
Cass Sunstein - Why Societies Need Dissent
Barton Gellman - Angler [The Cheney Vice Presidency]
Craig Unger - The Fall of the House of Bush
William H. Whyte - The Organization Man [sociology]
Sokal & Brickman - Fashionable Nonsense


INVESTING, TRADE & ECONOMY
Jim Chanos - The Contrarian Investor
Jim Chanos - The Smartest Guys in the Room
John H. Cochrane - Asset Pricing
Barber & O'Connor - How GS Helped Ruin and then Dismember Ashanti Gold
Charles D. Ellis - The Partnership [The Making of Goldman Sachs]
Frank Knight - Risk Uncertainty and Profit
Ulf Pillkahn - Using Trends and Scenarios as Tools for Strategy Development
Liaquat Ahamed - Lords of Finance
Andrew Hurley - Dinners, Bowling Alleys and Trailer Parks
Ravi Batra - The Myth of Free Trade
John Elkington - Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business


RELIGION IN AMERICA
Mark Null - The Old Religion in a New World.
Diana Eck - A New Religious America.
Sociologists - Stark Rodney and Finke Roger.
Oxford University Press - Religion and American Politics.
Randall Miller, Harry Stout, Charles Wilson - Religion and the America Civil War.
W. J. Cash- The Mind of the South.
Charles Kimball - When Religion Becomes Evil: Five Warning Signs.
Bruce B. Lawrence - Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age.


RELIGION
Nikos Kazantzakis – La Ultima Tentacion
Allen Kurzweil – La Gran Complicacion
Charles Palliser – El Quincunce
Matthew Pearl – El Club Dante
George H. Smith – Ateismo: El Caso contra Dios
Michael Martin & Ricki Monnier – The Impossibility of God
Michael Martin – Ateismo: Una Justificacion Filosofica
Iain Pears –
Dan Baker – Perdiendo la Fe en la Fe
Edgar A. Poe – La Caida de la Casa Usher


INTERNET
Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet
Jose Maria De Espona - Totalitarismo Tecnologico Version 2.0


EMERGING MARKETS
Antoine van Agtmael - El siglo de los mercados emergentes
Antoine van Agtmael - The Emerging Markets Century
Kelly Sims Gallagher - China Shifts Gears: Automakers, Oil, Pollution, and Development
Alex Steffen, ed. Harry N. Abrams - WorldChanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century


GREAT DEPRESSION
Amity Shlaes - The Forgotten Man [A New History of the Great Depression]
Harry S. Dent - The Great Depression Ahead [How to Prosper in the Debt Crisis of 2010 - 2012]
Lionel Robbins - The Great Depression


MASS MEDIA
Pascual Serrano - Desinformacion, Como los Medios Ocultan al Mundo


SAVINGS AND LOAN CRISIS
Adams, James R., The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal: How an Unholy Alliance of Politics and Money Destroyed America's Banking System, New York: Wiley Publishers, 1990.
Annual Survey Issue, "Financial Institutions and Regulations, the S&L Crisis: Death and Transfiguration," 59 Fordham Law Review S1 (1991).
Day, Kathleen, S&L Hell: The People and the Politics Behind the $1 Trillion Savings and Loan Scandal, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1993.
DeSoto, Richard J. and Lionel C. Bascom, Bailout: The Bankrupting of America, Danbury, CT: Futura Press, 1992.
Eichler, Ned, The Thrift Debacle, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989.
Langston, E.A. and Stephen Brandt, Understanding the S&L Crisis: A Guide for Beginners and Congressmen, Washington, DC: Squeaky Wheel Press, 1990.
Lowy, Martin E., High Rollers: Inside the Savings and Loan Debacle, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.
Mayer, Martin, The Greatest-Ever Bank Robbery: The Collapse of the Savings and Loan Industry, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990.
Pilzer, Paul Z., Other People's Money: The Inside Story of the S&L Mess, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Pizzo, Stephen, Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.
Seidman, William, Full Faith and Credit: The Great S&L Debacle and other Washington Sagas, New York: Times Books, 1993.
Sprague, Irvine H., Bailout: An Insider's Account of Bank Failures and Rescues, New York: Basic Books, 1986.
Waldman, Michael, Who robbed America? A Citizen's Guide to the S&L Scandal, New York: Random House, 1990.


MORE BOOKS (need to organize according to subject)
Nouriel Roubini - Crisis Economics
Russell Napier - Anatomy of the Bear: Lessons From Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms
Jordi Pigem - Buena Crisis
Juan Carlos Monedero - El Futuro de las Palabras
Manuel Sampere - Mejor con menos
Martin Redrado - Como sobrevivir a la globalizacion
Martin Redrado - Exportar para crecer
Michael W. Hudson - The Monster
John Charles Van Dyke - Textbook of the History of Painting
Thomas Seeley - The Wisdom of the Hive
Steven Johnson - Emergence
William H. Whyte - City
Howard Reingold - Smart Mobs
Thomas J. Peters - In Search of Excellence [1982]
James Hoopes - False Prophets
Geoffrey Moore - Crossing the Chasm
Peter Senge - The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization
William Wolman & Anne Colamosca - The Great 401K Hoax
William F Engdahl - Seeds of Destruction The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation
Werner Boote & Gerhard Pretting - Plastic Planet
Walter Truett Anderson - All Connected Now, Life in the First Global Civilization
Tyler Cowen - The Great Stagnation
Thomas Homer – Dixon
Sebastian Mallaby - More Money Than God
Samuel Huntington - The Third Wave
Robert B. Reich - After Shock, The Next Economy and America’s Future
Richard C. Koo - The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics
Raymond Kurzweil - The Singularity Is Near
Raghuram Rajan - Grietas Del Sistema
Pío Moa - La Transición de Cristal
Pete Brewton - The Mafia, CIA and George Bush (savings&loans)
Paul Sarnoff - Jesse Livermore – Speculator King
Noreena Hertz - The Silent Takeover index
Nicolas Ridoux - Menos es Mas, Introduccion a la Filosofia del Decrecimiento
Nicholas Carr - The Shallows What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr - The Big Switch Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
Neil Howe & William Strauss - The Fourth Turning
Neil Howe & William Strauss – Generations
Nassim Haramein - Cruzando el horizonte de sucesos
Michael L. Dertouzos - What Will Be, How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives
Michael Klare - Resource Wars and the Shape of Global Conflict
Mercedes Odina - Factor Fama
Mark Mazower - Inside Hitler's Greece
Malcolm Gladwell – Outliers
Larry Burkett - The Coming Economic Earthquake pages 138-139
Joseph Tainter - The Collapse of Complex Societies
Jordi Pigem - Buena Crisis, Hacia un Mundo Post-Materialista
Jonathan Safran Foer - Eating Animals
John Quiggin - Zombie Economics
John Mauldin – Endgame
John Kenneth Galbraith - The Affluent Society
John Cassidy - How Markets Fail
Jeff Rubin - Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, Oil and the End of Globalization
Jay Shafer - The Small House Book
Isaac Asimov - Preludio a la Fundación
Irving Janis – Groupthink
Ignacio Ramonet - The Perfect Disaster [la catastrofe perfecta]
Howard S. Friedman - The Longevity Project
Hjalmar Schacht - The Magic Of Money
Hernando De Soto - The Mystery of Capital
Hernando de Soto - El Misterio del Capital
Hernando de Soto - El Otro Sendero
H. G. Wells - Outline of History
Gretchen Morgenson & Joshua Rosner - Reckless Endangerment, How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Gregory Johnson - Put Your Life on a Diet - Lessons Learned from Living in 140 Sq Feet
Gilles Lipovetsky - El imperio De Lo Efímero
Gilles Lipovetsky - La Era Del Vacío
Frank Schirrmacher - La Venganza de Matusalén
Felipe Trigo – Jarrapellejos
Dean Baker - False Profits
David Willetts - The Pinch
David Stockman - The Triumph of Politics Over Economics
Clay Shirky - Here Comes Everybody, The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Bertrand Russell - The Impact of Science on Society
Belén Gopegui - Acceso no Autorizado
Antonio Vélez - Neuróbicos de un Viejo Juvenil
Alicia Delibes Liniers - La Gran Estafa
Alfred Winslow Jones - Life, Liberty and Property
Adam Smith – Supermoney
Adam Curtis - The Century of the Self
Adam Curtis - Psicology of Masses
Samuel T. Benner - Business Prophecies of the Future Ups and Downs in Prices
Clayton Christensen, Jerome Grossman & Jason Hwang - The Innovator’s Prescrip tion
Thomas Collin Campbell – The China Study (CHECK: Denise Minger for a thoughtful rebuttal)
Morris Lasky － Turnarounds Unlimited
Carmine Gallo － The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs
René Guenon - The Reign of Quantity & the Signs of the Times

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Necesitas media vida para leerlos todos!

Seria interesante una pequeña descripción explicando por que crees que son imprescindibles.

¿Cuanto tiempo se necesita para leerlos?
Si tienes tiempo y quieres leerlos enteros creo que se puede leer una media de entre 60 y 100 páginas por hora.
Pero no necesariamente hay que leerlos enteros, ya que en muchas ocasiones un libro puede tener solo un capítulo que resulta interesante o útil en cierto momento.
Pienso que es interesante hacerse una biblioteca personal

¿Por qué creo que son interesantes?
Estos libros han sido recomendados en otros libros y artículos que he leído.

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Pues yo os voy a recomendar este, que ya es un poco antiguo pero todavía interesante
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF

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Hay libros que tratan sobre las olas y libros que tratan sobre las mareas.

Yo propongo: "Sobre lo sublime" de Longino
"Tao teh king" Lao Tse
" El héroe" Baltaser Gracián
" Desafío a la mente" Seymour Papert
"Arquetipos e inconsciente colectivo" Carl G. Jung

De Longino: "La experiencia en la invención, la habilidad en el orden y en la disposición del material no se hacen patentes ni por uno ni por dos pasajes, sino que las vemos emerger con esfuerzo del tejido total del discurso. Lo sublime usado en el momento oportuno, pulveriza como el rayo todas las cosas y muestra en un abrir y cerrar de ojos y en su totalidad los poderes del orador"

De Jung "El pensar precede a la consciencia del yo primitivo, y ésta es antes su objeto que su sujeto. Pero tampoco nosotros hemos llegado a la cima última de la concienciabilidad y por lo tanto tenemos también un pensar preexistente, del cual no nos percatamos mientras nos protegen símbolos tradicionales, lo que traducido al lenguaje de los sueños equivale a decir: mientras el padre o el rey no hayan muerto."

No habrá una nueva realidad hasta que no podamos pronunciarla. La chispa puede saltar en un psiquiatrico o en un tugurio.

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Y para las mujeres recomiendo "Mujeres que corren con los lobos" de Clarissa Pinkola Estés.
A algunos varones no misóginos también puede que les guste el libro...

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Los ricos y los super-ricos. Estudio del poder del dinero en nuestros dias.- Ferdinand Lundberg

Hay version en español, editada por Aguilar Mexico 1974, el original es de 1968

A pesar de los años y de su crudeza, una excelente descripcion de nuestras sociedades "modernas"






Super Imperialism - Michael Hudson, Pluto Press 2003 (es nueva edicion ampliada del original de 1972)

existe traduccion del original en español: Super Imperialismo, Editorial Dopesa, 1973

una introduccion al mundo post Bretton Woods

Ana Karenina. Y dejaros de conspiranoias.